1 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:10,720 Speaker 1: What second? My part of this episode on right wing 2 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:15,319 Speaker 1: attempts to attack and dominate school board meetings in order 3 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 1: to further their ability to do violence on marginalized groups 4 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:27,479 Speaker 1: and also erode democratic institutions from the ground. Uh. Stage title, Yeah, yeah, 5 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 1: that'll that'll click. Well Ah, I'm solutely glad. We don't 6 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 1: have to worry about clicking and titles. And that took 7 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: up a lot of my mind back in the day, Garrison, 8 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:41,199 Speaker 1: back when, back when the internet was different. Now we 9 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 1: don't have to worry about that anymore. But we do 10 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:45,880 Speaker 1: have to worry about our mobs of fascists attacking school 11 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 1: board meetings. It happens every week, keeps happening more often. 12 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 1: School boards are calling for assistance. That they seem pretty, 13 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 1: they seem pretty not thrilled. Yeah, they seem not psyched 14 00:00:56,040 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 1: about that. So we're we're we're. When we left off, 15 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 1: I was talking about some things I found on the 16 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:08,960 Speaker 1: gram Telegram. Uh, Garrison, what's next. I'll go into my 17 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:13,320 Speaker 1: preliminary research on Telegram and particularly response. Basically, I looked 18 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 1: through every single Telegram post and all of the main 19 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 1: fascist channels I lurk on that mentioned school boards from 20 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 1: like the past two weeks. Um, So like yeah, this 21 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:26,680 Speaker 1: is like current current stuff on ongoing. Um. I got 22 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 1: to a lot of the channels I was already familiar with, 23 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 1: like you know, the Western Shapnist channel, which is uh 24 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 1: subs um, the Standard Students channel, which was a when 25 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:39,279 Speaker 1: I was less familiar with, specifically dedicated to this school 26 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: board issue. Um. One of one of the posts I 27 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 1: we have on there is h says your enemy isn't 28 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 1: some far off ship whole country. Your enemy is just 29 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 1: down the street at your local school board meeting, teaching 30 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 1: your kids to hate their ancestors, you and themselves. So 31 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 1: like again, that is a very much white supremacist dog 32 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:02,639 Speaker 1: whistle just right there, um talking about producing Hollywood movies 33 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 1: writing they're not whistle basically, it's basically just a whistle. Um. 34 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 1: So yeah. They then they, you know, the same post 35 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 1: talks about you know, masks and shuting down businesses and 36 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,079 Speaker 1: the vaccines and stuff and saying the fight is here 37 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:17,640 Speaker 1: and the fight is now. So just in terms of like, yeah, 38 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 1: they're really wanting to hype people up for doing this 39 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 1: thing at school boards. They're trying to really hammer down 40 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 1: the school board points. So like I found this. I 41 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:28,399 Speaker 1: found this post. This is This is a post from 42 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 1: the Standford Students channel um and I saw this one 43 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:33,920 Speaker 1: re shared in a lot of different channels. One of 44 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 1: the other first ones that I saw pop off was 45 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: from Ron watkins channel like Code monkey z. He is 46 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 1: one of the one of the architects or one of 47 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 1: the you know people who really pushed Q and on 48 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 1: stuff into He's the guy who ran like the physical 49 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:53,240 Speaker 1: infrastructure of a chan and eight coon for years. Yeah. 50 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: He and he's trying to pivot into being like having 51 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 1: his just his face be like a kind of alternative 52 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: right wing figure right now. Uh, he's gonna be running 53 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 1: for office in Arizona, I believe. Anyway, he has a 54 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 1: very popular telegram channel, um and he he made he 55 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 1: made this post that had over a thousand, over a 56 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 1: thousand comments on it, which is a lot for telegram. 57 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 1: A thousand comments on telegram post, especially telegram post of 58 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:20,639 Speaker 1: of code mackezs size. I't see how many subs does it? 59 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,119 Speaker 1: So Ron, just for his context, Ron Watkins has four 60 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty two thousand subscribers on his on his 61 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: Telegram channel. So yep. Anyway, Uh, CRT is being rebranded 62 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 1: as s e L a social emotional learning. If you 63 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: are attending school board meetings as you should be, do 64 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: what you can to make sure you stop both s 65 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 1: e L and CRT and keep them and make sure 66 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: that they are banned in your school districts. So again, 67 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:54,839 Speaker 1: just direct calls to action for getting people to show 68 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: up to these school boards. And also, social emotional learning 69 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: is not CRT, and of course T is not even 70 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 1: taught in schools. I think everyone who listens to this 71 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 1: podcast knows that SRT, actually critical theory isn't taught in schools. 72 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 1: This isn't an actual thing. It's it is like a 73 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: legal theory. We'll get into more of how this gout, 74 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 1: like pushed towards the end. I think Chris has some 75 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 1: stuff prepared on that. Yeah we yeah, yeah, it's again 76 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:18,719 Speaker 1: these none of these things are actually real. It's a 77 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 1: complex legal theory. What they're really mad about is their 78 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: people are teaching that racism is like an issue that's 79 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 1: built into a lot of American institutions and it's an 80 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:28,720 Speaker 1: ongoing thing. It's not a thing of the past. That's 81 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:30,920 Speaker 1: what they're actually mad about, and they just call that CRT. 82 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 1: Some some of the comments from the Ron Watkins post, 83 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 1: stuff like these snowflakes are so annoying. I'm about to 84 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 1: start cutting power to any school in my community that 85 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 1: teaches this. Um so yeah, more Again, that's just a direct, 86 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:50,039 Speaker 1: direct threat of doing terrorism. Should I mean less of 87 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:54,040 Speaker 1: a threat and more of a promise? Yeah? Do that 88 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 1: it be? No? Sure it doesn't. All right, Well I 89 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 1: don't understand things the same way you zoomers do. Please continue. Yeah, 90 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of posts being a shipped 91 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 1: around from channel to channel, including this full Nazi channels 92 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:09,240 Speaker 1: were like trying to trying to of course, like a 93 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 1: lots of Nazis are actually you know, I thought it 94 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:13,479 Speaker 1: was pretty funny that the that the school board