April 8, 2024 • 41 mins
This week we explain Trump’s 2025 policy proposals. Garrison and James start by discussing Trump’s promise to empower parents and fight the communists ruining American schools.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Also media, Welcome to it could happen here, the show
about how a small group of people are trying to
keep making bad things happen, and we're gonna tell you
what they are. I'm Garrison Davis and joined with me
is doctor James Stout.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hello, doctor, Hi Garrison. Thank you for having me put
some respect on my name. Appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
So today we're going to be talking about something called
Agenda forty seven. And actually we're going to be talking
about this this whole week. We've gotten a lot of
quests to talk about the Heritage Foundation's Project twenty twenty five,
which is a kind of an a road map for
how a Republican president could change the country if they
get elected next year. And although this proposal is scary
(00:44):
and quite big, it's a massive, massive book.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Trump certainly listens to these types of guys, but he
doesn't always like really like them.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Oa he does what the fuck he wants. And again,
no one controlling Trump.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
He kind of does whatever he wants, right ye. And
I mean there certainly are other people like in Congress,
including the Speaker, who are definitely pushing this project twenty
twenty five. And I think we'll probably talk about this
on the show at some other point. But Trump actually
has his own plans for if he's gonna be elected
president again, and we're gonna be talking about that, and
(01:19):
that is called Agenda forty seven, which I believe is
a subtle reference to the forty seventh president, which will
be him if he gets elected.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, well so the forty fifth president. So yeah, sell
more much that way.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
So the next the next next few episodes, we're gonna
be diving into Trump's plans for if he becomes the
forty seventh president of the United States, called Agenda forty seven.
He has all of these listed on his website, and
one of my favorite parts is that to accompany each
one of these, like policy proposals, he has a video
of him like reading out something on a like a teleprompter,
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and he very often will go off script, just completely
and just start talking, which which they include the entire
transcript for underneath each video, which is just fascinating to read,
totally divorced of like how he talks. It's just amazing. Also,
all of the videos are embedded on his website via Rumble,
(02:17):
which is just amazing, amazing stuff happening it's perfect. So
that that's that's kind of the the overview of what
we're gonna be doing this next week and why and
the reason why I have James here. James you you
you work in education, right.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I do? I do some educating.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, so you have you have opinions on education, I
would assume.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, strong ones as a doctor, Yeah yeah, a doctor
of mon European history. Just to be clear before anyone, yes,
pictures of their illnesses, please don't.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
So I'm gonna be talking about Trump's plan for education,
and by the end we can see if it gets
the James Stout approval. As someone who works in education.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, I mean, I'm up in minded. Let's see what
he's got so Trump.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Now, the problem with us doing these episodes is that
all of these are like videos right for his policy proposals.
And I don't want to subject to you the listener,
to just videos of Trump talking. I don't you don't
need to hear that. But there's a part of me,
just deep down, a shameful part of me, that when
I'm reading these quotes, I really want to like slip
into like a like a bad transgender Trump impression, which
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I've tried to suppress. I've tried to suppress the surge,
but every once in a while, it just it just
sneaks out. So as I'm going through these quotes, I
cannot promise that that certain things might start happening. And
it's just it's just a part of the deal.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
You've been possessed by the spirit of Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Oh God. So on this note, Trump opens his education
proposal with this line quote, our public schools have been
taken over by the radical left maniac, which really sets
the tone for the rest of what we're gonna be
talking about today.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I do want a highlight that I've been trying for
more than a decade, but obviously it's about to people
have been more successful than me in that regard.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
So over these next like twenty five minutes, I'm gonna
try to explain what he calls his quote plan to
save American education and give power back to American parents
and the American parents line is going to be a
reoccurring trend here. So in kind of a broad overview,
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Trump believes that regular public schools, as well as colleges
and universities are just so far gone to not only
require like massive, massive, regressive changes, but also frankly, whole
new alternatives are needed, which leads us to our first
policy proposal. So Trump says that Americans are horrified that
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quote once respected universities express support for the savages and
Jihattis who attacked Israel. So that's obviously not great. There
it is savage is very very quick, just immediate, immediately
getting this sort of stuff. Despite spending more money on
higher education than any other country, schools are quote turning
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our students into communists and terrorists and sympathizers of many,
many different dimensions. What does that even mean? They're sympathizing
with the alternate dimensions, you know, the see the Near
Universe version. They're gaining too much sympathy as well as
turning into communists and terrorists.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
To be fair, he is right that like one of
the areas where you will find like the the few
whole No, actually, Twitter is the other area, unreconstructed Marxist
Leninists in the academy, that it's there and on x
dot com formerly known as Twitter.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
So to combat this communist and savage and the hottest
incursion into universities, Trump is proposing something quote unquote dramatically different.
His plan is to seize quote billions and billions quote
of dollars through taxes, find in lawsuits against quote excessively
large private university endowments unquote, and use that money to
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quote endow a new institution called the American Academy unquote.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
That's already American Academy's already. But is he spending it
with an E or or its why?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Like?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
No, it's why okay, So it's a place not like
the institution.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So the American Academy will seek to quote make a
truly world class education avaable to every American free of charge,
without adding a single dime to the federal debt. And
then to do this, quote, the institution will gather an
entire universe of the highest quality educational content unquote. And
(06:55):
I love the phrase educational content.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, this is a This sounds like the short prayer
you videos that.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah, what are you like? You're starting to you're starting
to suspect certain things, right like, Yeah, what do you
think the American Academy is going to be here? Based
on the limited information you have?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah, it doesn't seem like a credible university, does it.
It seems to look like if your world.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Maybe that's education.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Maybe it's what Barry Weiss is doing in Texas. You know,
maybe she's going to be helming the American Academy. It
sounds like Jordan Peterston's Grift University.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
It's a world class education after you gather an entire
universe of the highest quality educational content. So this content,
Trump claims, will quote cover the full spectrum of human
knowledge and skills and make that material available to every
American citizen online for free. Unquote.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
That's just a library where he's describing as a library,
we already have those.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Not quite the content. It's not just a library because
quote the Academy will utilize the latest breakthrough in computing unquote,
as well as study groups, mentors, and industry partners to
provide a truly quote top tier education option for the people.
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For the next part, I have to do it in
the Trump voice, because otherwise the grammar won't make any sense.
Whether you want lectures or an ancient history, or an
introduction to financial accounting or a trading at a skilled trade,
the goal will be to deliver it and get it
done properly. I love the phrase, whether you want lectures
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or an ancient history.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah, yeah, like you can give yourself a history like
you could. Yeah, go back to Samaria and exert yourself.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Whether you want lectures or an ancient history, or an
introduction to financial accounting or training in a skilled trade.
So you will be able to learn all of this
online for free, getting a truly top tier education, which
sounds like okay, But Trump specified that your American Academy
education will be quote unquote strictly non political unquote.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Good.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I'm really excited to learn an ancient history from a
strictly non political standpoint. That's that's great.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
We can't discuss the formation of the state because there
will be a political stance.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Furthermore, Donald Trump promised that at American Academy quote, there
will be no wokeness or jihadism allowed. None of that's
going to be allowed.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
How will I teach without jihadism? My personal jihad is
is to educate the youth of America. But now I
can't by taking it.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Sorry, not allowed, not allowed, going to Trump, very sad,
very sad. So this plan also seeks to help the
forty million Americans who have some college education but no
complete degree by granting credit for past course work at
quote unquote legacy institutions, and giving Americans quote the chance
to complete your education at the American Academy for free
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and much more quickly than is now possible or available unquote.
