Cognitive Dissonance - Episode 653: Fake Right Wing Newspapers

Episode Date: October 31, 2022

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This episode of Cognitive Dissonance is brought to you by our patrons. You fucking rock. Be advised that this show is not for children, the faint of heart, or the easily offended. The explicit tag is there for a reason. recording live from glory hole studios in chicago and beyond This is Cognitive Dissonance. Every episode we blast anyone who gets in our way. We bring critical thinking, skepticism, and irreverence to any topic that makes the news, makes it big, or makes us mad. It's skeptical, it's political, and there is no welcome mat. This is episode 653. See, so we're doing something a little different today. We are. I'm pretty excited. Do you remember when you were, I don't know, maybe you still get them. Do you remember as a kid getting the penny saver thrown at your yard?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Penny saver, shopper. I remember when I bought my first house, and you get the penny saver whether you want it or not. Yeah. And so every day or whatever showed up, I don't know if it was weekly or daily, I don't remember anymore. They would throw the penny saver at you. And I would go out and throw it in the garbage.

Like, it was like this thing that we did. It was a daily thing, right? Yeah. So every day you go out, and I sort my mail outside at the recycling bin. I don't even bring junk mail into my house. I just throw it right in the recycling bin. And so I have this habit where I would go out and, you know, and like, that's my first

house. So I kind of like love this house and, you know, I'm trying. And every day there's a soggy, shitty, I didn't want it sitting under the snow, trash paper sitting in my face. And so at one point, I called and the penny saver, I like looked him up and I called him on the number

and I'm like, hey, I don't want you to throw things at me anymore. Please don't do this. Like, can we? And they're just like, they're just like,

we just give them to everybody and it's free. And I was like, I don't want you throwing things at my house anymore. It's a really weird thing. It is super weird. It's not a thing you wanted.

Well, like, can I, is there anything else I can, can I just drive around throwing dead squirrels at your house? Here's the thing. Like, you take your old couch and you throw it off on the side of the road. That's dumping. Now you're the bad guy. Now that's dumping. But if it's the penny saver.

You need to take a dump on the penny saver. There you go. And that's dumping. I wanted to throw it back at him. But I'm not mad at the driver. He's just doing a job. Like, what you need to do is you need to craft it. Put me on the do not throw list.

Light it on fire and set it right outside of their door. That's how you get rid of it. Yeah. So, speaking of which, this penny saver thing. That was my lead-in. Did you like it? It was a great lead-in. I thought you'd like that.

This last week, I'm getting out of my car and thrown on my driveway, upside down, kind of half in the ditch, is a plastic-wrapped newspaper. And this newspaper is called the Kane County Reporter. This newspaper doesn't exist, okay? It does kind of exist. It's in your right hand. It kind of exists, but it is not a real newspaper, okay? And we're going to go over it with great detail tonight how this paper and many papers like it are making their way across Illinois in a scam to get people to believe in, essentially, I mean, I'm going to use the term fake news. Yeah. I mean, this is essentially fake news. It is right-wing disinformation. I thought about this.

So when Cecil and I were talking about this episode and what we're going to do is being a little bit different. And he sent me the paper and I was thinking like, who is the audience? And I thought, oh, this is how you get disinformation

to people who aren't on the internet. It's boomers. This is boomers. Do you think if this was tossed on like a 35-year-old's lawn, they would even pay attention? No, they would do exactly like I do. They would throw it out.

It never makes it inside. But this is for boomers. So if this gets thrown on a 70-year-olds lawn, they would even pay attention. No, they would do exactly like I do. They would throw it out. It never makes it inside. But this is for boomers. So if this gets thrown on a 70-year-old, suddenly it has all the markings of it appearing like a real paper. It looks like a real paper. It feels like a real paper. It's got all the things in the right spot, the dates and all that stuff that you would normally see on a real paper.

Here's what it doesn't have. Yeah. A single ad in the entire spot, the dates and all that stuff that you would normally see on a real paper. Here's what it doesn't have. A single ad in the entire paper. There isn't a single ad at all inside this paper. There's also no cost to this paper. So you know what happens if they print something false? They don't lose subscribers because there's no subscribers and they don't lose advertisers because there's no advertisers. This is made specifically to get people to believe something with political dollars, period. Do you remember a little book? Did you read a book, Cecil, called The Grand Unified Theory of Bullshit? You know, I heard about that book. Did you read this book? Excellent authors. Terrific authors. Amazing authors. Not coincidentally, you can buy a copy of that book, The you read this book? Excellent authors. Terrific authors. Amazing authors. Not coincidentally, you can buy a copy of that book,

The Grand Unified Theory of Bullshit, available also on audio from our website. From our website. But one of the things that they advise, and I agree with because I think it was me maybe,

or you, and I tend to agree with us, is look at the revenue model for the news that you consume. What's the revenue model? There is no discernible revenue model. There's not a single ad in this whole paper. Right.

