Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome back to Carol Markowitz show on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1: I opened a can of worms with my last monologue,
Speaker 1: got so many notes about it. I talked about how,
Speaker 1: while I think you should do everything you can to
Speaker 1: make your close friendships and family relationships, of course transcend
Speaker 1: political differences, I nevertheless think it makes sense to consider
Speaker 1: political leanings when making new friends. Friendships made in adulthood
Speaker 1: are already harder to make and maintain, just like romantic relationships.
Speaker 1: In a lot of ways, it makes sense to have
Speaker 1: values in common. Again, I have lots of liberal friends
Speaker 1: that I would never discard.
Speaker 2: But would I run out to make more liberal friends
Speaker 2: in my forties.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I got so many sad emails from people
Speaker 1: all over the country who have had falling out with
Speaker 1: friends and with family over political disagreements. To me, that
Speaker 1: is a very different consideration. If you've had a lifelong
Speaker 1: best friend, don't let that friendship end because you disagree
Speaker 1: on politics. Clearly, you do share values, Clearly.
Speaker 2: You do have things in common.
Speaker 1: Don't let political fights tear you apart. This goes doubly.
Speaker 2: So for family.
Speaker 1: I heard from one mom who doesn't speak to her
Speaker 1: daughter over political disagreement, it's just crushing. The thing is
Speaker 1: that I do think the political realm matters, and I
Speaker 1: think a lot of politics is very important. We have
Speaker 1: a civilization to preserve. We've built an amazing country here
Speaker 1: and we want to keep it. It's all pretty major,
Speaker 1: but it's important to step back sometimes and see that
Speaker 1: fighting with your mom, or your child or your best
Speaker 1: friend won't actually move the needle to get to the.
Speaker 2: Country you want.
Speaker 1: Causing problems with your friends and family doesn't change the
Speaker 1: results of elections. Convince people to your perspective, sure, but
Speaker 1: be civil, insane about it, and put preserving the relationship
Speaker 1: at the top of your priority list, even over winning arguments.
Speaker 1: If you've got thoughts, drop me an email Carol Maarcoit
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Speaker 1: a more political podcast, as this one is largely non political,
Speaker 1: I have a new show I co host with my
Speaker 1: good friend Mary Katherine Ham. It's called Normally and it
Speaker 1: airs every Tuesday and Thursday. You could subscribe anywhere you
Speaker 1: get your podcasts. Coming up next and interview with Tiffany Justice.
Speaker 2: Join us after the break.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Carol Marcowitz Show on iHeartRadio. My
Speaker 1: guest today is Tiffany Justice, co founder of Moms for Liberty.
Speaker 2: Hi, Tiffany, so nice to have you on.
Speaker 3: Carol's so nice to see you. I'm in New York
Speaker 3: and you're probably in my home state of Florida right now.
Speaker 2: I am. I'm in Florida. How's New York going?
Speaker 3: I got to speak at the Trump rally and Madison
Speaker 3: Square Garden. I said the opening prayer, and Carol, there
Speaker 3: were so many people there. There were like seventy thousand
Speaker 3: people outside over twenty thousand inside the arena. It was
Speaker 3: pretty awesome, amazing.
Speaker 2: I saw your invocation. It was beautiful.
Speaker 3: Are you all done? So?
Speaker 2: It wasn't a Nazi rally.
Speaker 3: In fact, was not a Nazi rally. There were many
Speaker 3: Israeli flags actually being thrown in Madison Square Garden. It
Speaker 3: was really beautiful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny because I think about that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think about it in two ways. One, obviously, a
Speaker 1: Nazi rally probably wouldn't have Jews being open about their Judaism,
Speaker 1: which to be real, the Democrats did not allow Jews
Speaker 1: to be flaunting Israeli flags that they are rallies. But
Speaker 1: the second thing is is how insulting it is to
Speaker 1: non Jews also, I.
Speaker 2: Mean just the fact that calling people who.
Speaker 1: Go to a political rally Nazis is so below the belt.
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously right, but it's amazing.
Speaker 1: That it still goes on because you know it can't
Speaker 1: be effective, and yet here we are. So how does
Speaker 1: that How does it feel to be called a Nazi?
Speaker 3: It's awful, actually, it's I think it's really an awful thing.
Speaker 3: And I think it's just the iron law of woke projection.
