June 10, 2024 • 46 mins
Welcome to Parker's Couch with your host, Cameron Parker. Typically, I podcast with my brothers, Carlon and Carl Parker, but today, we're diving into something different - Project 2025. This series is so crucial that I'm sharing it both on our YouTube channel and podcast, available on platforms like Apple, Spotify, and Amazon.
It's Pride Month, and I want to extend a heartfelt Happy Pride to everyone! With voting season around the corner, it's more important than ever to stay informed. This week, we delve into Project 2025, a comprehensive plan by the conservative party aimed at reshaping American politics and society.
Project 2025 is built on four pillars, and today, we explore the first promise: restoring the family as the centerpiece of American life. We'll discuss the implications of this promise, including the controversial views on family structure, parental rights, and educational policies.
Join me as we break down the key elements of Project 2025, scrutinize its potential impact, and highlight the importance of staying informed and active in the political landscape. Let's get political and ensure our voices are heard.
Stay tuned for more episodes as we continue to dissect each promise of Project 2025. Until next time, see you on the couch, tater tots!
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Music.
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Welcome to the Parker's Couch. This is Cameron Parker. I am your host.
Normally, I podcast with my brothers, Carlin Parker and Carl Parker,
who's been a wonderful addition, joining us with the podcast that Carlin and I started.
Normally, I keep the YouTube and the podcast a little separate.
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Sometimes they cross over here and there, but the next few days,
I'm gonna be doing a series around Project 2025.
And I think it's so important this information is out there that I do it both
on the YouTube channel and also on our podcast.
Audio only that's on Apple, Spotify, Podbean, Amazon, different versions.
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So you have access to this information
on either channel that you want to digest it. It is pride month.
Happy pride to everyone out there.
As you can see, my shirt says the first pride was in fact a riot. Okay.
Yes, yes, yes, yes. The first pride was a riot and we're going to have to continue to riot, baby.
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I mean, I think it's so important right now with this.
Voting season upon us coming up that we really get the information out there.
And I just started getting more motivated this week.
We just had D.C. pride here and it was a wonderful week.
Like on Wednesday, I was at a campaign event that that was for Biden and stuff that the H.R.C.
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Hosted and had the wonderful president there, Miss Kelly. Oh, she is amazing.
Got to hear her. had Britta Filter. Some of the drag race people out there would
know who Britta Filter is from, I want to say season nine or 10.
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No, she was season 12.
Oh gosh, don't quote me. I think it's 12.
I'm going to go with that. I don't know what I'm going in my head, which season she was on.
But she has done
all this work and stuff um with
drag and i i know why season nine is popping
in my head because i just saw shea coulee uh all last night and shea coulee
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was season nine so that's what i first popped in my head but yeah she does this
wonderful work right now britta filter with dragging out the boat you know how
drag queens have been under attack but yeah so we had her heard there.
And like I said, Kelly Robinson, the president of HRC, and some other DNC folks were there in the house.
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And it was a wonderful event for Biden. And so that gave me some energy.
And then on Saturday for the parade, I marched in the parade for the first time
in my life, and I marched with HRC.
And we also had Douglas Emhoff join us there, the second gentleman. up gentlemen.
And that was very cool.
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And just to think in my mind, I was sitting there walking and whenever I was
marching in and waving the flag and just looking at the beauty of the crowd
and all the love that was out there,
it was hitting me how this can all be gone.
In a blink of an eye, we are foolish if we think otherwise.
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And it's just so sad to hear just the hateful rhetoric that comes out from the
conservative party when it comes to any other issue that's essentially not white-based, honestly.
So if there's any kind of minority dirty little slant to it or anything.
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It's this white supremacist umbrella that everything goes under.
And I know they're going to hate to hear that, conservatives out there,
but yeah, it is freaking white supremacy that y'all are spouting,
whether you know it or not.
And I don't care if you're black, white, yellow, red, green,
anything in between, it's all
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under the umbrella of white supremacy that's coming out from that party.
And so what I want to do over the next few days is really get into this Project 25.
And so each day, I'm going to release a piece of it to digest it.
Because what's so interesting is that the Republican Party is notorious for not having a plan.
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They can get away without having a plan. They never have to unveil anything.
As you can see they've been talking about healthcare ever since Obamacare has
been out. All you hear is Obamacare sucks, but there's never an alternative.
All you hear about is these immigration issues and everything,
but there's never a plan.
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And when plans are presented out there, they always tear everything down and they just rant and yell.
And so you never hear hardcore kind of plans on a the campaign trail or have anything written out.
But it is different right now, y'all. And I know some of you may have heard about Project 25.
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You may have seen some things in Congress whenever people have just been out
there shutting it down, especially our Congresswoman, Jasmine Crockett.
And some others who have been on people's head regarding Project 2025.
But I want to let the people know what is in here.
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So I know it's all this stuff and people feel a way about Biden,
you feel a way about Democrats and all this stuff and everything.
I don't have time to go into that.
I have my own feelings. I have my own things, but I understand what is important
and what's in front of me.
And right now, I don't have no time to be bickering and defending or anything
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like that, because there's clearly
one party trying to end democracy and another party trying to keep it.
Do with that as you may. Make it feel as you may.
I mean, my stance is very clear of where I stand politically,
and I'm not afraid to voice that.
And you will hear that more and more during this season.
Everything that we do is not going to be political on the couch,
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But the couch is very political between me and my brothers, because that's a
lot of things that we do that we did growing up, sitting around talking with each other.
Like politics has always kind of been a part.
It was never as big of a part, maybe in my earlier life, my parents and stuff,
hearing from them things.
You know, I've heard plenty of stories.
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There's always been a political slant to things in our household.
But over the years it's just picked up more and more for me.
And I've kind of like laid off a little bit the last couple of years,
but I want to pick some of that energy back up.
It's never like totally gone away, but yes. So we're going to get political
in here a little bit today.
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So Project 25, and if you are watching on the YouTube channel,
you'll be able to see some of the stuff I'm sharing too on the screen.
But if you're just listening, definitely.
Look up the things that I'm going to be talking about. So here in Project 25,
if you've not heard of it, you can go to project2025.org.
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And the homepage reads, it is not enough for conservatives to win elections.
If we are going to rescue the country from the grip of the radical left,
we need both a governing agenda and the right people in place ready to carry
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this agenda out on day one of the next conservative administration.
This is the goal of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project.
The project will build on four pillars that will collectively pave paved the
way for an effective conservative administration.
Now, we are going to focus more on the fourth pillar, and that's where the playbook comes into play.
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So there's this 180-day playbook, and it reads, the time is short and conservatives need a plan.
The project will create a playbook of actions to be taken in the first 180 days
of the new administration to bring quick relief to Americans suffering from
the left's devastating policies.
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And so this is all in the fourth kind of pillar of their plan of what they have going on.
Now, this playbook, y'all, it is about 920 pages long.