union 95 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:16,159 Speaker 1: put in a call to assistance to the federal government 96 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 1: to deal with this issue. They of course they thought 97 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:19,919 Speaker 1: that was funny. But they're gonna use this to like 98 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:22,839 Speaker 1: spread networks to be like, hey, the government wants to 99 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 1: stop you. They're calling you a terrorist. You like regular 100 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 1: folk are being called terrorists because you're showing up with 101 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:29,479 Speaker 1: school boards, right, That's the kind of message that they're 102 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 1: going to shoot out. So they a lot of Nazi 103 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:34,039 Speaker 1: channels crafted a lot of posts like that that got 104 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 1: shared around a lot. Yeah, in trying to basically all 105 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 1: time critical race theory and if you approached against critical 106 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: race theory, they're calling you a domestic terrorist. That that 107 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:47,159 Speaker 1: type of thing. And this got this got shared in 108 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 1: the school boards channel and a whole bunch of whole 109 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 1: bunch of other stuff being being talking about how if you, 110 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:54,479 Speaker 1: if you stand up, you're gonna be a domestic terrorist. 111 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 1: You have to be brave and do this. A few 112 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 1: days after the school board uh, not a few days, 113 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 1: I guess this. This this was in like in October 114 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:06,479 Speaker 1: um the school Association retracted some of the some of 115 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:08,919 Speaker 1: the words that they used in their letter because of 116 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 1: this BackFlash that was created. And this was also shared 117 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:15,960 Speaker 1: in shared in uh lots of fascist channels. The main 118 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:17,920 Speaker 1: one who was shared in that I saw was the 119 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,480 Speaker 1: Honk Pilled channel UM, which is just another type of 120 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:25,599 Speaker 1: peppe meme um uh, one of the other one of 121 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 1: the other big, big kind of groups active in this 122 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 1: in this whole sphere. And this this has been a 123 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 1: group going on for a while and we haven't talked 124 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:35,680 Speaker 1: about on the pod, but we probably should do something eventually. 125 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: Is this group called White Rose so this is a 126 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:42,040 Speaker 1: White Rose is a COVID conspiracy group that has been 127 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 1: very uh successful in creating on the ground organizers who 128 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 1: are regular people, and they do a lot of like 129 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 1: sticker bombs and lots of neighborhoods. If you have if 130 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:54,360 Speaker 1: you ever seen anti like COVID or COVID conspiracy stickers 131 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 1: in your neighborhood, it was probably a White Rose sticker. UM. 132 00:06:57,279 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 1: These are all over the States and basically every university. 133 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:03,360 Speaker 1: As a quick heads up, the original White Rose was 134 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 1: a student protest organization that existed in Nazi Germany UM 135 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:13,280 Speaker 1: and protested illegally, and its organizers were executed by the Nazis. 136 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 1: And I think it was the mid forty I mean 137 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 1: it would be like like forty three, maybe maybe forty four. UM. 138 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 1: Sophie Shoal was the person most associated with them. So 139 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 1: they they're they're they've taken the names of these these heroes, 140 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 1: UM in order to it's just disgusting, it's very gross. 141 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 1: There's there's a decent amount of decent amount of researchers 142 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 1: in this field thinks that there's like actual bad people 143 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 1: behind White Rose. Of course, with like bad people because 144 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: they're spending COVID stuff, but like like wait, like like 145 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 1: more like bad actors use basically astroturfing this thing, but 146 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: White rosters its own piece later. But because they have 147 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 1: such a big following on telegram, they are of course 148 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 1: using using this to using the school board thing to 149 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 1: gain more support they have about subscribers to their specific 150 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 1: telegram channel. They shared a post a few weeks ago 151 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 1: saying thank you to all the brave parents going out 152 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 1: to their school boards and standing up for the children. Um. 153 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:11,600 Speaker 1: And they try that, you know, get people to do 154 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 1: sticker bombs and stuff, but the fact that there's like 155 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 1: specifically calling out people in school boards is like an 156 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:19,880 Speaker 1: extra step of like beyond just putting stickers up in 157 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 1: your neighborhood. Um. Another another another white right Rose post. 158 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 1: They shared a shared a video UM that was captioned 159 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 1: as concerned parent absolutely destroys school board with facts. The 160 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:36,960 Speaker 1: school boards are the battlefield of our time. This is 161 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:40,200 Speaker 1: how it's done, and just the increasing rhetoric around like 162 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:42,560 Speaker 1: battle fields, this is where like the fight is at 163 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. Um. There was another another uh, 164 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: the white White Chauvinist channel shared a video from Fox 165 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 1: News UM and they they the Western Chauvinist channel, which 166 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:56,840 Speaker 1: is again it's one of the most shared ones in 167 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 1: this whole network. They captioned this saying, parents and virgin 168 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 1: here are trying to fight back against the school board 169 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,760 Speaker 1: that is anti white. Um, every every school district in 170 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 1: America needs to have an anti mandate pro right parents 171 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:13,240 Speaker 1: running for the school board. So that's just the It's 172 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:15,320 Speaker 1: this type of stuff all over and this this this 173 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:19,600 Speaker 1: post was got it has like an eleven eleven thousand, 174 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:24,960 Speaker 1: eleven thousand views. Um, So these things are spreading to 175 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,680 Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of these specific networks. And 176 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:28,480 Speaker 1: I mean, I I have so many of this kind 177 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:30,560 Speaker 1: of stuff. I'm not going to go through every single 178 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 1: one in detail. There's ones that are way more like 179 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 1: openly anti Semitic, uh, you know, saying, you know the 180 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 1: Jews that run you know, ex school board, um are 181 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 1: trying to force vaccinations on every student over twelve. Um. 182 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,680 Speaker 1: Other another Uh, there's this fake this is this this 183 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:49,160 Speaker 1: fake Clint Eastwood channel on Telegram that's pretty popular. Someone 184 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:54,080 Speaker 1: who's pretending to be Clint Eastwood that spread far right stuff. Um. 185 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:55,959 Speaker 1: He had a post that was shared a lot that 186 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 1: started by saying starts taking over school boards, start taking 187 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:01,680 Speaker 1: over city council, start to ing over city boards. Um, 188 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 1: start to start being pull watchers, start being poll workers, 189 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 1: start taking over sheriff's departments. It's not enough just to vote. 190 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:10,320 Speaker 1: So this, this is the other thing that we're going 191 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:13,320 Speaker 1: to see a lot more of, is rhetoric around voting. 