Not a single one. You know, when I read the New York Times- Tell you I can't pull their funding, man. Yep. Yep. Nobody. So who's bankrolling this? Somebody paid a guy.

Like nobody drove around out of the kindness of their heart to huck garbage at people's houses in the hopes that a boomer might not trip on it and read it, right? This is disinformation for the septuagenarian. What's in the penny saver? It's all ads. It's all ads. It's literally all ads. There's a revenue model. This has no revenue model. There's nothing in here. Yep. Which means some dark money is bankrolling this. Exactly. Exactly right. So immediately take it and throw it away. Yeah. There's nothing in here. Right. But here's the thing, Tom, and I want to stress this. This is the Kane County Reporter. I moved from Chicago last year to Kane County, which is about

40 miles outside of Chicago, straight west, right? So I live in Kane County. Now, I'm going to show you what else. I love this. We're going to get to this in a second, but I want to show you what else. I love this. We're going to get to this in a second. But I want to show you what else this paper is. These are essentially the exact same papers. So if you're listening, this website is a list of the publications. So when you go to the website that's printed at the top of the paper, it redirects you over to their main site.

And their main site basically lists all the major counties within Illinois. Cook County is broken down four ways. It's a big county. And then there's these trash papers linkable on each of these. They're all the same paper. So if I click on, let's say I click on the DuPage Policy Journal.

So DuPage is a county. It's just a little bit east of us here. So I'm going to click on the DuPage Policy Journal. So DuPage is a county. It's just a little bit east of us here. So I'm going to click on the DuPage County Policy or the DuPage Policy Journal. I'm going to open it up. And if you look at this, if you're looking at this on YouTube, you could see what it looks like.

But it essentially looks like, it looks like a pretty simple WordPress looking, very simple sort of news site, right? It's got a very simple, now there's, I don't see any ads again on this at all. There's not a single ad that popped up and I don't have ad blocker on right now. This computer doesn't have ad blocker on it.

So we get ads all the time. There's not a single ad, not even a pop-up on this. When you go to, when you used to go to Patheos, it would have an ad, pop-ups like crazy. None of that.

And there's no, here's the other thing. It's not behind a paywall and they're not asking for a donation. How do they exist?, here's the other thing. It's not behind a paywall and they're not asking for a donation. How do they exist? And here's the other thing. I go to the next one over, DeKalb Times. Now DeKalb is to the west of us.

So this is the city to the east of us, the city to the west of us. How different does the DeKalb Times look to the DuPage Hub? It's all the same shit. It literally looks exactly the same. It's the same font. It's the same website.

They just changed the headers. And then many of the same. It's the same font. It's the same website. They just changed the headers. And then many of the same stories. If you look here, it's the same stories that are listed. If you look, all the icons look exactly the same because it's the same fucking paper. They're just re-skinning it, man. They did it all across our area here in Illinois. And it's not just our area.

It's all across the state, they've created these fake newspapers. And this has been a problem, right? So people see these fake newspapers and then they start to read them and they're like, oh my God. And when you read this, and we are going to read stories out of this this week, because it's very important to talk about each one of these stories and talk about the misinformation that's in here. But when you read these stories, these are hyperbolic, crazy sort of stories. And the first thing is on top. So this didn't come, this piece here didn't come by itself. This paper came with two inserts. Okay. And we're going to show you what these inserts are. I'm going to put them on the screen for people, but we're going to read them aloud and we're going

to talk about them. So if you're listening to the show, you don't necessarily have to see them. Tom is going to describe what he sees here, but we're going to read the first piece aloud. Now, this is the first thing. This is on top when you open the, you don't even see the paper yet. You literally don't even see the paper yet.

The paper's hidden underneath this big, giant, like what looks like it's going to be like, it's going to say Peligro on it. I was going to say. Yeah, it's a big say peligro on it. I was going to say. Yeah. It's a big yellow box with black lettering, all caps, bold font, exclamation point. Attention!

It absolutely is like wet floor underneath it. It looks like, yeah, somebody should be slipping. It's a slipping full song. A stick figure should be floating in the air, ready to hit the ground. It's one of those stick figures, arms getting chewed up by like a machine, you know? Like he is getting eaten up by like a wood chipper or something. Yeah.

So it says, attention, Kane County reporter, real data, real news. And this is great. And I'm going to tell you what's bolded too. A bold, legitimate newspaper with bold, legitimate writers, editors, and online editions. Running stories 52, running stories bold, legitimate writers, editors, and online editions. Running Stories 52, oh, Running Stories Bold, 52 weeks a year in which bold every word is true.

