WEBVTT - National Media Embarrassment 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:15.400 Mr garbutsch Off teared down this wall. Either you're with 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:18.880 us or you were with the terrorists. If you've got 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:21.639 healthcare already, then you can keep your plan. If you 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:24.439 are satisfied with Trump is not when to be president 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:26.840 of the United State. Take it to a bank. Together, 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:34.280 we will make America great again. You'll never sharender. It's 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:37.720 what you've been waiting for all day. The buck Sexton 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:41.600 Show joined the conversation called Buck Toll Free at eight 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:45.720 four four nine hundred Buck that's eight four four nine 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:49.520 hundred to eight to five The future of talk radio, 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:54.440 buck Sexton. People who say they don't want to give 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:56.640 up their guns, they don't want change. What do you 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:59.240 say to them? I think, unless you can give me 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:01.440 a real reason and why you need it, you don't. 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:05.040 You don't need it, honestly asking for less prayers, fewer prayers, 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:07.600 fewer words, and more action. But this is something that 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:10.200 I'm going to carry with me forever, and I'm never 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:12.920 going to stop. I don't think ever like I'm never 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:15.920 gonna let this go. You are year old and right 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:21.959 now I'm wearing a bullet group. Fast delmat are all 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:24.679 the corporations that are still affiliated with the n r A. 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:31.080 I just believe that everything should be more secure to curious, shot, untilled. 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:35.200 We won't tolerate being scared to come into school. We 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.080 won't tolerate having to stay out of school because we're scared. 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:42.839 We can't be hunted. Welcome to Bucks Action Show everybody. 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:50.640 Today was a national school walk out to protest gun violence. 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:55.000 It is a month since the terrible shooting at the 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:59.640 Marjorie Stone in Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:06.680 today we had thousands and thousands of kids, young adults 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:13.000 walking out of their schools across the country. I will 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:16.080 say there are a few things that immediately jumped out 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:20.360 of me. One is never before have I seen the 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:24.519 media so willing to listen to the opinions of teenagers 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:28.600 on national policy. I don't see it with really anything 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.840 else that I can think of. You know, usually it's 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:36.679 adults make and enforce the laws and teenagers obey them. 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.640 An adults teach teenagers about the constitution and the law. 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:45.240 But here we have a movement of children, young adults, 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:49.880 adolescents who are being used for obvious political purposes by 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.560 one side of the political aisle. As I have told you. 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:56.840 From the beginning, it was clear that leftist activist groups 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:00.320 were involved in this. It was clear that there was 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.800 astro turfing going on, that this was not some grassroots 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:08.200 movement without any involvement. You had organizers from the Women's 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:10.800 March and other groups, and I can't even keep up 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:12.280 with all of them who have reached out to these 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:14.880 kids C and N. I don't know if they're going 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.320 to be violating child labor laws, but they might as 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:20.920 well give some of these kids a contributor contract. I 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:22.480 don't know if they're even allowed to do that, but 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.280 they probably should because they keep pointing, putting them on 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:29.040 TV and treating them like they are experts. And this 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:32.520 is where the breakdown happens. You see, they're really trying 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:37.240 to silence you and intimidate you by putting forward victims 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:41.440 and claiming that if you oppose what those victims are 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:47.360 promoting as policy, now you're a bad person. If you 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:51.880 don't give way to the arguments of kids in this case, 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:58.920 then clearly you are unfeeling uncaring and to borrow from 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.680 some of the most famed this of these child activists, 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:05.120 you support the n r A, which is a terrorist 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:10.680 organization they say, and terrorizes children. This is a national 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:14.520 media embarrassment for sure. Look, do these kids no better? 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:16.520 Do they think they're doing good? Thing? Tough to tell. 