1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,720 Speaker 1: When this episode of A much World set an example. 2 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 1: You must wear your mask. You must wear your mask, 3 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:08,960 Speaker 1: you must wear your mask. I take responsibility for trusting 4 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:11,920 Speaker 1: the word of a neighborhood salon that I've been to 5 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:15,800 Speaker 1: over the years many times. As it turns out, it 6 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:19,759 Speaker 1: was a setup. So I take responsibility for falling for 7 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:22,640 Speaker 1: a setup. And that's all I'm going to say on that. 8 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:25,600 Speaker 1: I think that that this salon, it was me an 9 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 1: apology for setting up. I'm out in the public eye, 10 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:32,920 Speaker 1: and I take my personal hygiene very seriously. As I said, 11 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:36,199 Speaker 1: I felt like I needed to have a haircut, and 12 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:38,720 Speaker 1: so I got a haircut. I suspected that we were 13 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:40,560 Speaker 1: all going to be about to close them down, and 14 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 1: this was the last chance to get some exercise. I 15 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 1: got no exercise whatsoever over the weekend I was in 16 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 1: this building. I need exercise to be able to stay 17 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 1: healthy and make decisions. I'm going to figure out some 18 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 1: new way to do it going forward. I did not 19 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 1: for a moment think there was anything problematic because I 20 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: knew the dynamics. Again, I have to stay healthy so 21 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:01,520 Speaker 1: I could decisions for the people of the city. I 22 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 1: am authorizing the city to shut off Los Angeles Department 23 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 1: of Water and Power Service in the egregious cases in 24 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: which houses, businesses, and other venues are hosting unpermitted large 25 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 1: gathering set an example where a mask. Oh, this is 26 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:21,399 Speaker 1: new due to the virus. I'm recording from home, so 27 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 1: you may notice a difference in audio quality. I want 28 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: to really explore the hypocrisy of the new emerging political aristocracy. 29 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 1: These are the people who believe that, having been loaned 30 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 1: power by the people, that they can get away with 31 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:42,839 Speaker 1: anything they want to because there are two sets of rules, 32 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: one for us normal little people and the other for 33 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 1: the aristocrats of elected power. This was really driven home 34 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 1: to me by speaker Nancy Pelosi's arrogance both in going 35 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:07,559 Speaker 1: to a San Francisco hair salon, even though the local 36 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 1: ordinance keeps the salon closed, wasn't closed for her because she, 37 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:15,799 Speaker 1: after all, was Nancy Pelosi. Furthermore, she was not wearing 38 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:18,519 Speaker 1: a mask while she was walking around the salon. This 39 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:22,080 Speaker 1: infuriated the owner. Turned out that the owner rented a 40 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: chair to the particular stylist. The owners facing bankruptcy. Salons 41 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 1: and San Francisco have been closed since March. They're going 42 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 1: to finally allow them to do outdoor appointments starting September first, 43 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 1: and Pelosi just broke all the rules. She apparently felt that, 44 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: after all, she is the Speaker of the House, and 45 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: who is she to be held to the same rules 46 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:46,679 Speaker 1: as normal people. And because the owner was so angry 47 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:51,639 Speaker 1: at the hypocrisy of those who have political power causing 48 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 1: her pain while they take care of themselves, she did 49 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:59,080 Speaker 1: in fact release the pictures of Pelosi and the salon. 50 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:04,359 Speaker 1: What was important about it wasn't Pelosi's personal hypocrisy. We've 51 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:07,359 Speaker 1: seen plenty of that, including her standing next to her 52 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: multi thousand dollars refrigerator eating her gourmet ice cream while 53 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 1: blocking the bill that would help small business, but that 54 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 1: it was so typical of what has emerged as a 55 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 1: brand new aristocracy, something the United States has never had. 56 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 1: People who believe the rules don't apply to them. They 57 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 1: have a hypocrisy of saying you and I have to 58 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:32,519 Speaker 1: behave a certain way, but then they don't. Now and 59 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 1: I'm going to walk you through some examples of how 60 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 1: this political aristocracy breaks the rules. And I want to 61 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 1: start with Governor Pritzker, the Democratic governor of Illinois. But 62 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 1: his family traveled to their horse farm in Wisconsin, despite 63 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:51,839 Speaker 1: having issued an order to stay at home. So here 64 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 1: you are, the governor of Illinois, you are telling everybody 65 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 1: in Illinois stay at home, except of course for your family. 