So now, if there weren't red flags going off already,
there certainly should be now with that last line, more
quickly than is now possible or available, which is which
is a classic tell of an online university scam. Now,
the exact details of how the American Academy is supposed
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to work are kind of unclear, probably because it hasn't
been figured out yet because it's bullshit and quite possibly
never will get figured out.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yeah, many such cases and Agenda forty seven as it
turns out.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
But Trump University founder Donald Trump did say that his
American Academy proposal does plan to quote compete directly with
existing and very costly four year university systems by granting
students degree credentials that the US government and all federal
contractors will henceforth recognize you.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Other recognized him as fucking useless.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Not degrees degree.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, degree, gonna put my degree credential up on my wall.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
This is just another Trump University, an uncredited scam that
Trump is hoping to prop up with the federal government
this time instead of his business empire. It's it's not
it's it's not.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
His entire thing, isn't it, Like, yes, that is the
whole thing.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
It's not real. It's not real. He's he's framing this
plan as a quote unquote revolution in higher education that
will provide life changing opportunities by awarding American citizens with
quote the full and complete equilvent of a bachelor's degree.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I love it when he just fucking sends it on
there's gonna be one in my in my episode, which
you're here later this week, when he just cannot say
the word film, And I love that he doesn't fucking try.
He just he just owns it.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
The full and complete equivalent. That's not neither. That's neither
full nor complete if it's an equivalent anyway. Trump Trump
ends this video with an eloquent quote, enjoy it, learn
from it, and thank you, which.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Is just I'm gonna finish you on my legsures that
way that and then I'll do like a smoke puff
and just disappear.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
So yeah, this is this is the first plan to
save American education. That sounds great. I cannot wait to
get a full and complete equivalent a bachelor's degree credential.
Very very cool.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah, wonderful stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
But do you know what isn't a scam? James?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Can we say that, like I, we might be absolute sure.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I trust my life on every single product and or
service that follows this musical sting we are back. Do not,
I repeat, do not send me any of the advertisers
(13:16):
that just aired. I don't care what they are. My
life is indebted. I don't care. I don't care.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
You can send them to you can send them to Sophie.
Her Twitter is at I right, okay.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I write, okay, senator to Sophie. All right, So while
this Trump University too will remain uncredited. Donald Trump, creator
of the Donald Trump board game that did not sell
very well in nineteen eighty what, yeah, didn't you? Yeah,
creator of the Donald Trump board game. Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Wow, okay, is it like Monopoly? But you just look
lie and generate.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I didn't. I didn't look too far into it for
the bit. I'm gonna be honest here, Okay.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Disappointed. I was ready to go to deep dive.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
But Donald Trump also plans to attack the current accorditation
system for being run by a communist scourge, which leads
us to our second Agenda forty seven topic titled quote
protecting students from the radical left and Marxist maniacs infecting
educational institutions. But I believe he's talking about you, James.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, which is ironic. I'm an anarchist, I'm not a Marxist.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
You're not an artist maniac.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
No, No, Sadly, not many such cases. But I do
make them read the Communist Manifesto in my one oh
one class.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
It's okay, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
You got to read it. It's something you should emerge
from history education having read.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
So, Trump starts for talking about how quote unquote academics
are quote obsessed with indoctrinating America's youth at colleges and
universities while charging a ballooning tuition fee. Trump claims to
have a quote unquote secret weapon that he will use
to quote reclaim our once great educational institutions from the
radical left. The college accreditation system. It's called accreditation for
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a reason. Quote, it's called accreditation for a reason. He
never extravolates on that cent.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I genuinely don't. I can't fathom what I think he means.
That could go in so many directions.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
There's no way to know. Yeah, there's no way to know.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
It just leaves a hanging.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
So Trump explains that quote, accreditors are supposed to ensure
that schools are not ripping off students and taxpayers, but
they have failed totally unquote, which is not really what
college accreditors do. Both government run and private accreditation organizations
exist to develop criteria and CONDUCTI valuations to ensure educational
quality and authorize if a school qualifies for student aid
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programs from the Department of Education. That's generally what accreditation
institutions do. They they don't look out for if students
are being ripped off, Like that's not really their role,
but whatever. So upon returning to sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC,
on Trump promised that he will quote fire the radical
left accreditors that have allowed our colleges to become dominated
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by Marxist maniacs and lunatics. So he believes that there's
like communists that are running the accreditation system and that's
what's currently ruining colleges, is that is his belief.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
They come in, they sit at the back, and this
is the right little book HAPs to be ready. And
then we have a criticism circle afterwards where they check
how many mark references you've made in your lecture.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
So, after sending all these communists to the Gulag, Trump
will then begin to quote accept applications for newer creditors.
Now it's unclear if he's talking about just like the
public or private sector here, but these newer creditors will
quote impose real standards and colleges once again and once
and for all. Now, what such standards you ask? Thank you,
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James Wells. Trump gave us a handy little list which
includes like some of the more average conservative to libertarian
esque possessions like protecting free speech, eliminating wasteful administrative positions
that drive up costs, offering options for accelerated and low
cost degrees, providing meaningful job placement and career services, and
implementing college entrants and exit exams to prove that students
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are actually learning or getting their money's worth, right, Which
all that sounds like kind of standard politician talk, right,
It's like, okay, sure, but Trumpe did mention a few
other standards that will be imposed once again by this
new generation of accreditors, which will also include quote, defending
the American tradition and Western civilization and removing all Marxist diversity,
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equity and inclusion be a regrets unquote. So i dei
the right's new favorite boogieyman that's responsible from everything from
rising university costs to botched surgeries, aviation incidents, and boats
malfunctioning and colladding with bridges. Is it is the villain
of the conservative right at the moment. And so because
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this has been a trending topic among conservatives, Trump's trying
to jump on this DEI train, which sounds incredibly dangerous
from their perspective because this term he probably never even
heard of before, like a year ago.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Like come on, no, I don't think he. I don't
think he implemented dei in his business institutions. I think
this is Yeah, it's a word they say when they
can't say slurs. They think they found a funny workaround
to saying slurs.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I mean that's this thing with like every time someone
says like like critical race theory, woke or dei, they're
really just trying to say a slur. And if and
if you, if you replace those three terms with just
a slur, their sentences make a lot more sense because
the way they use the word woke does not mean
anything in a lot of cases. But if you just
replace it for a racial slur, you're like, oh, now
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I can understand what they're saying. It's it's it's a
handy trick that really is not fun to think.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
About, yeah, or subtle.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
As a part of this DEI frenzy, Trump has promised
to quote direct the Department of Education to pursue federal
civil rights cases against the schools they continue to engage
in racial discrimination unquote, which also kind of calls upon
like older, like affirmative action complaints that conservatives have been
talking about for years. Now.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
That's what I wondered if he was going after.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Yeah, it kind of it ties into that as well.
And and Trump added that this race based discrimination quote
includes discrimination against Asian Americans unquote, which is definitely invoking
that style of affirmative action conservative rhetoric from like, yeah,
ten five years ago.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Yeah, even more recent, when was that Supreme Court case?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Oh yeah, that was that was that was just like
last year.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Becky with the bad grades. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
So beyond just threatening to sick the DOJ on woke schools,
Trump also made the more specific promise that if schools
quote persist in explicit unleath of discrimination under the guise
of equity on quote, he will not only make sure
that their endowments be taxed, but also quote, through budget reconciliation,
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I will advance to measure to have them fined up
to the entire amount of their endowment unquote.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Does he realize that, no, no schools have endowments. Like I
teach in the community college. We ain't got an endowment.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
No, he's I'm sure that he's gonna go after like
the Harvard endowment. Yeah, that's gonna track. Yeah, I have
fun finding fifty billion dollars from Harvard. That's totally gonna happen.
But his plan, after he seizes these endowments quote, a
portion of the seized funds will then be used as
restitution for victims of these illegal and unjust policies, policies
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that hurt our country so badly. Colleges have gotten hundreds
of billions of dollars from hard working taxpayers, and now
we're gonna get this anti American insanity out of our
institutions once and for all. So that's cool, Like, okay, sure,
you're gonna use this to pay back white people who've
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been if we've been denied college admission. Okay, cool, that
sounds like a winning electoral strategy.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
You have finally the reparations people.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah, exactly, exactly. You know who's had it too hard
for too long?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Chains Yeah, it's white people who didn't make it through
college garrets.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
It's because they didn't get it's because they didn't go
to Yale. Now they have to go to Princeton.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Yeah, embarrassing, right, why would you even bother?