So it is not they're not playing around and it is clear everything is on is
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laid out here clearly what they want to have happen.
So the idea is that they would be able to get the next conservative president,
you know, that they're hoping is Trump and be able to hand off this playbook
and be like, look, these are the actions we want to take place and go ahead
and get it rolling within the first 180 days.
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Days because the idea is that within the first 180 days, a new president coming
into power, that's whenever you could get the most stuff done and get things through and all that.
So there is a lot of stuff in here.
And this pillar, so the project, like I said, is built on four pillars. Pillar one.
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It puts in one place a consensus view of how major federal agencies must be
governed and where disagreement exists, brackets out these differences for the
next presidents to choose a path.
So that's pillar one. Pillar two is in the personnel database that allows candidates
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to build their own professional profiles and our coalition members to review
and voice their recommendations.
These recommendations would then be collated and shared with the president elect's
team, greatly streamlining the appointment process.
Pillar three is the Presidential Administration Academy.
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And so the idea with this is an online educational system taught by experts from a coalition.
For the newcomer, this will explain how the government functions and how to
function in government.
And for the experience, we will host in-person seminars with events training
and set the bar for what is expected of senior leadership.
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And pillar four, what we're going to be focusing more on is the playbook.
We are forming an agency team.
We're forming agency teams and drafting transition plans to move out upon the
president's utterance of, so help me God.
So as soon as the president swears in and says, so help me God,
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they put in this playbook right into play.
It's like, here we go, let's get the ball rolling. And they say,
as Americans living at the approach of our nation's 250th birthday, we have been given much.
As conservatives, we are much required to steward this precious heritage for the next generation.
On behalf of our coalition partners, we thank you and invite you to come join
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us at our project 2025.org.
So they are trying to gain a lot of steam and support.
In this. So what we're going to do over the next few days here this week,
each day, I'm going to cover one of the topics that they are,
or the promises that they're making in their little quests here.
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And so there are four major promises that they're making, that they want to
be enacted within these first 180 days.
And this is the part we're going to focus on. I'm going to read through.
So today I'm going to do the first promise and, you know, tomorrow I do the second and so forth.
So we're going to cover these four promises.
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And it's very important to listen, to read, to, you know, you got to,
you want to vote with information.
There's a lot of stuff out there, but you need to focus on what is going to
happen, in, what can be done, what is going to affect your life,
what makes sense for our country, and what represents real, true freedom.
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That's my question. It's like, what is freedom? What does freedom mean to you?
Because right now, if you listen to
conservative logic, freedoms are being stripped away and we are not free.
And to me, their idea is more government control, more government intervention.
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More government policies, and taking things away, actually stripping freedoms
away from people because they want one type of freedom.
And they want the freedom to control how everyone else thinks and acts.
And I'm not down for that at all in any kind of way.
And so in these four promises, the first one, the promise is to restore the
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family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children.
Number two is to dismantle the
administrative state and return self-governance to the American people.
Number three, defend our nation's sovereignty, borders and bounty against global threats.
And number four, secure our God-given individual rights to live freely,
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what our Constitution calls the blessings of liberty.
It's so much to say already right there, y'all.
There is so much we can say already just with that little piece that we have right there.
But let's get into it. All right. Y'all ready to go down here?
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I'm going to be reading these and definitely giving my commentary and thoughts.
But promise one, restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children.
The next conservative president must get to work pursuing the true priority
of politics, the well-being of the American family.
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And right now, I just want people to picture in their minds,
like, what does family mean to you?
Because I know conservatives have a very clear picture of family.
They want family to mean mom, dad, 2.5 kids, dog, whatever that is.
It's like that American classic dream kind of picture when in reality families
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are much messier and clumsy and look so many different ways.
They don't believe in a man and a man or a woman and a woman or just a man or
just a woman or extended family and all these other branches of the ways that family exists.
So I want you to just keep that in mind, that there is one clear picture of
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an American family whenever they use this, whenever they talk about these terms.
Let's get into it. In many ways, the entire point of centralizing political
power is to subvert the family.
Its purpose is to replace people's natural, they use the word natural,
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replace people's natural loves and loyalties with unnatural ones.
You see, this in the popular left-wing.
Empiricism, government is simply the name we give to things we choose to do together.
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But in real life, most of the things people do together have nothing to do with government.
Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm. I got to read that again.
You see, this is the popular left-wing aphorism.
Government is simply the name we give to the things we choose to do together.
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But in real life, most of the things people do together have nothing to do with government.
These are the mediating institutions that serve as the building blocks of any healthy society.
Marriage, family, work, church, school, volunteering, the name real people in
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italics give to the things we do together is community, not government.
Our lives are full of interwoven, overlapping communities, and our individual
and collective happiness depends upon them.
But the most important community in each of our lives and in the life of the nation is the family.
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Today, the American family is in crisis.
40% of all children are born to unmarried mothers, including more than 70% of Black children.
They want to make sure they emphasize that, obviously.
There is no government program that can replace the whole in a child's soul,
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cut out by the absence of a father.
Fatherlessness is one of the principal sources of American poverty,
crime, mental illness, teen suicide, substance abuse, rejection of the church,
and high school dropouts.
So many of the problems government programs are designed to solve but can't
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or ultimately place or ultimately problems created by the crisis of marriage and the family.
The world has never seen a thriving, healthy, free, and prosperous society where
most children grow up without their married parents.
If current trends continue, we are headed towards social implosion.
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So right here, like already, I am so sick and tired of the single mother narrative
and focusing specifically on Black children and this idea that families don't
exist in single parent homes.
And I don't even like to say single parent homes because most fathers are involved.
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Like for instance, I have a child. I don't live in a home with my child.
My child lives with this wonderful mother.
And we have a family that co-exists together, that co-parent.
We still are involved with one another.
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It's not like single parents, however we want to label it, are all the time
thrown out left on their own. That happens. That's reality.
That happens in all races. But still, there is family even within those,
whatever that family may look like.
So I just want people to know that. Let that sink in.
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As we continue to go through this. All right.
Furthermore, the next conservative president must understand that using government
alone to respond to symptoms of the family crisis is a dead end.
Federal power must instead be wielded to reverse the crisis and rescue American
kids from familial breakdown.
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The conservative promise includes dozens of specific policies to accomplish this existential task.
Some are obvious and longstanding goals like eliminating marriage penalties
and federal welfare programs and the tax code and installing work requirements for food stamps.
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I just need everybody to get on food stamps one time. Just do it.
I mean, they're always, you already have to, like someone who has been in and
out of unemployment and I'm I'm unemployed right now.
I have my part-time and that's it, but looking for full-time employment.
The unemployment process is not anything anybody chooses to stay in.
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No one wants to stay on food stamps like that for the majority of people in this nation.
And it's not like you get a lot of benefits from it.
And you have to report job searches and all these things already.
And they They make it more difficult and they try to suck up the little amount
of money that you already get from that.
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They already think is too much. And they think that that's what people are choosing
to do instead of having families and stuff.