66 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 1: So they more than twenty workers, mostly from Illinois to 67 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: Wisconsin to work on the farm for a construction project. 68 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 1: Pritzker argued that the construction work was necessary and essential, 69 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 1: and Pritsker, then, when the press asked him, refused to 70 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 1: answer whether his wife traveled to their estate in Florida 71 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 1: during the stay at home order. So, in essence, Pritsker 72 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: was a perfect example of the new political aristocracy, saying, 73 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:27,839 Speaker 1: you'd do what I tell you to do, I'll do 74 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 1: what I want to do. Similarly, deliberate poking the thumb 75 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:36,600 Speaker 1: in your eye. When Mary Deblasio was working out at 76 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:41,360 Speaker 1: the YMCA just before New York closed all non essential businesses, 77 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,799 Speaker 1: including Gems and the Bear, then gave a speech without 78 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 1: a mask where people crowded around him. Hours after telling 79 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:51,279 Speaker 1: the public to wear face mask in public. Deblasio is, 80 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:53,720 Speaker 1: I think, part of the worst mayor in the United States, 81 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 1: and he has this knack of breaking the rules over 82 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: and over again. Similarly, Democra credit. Los Angeles Mayor Eric 83 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:07,120 Speaker 1: Garcetti authorized shutting off power and water to residents who 84 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:10,720 Speaker 1: were in violation with the city's COVID nineteen social distancing rules. 85 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:14,559 Speaker 1: He said on Twitter, quote, today, I authorized the city 86 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 1: to disconnect utility service at a house in Hollywood Hills 87 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:22,040 Speaker 1: to stop the large parties held there in flagrant violation 88 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 1: of our public health orders. Parties like these can quickly 89 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 1: and easily spread the virus and put our communities at 90 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:31,799 Speaker 1: risk quo quote. However, the mayor then attended a Black 91 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 1: Lives Matter protest in downtown Los Angeles. Their photos were 92 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 1: the mayors not wearing a master in this protest. He 93 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:41,600 Speaker 1: did admit that there was a connection between protests and 94 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 1: COVID nineteen cases, two days after downplaying the connection. He 95 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:49,040 Speaker 1: was first elected in twenty thirteen. He won re election 96 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 1: in two seventeen. His second term is goingly five years 97 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 1: and six months long because they readjusted the mayoral elections 98 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:59,480 Speaker 1: so that they would fit with statewide elections. He also, 99 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:02,599 Speaker 1: by the way, wants to dramatically cut support to the 100 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 1: police and cut the police budget across the country. Democratic 101 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 1: Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney was seen eating out indoors in 102 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:15,160 Speaker 1: Maryland while restaurants in Philadelphia closed. I was doing a 103 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:18,800 Speaker 1: radio talk show in Philadelphia and the host pointed out 104 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: to me that one of the most famous restaurant owners 105 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. This went for circ because the mayor had 106 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 1: issued orders that you could not serve food inside restaurants, 107 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 1: and then went to Maryland and went into a restaurant 108 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 1: had dinner indoors. Now his team released a statement he 109 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 1: said quote in this case, he felt indoor dining was 110 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:47,040 Speaker 1: low risk because that seven eighty two total COVID cases 111 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 1: in the county he briefly visited compared over thirty three 112 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 1: thousand cases in Philadelphia, drastically different circumstances. He also tweeted 113 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 1: that he understands the frustration, but felt that the risk 114 00:06:59,839 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 1: of contact in COVID nineteen and Marland was low. Mayor 115 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 1: Kenney's view is he decides when he can apply common sense. 116 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 1: You don't get to apply common sense, you get to 117 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 1: follow his orders. The perfect example of the hypocrisy of 118 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 1: the elective. There are photos of Democratic Virginia Governor Ralph 119 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:22,679 Speaker 1: Northam posing for a selfie and mingling on a crowded 120 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 1: beach without wearing a mask. Some of other people around 121 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 1: him are also not wearing masks. This is after he 122 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:31,280 Speaker 1: mandated that everyone in Virginia wear a mask for their 123 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 1: own safety. Later, he stated that he should have brought 124 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: a mask with him in case he encountered a crowd. 