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:18.360 You got to look at it on an individual case 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:20.520 and depends on what they're saying and how they're saying. 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.560 But saying that the First Amendment applies to kids and 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:28.560 they have a voice in all this is just all 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:34.040 a smoke screen. This is moral blackmail on a massive scale. 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:40.520 You have school districts that are spending money to bust 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.039 these kids to protests. This has now become like a 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:48.719 school activity that just goes to show you, goes to 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:52.760 show you the leftist bent of most of the teachers, 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.279 unions and a lot of teachers in these school systems, 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:59.480 in public school And this is not going to advance policy. 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.120 It wanted ad It's the argument is it, can you 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:04.600 make can you make claims about how this is good? 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:11.640 There's activism? You know, it's we got an engaged citizenry. Sure, yeah, 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.240 it's just exercising the First mment. Yeah, but everything is 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.840 exercising the First Amendment, right, I mean, come on, some 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:18.800 crazy guy that on the corner was telling me the 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:20.560 world is gonna end as he's standing on a bunch 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.560 of cardboard boxes. Well, he's just exercising the First Amendment. 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:25.640 Doesn't mean I have to think he's right or respect 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:29.640 when he's sang. These are all canards, These are all 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:33.320 red herrings. There smoke screens, as I said, And you'll 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:36.160 notice that there aren't a lot of and there aren't 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:38.200 a lot of kids appearing on TV who have a 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:44.279 different take on this. They are handpicking which students get 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.560 the national media platforms. They are deciding who will be 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:52.520 the voice of this movement, and it is overwhelmingly along 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:57.599 partisan lines. And the demonization of the n r A 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.640 and the threats that I've even seen from people online 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:08.000 about or directed towards people from the n r A 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:12.440 are appalling. They are absolutely appalling. But you've got waves 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:15.440 of these students walking out across the country. It allows 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:19.240 the media to pat itself on the back. It allows 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:21.720 them to act like they're giving a voice to the 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:27.279 voiceless here whatever. All the cliches apply. But we're also 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:31.719 quite aware of the fact that there are adults who 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:36.160 see advantage in all this. There are adults who see 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:41.440 that using children as pawns in a political battle is 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:46.800 A is a an effective tactic, right, because if you're 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:49.080 going to push back against the messaging, you're being mean 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:51.839 if you point out that these kids don't know anything 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:56.799 about firearms law or quite honestly law or the Constitution. 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:00.400 Because I'm hearing what they're saying, and more to them 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:05.800 don't and I wouldn't expect them to their kids. But 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:10.440 there's something strange about putting forward young people who don't 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:17.280 have the experience or knowledge to debate national issues with 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:22.720 any real capability, and to put them in positions where 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:26.680 not only are they to be listened to, they're not 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:29.080 supposed to be criticized, which is part of this whole 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:31.040 thing if you come out too strongly against US. I 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:32.800 called it a puppet show in the week when they 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.680 keep putting these kids on TV, and oh gosh, people 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:37.960 got so mad at me. What do you think this is? 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:41.840 Seeing an adults CNN producers see some kid who suffered 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:43.520 a trauma? Was that one of these was it was 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:47.120 at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas and they put them on TV 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:48.760 and all of a sudden they're saying that you know 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.240 this politicians owned by the n r A, and this 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:55.320 person is a total hack who's got blood on his 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:57.600 hands because he took n RA donations, and they're just 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:01.240 being a little attack dogs. That's not okay, it's not acceptable. 