Speaker 3: As you said, you know, I mean, there are no
Speaker 3: Israeli flags that I see flying in any of the
Speaker 3: Democrat rallies that are happening. In fact, Kamala Harris said
Speaker 3: to someone who you know, was talking about religion, you
Speaker 3: must be at the wrong rally. So it was just
Speaker 3: lovely to be able to say this invocation that really
Speaker 3: was a beautiful message of unity and hope for the future.
Speaker 3: And that's what I saw in that room. I know
Speaker 3: that the media wants to make you think that, you know,
Speaker 3: it's all one type of person that's supporting President Trump,
Speaker 3: or even that all of President Trump's supporters are just
Speaker 3: like him, but they're not. It's a really diverse group
Speaker 3: of people that are coming together and Carol. When Elon
Speaker 3: hit the stage, it was electric. The whole crowd was
Speaker 3: roaring for him, and you could just tell how pratty
Speaker 3: was to be up there. He had his son with
Speaker 3: him and his mom to see his son watching him.
Speaker 3: It was pretty remarkable.
Speaker 2: I'm an aliens, Dan, I really am.
Speaker 1: I feel like he's just such an interesting figure in
Speaker 1: our current political moment. I think he doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be doing what he's doing, and the fact that he
Speaker 1: feels like he does have to is very interesting to me.
Speaker 1: But that brings me to you and the fact that
Speaker 1: you get so much hate, so much animosity, so much
Speaker 1: anger directed at you, and you don't have to be
Speaker 1: doing this.
Speaker 2: Why do you do it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'd say to the haters, they can just take
Speaker 3: a hike, you just brush it off. I do it
Speaker 3: for my kids. I mean, I think it's for so
Speaker 3: many moms. It's all of the moms for liberty that
Speaker 3: are across the country. You know, we're watching what's happening
Speaker 3: in America right now, and we're really concerned. We're worried
Speaker 3: that our kids aren't going to have a bright future.
Speaker 3: In fact, Carol, sometimes I actually find myself not talking
Speaker 3: about what it was like for me to grow up
Speaker 3: and be a teenager in America going to college, because
Speaker 3: it's so different now for kids. You know, I have
Speaker 3: four children, nineteen, I'm almost seventeen, almost fifteen, and then thirteen.
Speaker 3: And you know, watching my nineteen year old daughter be
Speaker 3: concerned about where is she going to live, well, you know,
Speaker 3: she hears friends or graduating from college. They can't find
Speaker 3: anywhere to live that they can afford. People are having
Speaker 3: trouble finding jobs. So yeah, I mean, I do this
Speaker 3: for my kids. I ran for school board in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3: I had never been involved in politics. I had voted,
Speaker 3: but I wasn't even I wasn't a registered Republican at
Speaker 3: the time. I had no party affiliation in Florida, and
Speaker 3: I just felt like, okay, you know, it's somebody needs
Speaker 3: to help to fix these schools. And then people were like, oh,
Speaker 3: you should run for school board, And eventually I think
Speaker 3: the question becomes why not you?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: So I stepped up and ran and won and served
Speaker 3: for four years on school board in my county.
Speaker 1: So when I think about, like, why not you, I
Speaker 1: get that, I really do.
Speaker 2: But then I.
Speaker 1: Think it's just there's so much anger and just you know,
Speaker 1: hatred directed at you, and you could have picked an
Speaker 1: easier path than you didn't. So I'm wondering, what do
Speaker 1: you worry about most? What is your top concern and
Speaker 1: that forced you into this.
Speaker 3: Life not doing something that was my top concern, not
Speaker 3: doing something not you know, people sometimes say, oh, my gosh,
Speaker 3: how do you sleep at night, And I'm like, well,
Speaker 3: I'm very tired because I work all the time, but
Speaker 3: I'm not I sleep because I know that I'm doing
Speaker 3: what I can do in this moment right now. I
Speaker 3: really feel, Carol, that if we don't take a stand
Speaker 3: and fight for America today, a children are going to
Speaker 3: live on their knees for the rest of their life.