125 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 1: You really think a governor going to a public beach 126 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 1: doesn't think you'll encounter a crowd. The truth is Northam 127 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 1: is a perfect example of the kind of hypocrisy in which, 128 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 1: if you're elected, you get to do whatever you want. 129 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 1: Will you tell everyone else to do what you want 130 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 1: them to do. Similarly, Democratic Chicago mayor Laurie Lightfoot visited 131 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 1: a salon despite telling Chicago residents the quote getting your 132 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: roots done is not essential. Salons were also closed during 133 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:09,559 Speaker 1: the time she attended to salt like, what's excuse us? Quote, 134 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: i am the public face of the city, I'm on 135 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 1: national media, and I'm out in the public eye. Close quote. 136 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 1: In other words, for the mayor of Chicago, there's one 137 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 1: set of rules, because after all, she has looked good 138 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 1: for the rest of us. The rules are, don't worry 139 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 1: how you look. You're not going to go and get 140 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 1: your roots done again. The typical examples of the political aristocracy. 141 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 1: The Democratic New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy announced that the 142 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:37,200 Speaker 1: state would require citizens to wear mask outdoors and circumstances 143 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:41,199 Speaker 1: were social distancing is impossible. On May sixth, he signed 144 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:43,959 Speaker 1: an executive order barring outdoor gathering in more than twenty 145 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 1: five people. However, after we've seen a protest involving hundreds 146 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,120 Speaker 1: of people, he changed his executive order to include a 147 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 1: line the political protests were protected and fine to do it. 148 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 1: This is a pattern with liberal Democrats across the country. 149 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 1: If you are protesting in a politically correct cause, then 150 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 1: there is no danger of COVID and nobody should stop you. 151 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:09,079 Speaker 1: On the other hand, if you wanted to go to church, 152 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 1: that would be horrifying, or if you wanted to have 153 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 1: a family gathering, that would be horrifying. So you begin 154 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 1: me at this sense of how totally political this is 155 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:22,319 Speaker 1: and how totally hypocritical it is. Former President Obama was 156 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 1: seen in a Virginia golf course about forty miles from 157 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:29,320 Speaker 1: their home days before Michelle Obama told people to stay home. 158 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:32,680 Speaker 1: Michelle Obama two days later stayed, unquote, we urge you 159 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:36,679 Speaker 1: to stay home, except if you need essential healthcare, essential supplies. 160 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:38,760 Speaker 1: I will go to your essential job. But of course 161 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:59,439 Speaker 1: golfing in Virginia is essential because they want to. Parallel 162 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:03,800 Speaker 1: to all of is the amazing hypocrisy about defunding the 163 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 1: police by politicians who have private security. For example, in Minneapolis, 164 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:12,559 Speaker 1: while they were debating not just defunding the police, but 165 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 1: eliminating the police department. This is after the riots, Minneapolis 166 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:22,199 Speaker 1: City council members Andrea Jenkins, Philippe Cunningham, and Alandro Kano, 167 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:27,320 Speaker 1: all Democrats, had a private security detail after receiving death 168 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 1: threats for supporting proposals to defund the city's police department. 169 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:35,160 Speaker 1: They were charging the taxpayers forty five hundred dollars a day, 170 00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 1: about sixty three thousand dollars over three weeks. So what 171 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:42,400 Speaker 1: they're saying is you don't need to be protected, and 172 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 1: we can defund the police because we're not worried about 173 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 1: protecting you. But I have to have my own personal protection. 174 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 1: Chicago Mayor laure Lightfoot banned protesters from being on her streets, 175 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 1: citing safety reasons, but she allows protests throughout the US 176 00:10:56,960 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 1: to the city. So literally, when she found out that 177 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:02,160 Speaker 1: she didn't have enough police or enough will to control 178 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:04,679 Speaker 1: the entire city and provide safety for the millions of 179 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:08,440 Speaker 1: people in Chicago. She decided she could take some of 180 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:12,559 Speaker 1: those police and divert them to her personal street. This 181 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 1: is a different time like no other, and I'm not 182 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:20,040 Speaker 1: going to make any excuses for the fact that given 183 