And taxes don't help with any of that stuff anyway. Anyway, but we must go further.
It's time for policymakers to elevate family authority,
formation, and cohesion as their top priority, and even use government power,
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including through the tax code, to restore American family.
So they want people who are already suffering to suffer even more through tax codes.
Okay, that's what I'm getting. Today, the left is threatening the tax exempt
status of churches and charities that reject woke progressivism.
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They will soon turn to Christian schools and clubs with the same totalitarian intent.
Let me ask you a question, though, with churches. I just really,
because churches, it's amazing to me with this tax exempt, how churches are
able to be tax exempt, but then so clearly express favor for political candidates.
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So clearly involve themselves within politics and government.
But they want to hold their hands like, ooh, tax exempt, you're coming after
us. well, keep religion and government separate.
Church and state is really that simple.
The next conservative president must make the institutions of American civil
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society hard targets for woke cultural warriors.
So sick of the word woke. This starts with deleting the terms, Listen to this.
This starts with deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity,
diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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As we know, it's DEI, which has already been under major attack and is being erased.
Race, gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness,
gender sensitive, abortion.
Reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive
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Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation,
contract grant regulation, regulation and a piece of legislation that is this.
Just because you may not have access to.
A grant, say, or something, or whatever, because it's specific to someone of
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a specific identity, that doesn't make that wrong or not free.
You still have major access to many other opportunities.
I don't understand. For so long in this country, especially as a Black person,
we did not have access to so many things.
And so when things became specific to represent that, now that is wrong.
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So it wasn't wrong before when we never had access, but then whenever we create
access to things, all of a sudden it's wrong.
This is whenever you see right now, the big thing of all these foundations being
sued and these scholarships and stuff and Black women businesses And I can't
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remember the popular one going around now that where the black black women specifically
are being attacked because they're like, this is unfair.
I was specifically for black women.
Give me a break with this fairness crap.
And you got the nerves to say that
this is infringing upon First Amendment rights. This is so ridiculous.
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I want y'all just to hear this. They want to erase the terms sexual orientation,
gender identity, diversity, equity, and inclusion, gender, gender equality,
gender equity, abortion, reproductive health.
How did that get in there? I mean, and I'm just thinking of dummies like Amber
Rose out there like, oh, you know, I'm supporting Trump.
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He's going to be for women or he's going to be more for women rights and stuff. He's OK.
So if you're that type, you know, you don't you don't care about reproductive
health or reproductive rights for women.
It's one thing about being pro-life versus pro-choice, but just to take the
option away and force it upon someone, I don't understand why your stance has
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to be someone else's stance.
That's not free. That's not freedom. That's not the First Amendment.
These people talk so backwards, so hypocritical. Let's continue.
Pornography. Y'all going to find this one interesting, I'm sure.
Pornography manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology
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and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot.
It's strictly bonding up desperate claims about free speech,
property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare.
It has no claim to First Amendment protection.
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Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women.
Their product is as addictive as an illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime.
Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be in prison.
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Listen to that. The people who produce and distribute it should be in prison.
Y'all love trying to throw people in jail.
Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sets offenders,
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and telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.
Y'all hear this? Y'all hear this? The link to pornography, to transgender ideology,
where did that even come from?
And this stuff with child welfare,
okay, pedophilia and all that stuff is one thing that no one is for.
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And no one is for any kind of child pornography or anything like that.
Yeah. And we have things in place in this country to lock those people up.
But grown adults making decisions, doing whatever they want to do with their
own bodies, making their own choices, making their own money, doing whatever.
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And what kills me is that the most pornographic people are you closeted conservatives
who are probably sitting here writing this thing.
The foul things that you have done in life, if that was ever unveiled, can we pull the mirror?
Can we go ahead and pull the cloak and look behind you and see what's in your
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life, in your past, what's on your searches?
What are you searching? It's so funny how transgender, you know,
is trans is like a major pornographic search term in so many Republican states.
But yet y'all rail against it like this.
But they're talking about locking people up for pornography. OK.
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All right, Puritans. In our schools, the question of parental authority over
their children's education is a simple one. One, schools serve parents,
not the other way around.
That is, of course, the best argument for universal school choice,
a goal all conservatives and conservative presidents must pursue.
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But even before we achieve that long-term goal,
parents' rights as their children's primary educators should be the non-negotiable
in American schools, states, cities, and counties, school boards, union bosses,
principals, and teachers who disagree should immediately be cut off from federal funds.
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Let me tell you, who is getting in your way of educating your own child,
however you choose to? to. However wrong I might see it is, it's still your child.
You have the right to do whatever you want with your child and no school is
stopping that. If you don't want your child to be in public school, fine, take them out.
Put them in a school that you want them to be in or homeschool.
You have a choice. You have that right.
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But you can't go ahead and put this ideology on everybody else who is fine.
I'm totally fine with the education my child has received through school.
I don't, this is, this is just dumb. This is coming from people who have never
even set foot in the school, probably who probably don't even have kids or who
knows how long it's been since they had kids go through a school system.
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It was so funny to me. I think it was in Texas. If I remember that one was someone
who ran, who was on that fight against,
you know, like, oh, schools are doing all this stuff and, and they're indoctrinating
our kids and blah, blah, blah. And then she won.
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And then whenever she actually started investigating and reading,
she was like, wait a minute, there's no indoctrination going on.
That's fine. Nothing is happening here. All this whole hoopla about,
and it's really about sexual orientation that all this is centered around.
It's really centered around transness. Y'all have this fascination of trans ideology.
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It's just beyond me. But gender and transness and sexual orientation is just your main focus.
And right there with it, close second, or maybe even top of first is also diversity
issues and race and slavery and things of these nature.
So these are the two things that you attack repeatedly that you feel like are
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indoctrinating children.
So I'm sure Sure, I haven't even read the rest of this, but I know critical
race theory is about to come up. I'm pretty sure after this,
once we're talking about schools.
But you're so hooked on that and fascinated about that. But then she found out
that that actually wasn't going on.
And whenever she tried to take it back to her party and let them know,
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like, oh, you know, actually, this isn't happening in these school systems. They shunned her.
They want to hear it. They like whatever. And they call her liberal and woke
and all these things. It's just amazing to me, the fight against education right
now and what y'all think is happening in schools.
And this idea of school choice, that has to be a whole other thing.
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It's just so much. It is just so much. The
notorious tenets of critical race
theory and gender ideology should
be excised from the curricula in every public school in the country.
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These theories poison our children who are being taught on the one hand to affirm
that the color of their skin fundamentally determines their identity and even their moral status.
While on the other, they are taught to deny the very creature,
creatureliness that inheres in being human.
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What?
OK. And consist in accepting the giveness of our nature as men or women.
This doesn't make any sense. This makes zero sense.
So you're saying like our kids are being poisoned, being taught.
Like what's wrong with being taught affirmation about who you are,
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about your color and being proud of that?