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:11.559 But anything goes, anything goes, So the conversation, I suppose 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:15.400 will continue. I saw today on the cover of the 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:20.520 the Huffington Post they were using the hashtag enough. I 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:27.400 wonder if they've formally switched from hashtag never again, which 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:34.160 is meant to evoke the the Holocaust, and maybe they've 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:38.840 moved on to hashtag enough. I'm not sure. I don't know, um, 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:42.960 but I do know that these kids don't understand gun policy, 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:48.319 they don't understand criminology, they don't understand how violence in 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:51.960 the statistics with violence in school, a vast majority of 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:57.880 it occurs outside of school. By orders of magnitude, exponentially 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:01.240 more violence occurs outside of school. That's where students are 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:04.480 most likely to be harmed by each other and by 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:08.520 non students. And most of the violence has nothing to 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:12.120 do with a deranged school shooter. It's drug related, it's 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:16.000 gang related, but that's not what we're talking about here. This, 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:19.160 this is specifically meant to mobile This is meant to 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:24.199 mobilize a group of students for the purpose of fundraising 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:28.480 for the left, passing legislation against the Second Amendment, and 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:32.079 creating some issue for the Democrats to push going into 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:34.439 mid terms. Of course, the problem they're gonna run into 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.400 is that gun control is not popular in places where 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:41.400 they need to run towards the They need to run centrists, 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:45.520 they need to run carbon copies if they can. Of 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:48.880 what just happened in Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania's eighteenth district, which was 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:51.920 won by the Democrats. I mean, he's has the other 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.240 guy conceded yet by the way he conceded. No, he 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.120 hasn't conceded, right, Okay, so it's in the six D 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:01.520 vote range right now. Oh. Another thing. Anytime somebody ever 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.720 tells you that voter fraud doesn't matter or they know, 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.679 they usually start with voter fraud doesn't happen, and then 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:09.440 you do a Google search and they say, well, someone 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:12.080 just went to prison for it last week. And they say, okay, well, 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.439 it's not that big a deal. Doesn't happen that much. 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.640 When you have congressional elections that are coming down to 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:21.920 literally hundreds of votes, it's pretty clear that it matters. 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:26.839 It's pretty clear that even a very small fraction of 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:31.440 votes cast being fraudulent or in any way hampered with 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:36.760 could change the outcome. Um, well, that's that's another place 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:38.800 we'll have to go and discuss. Oh I mentioned the adults. 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:40.960 We'll talk more about where the adults come down here 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:45.840 on using this movement for their own purposes, on pushing 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:51.520 narratives that they find politically convenient, and how ultimately they 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:53.319 won't address the truth. And it's one that I tell 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:56.080 you here on the show. School shootings are have been 0:10:56.080 --> 0:11:00.479 going down for decades. Children are incredibly safe in schools. 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:02.640 We do not need to do all these things that 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.000 people are saying we have to do. We need a 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:10.160 baseline of competence from law enforcement, which we usually have, 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.480 but in this case of the Stonean Douglas shooting, we 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:16.960 did not baseline of competency, open communication and maybe some 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:20.120 tightening of open communication between the schools and law enforcement, 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:24.160 and then some tightening of the background check system. This 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:29.160 is not a modern pandemic. This is not an urgent plague. 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:34.320 This has now become from a policy perspective, overblown. For 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.800 every student that walked out today because they wanted to 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:40.640 honor the memories of you know, the fellow students that 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:43.320 were lost at stoneA Douglas High School, or that they 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:46.120 did this as a form of mourning and community gathering. 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:49.080 Great God bless. But for those who are saying we 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:52.600 need to change the Constitution of the United States because 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:55.960 they say so because of what happened, I'm sorry, but 0:11:56.080 --> 0:12:01.080 they don't have enough wisdom or experience on the subject 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:04.400 matter to influence my opinion, and I know they're not 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:09.160 influencing yours either, And this is not the way that 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:13.600 we should be debating issues of national importance in this country. 