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 1: the threats that I have personally received, given the threats 184 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 1: to my home and my family, I'm going to do 185 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 1: everything I can to make sure that they are protected, 186 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 1: and I make no apologies whatsoever for them. So her 187 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:36,439 Speaker 1: street is really really safe. It's just the rest of 188 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:39,079 Speaker 1: us who aren't. And again it's a perfect example of 189 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:42,600 Speaker 1: its attitude of the political elites that says, I'm going 190 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:45,280 Speaker 1: to take care of me. There are new rules for me, 191 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 1: and then I'm going to tell you what the rules 192 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:50,560 Speaker 1: are for you. The area where I first got into 193 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 1: this was school choice, because he used to just drive 194 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 1: me nuts. You'd have all these liberals who would send 195 00:11:56,120 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 1: their kids to private schools and then explained that they 196 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:05,600 Speaker 1: were against school choice for everybody else self. For example, 197 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:10,160 Speaker 1: Democratic Senator Warren released an education plan that is totally 198 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:12,600 Speaker 1: anti choice, and the reason simple, it's the teachers unions. 199 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 1: If you're a Democrat, the teachers unions own me, you 200 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:19,120 Speaker 1: can't afford to take them on. Her plan would ban 201 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:22,439 Speaker 1: for profit charter schools, would end federal funding for new 202 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 1: charter schools, would add more regulatory barriers to opening. Then 203 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 1: it turned out her son went to a private school 204 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 1: costing seventeen thousand dollars a year. So it just gives 205 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:35,440 Speaker 1: you this flavor of one set of rules for you 206 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 1: and me, different set of rules for the politicians. Similarly, 207 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:43,880 Speaker 1: Democratic Mayor Pete Buddha Judge denounced four profit charter schools 208 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:47,199 Speaker 1: and is against vouchers because quote they take away funding 209 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 1: from public schools. However, Buddha Judge exclusively attended private schools 210 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 1: while growing up. His husband taught at the private Montessori 211 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:58,680 Speaker 1: Academy Indiana, a school which accepts students who used the 212 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:03,600 Speaker 1: state's tax credits scholarship program. So Buddha Judge is saying, well, 213 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 1: he happened to go to a private school, and while 214 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:10,199 Speaker 1: his husband teaches at a private school for normal people, 215 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:14,400 Speaker 1: you shouldn't expect to have that kind of opportunity. Similarly, 216 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:18,680 Speaker 1: Democratic senator and Vice presidential Canada Kamala Harris said that 217 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 1: she has quote particularly concerned with expressions of for profit 218 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:28,400 Speaker 1: charter schools. However, her stepchildren attend Wildwood School, an elite 219 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 1: private school in Los Angeles that cost about forty four 220 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:36,920 Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year. Her stepdaughter didn't graduate until two seventeen. 221 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 1: She had married Emhoff in two fourteen. So once again, 222 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:42,960 Speaker 1: it's O came for her child to go to a 223 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,080 Speaker 1: forty four thousand dollars year private school, but she's against 224 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 1: poor people having the choice to go to a school 225 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:53,480 Speaker 1: that's successful. Democratic Senator Sheldon white House from Rhode Island 226 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:57,720 Speaker 1: announced that quote I have received thousands of letters, calls, 227 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:02,080 Speaker 1: and emails in opposition to Betsy Dvas's nomination, many of 228 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:05,959 Speaker 1: them citing the school vulture and privatization agenda that Missus 229 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:10,360 Speaker 1: Davaston allies imposed in Michigan. As w pr I reported, 230 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:13,079 Speaker 1: the senator also question whether Divas had ever entered a 231 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 1: public school, drawing a lass from the supportive Brown team. However, 232 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:22,560 Speaker 1: white House himself personally attended Saint Paul's School, a private 233 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 1: boarding school, and had sent his children to Saint George's, 234 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 1: a private school with a sixty thousand dollars a year tuition, 235 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 1: speaking on why he sent his children to private school, 236 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 1: white House stated quote, I want the best education they 237 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:37,920 Speaker 1: can for them, and I felt that in their circumstances, 238 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: the place that I chose to send them with the 239 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 1: best schools for them. Additionally, in white House's financial disclosure 240 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 1: report file in two thousand and one, he lists Edison Schools, 241 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:51,360 