Speaker 1 (21:29):
So it's but it's not just colleges. Trump also threatened
to quote cut federal funding for any school or program
publishing critical race theory, gender ideology, or other inappropriate racial, sexual,
or political content onto our children. We're not going to
allow it to happen, folks.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Very cool, Great, Yeah, I used to teach a gender
sociology course forward to defund defund Yeah, yeah, I know.
We're going down fight together. We're gonna do that ship.
They will have to fight.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
That way in don't say it on air, you can't
say that you're gonna turn your community college into a
you can't say that. So yeah, he's gonna go after
school regular schools, both college and universities, regular schools. If
there's doing any any CRT gender ideology, you can tell
that some of this was written like a year and
a half ago, because no, no one's talking about critical
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race there anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
But yeah, yeah he missed it. But like, can you
imagine teaching a sociology course and just being like, yeah,
we're gonna skip past race and gender.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Oh so politics, skip past politics.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Yeah, this is this is a man who himself went
to Like, did he go to Harvard or Yale?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
No, he did not go to either. He was sent
to a military school by his father when he was
thirteen for being annoying. Then he think he went to
a school in Pennsylvania, respect And then what other school
did he go to?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Critical respect to his dad.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
He yeah, he went to the New York Military Academy.
That he went to Fordham University and then the University
of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Oh yeah, Wharton Business School. Yeah, not a real graduate degree.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
So the reason why this is also evils because Trump
thinks that a lot of this stuff is basically forming
a new religion. All this woke stuff. Quote, the Marxism
being preached in our schools is totally hostile to Judeo
Christian teachings, and in many ways it resembles establishing a
new religion. Can't let that happen. I can't let that happen.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
One thing we take a big swing at is Judeo
Christian institutions.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
To combat this growing threat of religious Marxism. His administration,
I'm sorry, I.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Can't, I cannot wrote.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Oh, his administration will quote aggressively pursue potential violations at
the establishment clause and the free exercise clause of the Constitution.
That's very simple.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I think you quite understand before we met of that
that luckily we do Russian Orthodox Marxism at my university,
so we should save odd yeah, well a lot of beards.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
So and then, in kind of like a laundry list
of policies and talking points, Trump pledged to quote veto
the sinister effort to weaponize civics education. We will keep
men out of women's sports, and it will create a
new credentialing body that'll be the gold standard anywhere in
the world to certified teachers who embrace patriotic values, support
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a way of life, and understand that their job is
not to indoctrinate children, but very simply to educate them.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
No one's ever done. No one has ever created a
credentialing body for patriotic teachers who embrace quote our way
of life before, it's never been done.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
The efforts to weaponize civics.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Just imagine him looking for looking for the Civics bill. Yeah,
very funny, so probably distract him for a while. Stuff,
I'm doing some actual terrible shit.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
A little bit with that last part was like indoctrinating children,
and and this next little bit will kind of demonstrate
how stuff like QAnon didn't simply go away like some
have postulated. Instead, it's just been absorbed into the fabric
of American politics. No longer does the boogeyman have to
be a DNC pedophilic elite. Now it's been territorialized and destroyed,
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mutated into just being any school teacher and or like
every trans person right or God forbid a transgender school say,
which is like the prime evil of the current conservative society.
And Trump promises on day one of his new presidency.
He will quote begin to find and remove the radicals, Zealots,
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and Marxists who have infiltrated the Department of Education, and
that also includes others. And you know who you are,
because we are not going to allow anyone to hurt
our children. You know who you are. So this is
the weaponization of nearly eight years of QAnon rhetoric, right,
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that is that has grown past the need to actually
invoke QAnon, plus the two years the Republican Party, the
Daily Wire, and limbs of TikTok working to shift q
Andon's kind of disgrace and unfocused momentum towards a manufactured
continuation in the form of this transgender groomer craze that's
taking over American schools. Quote. Joe Biden has given these
lunatics unchecked power. I will have them fired and escorted
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from the building. And I will tell Congress that any
appropriations bill I sign must reaffirm the president's ability to
remove defiant employees from the job. It's all about our children, unquote.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Just imagining an executive order to remove someone from the lecture.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
I am going to be signing an executive order on
this podcast to go to another at break. We are
back and thank you James bern for reaffirming my ability
to remove defiant ads.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Yeah, well, why you were all away that several federal
agents came in and in certain an ad break.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
In this last section here, we're going to return to
Trump's conception that entire alternatives are needed to America's broken,
woke school system, now focusing on the grade school side
rather than just the post secondary. So in this vein,
Trump is courting the growing number of homeschooling families. Though
according to a Washington Post poll from last year, Republican
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homeschoolers outnumbered Democrat ones two to one, so he kind
of already has the majority of that vote, but still
something he is going after. According to Trump, ever since
quote the China virus, America has seen an estimated thirty
percent increase in homeschool enrollment. Unquote. It's just a funny
term as homeschool in roll.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah yeah, just going to the arms school, dur enroll.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
I'm going to be enrolling at homeschool. Very funny. An
if elective president for a second time, he will do
everything to support quote parents who make the courageous choice
of homes school quote again the way he uses home.
The word homeschool is unlike anyone else I've ever heard
of talk it is. It is a very odd use
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of the English language.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, he doesn't seem to understand parts of speech like no, no.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
And Trump said he'll work to ensure that homeschoolers will
be entitled to all the benefits available to non homeschool students,
like being able to participate in athletic programs, clubs, atter
school activities, educational trips, and more. He pledged that in
his next term he will allow five to nine education
savings accounts to be used for quote costs associated with
homeschool education. Current five to nine savings accounts allow families
(28:39):
to withdraw up to ten thousand dollars a year to
spend tax free on tuition for private schools, which Trump
called a quote tremendous win for his school choice, very
important school choice. To remember that term unquote. That term
never comes up again in this video.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Oh great.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
So Trump is pledging to to to expand this tuition
savings program to include homeschooling families as well, with a
very unknown system of checks and balances to determine what
exactly qualifies as costs related to homeschooling, and often homeschooling
is used by abusive parents to just have kids do
free labor around the house, and they try to make
(29:19):
it count as like education. And like if you're now
allowing parents to put money to a savings account to
remove ten thousand a year tax free spent on education,
like what does what does that mean? Does that mean
just curriculum? Does that mean like household supplies because that's
being put towards their homeschool because they're schooling at home,
Like very very unclear, And it's kind of refers back
(29:41):
to some of the general problems homeschooling, especially in like
conservative homeschooling or just as a large way to abuse children,
not in like the groomer way that right wing people
talk about. It's like, no, you're just literally like limiting
your kids' access to the outside world because you think
if they go outside they're going to turn gay. So
but even if oh sorry, there's this one one final
(30:01):
quote from this homeschooling video, which are just fucking phenomenal
to every homeschool family. I will be your champion. Do
not vote Democrat. They're looking to destroy you if you
don't mind me saying that Joe Biden can't put two
sentences together, and yet he's looking to destroy you. Do
not vote Democrat. Do not vote for crooked Joe. Vote
(30:25):
for honest Donald, Thank you very much. It's funny because
in the video when he says vote for honest Donald,
he also starts to crack up because he knows how
ridiculous this this God. Do not vote for crooked Joe,
(30:46):
Vote for honest Donald, Thank you very much, Very very cool.
They're looking to destroy you, if you don't mind me.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Saying yeah, if you don't mind me a man who
rarely asked the mission to say the most extrame shit.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
So, even if parents are not choosing to home school,
Trump wants to let voters know that he will fight
for parents' rights. Which isn't quite a dog whistle, but
it does refer to a very specific style of patriarchal
rhetoric popularized by hyper religious conservative think tanks that propose
an extremely narrow version of how the American family should
operate within society. More on this later, But so, what
(31:21):
can Trump do to let right wing religious parents know
that he will be their champion even in like blue
states or big cities. As much as Trump might want
to be a dictator, he doesn't have unlimited power to
impose his war on wokeness in liberal cities. But Donald Trump,
who was impeached for trying to blackmail the president of
Ukraine in summer of twenty nineteen, does have a plan.