192 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 1: Isn't enough. You need to start doing more things. Um, 193 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 1: there is one of it. Yeah, here, here's here's one. 194 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 1: This is gonna this is a referencing some of the 195 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:23,679 Speaker 1: trans stuff. I'll discussing a bit, but I just want 196 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:26,200 Speaker 1: to tie it in now. A post from the Western 197 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 1: Chauvinist Channel saying there is no political solution, which is 198 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 1: a direct Nazi, a direct Nazi lie. I mean that. 199 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 1: That's what I did an article early this year on 200 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 1: Riley Williams, the Nazi who stole Pelosi's laptop during the 201 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: Capitol riot, and then like the video that we were 202 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 1: able to identify her as a sig hiling Nazi, and 203 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 1: that's how she opened her quote, there is no political solution. 204 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:54,840 Speaker 1: It's a very common catchphrase among like the the fast right. Yeah, 205 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 1: so there's been a lot of stuff around harassing, like 206 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:00,679 Speaker 1: specific school board members harassing specific teacher. Was there was 207 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:02,800 Speaker 1: this teacher in uh, I think in California that was 208 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 1: trying to like introduced like like anti fascist type rhetoric 209 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 1: and talking about how fascism is a modern thing. They 210 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:12,920 Speaker 1: got absolutely bashed um and like docs um, and they 211 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 1: got it I think fired because there was like hundreds 212 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 1: of parents organizing on on apps like telegram to harass 213 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 1: this one teacher at school board's like you know, they 214 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:22,839 Speaker 1: took over massive school board meetings and just talked about 215 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 1: this one teacher endlessly. Um. And it was even It's 216 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 1: interesting because like all the parents were like, yeah, Mike, 217 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:32,079 Speaker 1: my I got worried because my student actually really like 218 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 1: liked the teacher and said that they were doing like 219 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 1: giving really interesting points about like systemic issues. And the 220 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:39,360 Speaker 1: parents were like and they brought their kids to the 221 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:41,200 Speaker 1: school board meeting. There's the kids are just standing in 222 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 1: the back as their parents are ranting about this and 223 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 1: talking about how the kids actually, like I thought, they 224 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:49,839 Speaker 1: were learning things about systemic issues. And then that got 225 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:56,960 Speaker 1: people mad. So you know what else gets people mad? Uh? 226 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:14,679 Speaker 1: This is advertisements. H And we're bad. We're gonna we're 227 00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:18,560 Speaker 1: gonna touch on the uh the specifics like all the 228 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:21,720 Speaker 1: stuff we've been talking about. Most of the modern most 229 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:24,439 Speaker 1: most of the current organizing is a lot of it's 230 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: around like mask mandates and vaccine mandates. Um, Like all 231 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 1: of this called like you know this the stool board channel. 232 00:12:30,559 --> 00:12:33,080 Speaker 1: All of this kind of stuff is usually around vaccine, 233 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:36,839 Speaker 1: vaccines and mask stuff. Uh, of course there's critic Royce 234 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 1: theory was the way more popular thing a few months ago. 235 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: Right now is the vaccine thing. The other kind of 236 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 1: like ever present thing is being upset that trans kids 237 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 1: exist and being very fearful that that there are trans 238 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,560 Speaker 1: kids around your kids. Uh. This is a thing that's been, 239 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:56,400 Speaker 1: you know, a thing for years that people have been 240 00:12:56,440 --> 00:13:00,840 Speaker 1: fighting against. And since the school board things becoming more popular, 241 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:05,719 Speaker 1: people are are starting to, uh bring vasically do these 242 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:09,600 Speaker 1: kind of flash mobs specifically around trans issues. Um. One 243 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 1: of like the more like astro turf type things was 244 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 1: people getting mad that there were like two specific books 245 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:18,679 Speaker 1: available in certain high school and some middle school libraries. 246 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 1: Um that one of it was like a like one 247 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:25,480 Speaker 1: of it was the memoir that Robert mentioned. The other 248 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:31,320 Speaker 1: one was like a graphic novel memorial about someone realizing 249 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 1: their gender queer. So these are books that are not 250 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 1: in curriculums. These are just books that are available at 251 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 1: the library. Um. And basically there was people who just 252 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 1: who found these out and got turned it into like 253 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 1: like a meme on telegram essentially, like people like sharing 254 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:47,400 Speaker 1: information about this. Then you like look it up, see 255 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 1: if it's in your library. So then we have all 256 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 1: of these like coordinated attacks on school boards by these 257 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 1: mobs of people all about these same two books. Um. 258 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 1: And the goals to not only just get the books 259 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 1: like banned, but they're also trying to like fire or 260 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:03,679 Speaker 1: arrest the teachers and school board members for allowing these 261 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:05,960 Speaker 1: books to happen. There has been school boy members who 262 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 1: have like stepped down because of just how much harassment 263 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: is about these things. Quote from the Western Chavinist channel, 264 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 1: Jesus Christ straight up pedophile books in our children's schools. 265 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 1: Once again, the Jewish school board member gets mad and 266 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 1: try to shut them down. How can you not connect 267 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,080 Speaker 1: the dots here? There's no political solution. Voting will not 268 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:25,920 Speaker 1: remove these people. Um. There was the mayor of Houston, 269 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 1: uh So in the mayor of Houston, Ohio heard about 270 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 1: this and he went to a school board meeting and 271 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:34,880 Speaker 1: instructed all of them, all of the board members to 272 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 1: resign um quoting the quoting the Proud Boy right wing 273 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 1: organizing channel Western CHAVINIZTA. This comes after some of the 274 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 1: degenerate parasites in the system called educators, instructed kids to 275 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 1: describe a sex scene that they wouldn't show their mom. 276 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 1: Of course this didn't happen. This is this is they 277 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 1: these these things are not are not. These books are 278 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 1: not used in any kind of curriculum anyway. So even 279 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 1: even if they were that that we were not even 280 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 1: we're not even in that reality. Um. So the mayor 281 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 1: of this town basically got these instructed these instructed all 282 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:10,320 Speaker 1: of these people to resign um. Earlier, I think in 283 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 1: mark No. In August of this year, pride flags were 284 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:21,119 Speaker 1: banned at a at a school school district inside south 285 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:24,480 Speaker 1: west Oregon. Um, I think around I think around Newburgh. 