Speaker 3: And I will never look at my children and have
Speaker 3: to say that I didn't do everything I could. So
Speaker 3: moms are leaving it all out on the field. But
Speaker 3: we are very much involved in this election cycle, from
Speaker 3: school board all the way to the Oval office, and
Speaker 3: we're going to make sure that every single person that's
Speaker 3: getting elected is a liberty minded individual that is going
Speaker 3: to stand in defense of our fundamental parental rights. And
Speaker 3: those are rights the government doesn't give you. It is
Speaker 3: a god given right. You know. The government doesn't grant
Speaker 3: you your parental rights, and they certainly can't just take
Speaker 3: them away. You don't have the right to abuse your kids,
Speaker 3: like you can't cut off their healthy body parts for example,
Speaker 3: normally right, right, But you know, the government needs to
Speaker 3: respect the American parent and it's our job to draw
Speaker 3: that boundary and to push the government out of our homes.
Speaker 1: Are you still optimistic about America's future?
Speaker 3: I am very optimistic. I have four kids. I have
Speaker 3: to be, you know. But I am optimistic because I
Speaker 3: saw so many people coming together at Medicine Square Garden
Speaker 3: and all over the country, and the age range is
Speaker 3: really interesting. There are a lot of young people that
Speaker 3: are really getting energized. And I'll always be optimistic because
Speaker 3: I brought four children into this world and they deserve
Speaker 3: for me to fight like health right.
Speaker 1: I was feeling pessimistic in New York, and I'm generally
Speaker 1: an optimistic person. I'm super bullish on America always. But
Speaker 1: that's partly why we had to move is because I
Speaker 1: lost that optimism. But I wasn't feeling like my kid's
Speaker 1: future was in a good place in New York.
Speaker 2: And I feel much better in Florida.
Speaker 1: But I do still think about all those people who
Speaker 1: live in, you know, places like New York, where I
Speaker 1: don't know that that optimism is so easy to find.
Speaker 3: I think COVID was horrible. I mean, I read your columns.
Speaker 3: You and I are both moms. We went through that.
Speaker 3: I watched my own children's stagnate when schools were closed
Speaker 3: in Florida, and then I was on school board and
Speaker 3: we fought really, really hard to get schools back open.
Speaker 3: And I think Florida really led, you know, Ronda Santis
Speaker 3: led in that moment and showed the rest of the
Speaker 3: country that it didn't have to be like it was
Speaker 3: in New York. You know. I think New York masked
Speaker 3: toddlers the longest of any place in the entire United States.
Speaker 3: And the thing is, Carol, never again, I will never
Speaker 3: again allow children to be treated like that. I will
Speaker 3: fight until my death before I will ever again allow
Speaker 3: adults to put themselves before what our kids need.
Speaker 2: Right, we learned some important lessons during that time.
Speaker 1: So what's interesting is this election season has been a
Speaker 1: gender battle, right. The media is constantly pushing this idea
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump appeals to men and Kamala Harris appeals
Speaker 1: to women, and it's a real divide. But you represent women, right,
Speaker 1: Moms for liberty, moms are women still?
Speaker 2: I think?
Speaker 1: So, do you see that divide or is that just
Speaker 1: something that's kind of overblown.
Speaker 3: I think it's manufactured to a certain degree. I do
Speaker 3: think there's a large amount of women that were sold
Speaker 3: a lie. I think there were sold a lie that
Speaker 3: said that somehow freedom and liberty equated to being able
Speaker 3: to your baby, and I think that's a lie. Being
Speaker 3: a mother and a wife is a wonderful thing. We
Speaker 3: see young girls not wanting to grow up to be women,
Speaker 3: deciding that maybe they were born in the wrong body.
Speaker 3: Seeing these girls cut off healthy body parts or sterilize themselves.
Speaker 3: So I think as women, we have to take a
Speaker 3: really hard look in the mirror and see if we're
Speaker 3: being positive role models and we're showing and talking about
Speaker 3: how wonderful it is to be a mom, to be
Speaker 3: a wife. Yeah, it's hard, you know, There's no doubt
Speaker 3: there were times when I had, you know, four kids
Speaker 3: under the age of ten and probably babies split up
Speaker 3: in my hair that try to get dinner on the table.
Speaker 3: That it was hard, but it's the joy of my life.