Speaker 1: a for profit charter school company that he invested in. So, yeah, 242 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 1: let's sake white House as an example. His children go 243 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 1: to a sixty thousand dollars a year school. But for 244 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:03,760 Speaker 1: the people of Rhode Island, the everyday working person, they 245 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 1: shouldn't have the option of school choice. And they had 246 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 1: a perfectly good explanation. Once every parent could identify I 247 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 1: want the best education that I can for them, well 248 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 1: why not allow all the other parents to get the 249 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:19,440 Speaker 1: best education they can for their children. But again, the 250 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:23,960 Speaker 1: hypocrisy of the political class is just amazing. Democratic Senator 251 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 1: Robert Casey Junior of Pennsylvania also opposed di Voce for 252 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:30,280 Speaker 1: Secretary of Education because quote, I don't think she's committed 253 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 1: to public school education. Now. Casey attended Scranton Preparatory School. 254 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 1: His daughters also attended Scranton Preparatory School. However, when asked 255 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:43,560 Speaker 1: in two thousand and four by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia 256 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 1: survey of treasurer candidates, what is your position on school 257 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 1: choice legislation in the form of direct grants to students 258 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 1: to attend the school their choice. The answered opposed. So 259 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,640 Speaker 1: it's okay for him to go to a preparatory school. 260 00:15:56,960 --> 00:15:59,680 Speaker 1: It's okay for his daughters to go to a preparatory school. 261 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:04,200 Speaker 1: But if the poor people of Philadelphia attracted a terrible 262 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 1: school system with a bad teachers union that has failed 263 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 1: to educate, if they'd like the same option as Casey. 264 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:14,000 Speaker 1: Now that'd be wrong because they're not aristocrats, they're just commoners. 265 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 1: But Casey is an aristocrat of the elected class. He's 266 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 1: allowed to do it. He once Democratic Senator Al Franken 267 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 1: during the confirmation hearing vote for divorce, attack school choice 268 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 1: in the voucher system, saying quote, in reality, most school 269 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:30,840 Speaker 1: vouchers don't cover the full cost of private school tuition, 270 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 1: nor do they cover additional expenses like transportation, school uniforms, 271 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 1: and other supplies, which means the vouchers don't create more 272 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:42,800 Speaker 1: choices for low income families. They simply subsidize existing choices 273 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 1: for families who could already afford to pay for private school. 274 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 1: He also criticized Divoce for never stepping foot in the 275 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 1: public school and for sending her children to private school. However, 276 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 1: Franken's own children attended the Dalton School, where the tuition 277 00:16:57,280 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 1: has forty four thousand, six hundred and forty dollars a year. 278 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 1: Franken's daughter is the director of Extended Learning, a dc 279 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 1: PREP which provides assistance to charter schools. Frank And received 280 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,920 Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars in campaign funds from the National Education Association. 281 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:16,280 Speaker 1: So another classic example. The political aristocrat sends his children 282 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:19,440 Speaker 1: to a private school, but you, the average everyday person 283 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:22,880 Speaker 1: shouldn't be allowed to the point of all this triggered 284 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:27,920 Speaker 1: in a way by Nancy Pelosi's visit to the Salon, 285 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:31,920 Speaker 1: but really triggered in part by Nancy Pelosi's entire attitude. 286 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 1: She's a classic San Francisco radical. She lives in a 287 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:40,399 Speaker 1: very secure community. She lands at the airport, gets picked 288 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 1: up by a car, is escorted by the police, goes 289 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:45,560 Speaker 1: directly to her home. She does not step in any 290 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 1: human feces, she doesn't have to worry about any homeless people. 