What's I mean, affirm like how you were born whenever society tries to go against that.
I'm glad if if there is somebody out there doing that or having books that saying
like, yes, embrace your color, love yourself. What what is wrong with that?
How does that hurt the someone else?
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But only and only lifts that individual person.
But anyway, this whole little part right there, that whole thing just makes
no sense because no one is being taught to deny anything that makes them human or or whatever.
But anyway, allow allowing parents or physicians to reassign the sets of a minor
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is child abuse and must then for public institutions to use taxpayer dollars
to declare the superiority or inferiority of certain races,
sexes and religions is a violation of the Constitution and civil rights law
and cannot be tolerated by any government anywhere in the country.
Are y'all living in a wacko land? Really?
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They say to be taught the inferiority of certain races.
They're trying to be like a beat around the bush. We know you think that everything
is being taught against white people.
You feel like white people are getting the short end of the stick and everybody's
taught to hate you and white people are taught to hate themselves and this whole white guilt complex.
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We talked about this on our podcast a little bit in the last episode.
So this whole white guilt complex that's really running this country amok,
like y'all are losing your minds, really.
Having one other side affirm does not take away or diminish from the other side.
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Like, I don't know how you can't see that. It's like the fight against the Black
National Anthem. You know, lift every voice and sing.
I saw stuff from, oh, Sage Steele. Yeah, I got my things with Miss Sage.
Still, if you listen to this, you know our little conversation that we had back
and forth on our inboxes and Twitter.
That conversation is still, the offer is still there anytime you want to talk about it.
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Let's talk about it, sis, because you are doing the most out there.
And I'm going to call you a bigot again because you are showing your bigoted ways.
Once again, every time I turn on my ads, I see another bigoted way coming from you.
And it was raging against on Pride Month just recently.
But, yes, continue to show that. But it's and you and Riley Gaines.
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Let me not even get started with her. How y'all done made her like this. I don't know.
It's just getting weird out here with all this stuff. But for some reason,
anyway, let me get back to my point.
Sage on her recent thing, she was relling against Lift Every Voice and Sing.
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And for some reason, talk about Lift Every Voice and Sing is divisive. Huh?
I was so confused. A song called Lift Every Voice and Sing is now divisive.
Just because the focus of the song was coming through slavery,
which is the American story.
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That's just as much of the American story as anything else.
And how could white people not embrace that song and celebrate that and be happy
that slavery is not still around?
Are you upset because slavery is gone?
Like, how is that song not, and it has not replaced the anthem.
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Like, that's still sung, and then the anthem is still sung. Like, we've seen them both.
How come everything is not embraced?
I feel like other cultures get to do things, but the minute Black people do
something that's attached to our Blackness, it's divisive.
I don't understand. It's divisive rather than you seeing it as inclusive.
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I don't understand how supporting Black people doesn't mean supporting everyone.
For the life of me, I just will not understand that.
But Lift Every Voice and Sing is for all of us. That song has been in any Black
church hymnal since you grew up. I learned the song in.
I saw it in our songbooks in church.
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Learned it in elementary school. We sang it in elementary school on Black History
Month. Sang that song all my life.
I had never in my life, a child of the 80s, it was never a problem.
Never heard anything about it. it seems like
after 2020 y'all at like the
like this anthem just came out of nowhere it
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was just written yesterday and like no one
ever sung it before in life maybe you were just introduced to it and it's a
good thing that you were introduced to it because it is a beautiful song and
it is a song for everyone that is super inclusive but i don't know y'all put
everything that's other as divisive.
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And this fascination with sets, reassignment, and kids, stuff that's not happening
the way that y'all are picturing it or talking about it.
And calling it child abuse, you're taking rights away from parents to handle
their kids however they want to handle their kids. Some people love their kids.
They'll do anything for their kids.
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And they support their kids, and they realize that their kid's life is not their
life, and their kids would get to a point in life where there's a cultivation point.
You raise, you, excuse me, you teach, you set some guidelines,
you try to instill the best that you can within your kids.
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But then there comes a point where they just make their own decisions.
And that takes time. You're there to God, but you can't control.
You can't force your kid like trans kids did not just start existing yesterday.
This has always existed. You could please go back and watch some documentaries
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of of of trans people growing up before this era.
And what their transness did to them in households and how they were kicked
out and how they had to go through so many hard things for being just who they are.
We go back in time, we read things about how this group was always ostracized.
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So if a parent is embracing their kid going through this journey,
whatever that looks like for their family individually, that no one else needs
to be a part of. It's no one else's business.
But now you're taking those parental rights away from them and wanting to instill
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your idea of how parents should operate.
That's not freedom. That is not freedom.
But the pro-family promises expressed in this book and central to the next conservative
president agenda must go much further than the traditional, narrow definition of family issues.
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Every threat to family stability must be confronted.
This resolve should color each of our policies, consider our approach to big
tech, the worst of these companies prey on children, like drug dealers,
to get them addicted to their and mobile apps.
Many Silicon Valley executives famously don't let their own kids have smartphones.
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They nevertheless make billions of dollars addicted in other people's children
to their TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms,
are specifically designed to create the digital dependencies that fuel mental
illness and anxiety to fray children's bonds with their parents and siblings.
Federal policy cannot allow this industrial scale child abuse to continue.
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I wonder what this is going to look like in their idea.
I mean, I guess we're looking at North Korea.
They want to get a hold of every kind of piece of social media,
every kind of bit tech item and only allow what they deem is appropriate.
I don't know. Finally, conservatives should gratefully celebrate the greatest
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pro-family win in a generation,
overturning Roe versus Wade, a decision that for five decades made a mockery
of our Constitution and facilitated the deaths of tens of millions of unborn children.
But the Dobbs decision is just the beginning.
Conservatives in the states and in Washington, including the the next conservative
administration should push as hard as possible to protect the unborn in every
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jurisdiction in America.
In particular, the next conservative president should work with Congress to
enact the most robust protections for the unborn that Congress will support
while deploying existing federal powers to protect innocent life and vigorously
complying with statutory bans on the federal funding of abortion.
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Conservatives should ardently pursue these pro-life and pro-family policies
while recognizing the many women who find themselves in immensely difficult
and often tragic situations and the heroism of every choice to become a mother.
Alternative options to abortion, especially adoption, should receive federal and state support.
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In summary, the next president has a moral responsibility to lead the nation
in restoring a culture, a life in America again.
Hmm. All right. That is promise number one. That's just number one,
y'all. That's number one.
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Y'all go out here and rock with these conservatives Mm-hmm.
And sadly, some of you probably agree with some of this stuff written.
And there's nothing we can do about that. We know that's out there.
I mean, that's just the melting pot that we're in, a diverse thought.
My prayer is that that thought just does not win out,
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that we allow more diversity of thought to exist and people to make their own
choices with their own lives and their own families,
operate how they deem necessary.
This idea of controlling moral standards of people.