286 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 1: The Newberg school district banned but banned pride flags. So 287 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:30,280 Speaker 1: all this kind of stuff and and of course that 288 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 1: is in a lot of states. But the again, the 289 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:34,560 Speaker 1: fact that it's in like Oregon, a blue state, is 290 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 1: people got made like you know, there's like you know, 291 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:39,160 Speaker 1: NBC articles about it. Because it's it's Oregon. It's not 292 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 1: it's it's it's not it's it's not a red state. 293 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:43,560 Speaker 1: So it's all big, it's all Portland, it's all Antifa, 294 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 1: right yeah. Yeah, so again the stuff is not not 295 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:50,040 Speaker 1: not like contained to one thing. And like yeah, if 296 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 1: you google the stuff around these books, if you google 297 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:57,080 Speaker 1: like gender queer book, uh school boards, you'll find this 298 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:00,120 Speaker 1: in so many school districts. You'll see just mobs of 299 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:04,640 Speaker 1: people lined up yelling and screaming um and like like 300 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:09,280 Speaker 1: printing out giant, like giant cardboard prints of of this 301 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:13,280 Speaker 1: comic book showing like like with like you know, there's 302 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:15,200 Speaker 1: like a dick on it, Like there's like a drawn 303 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 1: a drawn dick, because that's what human bodies look like. 304 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 1: Like you can look at like a lot of like yeah, 305 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 1: they're like what are you know, banned the statue of 306 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:26,200 Speaker 1: David because he has this dick out too, like like 307 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:28,920 Speaker 1: come on. And also these are the same people who 308 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:32,840 Speaker 1: talk about like oh they're you know, banning books, burning books, 309 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 1: you know, right, there was that there was that tweet 310 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:36,480 Speaker 1: from like James Woods about like these are the books 311 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:39,040 Speaker 1: that people want banned. That means they're the most important ones. 312 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:41,600 Speaker 1: But these people love. These people love like burning books. 313 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 1: These people love banning books. They love cancel culture. That 314 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 1: the cultures that I was that I was in as 315 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 1: a kid, they would have like massive like book and 316 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,360 Speaker 1: like c D and DVD burnings for like unlike unholy 317 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:54,720 Speaker 1: and sinful media that you would like bring in and 318 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:57,960 Speaker 1: like throw like your sinful music onto this giant fire. Like. 319 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 1: These people love love burning book because they love they 320 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:04,800 Speaker 1: love banning stuff. They love cancel culture. Um, but they 321 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 1: just like that. Yeah, So that was that was most 322 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:11,680 Speaker 1: of my stuff around the kind of the ongoing queer 323 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 1: and trans stuff. Of course, you know, this ties into 324 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:16,119 Speaker 1: the bathroom stuff as well, with the people showing up 325 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:18,919 Speaker 1: to school board meetings to scream about you know, kids 326 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:21,639 Speaker 1: going ship in the bathroom that they want to and 327 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:25,399 Speaker 1: feel comfortable in. Um. You know. And again like it 328 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:27,359 Speaker 1: doesn't it's not gonna stop with trans people either, right 329 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:29,080 Speaker 1: as soon as they ban trans people, the next thing 330 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:31,159 Speaker 1: is going to be oh, gay students, right it is 331 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 1: it never it's never stops, it always keeps going. Um. 332 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:37,280 Speaker 1: And it's just an ever present problem that it's gonna 333 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:40,840 Speaker 1: require a lot more, a lot more dealing with and 334 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,160 Speaker 1: again with all of these flash mobs, like no one, 335 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 1: no one's gonna stop them because they're like the people 336 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:49,120 Speaker 1: in power, They're the people that have all of the privilege. 337 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:52,200 Speaker 1: There's no really effective counter organizing for these school board 338 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:55,120 Speaker 1: meetings right now. Um, the cops aren't gonna do ship. 339 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 1: Security guards are't gonna do ship. Uh, and regular libs 340 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 1: and regular regular people are going to do shit either. 341 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 1: And it's hard to figure out how to actually combat 342 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 1: this because there's a lot of times that the people 343 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,199 Speaker 1: in school boards were like, no, we don't want this 344 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 1: to turn into a giant like fistfights, Like don't don't 345 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:13,640 Speaker 1: come in mass to start fistfighting them. But there needs 346 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:16,639 Speaker 1: to be something to combat, whether that be you know, 347 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 1: running running for school boards, just showing up outside school boards, 348 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:23,320 Speaker 1: having just more people there in, having more presence there 349 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:26,960 Speaker 1: so that it's not as overwhelmed by like a mob 350 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,639 Speaker 1: of two hundred anti mask people showing up. Right there 351 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 1: needs to be some type of thing happening because no 352 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 1: one else needs to be countered and yeah, you know what, 353 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:38,920 Speaker 1: they might need to get the ship kicked out of them. 354 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:40,920 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but like I don't like I don't think 355 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:43,960 Speaker 1: that would actually help in this instance, probably, but like 356 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:47,640 Speaker 1: there needs to be fucking something like they they are. 357 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:53,399 Speaker 1: The level of boldness that they have is evidence that 358 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:57,399 Speaker 1: they feel they are confident that there is no counter 359 00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:00,800 Speaker 1: to what there is going to be done. And perhaps 360 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:04,280 Speaker 1: if they were being met by a wall of people 361 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:06,680 Speaker 1: in the community who were willing, if they tried to 362 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:09,320 Speaker 1: force their way into fucking throw down, you know, to say, 363 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:11,719 Speaker 1: you're not entering this building without a goddamn mask, You're 364 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:15,120 Speaker 1: not shutting down this meeting. Um, I don't know, maybe 365 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 1: that would do something. I don't actually know what would 366 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:20,720 Speaker 1: do something. If it was people just as regular people, 367 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:22,639 Speaker 1: I think that would be. Yeah, it's certainly not going 368 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:25,280 Speaker 1: to help if it's antifa, Um, for the love of God, 369 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 1: don't show up in fucking black block at a school 370 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:31,120 Speaker 1: board meeting. Um, Like what would work is a bunch 371 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:34,159 Speaker 1: of other middle aged parents showing up and being willing 372 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:38,159 Speaker 1: to confront these people if and like everything that is 373 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:40,280 Speaker 1: worth mentioning is that a lot of the people at 374 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 1: these protests like are not parents at all. Like they're 375 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:45,920 Speaker 1: not they're not they're not even in the same school district. 