He wants to quote implement massive funding preferences and favorable
(31:46):
treatment unquote for states and school districts that make four
specific quote historic reforms and education that Trump has decreed.
These four specific reforms include abolishing tenure for K through
twelve teachers so that we can quote remove bad teachers
(32:06):
and adopt merit pay to reward good teachers. The second
is to quote drastically cut the blowed number of school administrators,
including the costly and divisive and unnecessary deibureaucracy. Third, to
adopt a parental bill of rights that includes complete curriculum
transparency in the form of universal school choice. And lastly,
(32:27):
quote implement the direct election of school principles by the parents.
Trump calls this last bit the ultimate form of local control,
something our country has never had, or at least has
not had for the last fifty years. So those are
his four reform plans, which is like, yeah, you know
who's had it too easy for two long teachers. Let's
(32:48):
abolish tenure, adopt merit pay a disaster of a system,
cut administrative roles to put more work on teachers. Have
parents be able to fire fire principles by voting, and
a vote to elect their own principle, and universal school
choices is actually more of a dog whistle that it
just refers to a series of like very racist, like
(33:09):
urban planning policies to direct rich white people's funding into
a very few, selected number of schools instead of where
they actually like live and instead of the actual district
they live in. So there's all of that, and like
what Trump keeps coming back to among all these quote
unquote reforms, it all kind of relates to complete parental dominance.
And part of this was the parental Bill of Rights,
(33:30):
which you've probably seen some conservatives talking about more these
past few years. And this is another quote from Trump here,
it's all about the parents for their children more than
anyone else. Parents know what their children need. And if
you haven't heard of a parental bill of rights directly,
you most certainly have heard of one by another name
that don't say gay bill that was a parental rights
(33:52):
bill a sensibly targeting education, but these bills often end
up giving parents just complete control over every aspect of
the child's life. They dictate how children are allowed to
express themselves, and allow parents to impose nearly any discipline
or punishment. They desire total control over what the child eats,
what they wear, what they read, what they watch, what
they see online, and what they're allowed to learn in school,
(34:12):
who they're allowed to socialize with. Some of these bills
that I read through for this also bar mandatory masking
policies in schools back when that was the thing, and
are often full of anti vaxed talking points and attempts
to ban sex ed and quote unquote gender politics. As
a part of these bills, teachers in school administration are
legally required to act as parental surveillance tools to report
(34:33):
how a child behaves, how they socialize, how they dress,
how they like to be referred to, and who they
are friends with. This includes outing children as gay or
trands to parents if anyone in the school suspects that
the student has a non heterosexual sexual orientation or is
acting in any way inconsistent with their assigned gender at birth.
These types of bills often have other consequences as well.
(34:55):
In states where some of these bills have passed, like
North Carolina, due to legal risks, some elementary schools have
been unable to talk about or give out educational materials
on consent or how to identify when child sexual abuse
is taking place as a part of the Safe Touch programs.
These programs are basically unable to happen because teachers will
now be held personally legally liable if any parent objects
(35:16):
to this material. So parental rights bills have been signed
into law in six states over the past two legislative years,
famously Florida, as well as Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Iowa, and
North Carolina. Since then, similar bills have been introduced in
more than twenty five states, many of which have passed
through at least one chamber. Some of them are still
in the process of either passing through a second chamber
(35:39):
or being signed by the governor. I'm going to end
with two quotes here from Trump that kind of reiterate
this parental dominance thing that he's really pushing for. And
also people like Ronda Santis have been pushing for Ted Cruz.
A lot of writing politicians quote as the saying goes,
personnel is policy. And at the end of the day,
(35:59):
if we have pink haired communists teaching our kids, we
have a major problem. When I'm president, we will put
parents back in charge and give them the final say.
We will get back to teaching reading, writing, and math
called arithmetic, and we will kill our kids the high
quality pro American education they deserve. They're gonna teach you
(36:24):
math called arithmetic.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Magnificent, It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
We may spend the most, but we're going to be
tops in education no matter, no matter where you go
anywhere in the world, We're gonna be tops in education.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
There will be no bottoms in the American education system
going forward.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
So this is Donald Trump, the second host of the
TV show The Apprentice, who's run for public office. This
is his plan for education. Doctor James Stout, how do
you feel about about these education reform proposals.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Yeah, it doesn't It doesn't seem like a weird idea.
If I'm being honest, hav having listened to it. I
think perhaps he hasn't got the sharpest grasp on what's
going on in the education system. The reason we have
education is because your parents don't necessarily know what's best
for you, right, Like your.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Parents can't be an expert in everything.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Yes, so some of us go and get PhDs so
we can and then we teach your people how the
important things about that like you, by definition, your parents
cannot fulfill all the roles in an education system fulfills and.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Like unlike pink haired communists who have complete who have complete,
total control over every aspect of what a child should learn.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
It's one of the things when you enter the university,
you know, like they did a tuberculosis test and then
they pass you a pink hair dye, and I mean
you get a nose piercing as well.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
A lot of this is very much reminiscent of, like
the the fears of like communist education that you see
in like the nighteen thirties. How there's a lot of
political a lot of political tension trying to be raised
over the fear that there's communists teaching you in universities
and schools.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Yeah, it's interesting because at the same time.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Like Frankfurt school style stuff.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Yeah. Yeah, I've written a lot about like anarchist ideals
educational ideals. Right, So at the same time, they were
anarchists in Spain being like, you know, we should do
we should do all our classes in the forest, Let's
just go out into the forest. Or absolutely there was
a school by the sea where they taught kids like
they were just having this incredible utopian education dream, which
in many ways we still haven't adapted to some of
(38:39):
the things that that really could offer, and instead, yeah,
we're having this McCarthyism Part two.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Well, great, that is Trump's plan for education in case,
in case you didn't know, So watch out for those
pink cared communists. Keep an eye out for any parental
bill of rights being proposed in your state. And it
is probably has little little to do with actually protecting
children and more to do with making parents just a
(39:07):
complete dominating force and controlling every aspect of their child's life.
And I mean, the other since we're thinking about this,
is like it removes access to for for kids to
talk about things that that they may be upset about.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
And access to mandated reporters like exactly, a mandated reporter
like this seems to exactly away from that.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Exactly, And and I mean the idea that that that
schools are going to be legally required to out a
child if he's if they're acting like perceived to be
deviant in some like gender sexual way. Like all of
these things are just ways to enable parental abuse in
a variety of like ways that are explicit and non explicit.
(39:47):
And it's it's it's it's it's quite it's quite upsetting,
And that's the that's the thing that conservatives are current
are currently trying to push for. This is a big topic.
This stuff was talking about in the Republican primaries that
were completely useless. Constantly, stuff like this is stuff like
this is referred to while invoking the sphere of like
this pink haired transgender communist teacher is currently like the
biggest threat to America according to most conservatives.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Yeah, they can take us down from the inside.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
That and jihadism, which are probably linked somehow.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
Yeah, yeah, I think, Well it's the pink head, your
hardest famous. Well, that isn't for us today. What are
we going to be learning about next for Agenda forty
seven games, Well, we're going to be learning next about immigration.