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:18.560 It's a sham what the Democrats are doing. All Right, 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:20.480 We've got a pat show. I'm gonna talk to you 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:24.240 about the passing of Stephen Hawking later on. We're also 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:28.560 going to discuss that the UK has expelled twenty three 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:33.360 diplomats from its shores and Russian diplomats in response to 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:37.840 the Nova chalk poisoning. And what else have I got 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:39.920 for you? A whole lot of stuff. We'll have Hillary 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:43.000 making an appearance later. Oh, I have a follow up 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:47.880 on the French bulldog that died in the overhead been 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:52.040 because of a stupid airline employee. We will get that. 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.360 Just I want I read it last night. I read 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:57.280 the details. I saw the photo too, and it disturbed me. 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.480 It really made me mad. And you and say, that's 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.080 not rational, Buck. You're reading stories about terrible wars and 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:04.720 things all the time, and I know that's true, but 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:07.480 I don't know that the photo of that French you 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:10.040 really really hit home. It made me, Uh made me sad. 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:12.880 So we'll talk about that, because there's a bigger lesson 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.160 about airlines that we should draw from what happened on 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:18.960 that plane where somebody's pet was forced into an overhead 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:22.680 beIN where it's slowly suffocated. We will we will talk 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.480 more about that, and obviously your thoughts welcome as well. 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:31.719 Eight to eight to five eight Buck. You can't call, 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.480 but you want to tweet. I am at Buck Sexton 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:38.760 on Twitter and I'm a lean, mean tweeting machine, including 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.199 during the show and after and at two A and 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.640 when I can't sleep. So get on the Twitter. We'll 0:13:43.640 --> 0:14:20.200 be right back. What do we want gun control? When 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:22.880 do we want it? Now? Governor Andrew Cromo was with 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:24.520 them in that one, right, So the governor of New 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:28.280 York State. They're demanding gun control, folks, there's already so 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:33.240 much gun control. The way that this whole debate is 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:39.160 framed is dishonest. They're claiming that they just want common 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:42.840 sense gun control. We already have all kinds of gun control. 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:46.200 And I don't mean like trigger finger discipline. I'm talking 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:48.320 about all the laws that are which I know for 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:49.880 a lot of your like that is gun control, Buck, 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.400 But I'm talking about laws that are in place that 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:58.320 govern the sale and transfer and storage and carriage and use. 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:03.640 And you know, there's a whole cannon pardon the expression 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:08.320 of law around guns. And in a place like New York, 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:11.360 they do it in a way that it's supposed to 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:15.040 make it complicated. It's supposed to make it difficult. And 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:19.320 there's all kinds of ownerous restrictions in place on the 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:22.760 Second Amendment already, restrictions that they would never dream of 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:29.040 bringing about it a similar level for other constitutionally protected rights, 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.200 because they just flatly don't view the Second Amendment as 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:35.920 a constitution constitutionally protected right. They think it is a 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:39.800 quaint anachronism and that it's evil and that it needs 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:44.640 to go. They flatly do not believe that the right 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:47.400 to bear arms is in the Constitution, and they are 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:50.720 using children now to make that argument for them. It's 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:52.680 not the first time, but this time around they have 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.960 harness their powers of organizing for this purpose, and none 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.880 other than Chuck Schumer, for example, joined it. I mean, 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:03.800 the got these adults joining in the student chance, No surprise, Humer. 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:06.960 Here's what he had to say. Now, everyone's I've been 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.520 through these wars. I am the author of the Brady 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:13.400 Law and the assault weapons ban, the n r A. 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:18.160 The n r A has made me public Enemy no. One, 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:26.080 and I'm proud of it. And together we're gonna win 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:33.080 where gonna win. We're gonna win where gonna win? I mean, 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:38.560 what kind of bull crap chant is that we're gonna win? 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:46.200 What exactly We're gonna ben more guns in New York State. 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:48.000 There's already all kinds of bands in place for New 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:53.360 York State. We're gonna eliminate the right to bear arms nationwide. 