376 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:48,640 Speaker 1: They're just sort of like this this is just how 377 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:51,640 Speaker 1: this is just how the sort of right wing outrage 378 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:55,399 Speaker 1: machine has worked, and this is where they're drawing people. Yeah, 379 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 1: I mean and again like it's it's a lot of 380 00:19:57,359 --> 00:20:00,280 Speaker 1: the people in there, there's gonna be big do dudes 381 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:01,920 Speaker 1: who want to fight, but a lot of the people 382 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,320 Speaker 1: like screaming are are like you know, middle aged women. 383 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:07,160 Speaker 1: The people who are like really like leading the charge 384 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:10,680 Speaker 1: on this because they're able to use their privilege because 385 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:12,360 Speaker 1: like no one's gonna stop them, right, So that that's 386 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:15,440 Speaker 1: like when they're leading the charge of two people who 387 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:18,119 Speaker 1: are gonna like scream and harass and chase out the 388 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:21,720 Speaker 1: black security guards, chase out, chase out the all of this, 389 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:25,240 Speaker 1: all the school remembers no one's they're they're very effective 390 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:28,720 Speaker 1: at using their privilege to gain political ground by just 391 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:30,399 Speaker 1: like doing stuff on the ground. It's like, you know, 392 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 1: it's like this is like the January six thing. It's 393 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:33,840 Speaker 1: like the January six thing. This is the new future 394 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:36,639 Speaker 1: of political action is just showing up in mass two 395 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:39,879 Speaker 1: places where no one's gonna stop you because you're like 396 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:45,199 Speaker 1: you're the you know, the good, relatable you know everyday 397 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:49,600 Speaker 1: Yeah you're anyway, That's that's the stuff I had, will 398 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:52,639 Speaker 1: probably have an ad break and then talk about maybe 399 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:57,680 Speaker 1: some of how this stuff started. Speaking of using your privilege, 400 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 1: you know, what is the greatest privilege being able to 401 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:06,080 Speaker 1: purchase the products that Yeah, that's exactly right. There's no 402 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:10,879 Speaker 1: privilege higher than being able to engage with these consumables. 403 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:26,280 Speaker 1: And we're back, all right, Chris, you want to close 404 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:28,080 Speaker 1: this out. Yeah, So the last thing I want to 405 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:31,240 Speaker 1: talk about that is interesting about this whole thing is, 406 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:34,200 Speaker 1: you know, we we've we've mostly been focusing on the 407 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,479 Speaker 1: very furthest right elements of this, but a lot of 408 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:42,199 Speaker 1: the school board stuff is tied to I mean just 409 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 1: straight a Republican party operatives and people who work in 410 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 1: this sort of you know, I mean there's there's literally 411 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 1: bunch of people who work for the Republican parties we'll 412 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 1: get into. And then there's also this sort of network 413 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:55,400 Speaker 1: of of Republican think tanks, republicans sort of yeah, dark 414 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:57,800 Speaker 1: money dumps, that's a lot of a lot of AstroTurf 415 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:00,160 Speaker 1: groups and that kind of stuff. Yeah, And and so 416 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:02,040 Speaker 1: I want to talk about a few of these people 417 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:06,920 Speaker 1: because I think they're interesting. Um, I think we can 418 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:11,439 Speaker 1: start with Nicole Nelly who's an interesting person. She's so 419 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:14,879 Speaker 1: she she most recently founded Parents Defending Education. Who are they? 420 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,040 Speaker 1: They're one of the big groups to sort of like 421 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:20,639 Speaker 1: spreads this this sort of attack on school board stuff 422 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:23,240 Speaker 1: over the country. They have chapters, they organize people, and 423 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 1: they also, you know, they do this thing where they 424 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 1: collect incident reports from from school districts that they you know, 425 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:30,639 Speaker 1: just distribute to all these people and they put it online. 426 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 1: They have all of these they they they have a 427 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 1: lot of stuff they do. They do a lot of 428 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:39,399 Speaker 1: anti mask mandate stuff. So they have these like template letters, 429 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:42,119 Speaker 1: like template like fakely performing letter things that you can 430 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:43,560 Speaker 1: send to schools that if you don't want to wear 431 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:47,040 Speaker 1: a masks. That's the staple of this type of organizing. Now. Yeah, 432 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:49,399 Speaker 1: and and the interesting thing about Nicolenelly is that so 433 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:52,640 Speaker 1: this is not like her first organ like three years 434 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:59,199 Speaker 1: eighteen back in the Halcyon Days of of I you know, 435 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:02,320 Speaker 1: I I'm not quit going to say it was before 436 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:04,080 Speaker 1: the mask fully came off, but it was well the 437 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 1: mask was like a little bit more on. She she 438 00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:11,119 Speaker 1: previously founded a speech first. Yeah you might remember. Yeah, 439 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 1: speech was the big talking point. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 440 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:16,240 Speaker 1: And so she ran that for a while. Now she's 441 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:19,399 Speaker 1: you know, organizing with the holy people who just wants 442 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,800 Speaker 1: to Yeah, they just move on, they move on to 443 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:24,199 Speaker 1: the new things. It was, it was free speech, it 444 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 1: was christ theory. Right now it's anti mask stuff. Next 445 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:30,919 Speaker 1: up is gonna be trans stuff going real hard. Just 446 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 1: today we had the fucking person who BBC platforms, the 447 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:41,280 Speaker 1: fucking lincum. Yeah, Lily K, the rapist Lily K manifesto 448 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:44,159 Speaker 1: where she details which specific trans women she wants to 449 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:50,159 Speaker 1: personally kill. Yeah, I used to know Lily Um. Oh yeah, 450 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:53,879 Speaker 1: yeah yeah, uh real dark turned Um, I don't know. 451 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:57,520 Speaker 1: I guess it's not super surprising. She was definitely interviewed 452 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:01,320 Speaker 1: her for a documentary and it was a bit off putting. Uh, 453 