Don Donald Trump's border policies. Many of you will be
shocked to hear that they're not very good, and well,
I have two classes this summer. If you're if you're
(40:39):
in San Diego and you want to get in before
they take the Marxism out of the education system, you
can but strike now.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
I do love how I do love how much of
this is. Like, do you know who's had it easy
for too long? Transgender teachers there.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the people who are so fucking
broke they have to have like go underbes up for
the gender reassignment surgery, the.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Great wonderful stuff.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
All right. We will be back tomorrow to talk about
Trump's border policies. Things that will probably be totally normal,
totally chill.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Yeah, it's very very similar to fucking Faddy. They are
similar to Biden's but that's a whole other just terpy.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
That's a whole other discussions. All right, see you on
the other side.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Bye.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
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about how a small group of people are trying to
keep making bad things happen, and we're gonna tell you
what they are. I'm Garrison Davis and joined with me
is doctor James Stout.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hello, doctor, Hi Garrison. Thank you for having me put
some respect on my name. Appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
So today we're going to be talking about something called
Agenda forty seven. And actually we're going to be talking
about this this whole week. We've gotten a lot of
quests to talk about the Heritage Foundation's Project twenty twenty five,
which is a kind of an a road map for
how a Republican president could change the country if they
get elected next year. And although this proposal is scary
(00:44):
and quite big, it's a massive, massive book.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Trump certainly listens to these types of guys, but he
doesn't always like really like them.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Oa he does what the fuck he wants. And again,
no one controlling Trump.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
He kind of does whatever he wants, right ye. And
I mean there certainly are other people like in Congress,
including the Speaker, who are definitely pushing this project twenty
twenty five. And I think we'll probably talk about this
on the show at some other point. But Trump actually
has his own plans for if he's gonna be elected
president again, and we're gonna be talking about that, and
(01:19):
that is called Agenda forty seven, which I believe is
a subtle reference to the forty seventh president, which will
be him if he gets elected.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, well so the forty fifth president. So yeah, sell
more much that way.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
So the next the next next few episodes, we're gonna
be diving into Trump's plans for if he becomes the
forty seventh president of the United States, called Agenda forty seven.
He has all of these listed on his website, and
one of my favorite parts is that to accompany each
one of these, like policy proposals, he has a video
of him like reading out something on a like a teleprompter,
(01:57):
and he very often will go off script, just completely
and just start talking, which which they include the entire
transcript for underneath each video, which is just fascinating to read,
totally divorced of like how he talks. It's just amazing. Also,
all of the videos are embedded on his website via Rumble,
(02:17):
which is just amazing, amazing stuff happening it's perfect. So
that that's that's kind of the the overview of what
we're gonna be doing this next week and why and
the reason why I have James here. James you you
you work in education, right.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I do? I do some educating.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, so you have you have opinions on education, I
would assume.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, strong ones as a doctor, Yeah yeah, a doctor
of mon European history. Just to be clear before anyone, yes,
pictures of their illnesses, please don't.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
So I'm gonna be talking about Trump's plan for education,
and by the end we can see if it gets
the James Stout approval. As someone who works in education.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, I mean, I'm up in minded. Let's see what
he's got so Trump.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Now, the problem with us doing these episodes is that
all of these are like videos right for his policy proposals.
And I don't want to subject to you the listener,
to just videos of Trump talking. I don't you don't
need to hear that. But there's a part of me,
just deep down, a shameful part of me, that when
I'm reading these quotes, I really want to like slip
into like a like a bad transgender Trump impression, which
(03:31):
I've tried to suppress. I've tried to suppress the surge,
but every once in a while, it just it just
sneaks out. So as I'm going through these quotes, I
cannot promise that that certain things might start happening. And
it's just it's just a part of the deal.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
You've been possessed by the spirit of Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Oh God. So on this note, Trump opens his education
proposal with this line quote, our public schools have been
taken over by the radical left maniac, which really sets
the tone for the rest of what we're gonna be
talking about today.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I do want a highlight that I've been trying for
more than a decade, but obviously it's about to people
have been more successful than me in that regard.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
So over these next like twenty five minutes, I'm gonna
try to explain what he calls his quote plan to
save American education and give power back to American parents
and the American parents line is going to be a
reoccurring trend here. So in kind of a broad overview,
(04:32):
Trump believes that regular public schools, as well as colleges
and universities are just so far gone to not only
require like massive, massive, regressive changes, but also frankly, whole
new alternatives are needed, which leads us to our first
policy proposal. So Trump says that Americans are horrified that
(04:54):
quote once respected universities express support for the savages and
Jihattis who attacked Israel. So that's obviously not great. There
it is savage is very very quick, just immediate, immediately
getting this sort of stuff. Despite spending more money on
higher education than any other country, schools are quote turning
(05:17):
our students into communists and terrorists and sympathizers of many,
many different dimensions. What does that even mean? They're sympathizing
with the alternate dimensions, you know, the see the Near
Universe version. They're gaining too much sympathy as well as
turning into communists and terrorists.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
To be fair, he is right that like one of
the areas where you will find like the the few
whole No, actually, Twitter is the other area, unreconstructed Marxist
Leninists in the academy, that it's there and on x
dot com formerly known as Twitter.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
So to combat this communist and savage and the hottest
incursion into universities, Trump is proposing something quote unquote dramatically different.
His plan is to seize quote billions and billions quote
of dollars through taxes, find in lawsuits against quote excessively
large private university endowments unquote, and use that money to
(06:18):
quote endow a new institution called the American Academy unquote.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
That's already American Academy's already. But is he spending it
with an E or or its why?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Like?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
No, it's why okay, So it's a place not like
the institution.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So the American Academy will seek to quote make a
truly world class education avaable to every American free of charge,
without adding a single dime to the federal debt. And
then to do this, quote, the institution will gather an
entire universe of the highest quality educational content unquote. And
(06:55):
I love the phrase educational content.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, this is a This sounds like the short prayer
you videos that.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah, what are you like? You're starting to you're starting
to suspect certain things, right like, Yeah, what do you
think the American Academy is going to be here? Based
on the limited information you have?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah, it doesn't seem like a credible university, does it.
It seems to look like if your world.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Maybe that's education.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Maybe it's what Barry Weiss is doing in Texas. You know,
maybe she's going to be helming the American Academy. It
sounds like Jordan Peterston's Grift University.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
It's a world class education after you gather an entire
universe of the highest quality educational content. So this content,
Trump claims, will quote cover the full spectrum of human
knowledge and skills and make that material available to every
American citizen online for free. Unquote.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
That's just a library where he's describing as a library,
we already have those.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Not quite the content. It's not just a library because
quote the Academy will utilize the latest breakthrough in computing unquote,
as well as study groups, mentors, and industry partners to
provide a truly quote top tier education option for the people.
(08:17):
For the next part, I have to do it in
the Trump voice, because otherwise the grammar won't make any sense.
Whether you want lectures or an ancient history, or an
introduction to financial accounting or a trading at a skilled trade,
the goal will be to deliver it and get it
done properly. I love the phrase, whether you want lectures
(08:39):
or an ancient history.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah, yeah, like you can give yourself a history like
you could. Yeah, go back to Samaria and exert yourself.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Whether you want lectures or an ancient history, or an
introduction to financial accounting or training in a skilled trade.
So you will be able to learn all of this
online for free, getting a truly top tier education, which
sounds like okay, But Trump specified that your American Academy
education will be quote unquote strictly non political unquote.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Good.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I'm really excited to learn an ancient history from a
strictly non political standpoint. That's that's great.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
We can't discuss the formation of the state because there
will be a political stance.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Furthermore, Donald Trump promised that at American Academy quote, there
will be no wokeness or jihadism allowed. None of that's
going to be allowed.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
How will I teach without jihadism? My personal jihad is
is to educate the youth of America. But now I
can't by taking it.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Sorry, not allowed, not allowed, going to Trump, very sad,
very sad. So this plan also seeks to help the
forty million Americans who have some college education but no
complete degree by granting credit for past course work at
quote unquote legacy institutions, and giving Americans quote the chance
to complete your education at the American Academy for free
(10:08):
and much more quickly than is now possible or available unquote.
So now, if there weren't red flags going off already,
there certainly should be now with that last line, more
quickly than is now possible or available, which is which
is a classic tell of an online university scam. Now,
the exact details of how the American Academy is supposed
(10:30):
to work are kind of unclear, probably because it hasn't
been figured out yet because it's bullshit and quite possibly
never will get figured out.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yeah, many such cases and Agenda forty seven as it
turns out.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
But Trump University founder Donald Trump did say that his
American Academy proposal does plan to quote compete directly with
existing and very costly four year university systems by granting
students degree credentials that the US government and all federal
contractors will henceforth recognize you.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Other recognized him as fucking useless.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Not degrees degree.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, degree, gonna put my degree credential up on my wall.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
This is just another Trump University, an uncredited scam that
Trump is hoping to prop up with the federal government
this time instead of his business empire. It's it's not
it's it's not.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
His entire thing, isn't it, Like, yes, that is the
whole thing.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
It's not real. It's not real. He's he's framing this
plan as a quote unquote revolution in higher education that
will provide life changing opportunities by awarding American citizens with
quote the full and complete equilvent of a bachelor's degree.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I love it when he just fucking sends it on
there's gonna be one in my in my episode, which
you're here later this week, when he just cannot say
the word film, And I love that he doesn't fucking try.