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I tell you, I've been in a cult. I'm going to have to share that story one day.
This is some high level cult stuff right here.
The idea that you know better than everybody else in this country how you should
live and what's more and what isn't.
When I swear we look in your closet, if we look in your closet,
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what are we going to find?
It's part one, y'all. Digest it.
Let it sink in. Read through this project 2025.
2025 and this is why i'm out here doing this is because these policies cannot come forth.
Until next time see you on the couch later tater tots this has been a rosie
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b production catch us next time tater tots for a new episode.
Music.
Music.
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Welcome to the Parker's Couch. This is Cameron Parker. I am your host.
Normally, I podcast with my brothers, Carlin Parker and Carl Parker,
who's been a wonderful addition, joining us with the podcast that Carlin and I started.
Normally, I keep the YouTube and the podcast a little separate.
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Sometimes they cross over here and there, but the next few days,
I'm gonna be doing a series around Project 2025.
And I think it's so important this information is out there that I do it both
on the YouTube channel and also on our podcast.
Audio only that's on Apple, Spotify, Podbean, Amazon, different versions.
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So you have access to this information
on either channel that you want to digest it. It is pride month.
Happy pride to everyone out there.
As you can see, my shirt says the first pride was in fact a riot. Okay.
Yes, yes, yes, yes. The first pride was a riot and we're going to have to continue to riot, baby.
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I mean, I think it's so important right now with this.
Voting season upon us coming up that we really get the information out there.
And I just started getting more motivated this week.
We just had D.C. pride here and it was a wonderful week.
Like on Wednesday, I was at a campaign event that that was for Biden and stuff that the H.R.C.
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Hosted and had the wonderful president there, Miss Kelly. Oh, she is amazing.
Got to hear her. had Britta Filter. Some of the drag race people out there would
know who Britta Filter is from, I want to say season nine or 10.
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No, she was season 12.
Oh gosh, don't quote me. I think it's 12.
I'm going to go with that. I don't know what I'm going in my head, which season she was on.
But she has done
all this work and stuff um with
drag and i i know why season nine is popping
in my head because i just saw shea coulee uh all last night and shea coulee
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was season nine so that's what i first popped in my head but yeah she does this
wonderful work right now britta filter with dragging out the boat you know how
drag queens have been under attack but yeah so we had her heard there.
And like I said, Kelly Robinson, the president of HRC, and some other DNC folks were there in the house.
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And it was a wonderful event for Biden. And so that gave me some energy.
And then on Saturday for the parade, I marched in the parade for the first time
in my life, and I marched with HRC.
And we also had Douglas Emhoff join us there, the second gentleman. up gentlemen.
And that was very cool.
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And just to think in my mind, I was sitting there walking and whenever I was
marching in and waving the flag and just looking at the beauty of the crowd
and all the love that was out there,
it was hitting me how this can all be gone.
In a blink of an eye, we are foolish if we think otherwise.
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And it's just so sad to hear just the hateful rhetoric that comes out from the
conservative party when it comes to any other issue that's essentially not white-based, honestly.
So if there's any kind of minority dirty little slant to it or anything.
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It's this white supremacist umbrella that everything goes under.
And I know they're going to hate to hear that, conservatives out there,
but yeah, it is freaking white supremacy that y'all are spouting,
whether you know it or not.
And I don't care if you're black, white, yellow, red, green,
anything in between, it's all
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under the umbrella of white supremacy that's coming out from that party.
And so what I want to do over the next few days is really get into this Project 25.
And so each day, I'm going to release a piece of it to digest it.
Because what's so interesting is that the Republican Party is notorious for not having a plan.
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They can get away without having a plan. They never have to unveil anything.
As you can see they've been talking about healthcare ever since Obamacare has
been out. All you hear is Obamacare sucks, but there's never an alternative.
All you hear about is these immigration issues and everything,
but there's never a plan.
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And when plans are presented out there, they always tear everything down and they just rant and yell.
And so you never hear hardcore kind of plans on a the campaign trail or have anything written out.
But it is different right now, y'all. And I know some of you may have heard about Project 25.
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You may have seen some things in Congress whenever people have just been out
there shutting it down, especially our Congresswoman, Jasmine Crockett.
And some others who have been on people's head regarding Project 2025.
But I want to let the people know what is in here.
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So I know it's all this stuff and people feel a way about Biden,
you feel a way about Democrats and all this stuff and everything.
I don't have time to go into that.
I have my own feelings. I have my own things, but I understand what is important
and what's in front of me.
And right now, I don't have no time to be bickering and defending or anything
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like that, because there's clearly
one party trying to end democracy and another party trying to keep it.
Do with that as you may. Make it feel as you may.
I mean, my stance is very clear of where I stand politically,
and I'm not afraid to voice that.
And you will hear that more and more during this season.
Everything that we do is not going to be political on the couch,
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But the couch is very political between me and my brothers, because that's a
lot of things that we do that we did growing up, sitting around talking with each other.
Like politics has always kind of been a part.
It was never as big of a part, maybe in my earlier life, my parents and stuff,
hearing from them things.
You know, I've heard plenty of stories.
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There's always been a political slant to things in our household.
But over the years it's just picked up more and more for me.
And I've kind of like laid off a little bit the last couple of years,
but I want to pick some of that energy back up.
It's never like totally gone away, but yes. So we're going to get political
in here a little bit today.
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So Project 25, and if you are watching on the YouTube channel,
you'll be able to see some of the stuff I'm sharing too on the screen.
But if you're just listening, definitely.
Look up the things that I'm going to be talking about. So here in Project 25,
if you've not heard of it, you can go to project2025.org.
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And the homepage reads, it is not enough for conservatives to win elections.
If we are going to rescue the country from the grip of the radical left,
we need both a governing agenda and the right people in place ready to carry
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this agenda out on day one of the next conservative administration.
This is the goal of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project.
The project will build on four pillars that will collectively pave paved the
way for an effective conservative administration.
Now, we are going to focus more on the fourth pillar, and that's where the playbook comes into play.
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So there's this 180-day playbook, and it reads, the time is short and conservatives need a plan.
The project will create a playbook of actions to be taken in the first 180 days
of the new administration to bring quick relief to Americans suffering from
the left's devastating policies.
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And so this is all in the fourth kind of pillar of their plan of what they have going on.
Now, this playbook, y'all, it is about 920 pages long.
So it is not they're not playing around and it is clear everything is on is
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laid out here clearly what they want to have happen.
So the idea is that they would be able to get the next conservative president,
you know, that they're hoping is Trump and be able to hand off this playbook
and be like, look, these are the actions we want to take place and go ahead
and get it rolling within the first 180 days.
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Days because the idea is that within the first 180 days, a new president coming
into power, that's whenever you could get the most stuff done and get things through and all that.
So there is a lot of stuff in here.
And this pillar, so the project, like I said, is built on four pillars. Pillar one.