A free, bold, real newspaper made available to the public for a limited time is now being undermined by J.B. Pritzker and his cronies. This is my favorite sentence. Who says cronies if it's not political? Is there a non-political crony? Cecil, can we stop being friends? Can we be cronies?

I think we should be cronies. Can we be cronies? We should have the cronies cast. Dude. We should change the name from cognitive to cronies cast. You guys can use that. That's yours. I'm not going to.

Whoa. If we got into it, we could be crony bronies. All right. Now this next sentence is my favorite sentence written of all time. If the information contained in this paper. Bold. Bold. Was it true? Would they undermine it?

Bold. Why would they care? Think about it. And then underneath in Gylos, think about it. Well, I mean, the answer is pretty obvious. It's because people sometimes believe lies. That's a pretty obvious answer to why would they try to undermine it? Because you don't, just because it's printed somewhere, it can still be a fucking lie.

Yeah. Like lots of people care about things that are lies. Like the Sandy Hook parents won a billion dollars because they cared that somebody was lying about them. If it wasn't true, it's like, okay, yeah, but that's like saying if somebody was calling you names in a newspaper, why would you care if it wasn't true or whatever? Yeah. And you'd be like, that's still defamation. If somebody drags your name through the mud publicly and you're like, well, it's not true, so I guess it can't possibly have an effect on me.

Get the fuck out of here. It's fucking stupid. Then in the corner, in the bottom left corner, my very favorite thing also is it's as close to the word sheeple as you're going to. People of Illinois, it's time to wake up. Yep, wake up. I love how the right hates the woke,

but still wants you to wake up. I know. Well, now I guess they're trying to spin that around in some way and like call themselves the awakened or something like that. Oh my fucking God. Are you serious? So instead of woke, so it's going to be the woke versus the awakened awokening or something. I don't even know. So the next thing that I got was a hanger for your door. And now this is about amendment one and what amendment one is. And I just filled out my ballot, and it basically allows collective bargaining for anybody in the state. You can't disallow collective bargaining,

basically. And what they're spinning it as is they're trying to say that this is going to raise all our tax dollars because it's going to give teachers and firefighters and other people the opportunity to collectively bargain. Yeah, it'll strengthen unions and allow other types of workers to unionize that have been unable to unionize previously. So here's what Amendment 1 says according to the doorknocker bullshit. Doorknocker bullshit, yeah.

Amendment 1, impact on Illinoisans. A vote for Amendment 1 will give the state's government unions, state's government unions. What does that even mean? The strong state. What does that, what does that mean?

The state's government unions, the strongest powers in the country. Oh, I think they're saying that the government unions will be more powerful than all the other unions. People like, like certain government institutions though. Like,

do they ever bitch about police unions? Yeah. Right. Do they ever bitch about police unions? Yeah, right? Do they ever bitch about that? That's a good point. I'm for this because I want teachers to have more power. That's what I want. I want them to have more collective power.

It's not about curriculum. When it comes down to it, they're trying to turn this into a curriculum thing where teachers can walk in and brainwash your kids into being a trans kid or whatever. The boogaboo scary thing is what they're trying to say. That's the big scary thing or whatever is what they're, the boogaboo scary thing is what they're trying to say. That's the big scary thing.

That's what they're trying to say. But why I want it as a fucking lefty lib is so that all the good teachers don't leave the profession because they can ask for a salary that's a living fucking wage. And if you want to see the horror of not having unionized teachers, look at how it works in North Carolina.

North Carolinian teachers get paid, and I don't know the number off the top of my head, but they get paid, Cecil, 30, maybe 40% less than Illinois teachers. No shit. They get paid trash money. Absolute. I didn't know that. They're non-unionized teachers in North Carolina,

don't have a union that protects them, and the wages that they are paid are poverty wages. They pay them genuinely poverty wages. And there's no, like here in Illinois, if you have a master's degree, you get paid more. If you have special education certifications, you get paid more. If you're a reading cert, you get paid more. You get paid more. That's because unions negotiate those contracts.

Yeah, man. That's it. Yeah. All right. So leading to more property tax hikes and a slash in parents' rights. And here's the thing. Both of those things are emotional appeals, right?

They're emotionally appealing to your want to keep your money and they're emotionally appealing your sense of protection of your children. Yeah. Also, I would add too that this is how a free market should work, right? So what you're saying is because a free market should allow for people to gather together and to assert their rights collectively. That's what a free market should allow. If you are dysregulating that, if you are making it

impossible or illegal for people to band together and to force you to accept a better contract, like, yeah, I should fucking pay for that. I should pay for that. Like, that's what your property taxes are for. That's also like what makes a desirable neighborhood desirable. Yeah.