Speaker 3: And I just think we need to start investing in
Speaker 3: our marriages, in our relationships, talking more about what you know,
Speaker 3: how wonderful it is to be married again, that's a
Speaker 3: I've been married twenty years. It's not always the easiest, really,
Speaker 3: you know, relationship you bring two people together and you
Speaker 3: have children, and you know, we're two different people, right,
Speaker 3: we have different opinions about things, but we work on
Speaker 3: our marriage and being a mom is so rewarding. So
Speaker 3: I think that we just need to stand together and
Speaker 3: we need to give each other grace, but also create
Speaker 3: the space for people to change their minds, because I
Speaker 3: think there were a lot of people within the Democrat
Speaker 3: Party who are finding that the Democrat Party really doesn't
Speaker 3: represent them anymore. You know, they think, well, I want
Speaker 3: everyone to feel safe and included. Of course we all do, right,
Speaker 3: But you know, I was fine with abortion when it
Speaker 3: was safe, legal and rare, and now all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: I think Democrats see people celebrating an abortion, They're like
Speaker 3: wait a second, that's not That's not the party that
Speaker 3: I'm a part of. It.
Speaker 2: I think that's not what I signed up for.
Speaker 3: That's not what I said for. So yeah, so I
Speaker 3: think we just need to create this space for people
Speaker 3: to change their minds. I also think what I saw
Speaker 3: at Madison Square Garden, which was interesting, was the fact
Speaker 3: that not everyone agreed with everything that every single speaker
Speaker 3: on stage said. I don't think that there were things
Speaker 3: that were said that you know, obviously there were jokes
Speaker 3: that were made, but jokes are supposed to be funny, right,
Speaker 3: you know, people at the jokes. There was a lot
Speaker 3: of laughter. But I also think that people got up
Speaker 3: and spoke and there wasn't anything that was offensive to
Speaker 3: anyone in the room that they said, Okay, this is
Speaker 3: a deal breaker for me. But I think there are
Speaker 3: different ideas about the way that the Republican Party moves forward.
Speaker 3: For example, President Trump was on Joe Rogan and he
Speaker 3: was talking about RFK, and he was like, he's got
Speaker 3: a lot of great ideas. I want to make America
Speaker 3: healthy again, but he's not so good on the liquid gold.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: We're not going to let him touch the oil and
Speaker 3: gas and I think that that's kind of the way
Speaker 3: the Republican Party is going to move forward.
Speaker 1: It's interesting that he does kind of call people out,
Speaker 1: even in his own circle, and say I don't like
Speaker 1: them on that.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that because I don't like RFK on that either.
Speaker 2: So we'll see if that, you know, what he ends
Speaker 2: up doing with that.
Speaker 1: What do you say to women who are Trump curious
Speaker 1: but feel a lot of pressure to line up with
Speaker 1: the Democrats.
Speaker 3: I think they need to go look at the platform.
Speaker 3: I think they need to go look at their Republican
Speaker 3: Party platform. It was sixteen pages, it was bullet point,
Speaker 3: very easy to look at. Go through, bring a red
Speaker 3: pen out and circle everything that you have a problem with,
Speaker 3: and I think you're going to find that you agree
Speaker 3: with more than you disagree with. Go look up Agenda
Speaker 3: forty seven and on the president's website and see what
Speaker 3: he stands for, and then really ask yourself, is am
Speaker 3: I against President Trump? Or am I against this person
Speaker 3: that the media has wanted me to hate. So that's
Speaker 3: really my message to women. Don't listen to the hype,
Speaker 3: take the time to do the research, make up your
Speaker 3: own mind, ask questions, watch interviews, that he's done. I
Speaker 3: mean three hours on Joe Rogan. He did not hold back.
Speaker 3: You know, it's very hard to fake your fake being
Speaker 3: someone that you're not for three hours, right, maybe fifteen minutes,
Speaker 3: but three hours is a long interview. And so I
Speaker 3: just ask people to take a step back and watch
Speaker 3: and listen and check out the bullet points and see
Speaker 3: what they disagree with. And if they disagree with stuff,
Speaker 3: then let's have a conversation about it.
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Speaker 1: the parts on Joe Rogan where he's really him and
Speaker 1: you could see that he's not not playing up to anything.
Speaker 1: I mean the windmill stuff for example. He really does
Speaker 1: not like windmills and it's not a put on and
Speaker 1: it's not a political point for him.
Speaker 2: He has, you know, aesthetic problems with them, but he also.