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:03,760 Speaker 1: didn't realize this was going on. I mean, yeah, there's 454 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:05,919 Speaker 1: there's a lot of a lot a lot of reports 455 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 1: of people in like the sex book industry of talking 456 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:13,200 Speaker 1: about her, like raping people in bathrooms, which again it's like, yeah, 457 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:15,840 Speaker 1: the people it's always screaming about, Oh no trans woman 458 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:17,880 Speaker 1: or in bathrooms. Yeah, the people. The person screaming about 459 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:21,120 Speaker 1: this is an actual rapist. Like and like when when 460 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,199 Speaker 1: we say rapist here, like she she she raped so 461 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 1: many people that, like on Twitter, like I was scrolling 462 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 1: through my feet and I saw multiple people who were like, oh, 463 00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:33,120 Speaker 1: I know this person she assaulted me. Yeah, it's really bad. 464 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 1: The people who the turfs are like pushing. Yeah, this 465 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 1: is the BBC was platform. You're so like, yeah, like 466 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:40,800 Speaker 1: trans stuff is as soon as as soon as the 467 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:44,239 Speaker 1: anti mask anti vax stuff like dies down in the 468 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:48,080 Speaker 1: next five months or whatever. Uh, I foresee a massive 469 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:52,400 Speaker 1: pivot towards specifically anti anti trans antiqueer antique stuff because 470 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 1: that's gonna be the new thing. Yep. And and and 471 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:58,560 Speaker 1: I think it's it's worth bearing in mind that this stuff, yeah, 472 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,359 Speaker 1: you know with with the cold NAILI epically. So she 473 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:03,960 Speaker 1: she worked she like worked at the Cato Institute, which 474 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:07,680 Speaker 1: is like Murray Rothbart and Charles Cokes. Now it's it's yeah, 475 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 1: it's it's it's basic. It's basically this is a slight 476 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:12,280 Speaker 1: over supplication, but it's basically one of the Cokes sort 477 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:15,600 Speaker 1: of like money laundering like money operation things. She also 478 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:19,840 Speaker 1: worked at Freedom Works, who yeah, yeah, this is great. 479 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:21,520 Speaker 1: So um, this is this is one of the fun 480 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,320 Speaker 1: parts of this, which is that so Freedom Works is 481 00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:27,200 Speaker 1: another one of the Coke's sort of dark money laundering 482 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:30,719 Speaker 1: machine things and Freedom Works are basically the people who 483 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:33,040 Speaker 1: created the Tea Party, Like there are people who turned 484 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,920 Speaker 1: the Tea Party from like a bunch of weird guys, 485 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 1: like like six weirdos into like, you know, the basically 486 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:44,400 Speaker 1: the the the the entirety of the pre Trumps conservative 487 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 1: political machine who like built Republican Party after it was 488 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:51,159 Speaker 1: like completely discredited um in into two thousand's. And this 489 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 1: is true of a lot of the people who are 490 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,880 Speaker 1: in charge of these big organs have connections like this, 491 00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,960 Speaker 1: um the person you found in No Left Turn, which 492 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:04,000 Speaker 1: is No Off Turn, No One for an education. They're 493 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,359 Speaker 1: they're they're They're not one of these big sort of 494 00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 1: anti school bird things. I mean they they are the people. 495 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:09,120 Speaker 1: They're one of people who like they have a list 496 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:12,400 Speaker 1: of books on their website that they want banned. Wow, yeah, 497 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 1: it's great cool And their founder rights for the heritage 498 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,439 Speaker 1: foundations like magazine, So they're there. There's there's all of 499 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,440 Speaker 1: this stuff. And I think maybe the most implematic one 500 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:26,639 Speaker 1: is this guy is Mark Ruffo who Rufo. Yeah, so 501 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,920 Speaker 1: so he's he's the guy who just created the whole 502 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:31,880 Speaker 1: critical race theory thing out of nothing. He like threw 503 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 1: together a bunch of like in just like these incredibly 504 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:39,480 Speaker 1: tenuous connections. Like there's a bunch of sort of old 505 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,600 Speaker 1: cultural Marxism conspiracy stuff in there. Yeah, it's a lot 506 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,800 Speaker 1: of like Frankfurt's school type ship. Yeah. Yeah. And and 507 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:49,879 Speaker 1: but but what I think is interesting about him, it's 508 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:54,680 Speaker 1: less his ideas, which are just pseudo intellectual. Yeah, he doesn't. 509 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:56,919 Speaker 1: He's not actually super smart in what he says. That 510 00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:58,879 Speaker 1: there's a lot of videos of him talking to actual 511 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:02,560 Speaker 1: philosophers getting led about what rice theory is. Like, he's 512 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,160 Speaker 1: actually not that intelligent in this, in this side of things. 513 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 1: But but you know that the thing is that there's 514 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,679 Speaker 1: nothing more dangerous than an idiot with a trick up 515 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 1: his sleeve exactly. And you know, and then the trick 516 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,280 Speaker 1: basically is Fox News. And you know, the reason the 517 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:17,879 Speaker 1: reason this whole thing exists is that this was you know, 518 00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:21,840 Speaker 1: Mark Ruffo, He's very very explicit about this, that this 519 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 1: this this was his solution to the George Floyd uprising 520 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:26,920 Speaker 1: was that oh, we we need we need to we 521 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:28,960 Speaker 1: need to find this thing to stop the medicinum of 522 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,080 Speaker 1: this uprising. And this is this is who Tucker Carlson 523 00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:33,199 Speaker 1: brings on and starts bring on and this blows up, 524 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:36,400 Speaker 1: and he immediately gets hired by the Manhattan Institute, which 525 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:38,520 Speaker 1: is a very not that old but they're from the eighties, 526 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:42,080 Speaker 1: but a very an old, extremely powerful conservative thing tank 527 00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:44,960 Speaker 1: that I don't think. I think it's less known than 528 00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:47,360 Speaker 1: things like the Heritage Foundation or the kid who wants 529 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,320 Speaker 1: to Yeah, I would say so, yeah, but he gets 530 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,400 Speaker 1: they hired him like immediately because you know, the sort 531 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,040 Speaker 1: of mainline of the Republican Party very quickly is like 532 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:57,960 Speaker 1: this is the thing that we can use as like 533 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,960 Speaker 1: a hammer, right, And so the mentatt the Institute publishes 534 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:05,160 Speaker 1: this group of work for them. Now I can't I'm 535 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 1: not actually sure if you I don't know if you 536 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:09,600 Speaker 1: specifically wrote this or he was just involved in it. 537 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:12,119 Speaker 1: I think it's it's the bye line is just the 538 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:15,840 Speaker 1: Manhattan Institute. But they have this incredibly detailed tool kit 539 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:19,200 Speaker 1: explaining how you know, both both explaining what the sort 540 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:23,159 Speaker 1: of right wing like line on critical race theory is. 541 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:25,040 Speaker 1: They have like a bunch of explainers, have like list 542 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,880 Speaker 1: of terms. Have you ever seen Yeah, yeah, it's actually yeah, 543 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:30,520 Speaker 1: if you've ever seen like list of terms of people 544 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:32,760 Speaker 1: want banded, Like it's all just pulled from this document, right, 545 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:35,840 Speaker 1: so this add stuff. Um no, But but the interting 546 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:37,240 Speaker 1: part of about this is the other thing is this 547 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:39,640 Speaker 1: this is an organizing manual, right, It's it's as specific 548 00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 1: thing that tells you how to go and how to 549 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,959 Speaker 1: find other people, like other other people. You know, if 550 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,680 Speaker 1: if you're like an incensed right wing like freaking one 551 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:48,760 Speaker 1: of these school districts, it's like, okay, well here's here's 552 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,360 Speaker 1: how you like talk to other people in your districts. 