He just he just owns it.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
The full and complete equivalent. That's not neither. That's neither
full nor complete if it's an equivalent anyway. Trump Trump
ends this video with an eloquent quote, enjoy it, learn
from it, and thank you, which.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Is just I'm gonna finish you on my legsures that
way that and then I'll do like a smoke puff
and just disappear.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
So yeah, this is this is the first plan to
save American education. That sounds great. I cannot wait to
get a full and complete equivalent a bachelor's degree credential.
Very very cool.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah, wonderful stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
But do you know what isn't a scam? James?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Can we say that, like I, we might be absolute sure.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I trust my life on every single product and or
service that follows this musical sting we are back. Do not,
I repeat, do not send me any of the advertisers
(13:16):
that just aired. I don't care what they are. My
life is indebted. I don't care. I don't care.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
You can send them to you can send them to Sophie.
Her Twitter is at I right, okay.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I write, okay, senator to Sophie. All right, So while
this Trump University too will remain uncredited. Donald Trump, creator
of the Donald Trump board game that did not sell
very well in nineteen eighty what, yeah, didn't you? Yeah,
creator of the Donald Trump board game. Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Wow, okay, is it like Monopoly? But you just look
lie and generate.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I didn't. I didn't look too far into it for
the bit. I'm gonna be honest here, Okay.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Disappointed. I was ready to go to deep dive.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
But Donald Trump also plans to attack the current accorditation
system for being run by a communist scourge, which leads
us to our second Agenda forty seven topic titled quote
protecting students from the radical left and Marxist maniacs infecting
educational institutions. But I believe he's talking about you, James.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, which is ironic. I'm an anarchist, I'm not a Marxist.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
You're not an artist maniac.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
No, No, Sadly, not many such cases. But I do
make them read the Communist Manifesto in my one oh
one class.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
It's okay, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
You got to read it. It's something you should emerge
from history education having read.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
So, Trump starts for talking about how quote unquote academics
are quote obsessed with indoctrinating America's youth at colleges and
universities while charging a ballooning tuition fee. Trump claims to
have a quote unquote secret weapon that he will use
to quote reclaim our once great educational institutions from the
radical left. The college accreditation system. It's called accreditation for
(15:03):
a reason. Quote, it's called accreditation for a reason. He
never extravolates on that cent.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I genuinely don't. I can't fathom what I think he means.
That could go in so many directions.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
There's no way to know. Yeah, there's no way to know.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
It just leaves a hanging.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
So Trump explains that quote, accreditors are supposed to ensure
that schools are not ripping off students and taxpayers, but
they have failed totally unquote, which is not really what
college accreditors do. Both government run and private accreditation organizations
exist to develop criteria and CONDUCTI valuations to ensure educational
quality and authorize if a school qualifies for student aid
(15:44):
programs from the Department of Education. That's generally what accreditation
institutions do. They they don't look out for if students
are being ripped off, Like that's not really their role,
but whatever. So upon returning to sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC,
on Trump promised that he will quote fire the radical
left accreditors that have allowed our colleges to become dominated
(16:07):
by Marxist maniacs and lunatics. So he believes that there's
like communists that are running the accreditation system and that's
what's currently ruining colleges, is that is his belief.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
They come in, they sit at the back, and this
is the right little book HAPs to be ready. And
then we have a criticism circle afterwards where they check
how many mark references you've made in your lecture.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
So, after sending all these communists to the Gulag, Trump
will then begin to quote accept applications for newer creditors.
Now it's unclear if he's talking about just like the
public or private sector here, but these newer creditors will
quote impose real standards and colleges once again and once
and for all. Now, what such standards you ask? Thank you,
(16:54):
James Wells. Trump gave us a handy little list which
includes like some of the more average conservative to libertarian
esque possessions like protecting free speech, eliminating wasteful administrative positions
that drive up costs, offering options for accelerated and low
cost degrees, providing meaningful job placement and career services, and
implementing college entrants and exit exams to prove that students
(17:17):
are actually learning or getting their money's worth, right, Which
all that sounds like kind of standard politician talk, right,
It's like, okay, sure, but Trumpe did mention a few
other standards that will be imposed once again by this
new generation of accreditors, which will also include quote, defending
the American tradition and Western civilization and removing all Marxist diversity,
(17:39):
equity and inclusion be a regrets unquote. So i dei
the right's new favorite boogieyman that's responsible from everything from
rising university costs to botched surgeries, aviation incidents, and boats
malfunctioning and colladding with bridges. Is it is the villain
of the conservative right at the moment. And so because
(18:02):
this has been a trending topic among conservatives, Trump's trying
to jump on this DEI train, which sounds incredibly dangerous
from their perspective because this term he probably never even
heard of before, like a year ago.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Like come on, no, I don't think he. I don't
think he implemented dei in his business institutions. I think
this is Yeah, it's a word they say when they
can't say slurs. They think they found a funny workaround
to saying slurs.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I mean that's this thing with like every time someone
says like like critical race theory, woke or dei, they're
really just trying to say a slur. And if and
if you, if you replace those three terms with just
a slur, their sentences make a lot more sense because
the way they use the word woke does not mean
anything in a lot of cases. But if you just
replace it for a racial slur, you're like, oh, now
(18:50):
I can understand what they're saying. It's it's it's a
handy trick that really is not fun to think.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
About, yeah, or subtle.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
As a part of this DEI frenzy, Trump has promised
to quote direct the Department of Education to pursue federal
civil rights cases against the schools they continue to engage
in racial discrimination unquote, which also kind of calls upon
like older, like affirmative action complaints that conservatives have been
talking about for years. Now.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
That's what I wondered if he was going after.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Yeah, it kind of it ties into that as well.
And and Trump added that this race based discrimination quote
includes discrimination against Asian Americans unquote, which is definitely invoking
that style of affirmative action conservative rhetoric from like, yeah,
ten five years ago.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Yeah, even more recent, when was that Supreme Court case?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Oh yeah, that was that was that was just like
last year.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Becky with the bad grades. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
So beyond just threatening to sick the DOJ on woke schools,
Trump also made the more specific promise that if schools
quote persist in explicit unleath of discrimination under the guise
of equity on quote, he will not only make sure
that their endowments be taxed, but also quote, through budget reconciliation,
(20:07):
I will advance to measure to have them fined up
to the entire amount of their endowment unquote.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Does he realize that, no, no schools have endowments. Like I
teach in the community college. We ain't got an endowment.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
No, he's I'm sure that he's gonna go after like
the Harvard endowment. Yeah, that's gonna track. Yeah, I have
fun finding fifty billion dollars from Harvard. That's totally gonna happen.
But his plan, after he seizes these endowments quote, a
portion of the seized funds will then be used as
restitution for victims of these illegal and unjust policies, policies
(20:43):
that hurt our country so badly. Colleges have gotten hundreds
of billions of dollars from hard working taxpayers, and now
we're gonna get this anti American insanity out of our
institutions once and for all. So that's cool, Like, okay, sure,
you're gonna use this to pay back white people who've
(21:03):
been if we've been denied college admission. Okay, cool, that
sounds like a winning electoral strategy.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
You have finally the reparations people.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah, exactly, exactly. You know who's had it too hard
for too long?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Chains Yeah, it's white people who didn't make it through
college garrets.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
It's because they didn't get it's because they didn't go
to Yale. Now they have to go to Princeton.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Yeah, embarrassing, right, why would you even bother?