Speaker 1: Thinks that they're damaging to animals and you could just
Speaker 1: feel it and see it in the way that he
Speaker 1: talks about it. I was really hoping that Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: would do a Joe Rogan interview too, because I'd love
Speaker 1: to hear who is she?
Speaker 2: Who is she?
Speaker 1: She got to skip a primary and got to not
Speaker 1: do any of that.
Speaker 2: We never really find out.
Speaker 1: Who is Kamala Harris, And if she's elected on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: it's worrisome that we don't really know her.
Speaker 3: She's a vessel for a lot of woke ideology. And
Speaker 3: I think this progressive far left ideology that we're seeing
Speaker 3: all across America, these progressive far left ideas, and so
Speaker 3: I when you say who is she, I think she's
Speaker 3: been manufactured. I think she said she agreed to do
Speaker 3: Joe Rogan, but she would only do it for an hour,
Speaker 3: and she didn't want to do it in Austin. He
Speaker 3: had to come to her. And you know, I mean,
Speaker 3: just you want to be the president of the United States.
Speaker 3: I want to be the leader of the free world.
Speaker 3: The rest of the world is looking at America. You know,
Speaker 3: Tina and I do a lot of interviews, and we
Speaker 3: do international interviews as well, and there's been a lot
Speaker 3: of interest from Japan, and we were wondering. I said,
Speaker 3: you know, why is Japan so interested in Moms for Liberty.
Speaker 3: You've come over here and visited our chapters and you've
Speaker 3: spent a lot of time with us. And the reporter
Speaker 3: said that Japan is very worried because they're watching America's
Speaker 3: light dim And so I think we need to remember
Speaker 3: is the fact that you know, America is important for Americans,
Speaker 3: but American leadership is important for the rest of the
Speaker 3: world as we move forward, and Kamala Harris wants to
Speaker 3: represent us on the world stage, and I don't think
Speaker 3: she's doing a very good job convincing Americans to vote
Speaker 3: for her.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: I hear all the.
Speaker 1: Time from people in other countries that they're worried that
Speaker 1: they're like a decade or so behind America with the
Speaker 1: woke nonsense, Like they're seeing it develop in their schools.
Speaker 1: They're seeing, you know, the trans thing blow up in
Speaker 1: their elementary schools, for example, and they're like, whoa, We're
Speaker 1: heading in the same direction as them, Like, how do
Speaker 1: we cut this off?
Speaker 2: Sometimes they can, sometimes I'm not so sure that they'll
Speaker 2: be able to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a global movement, and I think that's what
Speaker 3: people in America need to understand as well. There's a
Speaker 3: lot of outside pressure from the World Economic Forum, from
Speaker 3: the United Nations and UNESCO, you know, the World Health
Speaker 3: Organization underneath the United Nations. There's a lot of pressure
Speaker 3: on the United States to conform and to really lose
Speaker 3: our sovereignty as a nation, and that is very concerning.
Speaker 3: We see that in our American public schools. UNESCO and
Speaker 3: the United Nations are really brought into our schools by
Speaker 3: the teachers' unions in America. And that's why I feel
Speaker 3: so adamant about the fact that we do need to
Speaker 3: dismantle and abolish the Department of Education, because the teachers'
Speaker 3: unions have such a firm hold on education in America
Speaker 3: and they use the federal government to do that. And
Speaker 3: so we need to be very clear about the fact
Speaker 3: that America needs to lead in the world, that we
Speaker 3: don't need to take our direction on pandemic response or
Speaker 3: education from YONESCO or the WHO. And I'm confident that
Speaker 3: President Trump will do that unapologetically.
Speaker 1: Do you think he really gets rid of the Department
Speaker 1: of Education. I mean, I obviously would love that.
Speaker 2: I just I don't have faith that it's possible.
Speaker 1: I just think our government is too big and no
Speaker 1: one person can can make that kind of change.
Speaker 3: I think there are absolutely things that we can do.
Speaker 3: I think that there are parts of the Department of
Speaker 3: Education that need to stop. I think there are parts
Speaker 3: of the Department of Education that need to be brought
Speaker 3: down and go back into the States. And then I
Speaker 3: think there are parts of the Department of Education that
Speaker 3: can move to other departments to be handled and we
Speaker 3: just need to talk to the American people about why
Speaker 3: it's happening, how it's going to happen, and we need
Speaker 3: to be unapologetic in our you know, taking that stand
Speaker 3: the importance of you know, as the bureaucracy in Washington,
Speaker 3: d C. Has grown around education, so has the bureaucracy
Speaker 3: and the administrative state in these local st school districts.