553 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,360 Speaker 1: Here's here's a list of options of like things you 554 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,520 Speaker 1: can do going public. And then there's a very interesting 555 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 1: thing part of this that that I think is really 556 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,840 Speaker 1: disturbing and outlines like really what's going on here, which 557 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,800 Speaker 1: is there's this whole like freak out thing about this 558 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,640 Speaker 1: thing called minority rule, where like, oh, the left has 559 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,400 Speaker 1: this like they have this like militant minority that that 560 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 1: will compel the majority to follow them by because they 561 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:18,080 Speaker 1: keep on showing up and they keep on doing things. 562 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:21,840 Speaker 1: And if they if this minority like it keeps keep 563 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 1: keeps you know, being more in transient than everyone else, 564 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 1: then they will inevitably win. And this the three quarters 565 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:31,520 Speaker 1: of this section is this like weird fearmongering thing about it. 566 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:33,840 Speaker 1: But then the last part of it is a bunch 567 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 1: is the thing that's saying, oh, we need to do 568 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,240 Speaker 1: this ourselves, right, this is how we win. We win 569 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 1: by being more in transient. We will by showing up 570 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:41,200 Speaker 1: more often of course. Yeah, and you know, and this 571 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:42,600 Speaker 1: is this is the other thing is this is from 572 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:47,920 Speaker 1: like last year. I think this is like this summer. 573 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:50,200 Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, that's sorry. This is this is this 574 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:51,880 Speaker 1: is really this year. But it's interesting because it's like 575 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:55,320 Speaker 1: this is the sort of you know, this, this is 576 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:59,120 Speaker 1: this is the Republican Party essentially, I mean, the institutes 577 00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:01,160 Speaker 1: very very main stre Republican Party. This yeah, this is 578 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,440 Speaker 1: this is how they do effective in person organizing. We we 579 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,640 Speaker 1: we talked about this a bit in our episodes um 580 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,320 Speaker 1: about the like in the aftermath of the abortion ruling 581 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:11,720 Speaker 1: in Texas and how and how like the religious right 582 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,840 Speaker 1: ring organizing has worked in local districts. Yeah. This this 583 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 1: is how they're able to get things done, which is 584 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,360 Speaker 1: why there's been so many school by members who either 585 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,800 Speaker 1: got fired, who have had to step down, who have 586 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,760 Speaker 1: been harassed off the job and are now there's people 587 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:25,880 Speaker 1: you know, a lot of a lot of like people 588 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:29,320 Speaker 1: I would describe as people holding very extreme views are 589 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:32,760 Speaker 1: now running and taking these spots. Um because if you 590 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:34,560 Speaker 1: can do if you can do this type of like 591 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,240 Speaker 1: again it's not grassroots, but it's it's it is it 592 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:39,720 Speaker 1: is like asturp so like it appears grassroots. But if 593 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,080 Speaker 1: you can do this type of like faux grassroots organizing, 594 00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:44,360 Speaker 1: you can gain a lot of power over specific areas 595 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,320 Speaker 1: and make a lot of people's lives a lot more miserable. 596 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,200 Speaker 1: And that's that's that's what the goal is, right, The 597 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,680 Speaker 1: goal is to make the trans kids lives miserable. The 598 00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:54,200 Speaker 1: goals they get people to not wear masks and dive 599 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:58,400 Speaker 1: COVID like that, those are the results of these actions. Well, 600 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,360 Speaker 1: I think I think they're they're They're an interesting interplay 601 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 1: here though, because I think because so freedom works, like 602 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,560 Speaker 1: like even even a lot of the specific protests that 603 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,800 Speaker 1: are happening, and this is especially true of the very earlier, 604 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,480 Speaker 1: earliest ones. I thinks like when when like the very 605 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,040 Speaker 1: first school board protests that were happening, Yeah, like like 606 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,959 Speaker 1: a lot of these sumiler to follow is when they 607 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,600 Speaker 1: started start up. Yeah, and and those a lot of 608 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,280 Speaker 1: those were directly organized by by people who work for 609 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:26,680 Speaker 1: Freedom Works. And and this is this is what a 610 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:28,760 Speaker 1: lot of the RT ones yeah yeah, yeah, they see 611 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,400 Speaker 1: the crt ones or for every specifically freedom works. And 612 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:32,800 Speaker 1: this is what I think is interesting about this is 613 00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:35,200 Speaker 1: that you know, okay, freedom Works. It's like, okay, so 614 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:36,920 Speaker 1: what does Freedom Works out of this? Freedom Works wants 615 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 1: the T party again, right because you know that this 616 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:41,360 Speaker 1: is this is what Freedom Works does. Right there. They're 617 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,360 Speaker 1: they're they're basically the group that comes in when when 618 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,600 Speaker 1: the Republicans start losing election cycles, they're like, okay, well 619 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:47,400 Speaker 1: now we need to get the bounce of power back. 620 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,040 Speaker 1: We need to bring drawn the Democrats own. So they're 621 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,360 Speaker 1: they're they're largely trying to build a sort of electoral base. 622 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:54,640 Speaker 1: And and again like this, this this will look familiar 623 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:56,800 Speaker 1: to people who remember two thousand and ten because it's 624 00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:00,800 Speaker 1: the same thing except and this is the thing that 625 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:02,560 Speaker 1: I I I this is the part where I genuinely 626 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 1: they can't tell whether the Freedom Works people, whether the cokes, 627 00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,800 Speaker 1: whether that whether this sort of dark wening network