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It puts in one place a consensus view of how major federal agencies must be
governed and where disagreement exists, brackets out these differences for the
next presidents to choose a path.
So that's pillar one. Pillar two is in the personnel database that allows candidates
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to build their own professional profiles and our coalition members to review
and voice their recommendations.
These recommendations would then be collated and shared with the president elect's
team, greatly streamlining the appointment process.
Pillar three is the Presidential Administration Academy.
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And so the idea with this is an online educational system taught by experts from a coalition.
For the newcomer, this will explain how the government functions and how to
function in government.
And for the experience, we will host in-person seminars with events training
and set the bar for what is expected of senior leadership.
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And pillar four, what we're going to be focusing more on is the playbook.
We are forming an agency team.
We're forming agency teams and drafting transition plans to move out upon the
president's utterance of, so help me God.
So as soon as the president swears in and says, so help me God,
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they put in this playbook right into play.
It's like, here we go, let's get the ball rolling. And they say,
as Americans living at the approach of our nation's 250th birthday, we have been given much.
As conservatives, we are much required to steward this precious heritage for the next generation.
On behalf of our coalition partners, we thank you and invite you to come join
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us at our project 2025.org.
So they are trying to gain a lot of steam and support.
In this. So what we're going to do over the next few days here this week,
each day, I'm going to cover one of the topics that they are,
or the promises that they're making in their little quests here.
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And so there are four major promises that they're making, that they want to
be enacted within these first 180 days.
And this is the part we're going to focus on. I'm going to read through.
So today I'm going to do the first promise and, you know, tomorrow I do the second and so forth.
So we're going to cover these four promises.
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And it's very important to listen, to read, to, you know, you got to,
you want to vote with information.
There's a lot of stuff out there, but you need to focus on what is going to
happen, in, what can be done, what is going to affect your life,
what makes sense for our country, and what represents real, true freedom.
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That's my question. It's like, what is freedom? What does freedom mean to you?
Because right now, if you listen to
conservative logic, freedoms are being stripped away and we are not free.
And to me, their idea is more government control, more government intervention.
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More government policies, and taking things away, actually stripping freedoms
away from people because they want one type of freedom.
And they want the freedom to control how everyone else thinks and acts.
And I'm not down for that at all in any kind of way.
And so in these four promises, the first one, the promise is to restore the
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family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children.
Number two is to dismantle the
administrative state and return self-governance to the American people.
Number three, defend our nation's sovereignty, borders and bounty against global threats.
And number four, secure our God-given individual rights to live freely,
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what our Constitution calls the blessings of liberty.
It's so much to say already right there, y'all.
There is so much we can say already just with that little piece that we have right there.
But let's get into it. All right. Y'all ready to go down here?
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I'm going to be reading these and definitely giving my commentary and thoughts.
But promise one, restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children.
The next conservative president must get to work pursuing the true priority
of politics, the well-being of the American family.
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And right now, I just want people to picture in their minds,
like, what does family mean to you?
Because I know conservatives have a very clear picture of family.
They want family to mean mom, dad, 2.5 kids, dog, whatever that is.
It's like that American classic dream kind of picture when in reality families
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are much messier and clumsy and look so many different ways.
They don't believe in a man and a man or a woman and a woman or just a man or
just a woman or extended family and all these other branches of the ways that family exists.
So I want you to just keep that in mind, that there is one clear picture of
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an American family whenever they use this, whenever they talk about these terms.
Let's get into it. In many ways, the entire point of centralizing political
power is to subvert the family.
Its purpose is to replace people's natural, they use the word natural,
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replace people's natural loves and loyalties with unnatural ones.
You see, this in the popular left-wing.
Empiricism, government is simply the name we give to things we choose to do together.
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But in real life, most of the things people do together have nothing to do with government.
Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm. I got to read that again.
You see, this is the popular left-wing aphorism.
Government is simply the name we give to the things we choose to do together.
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But in real life, most of the things people do together have nothing to do with government.
These are the mediating institutions that serve as the building blocks of any healthy society.
Marriage, family, work, church, school, volunteering, the name real people in
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italics give to the things we do together is community, not government.
Our lives are full of interwoven, overlapping communities, and our individual
and collective happiness depends upon them.
But the most important community in each of our lives and in the life of the nation is the family.
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Today, the American family is in crisis.
40% of all children are born to unmarried mothers, including more than 70% of Black children.
They want to make sure they emphasize that, obviously.
There is no government program that can replace the whole in a child's soul,
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cut out by the absence of a father.
Fatherlessness is one of the principal sources of American poverty,
crime, mental illness, teen suicide, substance abuse, rejection of the church,
and high school dropouts.
So many of the problems government programs are designed to solve but can't
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or ultimately place or ultimately problems created by the crisis of marriage and the family.
The world has never seen a thriving, healthy, free, and prosperous society where
most children grow up without their married parents.
If current trends continue, we are headed towards social implosion.
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So right here, like already, I am so sick and tired of the single mother narrative
and focusing specifically on Black children and this idea that families don't
exist in single parent homes.
And I don't even like to say single parent homes because most fathers are involved.
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Like for instance, I have a child. I don't live in a home with my child.
My child lives with this wonderful mother.
And we have a family that co-exists together, that co-parent.
We still are involved with one another.
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It's not like single parents, however we want to label it, are all the time
thrown out left on their own. That happens. That's reality.
That happens in all races. But still, there is family even within those,
whatever that family may look like.
So I just want people to know that. Let that sink in.
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As we continue to go through this. All right.
Furthermore, the next conservative president must understand that using government
alone to respond to symptoms of the family crisis is a dead end.
Federal power must instead be wielded to reverse the crisis and rescue American
kids from familial breakdown.
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The conservative promise includes dozens of specific policies to accomplish this existential task.
Some are obvious and longstanding goals like eliminating marriage penalties
and federal welfare programs and the tax code and installing work requirements for food stamps.
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I just need everybody to get on food stamps one time. Just do it.
I mean, they're always, you already have to, like someone who has been in and
out of unemployment and I'm I'm unemployed right now.
I have my part-time and that's it, but looking for full-time employment.
The unemployment process is not anything anybody chooses to stay in.
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No one wants to stay on food stamps like that for the majority of people in this nation.
And it's not like you get a lot of benefits from it.
And you have to report job searches and all these things already.
And they They make it more difficult and they try to suck up the little amount
of money that you already get from that.
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They already think is too much. And they think that that's what people are choosing
to do instead of having families and stuff.
And taxes don't help with any of that stuff anyway. Anyway, but we must go further.
It's time for policymakers to elevate family authority,
formation, and cohesion as their top priority, and even use government power,
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including through the tax code, to restore American family.
So they want people who are already suffering to suffer even more through tax codes.
Okay, that's what I'm getting. Today, the left is threatening the tax exempt
status of churches and charities that reject woke progressivism.
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They will soon turn to Christian schools and clubs with the same totalitarian intent.