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:56.720 That's never gonna happen. That's well, I'm not gonna happen 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.520 anytime soon, at least if they keep pushing. I'm sure 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:01.960 they think that they can change perception enough that over 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:05.080 time they might be able to get what they want 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:10.120 with this. But it is uh it is distressing onetheless 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:12.280 to see all this happening. It's very as I've been 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:15.840 telling you, it's very Olynsky though. It's all about mobilization. 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:22.480 Make activism a social activity, make activism seem fun and 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.879 cool and hip, and then people become activists, and then 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:28.200 they want to keep going. It's like a party where 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:31.280 you get to feel good about yourself, like a fun party, 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:35.520 not a political party, you know. And then they're hoping 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:37.800 that they'll have these networks in place for the midterms, 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:40.520 and that they'll have people that rise up to get 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.880 others to vote and to believe that they're giving them 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:47.720 a message that's important, that's powerful. That's what this whole 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.359 game is. It's not going to change anything. I do 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:53.000 want to talk to you about something else that has 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:59.720 begun to make its way into the conversation, and I 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:01.199 easy here with you, and I had to do with 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:05.680 the Broward Sheriff's Department, Broward County Sheriff's Department policies when 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:11.480 it came to arresting juveniles. It turns out that there 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:13.160 was really something to it. I talked to you here 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:16.760 on the show about it. But the Obama administration through 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:20.760 the Department of Education decided that there needed to be 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:28.119 some social justice adjustments to how schools discipline teenagers and 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:32.560 how quickly they reported to law enforcement. And they claim, 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:36.640 but there is racial disparity in the system and therefore 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:41.359 they had to change the way the system was giving 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:45.919 out discipline. Well, we will dive into that together after this, 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:49.000 because I think it's gonna be eye opening. Investigation will 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:54.600 continue unofficially despite the GOP shutting it down at the 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:56.719 banner up on CNN as we were on the air. 0:18:56.960 --> 0:19:04.080 What a shock. That's it's classic. So they're gonna continue 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:08.240 an investigation that's not really an investigation, but that way 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:12.880 they can still pretend like it's an investigation. Yeah, this 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.000 is what the Democrats do, all right, I promise you 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:18.879 let to talk about this school discipline policies of the 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:22.200 Obama administration. Now, remember, and this is something that's easy, 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:24.360 easy to lose sight of it. I don't have children yet, 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:27.840 so I don't deal with any school system. Really. I 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:31.320 just read about them a lot, but I've been to school. Uh. 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:36.200 But the Obama administration was willing to throw its political 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:40.000 muscle around via the Department of Education on a pretty 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:45.800 regular basis. The Obama team, if you remember, even threatened 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:49.320 to cut off funding for I believe it was North 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:53.000 but it might have been South Carolina schools if they 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:58.840 did not acquiesce to the new Department of Education guidelines 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:02.760 on trans gender students and bathroom usage they were going to. 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:07.040 They threatened to cut funding, folks for public schools unless 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:11.800 they allowed teenage boys to use the bathroom that they 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:18.199 prefer of teenage girls, and vice versa. So that was 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:20.359 one time when you saw the politics of the Obama 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:25.680 administration played out through the prism of the public school system. 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:30.200 And that's important to remember. But there was another part 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:34.560 of the Obama administration that was prominent all things social justice. 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:39.359 Obama was really a social justice warrior. President Obama was 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:43.119 somebody who believed deeply in using the power of the 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:48.119 government in a somewhat arbitrary fashion in order to benefit 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:53.600 disadvantaged groups at the expense of so called advantage groups. 