Yeah, no, absolutely. And the thing is, is like they're trying to push it on you as your property taxes, but on this piece, and I don't think we should read the entire thing because they're basically saying, you know what I mean? But each piece is basically telling you, you know, not only is it saying you should not, you're going to get more property taxes, but it's also saying, you know, at the very bottom means more small businesses and entrepreneurs will flee Illinois because if, if the, if your, your workers can get together and collectively bargain against you and you can't stop that. Right.

Then, then they're going to, then they're like, oh, well then we're, they're all going to leave. And you're like, yeah, but, but if they're going to treat their workers like shit, don't we care about the workers too? Like, it's like, we never care. We're always like, well, the business owners should just get all the rules and they should get all the perks and they should know we should never put any rules whatsoever on business owners you're like fuck you man like those those companies wouldn't exist without workers also like aren't most of you workers exactly man like how many of you are the fucking business owner yeah almost everybody is the fucking worker that's how that works yeah that's why that. That's why that works. It's such a stupid, and it's such a stupid ploy.

And what they're trying to do is they're trying to scare, because this is directed at workers. It is, yes. They're trying to create a class war. That's what they're really trying to do. That's what most of this is. And it's like,

this here is like more small business and entrepreneurs will flee Illinois. Well, if you don't have a steady job or something, you're like, oh, I don't want to make it so that I don't have an opportunity. I don't want my employer to leave. Well, you know what? The thing is, is like the reason, if you don't have like a steady job or something, you're like, oh, I don't want to make it so that I don't have an opportunity. I don't want my employer to leave. Well, you know what? The thing is, is like

the reason why you probably don't have a steady job is because you don't have a collective bargaining. You know, we don't have places that can walk in and be like, OK, this is how it is now. We all do your shit.

We're the ones who put all this stuff together. We're going to tell you how it is. Yep. Well, and also I want to grab one item from here. So it also says forces private sector workers to join unions

as a condition of employment. Forces them to join unions. First of all, I don't think that it does. Yeah. The amendment's ban of right to work would deprive private sector workers of ever having the freedom to choose whether or not to join union.

The right to work means you have a right to be fired. That's exactly it. That's all that it is. Nobody, like the right to work, we are a right, Illinois is a right to work state. And what a right to be fired. That's exactly. That's all that it is. Nobody like the right to work. We are a right. Illinois is a right to work state. And what a right to work state means is that you are almost undoubtedly not secured in your employment through contract. He's right to fire. Right. Which means that your employer, you can walk into your employer and they can say, Hey, come into my office. And then you're fired. And you were literally, that is the amount of protect. They

don't, you don't even, You don't even have to give a reason why someone is laid off. And in fact, you shouldn't give a reason. If you're the manager or the boss or whatever, you should not offer a reason because it opens you up

to potential lawsuits. So like the general advice is not to offer a reason. Just be like, bye. I'm sorry. You're fired. We've made a decision that unfortunately today

we have to terminate your employment. Yeah. That's it. That's the end of it. That's it. That've made a decision that unfortunately today we have to terminate your employment. Yeah. That's it. That's the end. That's it. That's what a right to work state means. A right to work means that you have the right to lose your job at any moment.

Right to get fucking fired. Yeah. So this is one of those alarmist things that they're trying to cover on this particular ballot that's coming out. And I just, I filled out my ballot. I fucking love mail-in voting. Fucking love it.

Cannot say enough awesome shit about it. I was able to look up my judges. That's so nice. And be like, no, no, no filled out my ballot. I fucking love mail-in voting. Fucking love it. Cannot say enough awesome shit about it. I was able to look up my judges. That's so nice. And be like, no, no, no, no, no. Okay, so I want to, now that we're going to get into the newspaper, I do want to talk about a story that came out about the newspaper, Tom.

And so this is about, specifically about these conservative news media outlets. It's conservative funded mailers, style of newspapers sent to Illinois voters. And so I'm going to put this up on the big screen. We're going to read part of it. Go ahead and start at the top here. A conservative group that is behind a recent series of television advertisements critical of Governor J.B. Pritzker is using another medium to get its message out, sending out a paper publication to blast Democratic candidates and platforms.

Republican political strategist Dan Proft crafted the mailings. He runs a political action committee called play by the rules jesus christ are you i love can we can we just pause real quick the names for these political organizations so good where they're just like family first yeah america freedom bald eagle happiness're just like, it's all just like these like crazy. Yeah. I want to just, I want my entire job to be naming PACs. I know, man.