Let me ask you a question, though, with churches. I just really,
because churches, it's amazing to me with this tax exempt, how churches are
able to be tax exempt, but then so clearly express favor for political candidates.
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So clearly involve themselves within politics and government.
But they want to hold their hands like, ooh, tax exempt, you're coming after
us. well, keep religion and government separate.
Church and state is really that simple.
The next conservative president must make the institutions of American civil
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society hard targets for woke cultural warriors.
So sick of the word woke. This starts with deleting the terms, Listen to this.
This starts with deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity,
diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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As we know, it's DEI, which has already been under major attack and is being erased.
Race, gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness,
gender sensitive, abortion.
Reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive
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Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation,
contract grant regulation, regulation and a piece of legislation that is this.
Just because you may not have access to.
A grant, say, or something, or whatever, because it's specific to someone of
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a specific identity, that doesn't make that wrong or not free.
You still have major access to many other opportunities.
I don't understand. For so long in this country, especially as a Black person,
we did not have access to so many things.
And so when things became specific to represent that, now that is wrong.
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So it wasn't wrong before when we never had access, but then whenever we create
access to things, all of a sudden it's wrong.
This is whenever you see right now, the big thing of all these foundations being
sued and these scholarships and stuff and Black women businesses And I can't
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remember the popular one going around now that where the black black women specifically
are being attacked because they're like, this is unfair.
I was specifically for black women.
Give me a break with this fairness crap.
And you got the nerves to say that
this is infringing upon First Amendment rights. This is so ridiculous.
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I want y'all just to hear this. They want to erase the terms sexual orientation,
gender identity, diversity, equity, and inclusion, gender, gender equality,
gender equity, abortion, reproductive health.
How did that get in there? I mean, and I'm just thinking of dummies like Amber
Rose out there like, oh, you know, I'm supporting Trump.
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He's going to be for women or he's going to be more for women rights and stuff. He's OK.
So if you're that type, you know, you don't you don't care about reproductive
health or reproductive rights for women.
It's one thing about being pro-life versus pro-choice, but just to take the
option away and force it upon someone, I don't understand why your stance has
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to be someone else's stance.
That's not free. That's not freedom. That's not the First Amendment.
These people talk so backwards, so hypocritical. Let's continue.
Pornography. Y'all going to find this one interesting, I'm sure.
Pornography manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology
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and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot.
It's strictly bonding up desperate claims about free speech,
property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare.
It has no claim to First Amendment protection.
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Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women.
Their product is as addictive as an illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime.
Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be in prison.
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Listen to that. The people who produce and distribute it should be in prison.
Y'all love trying to throw people in jail.
Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sets offenders,
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and telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.
Y'all hear this? Y'all hear this? The link to pornography, to transgender ideology,
where did that even come from?
And this stuff with child welfare,
okay, pedophilia and all that stuff is one thing that no one is for.
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And no one is for any kind of child pornography or anything like that.
Yeah. And we have things in place in this country to lock those people up.
But grown adults making decisions, doing whatever they want to do with their
own bodies, making their own choices, making their own money, doing whatever.
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And what kills me is that the most pornographic people are you closeted conservatives
who are probably sitting here writing this thing.
The foul things that you have done in life, if that was ever unveiled, can we pull the mirror?
Can we go ahead and pull the cloak and look behind you and see what's in your
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life, in your past, what's on your searches?
What are you searching? It's so funny how transgender, you know,
is trans is like a major pornographic search term in so many Republican states.
But yet y'all rail against it like this.
But they're talking about locking people up for pornography. OK.
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All right, Puritans. In our schools, the question of parental authority over
their children's education is a simple one. One, schools serve parents,
not the other way around.
That is, of course, the best argument for universal school choice,
a goal all conservatives and conservative presidents must pursue.
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But even before we achieve that long-term goal,
parents' rights as their children's primary educators should be the non-negotiable
in American schools, states, cities, and counties, school boards, union bosses,
principals, and teachers who disagree should immediately be cut off from federal funds.
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Let me tell you, who is getting in your way of educating your own child,
however you choose to? to. However wrong I might see it is, it's still your child.
You have the right to do whatever you want with your child and no school is
stopping that. If you don't want your child to be in public school, fine, take them out.
Put them in a school that you want them to be in or homeschool.
You have a choice. You have that right.
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But you can't go ahead and put this ideology on everybody else who is fine.
I'm totally fine with the education my child has received through school.
I don't, this is, this is just dumb. This is coming from people who have never
even set foot in the school, probably who probably don't even have kids or who
knows how long it's been since they had kids go through a school system.
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It was so funny to me. I think it was in Texas. If I remember that one was someone
who ran, who was on that fight against,
you know, like, oh, schools are doing all this stuff and, and they're indoctrinating
our kids and blah, blah, blah. And then she won.
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And then whenever she actually started investigating and reading,
she was like, wait a minute, there's no indoctrination going on.
That's fine. Nothing is happening here. All this whole hoopla about,
and it's really about sexual orientation that all this is centered around.
It's really centered around transness. Y'all have this fascination of trans ideology.
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It's just beyond me. But gender and transness and sexual orientation is just your main focus.
And right there with it, close second, or maybe even top of first is also diversity
issues and race and slavery and things of these nature.
So these are the two things that you attack repeatedly that you feel like are
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indoctrinating children.
So I'm sure Sure, I haven't even read the rest of this, but I know critical
race theory is about to come up. I'm pretty sure after this,
once we're talking about schools.
But you're so hooked on that and fascinated about that. But then she found out
that that actually wasn't going on.
And whenever she tried to take it back to her party and let them know,
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like, oh, you know, actually, this isn't happening in these school systems. They shunned her.
They want to hear it. They like whatever. And they call her liberal and woke
and all these things. It's just amazing to me, the fight against education right
now and what y'all think is happening in schools.
And this idea of school choice, that has to be a whole other thing.
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It's just so much. It is just so much. The
notorious tenets of critical race
theory and gender ideology should
be excised from the curricula in every public school in the country.
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These theories poison our children who are being taught on the one hand to affirm
that the color of their skin fundamentally determines their identity and even their moral status.
While on the other, they are taught to deny the very creature,
creatureliness that inheres in being human.
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What?
OK. And consist in accepting the giveness of our nature as men or women.
This doesn't make any sense. This makes zero sense.
So you're saying like our kids are being poisoned, being taught.
Like what's wrong with being taught affirmation about who you are,
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about your color and being proud of that?
What's I mean, affirm like how you were born whenever society tries to go against that.
I'm glad if if there is somebody out there doing that or having books that saying
like, yes, embrace your color, love yourself. What what is wrong with that?
How does that hurt the someone else?
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But only and only lifts that individual person.
But anyway, this whole little part right there, that whole thing just makes
no sense because no one is being taught to deny anything that makes them human or or whatever.