Speaker 3: And so the time is now to take our power back, Carol.
Speaker 3: The teachers' unions. When Randy Wineingarten went and spoke in
Speaker 3: front of in front of Congress about the COVID pandemic
Speaker 3: and the response, do you remember what she said? Do
Speaker 3: you remember what she said she wanted to do?
Speaker 1: Remind me I don't not to think too much about
Speaker 1: Randy Wineingarten's words, but yes.
Speaker 3: So Randy said, she said, we need to take care
Speaker 3: of the whole child. She said she wanted something called
Speaker 3: community schools. So I just want to tell you a
Speaker 3: little bit about community schools quickly, because it basically is
Speaker 3: communism on the ground in America. They want to take
Speaker 3: your schools and they want to make them the community
Speaker 3: hub of every county, of every in every community, and
Speaker 3: they want to drive all of the social services out
Speaker 3: of the schools. They'll bring in all of the nonprofits
Speaker 3: that they want to work with. Right, so you lower
Speaker 3: the age of consent for kids down to twelve. We
Speaker 3: see that happening all over the country through the legislatures, right,
Speaker 3: state legislatures. And then you start putting medical interviews and
Speaker 3: school based health clinics into the schools, and you have
Speaker 3: a recipe for disaster where you have a planned parenthood
Speaker 3: basically in every school district across America offering services to
Speaker 3: kids without the consent or knowledge of parents. Offering puberty
Speaker 3: blockers for example, morning after pill, lots of different things
Speaker 3: that parents should absolutely be involved in when it comes
Speaker 3: to their children's lives.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: It's interesting, of course that they want the community schools
Speaker 1: only when they're in control of those schools. Like when
Speaker 1: a rural area wants to have a community school where
Speaker 1: they push their values in the school, that's not acceptable
Speaker 1: to Randy Wine Garden and teachers' unions. That needs to
Speaker 1: be from above. I mean, we saw that during COVID
Speaker 1: as well. Anytime they had local control, they wanted local
Speaker 1: control of schools. But in time they didn't have local control,
Speaker 1: they wanted governor control.
Speaker 3: Of schools, that's right, and if community schools actually goes through,
Speaker 3: So let's think about this for a second. We have
Speaker 3: a declining enrollment happening all over the country, right, so
Speaker 3: parents are pulling their kids out their homeschooling, choosing private school.
Speaker 3: We have choice now in so many different states. We
Speaker 3: have essays in Florida, so you can take your money.
Speaker 3: You can send your child to any school that will
Speaker 3: take right that. That money your tax money. So it's wonderful.
Speaker 3: But as we have declining enrollment, they need to do
Speaker 3: something with the schools. They're concerned that schools are going
Speaker 3: to close, right. I think I saw in Chicago. There's
Speaker 3: a school there. You just got thirty five million more
Speaker 3: dollars this year in the budget. They are only at
Speaker 3: three point eight percent capacity and they have zero percent
Speaker 3: of kids reading on grade level. It is just sounds
Speaker 3: like Chicago, right, It is just madness. But if we
Speaker 3: allow community schools to go forward. Right now, on average,
Speaker 3: federal money makes up anywhere between three and sixteen percent
Speaker 3: of any given school district's budget, that will go on steroids.
Speaker 3: And if the amount of federal money coming into your
Speaker 3: school district starts going up to fifteen percent, twenty percent,
Speaker 3: twenty five percent, thirty percent. What it really does is
Speaker 3: you serve the local control the school board. And America
Speaker 3: is very special because we have elected officials, elected representatives,
Speaker 3: represent constituents on school boards. Not every country is like.
Speaker 1: That, right, Yeah, it's amazing that they're working to overturn
Speaker 1: that special situation that we have.
Speaker 2: I hope that they don't succeed. I think that they
Speaker 2: will probably succeed in the.
Speaker 1: Areas that they have the kind of control over these schools.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm again not super optimistic about certain parts of America.
Speaker 1: I hope that they are able to fight back against
Speaker 1: this scourge.