Can I just do that? They're the best, dude. They're the best. They're the best. That has been purchasing ads in recent weeks to criticize Pritzker and Democrats who supported House Bill 3653, a criminal justice reform bill

that has sharply divided the electorate in recent years. The PAC has received significant donations from billionaire Dick Uhlein, with more than $20 million. So that's who funds the paper. Do you want to know where this paper comes from? It comes from Dick Uhlein, who funded $20 million to shit this on everybody's lawn. Yeah, you know, also, as a quick aside, the right is constantly screaming about, like,

George Soros! George Soros. George Soros funds everything. Here's a billionaire literally funding 20 million bucks. 20 million dollars worth of. How many fucking shitty eight page newspapers can you make for 20 million bucks? A lot, I would tell you what. Enough to make a website for each single one. Right.

Yep. And enough to farm out all the ideas that come in here to other places across the net. Somebody did do the work of writing that. Somebody threw that shit out and printed it. I'm going to show you where some of this stuff comes from later. You're going to love it. The papers are being mailed

to groups of registered voters and are tailored to the community where the voter lives. For example, a Chicago-centric version of the mailer was entitled Chicago City Wire. In one of the editions, the articles criticized House Bill 3653 and made notes of several provisions of the bill that have angered Republicans, including changes to the bond system and other law enforcement reform efforts. We'll

get to that. In DuPage County, one of the papers, entitled the DuPage Policy Journal, showed two full pages of photos of men, mostly black and Latino, whom the publication says will be released from prison because of the new publication. It's pretty awful, Pritzker said. These are lies, and they're putting them out in various forms, attacking people based on their background. Pritzker says that the mailers are not

marked properly as campaign material. Right. And says the reduction, yeah, because they're not a newspaper. Because it's not a newspaper, man. That's not a newspaper. And says that the reduction of local media outlets throughout the state has allowed the paper to gain circulation. When you get one of these in the mail, you should know this is not a real newspaper, he said. It isn't even marked properly as campaign material. It's put out by this right-wing network of newspapers that we all know exists in Illinois.

And they're trying to take over where local real journalism unfortunately has receded. And that is a good point. over where local real journalism unfortunately has receded. And that is a good point because as journalism has lost a lot of its own revenue model and its own ability to reach people and like we've moved into

a revenue model of clickbait bullshit consumption by headline like that leaves a gap. You're right. It leaves a gap. It leaves an information gap. Proft dismissed Pritzker's concerns about the publication in an email to NBC5.

This is my favorite fucking line. Newspapers spreading misinformation and representing only one point of view. Pritzker must be talking about the Chicago Tribune and the NPR, AFL, CIO, Chicago Sun-Times. What I love too is like, okay, but people can pull their funding

from those papers. Right. Well, they can stop those papers from printing lies by holding them accountable. You can't hold these people accountable. There's nobody to hold accountable. There's nobody there. The Chicago Tribune endorsed former Republican Governor Bruce Rauner over Pritzker in the 2018 election. I love that he calls out the Tribune.

They're like, yeah, they endorsed the other guy last election. It is not yet released. And they still haven't endorsed anybody yet. It's so good. Anyway, it does say at the bottom, it's unclear whether they violated any election laws. But yeah, it's really just a terrible, I mean, it's a genuinely terrible thing.

So we want to get back to the paper itself. Let's talk about the paper itself. I scanned it all. And so this is where it's, genuinely terrible thing. So we want to get back to the paper itself. Let's talk about the paper itself. I scanned it all. And so this is where it's, this is what it is. This is what it looks like close up. If you're not watching this, it looks like just like any other newspaper. It does, but it has so much graphic on it.

It kind of, to me, reads like a daily mail or a mirror or like one of these like trashy tabloids. It's not all text on the top part of this newspaper. Literally the top half of this newspaper is all pictures. All pictures. But, you know, what was it that we just did a citation, we just did it, but years, like maybe a half a year ago, where there's Boss Tweed. Yeah. Boss Tweed was mad, not at people printing articles about him in long text.

He was mad at cartoonists. Yeah. Because people will look at the cartoon and they will make up their mind about the person. And this was turn of the century. This is still happening. I'm just turning two centuries. Yeah, it is, right.

But this is still going on. It's funny when you first asked me, when you first held up the paper and you asked me, what do you not see here? Before you answered ads, I was just saying, me, what do you not see here? Before you answered ads, I was just saying, well, there's no funnies in here. No, no funnies. Where's the funnies? Yeah, where's the funnies? Why are you giving me a newspaper? A lot of jumble. There's no funnies. Let me tell you something. This would be a great paper for Dilbert. Let me tell you,

Dilbert could crush it in this paper. So what we're looking at on the screen, on the main headline is the Pritzker family, Lurie Children's Hospital promote gender and sex development experiments to Illinois public schools. And then it has an image from that hospital that says there's no one way to, right way to be transgender.