Speaker 1 (21:29):
So it's but it's not just colleges. Trump also threatened
to quote cut federal funding for any school or program
publishing critical race theory, gender ideology, or other inappropriate racial, sexual,
or political content onto our children. We're not going to
allow it to happen, folks.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Very cool, Great, Yeah, I used to teach a gender
sociology course forward to defund defund Yeah, yeah, I know.
We're going down fight together. We're gonna do that ship.
They will have to fight.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
That way in don't say it on air, you can't
say that you're gonna turn your community college into a
you can't say that. So yeah, he's gonna go after
school regular schools, both college and universities, regular schools. If
there's doing any any CRT gender ideology, you can tell
that some of this was written like a year and
a half ago, because no, no one's talking about critical
(22:19):
race there anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
But yeah, yeah he missed it. But like, can you
imagine teaching a sociology course and just being like, yeah,
we're gonna skip past race and gender.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Oh so politics, skip past politics.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Yeah, this is this is a man who himself went
to Like, did he go to Harvard or Yale?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
No, he did not go to either. He was sent
to a military school by his father when he was
thirteen for being annoying. Then he think he went to
a school in Pennsylvania, respect And then what other school
did he go to?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Critical respect to his dad.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
He yeah, he went to the New York Military Academy.
That he went to Fordham University and then the University
of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Oh yeah, Wharton Business School. Yeah, not a real graduate degree.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
So the reason why this is also evils because Trump
thinks that a lot of this stuff is basically forming
a new religion. All this woke stuff. Quote, the Marxism
being preached in our schools is totally hostile to Judeo
Christian teachings, and in many ways it resembles establishing a
new religion. Can't let that happen. I can't let that happen.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
One thing we take a big swing at is Judeo
Christian institutions.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
To combat this growing threat of religious Marxism. His administration,
I'm sorry, I.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Can't, I cannot wrote.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Oh, his administration will quote aggressively pursue potential violations at
the establishment clause and the free exercise clause of the Constitution.
That's very simple.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I think you quite understand before we met of that
that luckily we do Russian Orthodox Marxism at my university,
so we should save odd yeah, well a lot of beards.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
So and then, in kind of like a laundry list
of policies and talking points, Trump pledged to quote veto
the sinister effort to weaponize civics education. We will keep
men out of women's sports, and it will create a
new credentialing body that'll be the gold standard anywhere in
the world to certified teachers who embrace patriotic values, support
(24:26):
a way of life, and understand that their job is
not to indoctrinate children, but very simply to educate them.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
No one's ever done. No one has ever created a
credentialing body for patriotic teachers who embrace quote our way
of life before, it's never been done.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
The efforts to weaponize civics.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Just imagine him looking for looking for the Civics bill. Yeah,
very funny, so probably distract him for a while. Stuff,
I'm doing some actual terrible shit.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
A little bit with that last part was like indoctrinating children,
and and this next little bit will kind of demonstrate
how stuff like QAnon didn't simply go away like some
have postulated. Instead, it's just been absorbed into the fabric
of American politics. No longer does the boogeyman have to
be a DNC pedophilic elite. Now it's been territorialized and destroyed,
(25:14):
mutated into just being any school teacher and or like
every trans person right or God forbid a transgender school say,
which is like the prime evil of the current conservative society.
And Trump promises on day one of his new presidency.
He will quote begin to find and remove the radicals, Zealots,
(25:35):
and Marxists who have infiltrated the Department of Education, and
that also includes others. And you know who you are,
because we are not going to allow anyone to hurt
our children. You know who you are. So this is
the weaponization of nearly eight years of QAnon rhetoric, right,
(25:55):
that is that has grown past the need to actually
invoke QAnon, plus the two years the Republican Party, the
Daily Wire, and limbs of TikTok working to shift q
Andon's kind of disgrace and unfocused momentum towards a manufactured
continuation in the form of this transgender groomer craze that's
taking over American schools. Quote. Joe Biden has given these
lunatics unchecked power. I will have them fired and escorted
(26:19):
from the building. And I will tell Congress that any
appropriations bill I sign must reaffirm the president's ability to
remove defiant employees from the job. It's all about our children, unquote.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Just imagining an executive order to remove someone from the lecture.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
I am going to be signing an executive order on
this podcast to go to another at break. We are
back and thank you James bern for reaffirming my ability
to remove defiant ads.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Yeah, well, why you were all away that several federal
agents came in and in certain an ad break.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
In this last section here, we're going to return to
Trump's conception that entire alternatives are needed to America's broken,
woke school system, now focusing on the grade school side
rather than just the post secondary. So in this vein,
Trump is courting the growing number of homeschooling families. Though
according to a Washington Post poll from last year, Republican
(27:25):
homeschoolers outnumbered Democrat ones two to one, so he kind
of already has the majority of that vote, but still
something he is going after. According to Trump, ever since
quote the China virus, America has seen an estimated thirty
percent increase in homeschool enrollment. Unquote. It's just a funny
term as homeschool in roll.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah yeah, just going to the arms school, dur enroll.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
I'm going to be enrolling at homeschool. Very funny. An
if elective president for a second time, he will do
everything to support quote parents who make the courageous choice
of homes school quote again the way he uses home.
The word homeschool is unlike anyone else I've ever heard
of talk it is. It is a very odd use
(28:09):
of the English language.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, he doesn't seem to understand parts of speech like no, no.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
And Trump said he'll work to ensure that homeschoolers will
be entitled to all the benefits available to non homeschool students,
like being able to participate in athletic programs, clubs, atter
school activities, educational trips, and more. He pledged that in
his next term he will allow five to nine education
savings accounts to be used for quote costs associated with
homeschool education. Current five to nine savings accounts allow families
(28:39):
to withdraw up to ten thousand dollars a year to
spend tax free on tuition for private schools, which Trump
called a quote tremendous win for his school choice, very
important school choice. To remember that term unquote. That term
never comes up again in this video.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Oh great.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
So Trump is pledging to to to expand this tuition
savings program to include homeschooling families as well, with a
very unknown system of checks and balances to determine what
exactly qualifies as costs related to homeschooling, and often homeschooling
is used by abusive parents to just have kids do
free labor around the house, and they try to make
(29:19):
it count as like education. And like if you're now
allowing parents to put money to a savings account to
remove ten thousand a year tax free spent on education,
like what does what does that mean? Does that mean
just curriculum? Does that mean like household supplies because that's
being put towards their homeschool because they're schooling at home,
Like very very unclear, And it's kind of refers back
(29:41):
to some of the general problems homeschooling, especially in like
conservative homeschooling or just as a large way to abuse children,
not in like the groomer way that right wing people
talk about. It's like, no, you're just literally like limiting
your kids' access to the outside world because you think
if they go outside they're going to turn gay. So
but even if oh sorry, there's this one one final
(30:01):
quote from this homeschooling video, which are just fucking phenomenal
to every homeschool family. I will be your champion. Do
not vote Democrat. They're looking to destroy you if you
don't mind me saying that Joe Biden can't put two
sentences together, and yet he's looking to destroy you. Do
not vote Democrat. Do not vote for crooked Joe. Vote
(30:25):
for honest Donald, Thank you very much. It's funny because
in the video when he says vote for honest Donald,
he also starts to crack up because he knows how
ridiculous this this God. Do not vote for crooked Joe,
(30:46):
Vote for honest Donald, Thank you very much, Very very cool.
They're looking to destroy you, if you don't mind me.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Saying yeah, if you don't mind me a man who
rarely asked the mission to say the most extrame shit.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
So, even if parents are not choosing to home school,
Trump wants to let voters know that he will fight
for parents' rights. Which isn't quite a dog whistle, but
it does refer to a very specific style of patriarchal
rhetoric popularized by hyper religious conservative think tanks that propose
an extremely narrow version of how the American family should
operate within society. More on this later, But so, what
(31:21):
can Trump do to let right wing religious parents know
that he will be their champion even in like blue
states or big cities. As much as Trump might want
to be a dictator, he doesn't have unlimited power to
impose his war on wokeness in liberal cities. But Donald Trump,
who was impeached for trying to blackmail the president of
Ukraine in summer of twenty nineteen, does have a plan.