Speaker 2: Really, but I feel good in Florida. I wish other
Speaker 2: people got to experience it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you should feel good in Florida. You know, moms
Speaker 3: are fighting back though. I'm up in New York. As
Speaker 3: I said, I'm doing a town hall tomorrow night on
Speaker 3: News Nation. But I'm here in New York. And in
Speaker 3: New York there's something called Prop one that's on the ballot.
Speaker 3: And what Prop one is going to do. And by
Speaker 3: the way, if you're listening and you're from New York,
Speaker 3: vote no on Prop one because it's going to give
Speaker 3: illegal immigrants the right to vote, but it's also going
Speaker 3: to give miners the right to go and get abortions,
Speaker 3: to go on puberty blockers, to do all kinds of
Speaker 3: things without the consent and knowledge of parents. It's really
Speaker 3: an attack on parental rights. But our moms here in
Speaker 3: New York are fighting back. They've been phone banking, they've
Speaker 3: been getting out the vote, and it's just really really
Speaker 3: important that people have their voices heard.
Speaker 2: I hope they win.
Speaker 1: I think about those moms, I really do. Those were
Speaker 1: you know, my people in New York. But it's hard
Speaker 1: to stay optimistic about the blue areas that remain under
Speaker 1: these kinds of controls.
Speaker 2: It's tough.
Speaker 1: So a question that I ask all of my guests
Speaker 1: is what advice would you give your sixteen year old self?
Speaker 2: Would you do this all over again? I would?
Speaker 3: I would? Uh, what advice would I give my sixteen
Speaker 3: year old self? Gosh, to not be so hard on myself. Probably.
Speaker 3: I look back on pictures of myself in high school,
Speaker 3: right of me in high school, and I think I
Speaker 3: was very hard on myself. And I look back now
Speaker 3: and I always think, wow, you know, I really thought
Speaker 3: that I wasn't very pretty or that, you know, and
Speaker 3: I think that I should have just enjoyed my life
Speaker 3: more and not worried so much about that stuff. Especially
Speaker 3: now at forty five, I'm like, you know, eighteen boy.
Speaker 2: Didn't we didn't understand anything? Oh we did it?
Speaker 3: Looking back at that, Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, I think as I've gotten older, I've learned
Speaker 3: to have more patients, and so maybe I would say
Speaker 3: just be patient and to know that you can't force things.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you just have to let things come in time.
Speaker 3: But then sometimes you do have to lean in, you know,
Speaker 3: and really push and ask for what you want. And
Speaker 3: I think I've always been the type of person to
Speaker 3: do that. I've just maybe gotten better at asking.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and my own age as there was, Yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: that is definitely something that I think young people need
Speaker 4: to understand, is that sometimes you have to assert yourself
Speaker 4: and sometimes it's going to make you unpopular, but that's
Speaker 4: the right thing to.
Speaker 2: Do, right.
Speaker 3: Absolutely well, I've.
Speaker 1: Loved this conversation. I think you're awesome and doing such
Speaker 1: great work. I hope you were successful in New York
Speaker 1: and here with.
Speaker 2: Your best tip for my listeners. On how they can
Speaker 2: improve their lives.
Speaker 3: If your child's in public school, really create a relationship
Speaker 3: with your child's teacher. It's the most important thing that
Speaker 3: you can do as far as trying to safeguard your
Speaker 3: child in America's public schools. You know, when you go
Speaker 3: to the teacher, introduce yourself, ask questions. Ask your kids' school.
Speaker 3: If my child's expressing mental distress in any way, how
Speaker 3: will you handle that? Will you come to me and
Speaker 3: tell me? I want you to come to me and
Speaker 3: tell me. You should absolutely tell them that you do
Speaker 3: not on any adults meeting with your children without you there.
Speaker 3: If the doctor asks you to leave the medical exam
Speaker 3: room so they can talk to your child, say no. Parents,
Speaker 3: Now is the time to take a stand. Now is
Speaker 3: the time to know that God doesn't only give you
Speaker 3: the fundamental right to direct the upbringing of your children,
Speaker 3: but it's your duty to direct the upbringing of your kids,
Speaker 3: and don't let anyone take that away from you.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: She is Tiffany Justice Moms for Liberty. Check her out,
Speaker 1: check out their website. They're really fantastic organization.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Tiffany. Thanks Kerrol, thanks so much
Speaker 2: for joining us. On the Carol Marko Show.
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