And it lists multiple different ways that you could be transgender. And this, of course, is immediately the fucking bat signal to every single person out there. If you want to make conservatives mad, you talk about trans kids because they hate trans kids

and they hate parents that love their trans kids. And this is their litmus issue. And this is. So the thing is like, if they put this on their front page, then, and you read past this story, then you are their target audience. That's a great point. That's a great point.

So you put your like barrier up front and you know that if somebody gets past that barrier, then like you've got them with all the rest of your messaging. It's a great point. So this particular story, it was done. So this is a story that's by their own news service, right? So it's done by their own news service,

this company that creates all these papers. But in it, they're essentially quoting one guy. The guy that, so when they say, nothing in this paper is not true, that kind of is true. They're not making any of these claims. They're literally quoting a dude who's making these claims.

That's how you get away with it. So you can totally get away by saying, and I don't know, I didn't check everything in here. So I'm sure there is fucking a ton of untrue shit, but at least in this first main story, they can quote this guy and this guy, when they quote him, it doesn't matter because we quoted a guy. And when you say it's not true, be like, I just, that's a real quote. That's a real quote. What are you saying is not true. And so that's, that's what they can hide behind. So I Be like, I just, that's a real quote. That's a real quote. What are you saying is not true? Yeah. And so that's, that's what they can hide behind. So I want to,

I want to tell you exactly who the first, they're quoting a man by the name of Chris Ruffo. Never heard of him before. So I looked him up today and I want to read you from Wikipedia.

Oh my God. Oh my God. So they're quoting a man named Chris Ruffo. This is going to be rough. He's an American conservative activist and senior fellow

at the Manhattan Institute, which is a conservative think tank. He is best known for his activism against critical race theory, which he says, quote, has pervaded every aspect of federal government, end quote, and poses, quote,

an existential threat to the United States, end quote, and is anti-American. Rufo is also known for his opposition to the LGBTQ education in schools, contending that public schools are often, quote, hunting grounds for sexual predators, end quote. Rufo has also said that, quote, to get universal school choice, you really need to operate from the premise of universal public school distrust, end quote. What in the world? He's talking a lot in this article

about a children's hospital here in Illinois and about how those articles, the things that are in the hospital that they're giving out supposedly to kids and they're trying to push the trans agenda, quote unquote, they're basically educating any school that wants to know about trans people.

And so they're educating them, but he doesn't even live in the state. Yeah. He lives in Washington. He doesn't like Washington state. He doesn't even live here. He doesn't have any, he has no dog in this hunt whatsoever, man.

It's not his schools. It's not near, it's not at hospital near him at all. All he is is a warrior from another state quoted in this paper about this particular issue. Yeah, man. And when you read something like that, does anti-American not read to you nowadays, like not white? Yeah, absolutely. When it talks, it's like, oh, that's, that's un-American. That's anti-American. You're right. Okay. You're right. What you mean is not exclusively white. Not exclusively white. That's all-American. That's anti-American. You're right. You're right. What you mean is not exclusively white.

Not exclusively white. That's all. That has just become absolute code for that. Yep. I also, Cecil, my new dream job is to work for a think tank. Man. That's where the money's at. I got to work for a think tank.

I've been thinking for free. Dude, you're like a sucker. If you went out there and worked for Think Tank, think of how many Twitter videos you can do of you doing sword katas. Dude, I could do this.

You could have axe and sword katas galore and then once a day maybe think something up and post it on Twitter. See, there you go. I got to work.

Whenever I used to hear Think Tank, I used to think of like a sensory deprivation tank. I used to think of one with a big gun. Yeah. Boom. Boom.

Yeah. At least I wouldn't run out of breath if I was doing the sword kata. Pretty soon, pretty soon they're going to want to conceal carry think tanks. Oh God. Right.

Well, you won't even need the concealed carry part in most of the country anymore. Yeah. You just got to walk. You got to pass a vision test. Yes. But in any case, this whole story is just,

it's just scaremonger. This guy's quotes about how terrible trans people are and how basically every single teacher in any public school is a groomer, right? Because that's the terminology. It's a new language. And specifically, they want to push for a thing called school choice, which is a voucher system that would allow for students to, any student in any part of the state to decide, I don't want to go to public school. The tax dollars here will help put me in a private school.

A private school or a charter school. A charter school, a Catholic school, a Christian school, an evangelical school, whatever school. You get that instated, suddenly you have people from all over the, like they're not going to be accepting people that don't have the funds to get in. And this voucher system might not pay for the entire thing. So again, you're still privileging people with money.