He wants to quote implement massive funding preferences and favorable
(31:46):
treatment unquote for states and school districts that make four
specific quote historic reforms and education that Trump has decreed.
These four specific reforms include abolishing tenure for K through
twelve teachers so that we can quote remove bad teachers
(32:06):
and adopt merit pay to reward good teachers. The second
is to quote drastically cut the blowed number of school administrators,
including the costly and divisive and unnecessary deibureaucracy. Third, to
adopt a parental bill of rights that includes complete curriculum
transparency in the form of universal school choice. And lastly,
(32:27):
quote implement the direct election of school principles by the parents.
Trump calls this last bit the ultimate form of local control,
something our country has never had, or at least has
not had for the last fifty years. So those are
his four reform plans, which is like, yeah, you know
who's had it too easy for two long teachers. Let's
(32:48):
abolish tenure, adopt merit pay a disaster of a system,
cut administrative roles to put more work on teachers. Have
parents be able to fire fire principles by voting, and
a vote to elect their own principle, and universal school
choices is actually more of a dog whistle that it
just refers to a series of like very racist, like
(33:09):
urban planning policies to direct rich white people's funding into
a very few, selected number of schools instead of where
they actually like live and instead of the actual district
they live in. So there's all of that, and like
what Trump keeps coming back to among all these quote
unquote reforms, it all kind of relates to complete parental dominance.
And part of this was the parental Bill of Rights,
(33:30):
which you've probably seen some conservatives talking about more these
past few years. And this is another quote from Trump here,
it's all about the parents for their children more than
anyone else. Parents know what their children need. And if
you haven't heard of a parental bill of rights directly,
you most certainly have heard of one by another name
that don't say gay bill that was a parental rights
(33:52):
bill a sensibly targeting education, but these bills often end
up giving parents just complete control over every aspect of
the child's life. They dictate how children are allowed to
express themselves, and allow parents to impose nearly any discipline
or punishment. They desire total control over what the child eats,
what they wear, what they read, what they watch, what
they see online, and what they're allowed to learn in school,
(34:12):
who they're allowed to socialize with. Some of these bills
that I read through for this also bar mandatory masking
policies in schools back when that was the thing, and
are often full of anti vaxed talking points and attempts
to ban sex ed and quote unquote gender politics. As
a part of these bills, teachers in school administration are
legally required to act as parental surveillance tools to report
(34:33):
how a child behaves, how they socialize, how they dress,
how they like to be referred to, and who they
are friends with. This includes outing children as gay or
trands to parents if anyone in the school suspects that
the student has a non heterosexual sexual orientation or is
acting in any way inconsistent with their assigned gender at birth.
These types of bills often have other consequences as well.
(34:55):
In states where some of these bills have passed, like
North Carolina, due to legal risks, some elementary schools have
been unable to talk about or give out educational materials
on consent or how to identify when child sexual abuse
is taking place as a part of the Safe Touch programs.
These programs are basically unable to happen because teachers will
now be held personally legally liable if any parent objects
(35:16):
to this material. So parental rights bills have been signed
into law in six states over the past two legislative years,
famously Florida, as well as Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Iowa, and
North Carolina. Since then, similar bills have been introduced in
more than twenty five states, many of which have passed
through at least one chamber. Some of them are still
in the process of either passing through a second chamber
(35:39):
or being signed by the governor. I'm going to end
with two quotes here from Trump that kind of reiterate
this parental dominance thing that he's really pushing for. And
also people like Ronda Santis have been pushing for Ted Cruz.
A lot of writing politicians quote as the saying goes,
personnel is policy. And at the end of the day,
(35:59):
if we have pink haired communists teaching our kids, we
have a major problem. When I'm president, we will put
parents back in charge and give them the final say.
We will get back to teaching reading, writing, and math
called arithmetic, and we will kill our kids the high
quality pro American education they deserve. They're gonna teach you
(36:24):
math called arithmetic.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Magnificent, It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
We may spend the most, but we're going to be
tops in education no matter, no matter where you go
anywhere in the world, We're gonna be tops in education.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
There will be no bottoms in the American education system
going forward.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
So this is Donald Trump, the second host of the
TV show The Apprentice, who's run for public office. This
is his plan for education. Doctor James Stout, how do
you feel about about these education reform proposals.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Yeah, it doesn't It doesn't seem like a weird idea.
If I'm being honest, hav having listened to it. I
think perhaps he hasn't got the sharpest grasp on what's
going on in the education system. The reason we have
education is because your parents don't necessarily know what's best
for you, right, Like your.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Parents can't be an expert in everything.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Yes, so some of us go and get PhDs so
we can and then we teach your people how the
important things about that like you, by definition, your parents
cannot fulfill all the roles in an education system fulfills and.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Like unlike pink haired communists who have complete who have complete,
total control over every aspect of what a child should learn.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
It's one of the things when you enter the university,
you know, like they did a tuberculosis test and then
they pass you a pink hair dye, and I mean
you get a nose piercing as well.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
A lot of this is very much reminiscent of, like
the the fears of like communist education that you see
in like the nighteen thirties. How there's a lot of
political a lot of political tension trying to be raised
over the fear that there's communists teaching you in universities
and schools.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Yeah, it's interesting because at the same time.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Like Frankfurt school style stuff.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Yeah. Yeah, I've written a lot about like anarchist ideals
educational ideals. Right, So at the same time, they were
anarchists in Spain being like, you know, we should do
we should do all our classes in the forest, Let's
just go out into the forest. Or absolutely there was
a school by the sea where they taught kids like
they were just having this incredible utopian education dream, which
in many ways we still haven't adapted to some of
(38:39):
the things that that really could offer, and instead, yeah,
we're having this McCarthyism Part two.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Well, great, that is Trump's plan for education in case,
in case you didn't know, So watch out for those
pink cared communists. Keep an eye out for any parental
bill of rights being proposed in your state. And it
is probably has little little to do with actually protecting
children and more to do with making parents just a
(39:07):
complete dominating force and controlling every aspect of their child's life.
And I mean, the other since we're thinking about this,
is like it removes access to for for kids to
talk about things that that they may be upset about.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
And access to mandated reporters like exactly, a mandated reporter
like this seems to exactly away from that.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Exactly, And and I mean the idea that that that
schools are going to be legally required to out a
child if he's if they're acting like perceived to be
deviant in some like gender sexual way. Like all of
these things are just ways to enable parental abuse in
a variety of like ways that are explicit and non explicit.
(39:47):
And it's it's it's it's it's quite it's quite upsetting,
And that's the that's the thing that conservatives are current
are currently trying to push for. This is a big topic.
This stuff was talking about in the Republican primaries that
were completely useless. Constantly, stuff like this is stuff like
this is referred to while invoking the sphere of like
this pink haired transgender communist teacher is currently like the
biggest threat to America according to most conservatives.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Yeah, they can take us down from the inside.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
That and jihadism, which are probably linked somehow.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
Yeah, yeah, I think, Well it's the pink head, your
hardest famous. Well, that isn't for us today. What are
we going to be learning about next for Agenda forty
seven games, Well, we're going to be learning next about immigration.
Don Donald Trump's border policies. Many of you will be
shocked to hear that they're not very good, and well,
I have two classes this summer. If you're if you're
(40:39):
in San Diego and you want to get in before
they take the Marxism out of the education system, you
can but strike now.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
I do love how I do love how much of
this is. Like, do you know who's had it easy
for too long? Transgender teachers there.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the people who are so fucking
broke they have to have like go underbes up for
the gender reassignment surgery, the.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Great wonderful stuff.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
All right. We will be back tomorrow to talk about
Trump's border policies. Things that will probably be totally normal,
totally chill.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Yeah, it's very very similar to fucking Faddy. They are
similar to Biden's but that's a whole other just terpy.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
That's a whole other discussions. All right, see you on
the other side.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Bye.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
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