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:58.520 In social justice parlance of today, we'd call this addressing 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:03.080 white privilege, for example, But in this specific in the 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:07.280 specific case of the school system, there was a theory 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:11.080 that Obama and his Department of Education and others put 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:14.600 into practice of what they called the school to prison pipeline, 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:20.560 and that there was too much arresting of high school, 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:24.159 particularly minority high school students, going on that that created 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:27.359 an environment where there would be further arrests and they'd 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:31.639 be pulled out of school, and the problem was the arrest, 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:35.880 not the behavior. And then even before that, they would 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:41.679 say that minority students were punished more severely for and 0:21:41.720 --> 0:21:45.399 this isn't important for the same infraction. That's always the claim, 0:21:46.200 --> 0:21:48.960 or the same infraction, they're punished much more severely than 0:21:49.040 --> 0:21:53.679 their non minority uh counterparts, particularly that black students are 0:21:53.720 --> 0:21:57.480 punished more harshly in school by teachers and administrators than 0:21:57.520 --> 0:22:00.399 white students are for the same offense. That's the plane. 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:06.680 Now here's a discussion between the former head of VICE. 0:22:06.800 --> 0:22:08.879 I think he's just out as of recently. I've always 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:12.200 thought Vice was just all smoke in mirrors. I've said 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:14.240 this to you I think before on the show. Virus 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:17.240 is like a bunch of hipster's telling you about the news, 0:22:17.280 --> 0:22:20.040 but pretending they don't really care much about the news. 0:22:20.080 --> 0:22:23.960 They've got a book of slam poetry that they're compiling 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:26.359 that's much more meaningful to them, right, I mean it's 0:22:26.359 --> 0:22:33.000 so there's always this annoying insuction. Look at me um 0:22:33.040 --> 0:22:35.439 standing on the d m Z of North Korea, but like, 0:22:35.480 --> 0:22:39.240 I don't, I don't really care man doing Vice hard 0:22:39.320 --> 0:22:44.840 hitting journalism. But the the co founder and former head 0:22:44.840 --> 0:22:47.240 of Vice was sitting down with Obama to talk about this. 0:22:47.240 --> 0:22:48.840 This was a few years ago. But this is a 0:22:48.880 --> 0:22:53.320 good basic for a good basic definition of what this 0:22:53.320 --> 0:22:56.760 whole prison of pipeline thing is. Is the criminal justice 0:22:56.760 --> 0:23:01.760 system in America racist. The system restudy has shown is 0:23:02.440 --> 0:23:08.520 biased somewhere institutionally in such a way where an African 0:23:08.520 --> 0:23:12.840 American youth is more likely to be suspended from school 0:23:13.000 --> 0:23:17.040 than a white youth for engaging in the same disruptive behavior, 0:23:17.400 --> 0:23:21.440 more likely to be arrested, more likely to be charged, 0:23:21.720 --> 0:23:26.040 more likely to be prosecuted aggressively, more likely to get 0:23:26.400 --> 0:23:31.159 a stiffer sentence. The system tilts in a direction that 0:23:32.320 --> 0:23:37.280 is unjust. The statistics are so skewed you have to 0:23:37.480 --> 0:23:45.320 question whether we have become numb two the costs that 0:23:45.359 --> 0:23:49.400 it has on these communities. Whether you got the idea, 0:23:49.480 --> 0:23:51.960 but Noticety says, more likely to be suspended, more likely 0:23:52.000 --> 0:23:54.000 to be prosecuted for the same offense, and the New 0:23:54.040 --> 0:23:57.240 York Times wrote a piece about this recently, Trump finds 0:23:57.400 --> 0:24:03.520 unlikely culprit in school shootings m A discipline policies. UH. 0:24:03.560 --> 0:24:09.080 This article has the unintended effect of confirming everything that 0:24:09.119 --> 0:24:12.720 I had read before and come to conclusions about with 0:24:12.800 --> 0:24:16.320 regard to the Broward County Sheriff's Department and how it's 0:24:16.359 --> 0:24:20.320 interacting with high school students, and also just how the 0:24:20.680 --> 0:24:25.440 s j W attitude of the Obama administration had permeated 0:24:25.480 --> 0:24:27.600 throughout the school system in a way that was really 0:24:27.640 --> 0:24:33.919 destructive because when you look at this piece, there are 0:24:33.920 --> 0:24:35.360 a lot of I mean, first of all, they talk 0:24:36.320 --> 0:24:46.119 about the UH, the Rethink Discipline program um, which is 0:24:46.560 --> 0:24:51.280 the Trump Commission will examine, includes guidelines that the Obama 0:24:51.280 --> 0:24:54.000 aministration issued on the legal limitations on the use of 0:24:54.040 --> 0:24:57.920 restraints and seclusion, corporal punishment, and equity for special education students. 0:24:58.119 --> 0:25:02.720 So Rethink Discipline was they UH called this or the 0:25:02.720 --> 0:25:08.639 Abdoministration and Disciplined guidelines that were given out. So they 0:25:08.680 --> 0:25:12.000 actually had guidelines on this, and what they were claiming 0:25:12.359 --> 0:25:14.199 was some of what I had told you, which is 0:25:14.240 --> 0:25:19.439 that UH, students based on how they're writing this and 0:25:19.480 --> 0:25:22.960 compulic statistics. They say students of color are singled out 0:25:23.119 --> 0:25:27.400 and more harshly punished than their uh than their white counterparts. 0:25:28.440 --> 0:25:30.639 There's a few things that just automatically jump out to 0:25:30.680 --> 0:25:33.040 me about this claim. And I'm gonna translate all this 0:25:33.080 --> 0:25:35.480 in a moment into why we care in the context 0:25:35.680 --> 0:25:38.760 of the school shootings in general and the Marjorie Stone 0:25:38.800 --> 0:25:41.320 and Douglas shooting in particular in a second here, but 0:25:41.400 --> 0:25:44.880 the notion that being punished for the same infraction, there's 0:25:44.920 --> 0:25:47.879 no way to statistically account for this, But there's also 0:25:49.119 --> 0:25:52.800 no way to line up exactly is this a student 0:25:52.840 --> 0:25:55.840 that is, we're talking to things like disruptions and classrooms 0:25:55.960 --> 0:26:00.720 or maybe you know, cursing or okay, and teacher listening 0:26:00.760 --> 0:26:02.320 to this nose. And I was just I was a 0:26:02.320 --> 0:26:04.320 soccer coach, right, So I wasn't a teacher, but I 0:26:04.560 --> 0:26:06.280 worked in a school for a period of time and 0:26:06.320 --> 0:26:12.160 had to deal with kids. And I had overwhelmingly super diligent, 0:26:12.560 --> 0:26:17.640 well behaved, great kids. But even in that scale, there 0:26:17.680 --> 0:26:20.119 were the kids that I dealt with who had a 0:26:20.680 --> 0:26:22.800 you know, consistently a little bit of an attitude, a 0:26:22.840 --> 0:26:25.920 little bit of a discenary disciplinary problem and there were 0:26:25.960 --> 0:26:28.560 the kids who maybe once in a while would get 0:26:28.560 --> 0:26:33.320 a little out of sorts, but they generally weren't a problem. 0:26:33.400 --> 0:26:36.320