Yeah, the voucher system on its face, when you first read it, at first blush without a passing thought, it sounds rather fair. It's like, oh, I paid $7,500 in taxes or whatever, and that's for schools. And why shouldn't I be able to use that for the local private school instead of the public school?

And there's a lot of answers to that. And if you think about them, any of them for even a second, the whole thing is, it just falls apart. The first answer is because that's not how public funding works. Public funding does not, it funds public resources. Like, I don't know, public schools, public funding doesn't go to fund private businesses like the Catholic school down the road or Joe's local charter shop, right? That's not how that fucking works. We pay taxes into the kitty in order to build public highways, not in order to build private roads. That's just how public funding of things works. It also necessarily degrades the

quality of our educational and opportunities in all of our communities when we defund public schools. This is what that amounts to. This amounts to a defunding of public schools by pulling those dollars at a choice level away from the public school. So the public schools then ultimately get less and less well-funded. They have less and less resources. and less well-funded. They have less and less resources. To your point before, other people make up the difference between the dollar value for their voucher and the amount for their tuition. Private schools that are selective, make no mistake, will simply raise their tuition by the value of the voucher. And those for-profit schools can make a hell of a lot of money.

The education in some of those schools too is shit. When you go to a private school, all of a sudden you are no longer subject to any of these sort of like public educational requirements. Educational standards. So like, what do I mean by that? Well, if you go to a Catholic school, your biology teacher might not have a degree in biology. Your biology teacher might have to have a degree in anything at all it's not required anymore yeah that's how that now often they do but sometimes they don't and we've seen so many schools and we've covered they've been in the show a long time how many schools have made their way on a cognitive dissonance at some point because they were a bullshit school with no standards

because they were similar religious i mean look at, look at like the desire for insular communities like the Jewish communities in upstate New York and in around New York, those like Hasidic communities, those really insular communities. They want to spend the entire time reading the fucking Torah. They don't want to spend any of their time doing anything else. Those students are not well served. And there's reasons we don't allow that stuff.

It's because it's not good for the kids. You know, and there's no oversight. Yeah. Right? So the big problem is the oversight. The reason why you can stand and yell at all the teachers, the school board people at any of these things is because that's your oversight.

Yep. That's why all these people are coming in now and talking about, you know, I don't want my kids being groomed or whatever. That there's, there's, they don't, you don't have that power anymore. There's no school board. Literally the thing that you're bitching about, you won't even be able to do in the future. So it's just crazy to me. But in any case, that's what this whole story is about. It's about this guy's public, his very, very public fight to go take away money that we're all putting in the kitty

to give to private institutions. That's literally what this whole story is. It's basically a commercial for this guy's public fight. That's all it is. On the side here, it happens to have a thing that says a challenge to our critics. Oh my God, this fucking thing. And Tom, basically this whole thing, I whole thing, I mean, it's long. I don't want to read it out loud, but it basically says, provide a specific example

where we're wrong. We dare you. We double dog dare you. We triple dog dare you. And you're like, yeah, it's literally all wrong. Yeah, it's all wrong.

It's all wrong. And you're not going to do anything about it. No. Because it's privately funded. Yeah. So this is literally, this is,

I coulda, woulda, shoulda. Well, that's all it is. Also, if I write the newspaper, I can write a newspaper story right now. I could write a story called, Tom has never been wrong about anything. Watch. Here's the headline. Tom's never been wrong. By Tom,

who has never been wrong. Subheading, isn't Tom great? This newspaper sure thinks so. You can write anything in your own newspaper. And here's the other thing. It's not like they're going to come out with another edition tomorrow

to correct this, right? There won't be a correction on page three because this is the only edition that's coming out. Right. This is it. Do you think the activist-run right-wing disinformation newspapers

can be like, well, eggs on our face. Whoopsie. Oh, we challenged our critics. Get the fuck out of here. So anyway, so that's the main part of the whole page, the whole front page. There's a couple of infographics on it. Then mainly like basically what I'm saying, they're attacking trans kids mostly throughout

this whole paper. That's going to be a theme. mostly throughout this whole paper. That's going to be a theme. Also, there's a story in here about the lady who ran a primary against JB and lost. And she's basically mad about it. And the thing is,

is like, I'm sure this lady has some interesting things that she has to say. She's from the West side of Chicago. She probably has, and don't get me wrong, I'm sure that the people on the West side of Chicago

don't feel like the Democrats have been coming back to help them. Because we haven't. Because we haven't. So I recognize that this lady probably has plenty of beefs, and it makes sense to quote her and talk about her here. Absolutely. Because it's somebody from within the own party who's attacking their side, etc. So it makes sense. But one thing that is striking about this paper is that at no point does it appear that a reporter from this paper