But anyway, allow allowing parents or physicians to reassign the sets of a minor
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is child abuse and must then for public institutions to use taxpayer dollars
to declare the superiority or inferiority of certain races,
sexes and religions is a violation of the Constitution and civil rights law
and cannot be tolerated by any government anywhere in the country.
Are y'all living in a wacko land? Really?
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They say to be taught the inferiority of certain races.
They're trying to be like a beat around the bush. We know you think that everything
is being taught against white people.
You feel like white people are getting the short end of the stick and everybody's
taught to hate you and white people are taught to hate themselves and this whole white guilt complex.
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We talked about this on our podcast a little bit in the last episode.
So this whole white guilt complex that's really running this country amok,
like y'all are losing your minds, really.
Having one other side affirm does not take away or diminish from the other side.
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Like, I don't know how you can't see that. It's like the fight against the Black
National Anthem. You know, lift every voice and sing.
I saw stuff from, oh, Sage Steele. Yeah, I got my things with Miss Sage.
Still, if you listen to this, you know our little conversation that we had back
and forth on our inboxes and Twitter.
That conversation is still, the offer is still there anytime you want to talk about it.
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Let's talk about it, sis, because you are doing the most out there.
And I'm going to call you a bigot again because you are showing your bigoted ways.
Once again, every time I turn on my ads, I see another bigoted way coming from you.
And it was raging against on Pride Month just recently.
But, yes, continue to show that. But it's and you and Riley Gaines.
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Let me not even get started with her. How y'all done made her like this. I don't know.
It's just getting weird out here with all this stuff. But for some reason,
anyway, let me get back to my point.
Sage on her recent thing, she was relling against Lift Every Voice and Sing.
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And for some reason, talk about Lift Every Voice and Sing is divisive. Huh?
I was so confused. A song called Lift Every Voice and Sing is now divisive.
Just because the focus of the song was coming through slavery,
which is the American story.
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That's just as much of the American story as anything else.
And how could white people not embrace that song and celebrate that and be happy
that slavery is not still around?
Are you upset because slavery is gone?
Like, how is that song not, and it has not replaced the anthem.
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Like, that's still sung, and then the anthem is still sung. Like, we've seen them both.
How come everything is not embraced?
I feel like other cultures get to do things, but the minute Black people do
something that's attached to our Blackness, it's divisive.
I don't understand. It's divisive rather than you seeing it as inclusive.
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I don't understand how supporting Black people doesn't mean supporting everyone.
For the life of me, I just will not understand that.
But Lift Every Voice and Sing is for all of us. That song has been in any Black
church hymnal since you grew up. I learned the song in.
I saw it in our songbooks in church.
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Learned it in elementary school. We sang it in elementary school on Black History
Month. Sang that song all my life.
I had never in my life, a child of the 80s, it was never a problem.
Never heard anything about it. it seems like
after 2020 y'all at like the
like this anthem just came out of nowhere it
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was just written yesterday and like no one
ever sung it before in life maybe you were just introduced to it and it's a
good thing that you were introduced to it because it is a beautiful song and
it is a song for everyone that is super inclusive but i don't know y'all put
everything that's other as divisive.
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And this fascination with sets, reassignment, and kids, stuff that's not happening
the way that y'all are picturing it or talking about it.
And calling it child abuse, you're taking rights away from parents to handle
their kids however they want to handle their kids. Some people love their kids.
They'll do anything for their kids.
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And they support their kids, and they realize that their kid's life is not their
life, and their kids would get to a point in life where there's a cultivation point.
You raise, you, excuse me, you teach, you set some guidelines,
you try to instill the best that you can within your kids.
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But then there comes a point where they just make their own decisions.
And that takes time. You're there to God, but you can't control.
You can't force your kid like trans kids did not just start existing yesterday.
This has always existed. You could please go back and watch some documentaries
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of of of trans people growing up before this era.
And what their transness did to them in households and how they were kicked
out and how they had to go through so many hard things for being just who they are.
We go back in time, we read things about how this group was always ostracized.
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So if a parent is embracing their kid going through this journey,
whatever that looks like for their family individually, that no one else needs
to be a part of. It's no one else's business.
But now you're taking those parental rights away from them and wanting to instill
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your idea of how parents should operate.
That's not freedom. That is not freedom.
But the pro-family promises expressed in this book and central to the next conservative
president agenda must go much further than the traditional, narrow definition of family issues.
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Every threat to family stability must be confronted.
This resolve should color each of our policies, consider our approach to big
tech, the worst of these companies prey on children, like drug dealers,
to get them addicted to their and mobile apps.
Many Silicon Valley executives famously don't let their own kids have smartphones.
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They nevertheless make billions of dollars addicted in other people's children
to their TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms,
are specifically designed to create the digital dependencies that fuel mental
illness and anxiety to fray children's bonds with their parents and siblings.
Federal policy cannot allow this industrial scale child abuse to continue.
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I wonder what this is going to look like in their idea.
I mean, I guess we're looking at North Korea.
They want to get a hold of every kind of piece of social media,
every kind of bit tech item and only allow what they deem is appropriate.
I don't know. Finally, conservatives should gratefully celebrate the greatest
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pro-family win in a generation,
overturning Roe versus Wade, a decision that for five decades made a mockery
of our Constitution and facilitated the deaths of tens of millions of unborn children.
But the Dobbs decision is just the beginning.
Conservatives in the states and in Washington, including the the next conservative
administration should push as hard as possible to protect the unborn in every
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jurisdiction in America.
In particular, the next conservative president should work with Congress to
enact the most robust protections for the unborn that Congress will support
while deploying existing federal powers to protect innocent life and vigorously
complying with statutory bans on the federal funding of abortion.
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Conservatives should ardently pursue these pro-life and pro-family policies
while recognizing the many women who find themselves in immensely difficult
and often tragic situations and the heroism of every choice to become a mother.
Alternative options to abortion, especially adoption, should receive federal and state support.
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In summary, the next president has a moral responsibility to lead the nation
in restoring a culture, a life in America again.
Hmm. All right. That is promise number one. That's just number one,
y'all. That's number one.
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Y'all go out here and rock with these conservatives Mm-hmm.
And sadly, some of you probably agree with some of this stuff written.
And there's nothing we can do about that. We know that's out there.
I mean, that's just the melting pot that we're in, a diverse thought.
My prayer is that that thought just does not win out,
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that we allow more diversity of thought to exist and people to make their own
choices with their own lives and their own families,
operate how they deem necessary.
This idea of controlling moral standards of people.
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I tell you, I've been in a cult. I'm going to have to share that story one day.
This is some high level cult stuff right here.
The idea that you know better than everybody else in this country how you should
live and what's more and what isn't.
When I swear we look in your closet, if we look in your closet,
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what are we going to find?
It's part one, y'all. Digest it.
Let it sink in. Read through this project 2025.
2025 and this is why i'm out here doing this is because these policies cannot come forth.
Until next time see you on the couch later tater tots this has been a rosie
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b production catch us next time tater tots for a new episode.
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