either 628 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:11,840 Speaker 1: I don't I can't tell whether they understand what they're 629 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:16,720 Speaker 1: doing and like it or they're just incredibly naive. But 630 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:19,360 Speaker 1: you know, this is not two thousand ten, right. You 631 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:24,040 Speaker 1: can't when when you start mobilizing people, like mobilizing people 632 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,160 Speaker 1: on the right wing to go to a place, they 633 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,840 Speaker 1: don't just like sit there and hold signs anymore. You 634 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:32,280 Speaker 1: cannot You cannot contain them at this point. You cannot 635 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:35,520 Speaker 1: control the spread like you have once you've you've opened 636 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,720 Speaker 1: this can, and there's no way of putting them back 637 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,680 Speaker 1: in because as soon as they start organizing on appside telegram, 638 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:44,800 Speaker 1: they're one step away from skull masks. And then they're 639 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,160 Speaker 1: being okay with cheering around people that are going to 640 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,160 Speaker 1: go beat up that are going to go beat up 641 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:51,160 Speaker 1: people in these meetings. Yeah, and this is this is 642 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:53,560 Speaker 1: this is really the thing that I think it's it's 643 00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:55,120 Speaker 1: not just January six that we live in the shadow 644 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,640 Speaker 1: January six, but it's also about you know, if you 645 00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:01,400 Speaker 1: look at how how the anti lockdown protest went, right, 646 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:02,840 Speaker 1: you a bunch of people showing up with guns, the 647 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:07,040 Speaker 1: capitals and that stuff was extremely effective. And that in 648 00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,440 Speaker 1: the combination between that in January six has you know, 649 00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:13,040 Speaker 1: it's open the floodgates and now that was that was 650 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:17,080 Speaker 1: six being possible. Is the more and more protests around 651 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:20,200 Speaker 1: capitals of people showing up in mass to overwhelm anyone, 652 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:21,920 Speaker 1: and because they're all white and because they're all like 653 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,160 Speaker 1: middle class conservatives, no one's gonna stop them. Yeah, and 654 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:26,840 Speaker 1: and you know, and this is the thing, right, you know, 655 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:33,440 Speaker 1: the Cokes. I I genuinely don't know what the Cokes 656 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:35,280 Speaker 1: want out of this. My guess is that the thing 657 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:37,560 Speaker 1: that they want is a new based Republican voters. But 658 00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:39,200 Speaker 1: that's not what they're creating. The thing that they're creating 659 00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:43,240 Speaker 1: is a new core fascist street fighters. And you know it, 660 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,440 Speaker 1: at some point, it doesn't it literally doesn't matter whether 661 00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:47,960 Speaker 1: or not this is what the Cokes are trying to 662 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,640 Speaker 1: do or like not trying to do, because they're in 663 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,080 Speaker 1: the end it's it's just pushing people towards thinking there's 664 00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:58,480 Speaker 1: no political solution. It's still only only violence and overwhelming 665 00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:00,640 Speaker 1: people in mass is the only way to get the 666 00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,680 Speaker 1: change that they want. The change they want is to 667 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:08,120 Speaker 1: have trans kids not exists. And yeah, just more more 668 00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:12,120 Speaker 1: and more like fecistic policies, um, whether that be you know, 669 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:15,239 Speaker 1: banning books that mentioned gay people existing or what it's 670 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,160 Speaker 1: like to be a gay person, whether that be teaching 671 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:21,200 Speaker 1: people that racism is still an actual thing that exists, 672 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,080 Speaker 1: or that be putting a masculine so you don't kill 673 00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:27,960 Speaker 1: your grandma or whatever. Yep. Well, and you know, and 674 00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:29,799 Speaker 1: I think I think one last thing, right, you know, 675 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,200 Speaker 1: we saw what happened last time they were in power, right, 676 00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:37,600 Speaker 1: and it was you know, and like you can you 677 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:39,600 Speaker 1: can talk about how a lot of the worst stuff 678 00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:41,520 Speaker 1: is still happening. Was like, yeah, they put a bunch 679 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:45,759 Speaker 1: of people in concentration camps, right, and if they if 680 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,359 Speaker 1: they take back power again, and there's a good chance 681 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:51,080 Speaker 1: that they're going to because you know, the Democrats are 682 00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:55,520 Speaker 1: being they they you know, the Democrats never want to 683 00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:58,200 Speaker 1: be in power. The thing they want to be minority oppositions. 684 00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:02,200 Speaker 1: They can do fundraising, right and if you know, when 685 00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:04,760 Speaker 1: when when these people, if these people take power again, 686 00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,560 Speaker 1: it's going to be even worse than it was last time. Yeah. 687 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:09,840 Speaker 1: The thing looking at looking at the Virginia election, the 688 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:13,160 Speaker 1: night of recording is a great example of that. Yeah. Uh, 689 00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:15,040 Speaker 1: in terms of yeah, it turns out when democrats just 690 00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:17,399 Speaker 1: do nothing and just sit around in office, you don't 691 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:19,440 Speaker 1: convince young people to want to vote for them because 692 00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:21,680 Speaker 1: they're not actually doing anything, so then they just sit out. 693 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,520 Speaker 1: Then the Republicans actually do vote in people. Then we 694 00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:28,759 Speaker 1: get uh we anti c R T person elected to 695 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:35,879 Speaker 1: be the governor of Virginia. And that's the episode. Good Times. Well, 696 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:39,799 Speaker 1: I hope everybody's optimistic feeling nice. Well, um, we'll be 697 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:42,920 Speaker 1: back with something else. Research your school boards, who is 698 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:46,000 Speaker 1: in it, and just protests around it and maybe show 699 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:49,560 Speaker 1: up with some of your I don't know buddies with 700 00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:51,920 Speaker 1: your lattes and stand in front of the building and 701 00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:53,920 Speaker 1: be like, no, we don't want you, we don't want 702 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,040 Speaker 1: you to shut stuff down because no one else is 703 00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:57,719 Speaker 1: going to stop them. It has to be just like 704 00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,480 Speaker 1: regular people. You can't going to be the oposite. It's 705 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,719 Speaker 1: not going to be any elected democrat and honestly, like, 706 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:05,120 Speaker 1: you can't rely on teens and black block to do 707 00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:07,719 Speaker 1: this that this isn't this isn't what they need to 708 00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:10,080 Speaker 1: be doing. It should be like yeah, it'd be like 709 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,520 Speaker 1: millennials and Gen X need to be like, hey, no, 710 00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:16,839 Speaker 1: we're not gonna we're not gonna have you doing this. Well, 711 00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:23,520 Speaker 1: that's the that's the episode. That's the episode It Could 712 00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:25,840 Speaker 1: Happen Here as a production of cool Zone Media. 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