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