291 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:52,320 Speaker 1: She doesn't notice the needles on the ground, she lives 292 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 1: in a fantasy world that if you're really, really rich, 293 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:57,919 Speaker 1: she can sustain, and then she wants the rest of 294 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 1: us to obey the rules. It's one of the reasons 295 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:04,280 Speaker 1: why when we developed a contract with America in nineteen 296 00:18:04,359 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 1: ninety four, the number one thing we pledged was to 297 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:11,639 Speaker 1: make Congress obey the same rules as everybody else. And 298 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 1: the reason we did that was we found from talking 299 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:17,680 Speaker 1: with people the level of anger at the idea that 300 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 1: Congress kept passing regulations and laws that affected small business 301 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:26,520 Speaker 1: and affected local communities, affected churches, and then we have 302 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:28,960 Speaker 1: a little clause that said, none of this shall apply 303 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:32,480 Speaker 1: to the Congress, so they kept exempting themselves from feeling 304 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:34,800 Speaker 1: the pain of the things they were doing to the 305 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:37,440 Speaker 1: rest of the country. The number one goal we had, 306 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 1: the number one promise we made was to apply all 307 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 1: the rules. I think when you look at, for example, 308 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:46,479 Speaker 1: Governor Whitmer, who's husband went and got to the family 309 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:49,639 Speaker 1: vote out at exactly the time that she had issued 310 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 1: in order that people in Michigan could not get their votes. 311 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:56,160 Speaker 1: This scene once. He had this whole arrogance that says, 312 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:59,920 Speaker 1: I can get away with anything because I'm politically powerful 313 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 1: and you can't do anything about it. And I think 314 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 1: that it's one of the deepest sicknesses in our system today. 315 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 1: Is a real danger of a political aristocracy that believes 316 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:13,240 Speaker 1: that you and I don't count because we're just little people. 317 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:16,160 Speaker 1: But they are allowed to exempt themselves for many rules, 318 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:19,439 Speaker 1: so they impose the rules on us. They cripple our lives, 319 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 1: they bankrupt our businesses, they make it very difficult for 320 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:25,199 Speaker 1: us to worship, and then they do what they want to. 321 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:28,680 Speaker 1: And I think this issue of up rooting and political 322 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 1: aristocracy is one of the reasons they dislike Trump so much, 323 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 1: because Trump has a natural, instinctive, disruptive style that says, 324 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:38,360 Speaker 1: if you're going to do these kinds of things, we're 325 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 1: going to stop you, and ultimately we're not going to 326 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:44,880 Speaker 1: allow it to happen. And that infuriates the aristocratic politicians 327 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:47,720 Speaker 1: who are convinced that having one office gives them the 328 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:50,000 Speaker 1: power to do whatever they want to. So I wanted 329 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 1: to share this with you because I really do think 330 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:56,399 Speaker 1: that far more than the hypocrisy of her having to 331 00:19:56,440 --> 00:20:00,280 Speaker 1: go to the salon when no one else could, is 332 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:02,600 Speaker 1: the degree to which it just triggered in my mind, 333 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 1: at least let's review the whole case in which, frankly, 334 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:09,960 Speaker 1: the public safety component the degree to which if you're 335 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:13,240 Speaker 1: the mayor of Chicago, or your city council Minneapolis, or 336 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:17,959 Speaker 1: you're the mayor of Seattle, you make sure you're taken 337 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:21,600 Speaker 1: care of even if everybody else is at risk because 338 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:24,880 Speaker 1: of your anti police, pro criminal latitudes. And I think 339 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 1: the other great case of which I've been on since 340 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:31,000 Speaker 1: the late nineteen eighties, is this whole issue of school 341 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:34,640 Speaker 1: choice and the degree to which the political class, particularly 342 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:38,160 Speaker 1: liberal Democrats, who are basically owned by the teachers unions, 343 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 1: have total hypocrisy. If we could get every person who 344 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 1: votes in school choice to agree that their children will 345 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 1: go to the nearest public school, then I'd feel much 346 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:52,240 Speaker 1: better about the fairness and equality and honesty. And by 347 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:54,760 Speaker 1: the way, they would then change the rules almost overnight, 348 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 1: and they would all be voting for school choice because 349 00:20:57,320 --> 00:20:59,280 Speaker 1: they don't want their child to go to the nearest 350 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 1: public school, and they prove it because they spend forty 351 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars sending him to some elite institution. 352 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 1: So this is in part not just a fight over ideology. 353 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:11,720 Speaker 1: It's a fight over whether we're going to return to 354 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:15,680 Speaker 1: an America in which elected officials are simply citizens who 355 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:18,800 Speaker 1: happen to temporarily have power, or elected officials are now 356 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:21,879 Speaker 1: a new aristocratic class who are different than us, have 357 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:25,200 Speaker 1: power over us, and can exempt themselves from their own 358 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 1: really bad decisions. We will continue to look at these 359 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:31,440 Speaker 1: kinds of examples of how the system has gone wrong.