interviewed this person. So what they do is they take somebody, they take quotes that somebody said, and then they cobble a story together. And you have no idea if those quotes are contextualized anyway. Yeah. And the paper that they got it from is a paper called the Prairie State. So where they got it from was a place called Prairie. It's called the Prairie State. What is it? Lake Wabagong. It's called the Prairie State Wire. And so the Prairie State Wire on media

bias fact check is a questionable source. And I'm going to read their detailed report. Questionable reasoning, imposter site, lack of transparency, false information, bias rating, right center, factual reporting, mixed. Credibility rating, low credibility.

Low credibility, minimal traffic, mostly free. So it's trash. It's trash. It's literally trash. It's a trash newspaper that they literally took a story from. They're sourcing trash to the other trash. You know what this is?

This is dumping your garbage truck at the fill, man. And if you look at the Prairie State Wire, and I'm going to show this to the people who are watching this, but if you look at the Prairie State Wire, it sure as shit looks a lot like all the other papers. It looks exactly like it because it's the same thing. It's an article inside. It genuinely looks like it because it's the same thing. Like it's an article inside.

That's the same thing. It genuinely looks like the same template that they're using. That's the same WordPress fucking plug-in. Yeah, same template. So that's the front page. Then it goes on to CPS spending.

And it's talking about, again, this is again another hit on public schools, attacking public schools, but pointing out that over the last couple years, their outcomes have been really bad. Oh, I wonder what's happened in the last couple of years.

I don't know, Tom. Has anything upset the apple cart? What in the world over the last couple of years could possibly have upset the educational balance? I don't know. Maybe we sent everybody home. I don't know, man. Also, if this is the Kane County reporter, why the fuck do I care about

Chicago Public Schools? Why should you care? It's not your tax dollars. I'm 40 miles away. It's none of your business, really. It has nothing to do with you. It has nothing to do with you.

You know, I mean, you can care about kids on a, like, a macro level. Yes. Right? But writing in a hyper-local paper

about a problem that is hyper-local to another region is simply incendiary. Yeah, that's all it is. It's a desire to whip you up and be like, well, you know, I have noticed we pay too much for those goddamn kids and their shitty education. What are they going to turn out to be? Productive citizens on my watch? Exactly. Exactly.

So I looked this story up. This story is stolen word for word Jesus Christ from a place called Wirepoints what? Wirepoints.org

anything with the word wire in it no Wirepoints.org so I'm going to show you the story Tom and I'm going to show our listeners the story they're watching right so I'll show you the story

you can sign up for for daily Wirepoints but I'm going to show you now so this is the story taken taken word for word. Same graphs in here as on the paper.

It's the exact same thing. It's stolen word for word. Again, no ads. It's not stolen. This guy probably gave it. But I want to show people the homepage for this. Now, when I describe this to you, listening to the podcast,

this is something that it's very hard to describe. So this is what the homepage of this site looks like. This is what it looks like. Now, this is the worst thing I've ever looked at. This is the homepage of this website. Guys, when I tell you that it looks like,

it looks like when the page, when your page template breaks on your WordPress site, that's what it looks like. It looks like the page template broke on the Epoch Times. That's what it looks like. It looks like the page template broke on the Epoch Times. That's what it looks like. It's an ugly, grotesque, literally a website that harkens back to the GeoCities days. GeoCities, this is worse than GeoCities.

This is time cube bad. It's terrible. And it's just text after text after text. And again, I'm not seeing a lot of ads on this page. Here's the thing. I don't see any ads. It's not behind a paywall.

I don't see a way to support them. Yeah. So it's like... Well, there's a donate button, I guess. Okay. All right. There's a donate button.

Fair enough. And I guess, I mean, and there are as much news as we are because you can donate to our show. Sure. Here's the thing. We're not news.

Nope. Right? We're not news. I'm not telling, I'm not trying to pretend I'm a reporter out there digging up the fucking muck on the S news. Nope. Right? We're not news. I'm not telling, I'm not trying to pretend I'm a reporter out there digging up the fucking muck on the SPS.

No, no, we're not driving around throwing our book at people. Yeah, exactly. With like warnings all over the place. put my book in a little baggie

and chuck it on people's fucking lawns. I'm going to buy like a thousand copies. You got to buy a thousand copies. That's fine. I get a royalty. But it's just, it's a trash paper, man.

And all this is, there's no reason to believe a trash paper, man. And all this is- There's no reason to believe any of this is true. And all this is is taken directly from this trash site and put directly in this paper

with the same graphs. Yeah, and I love to, just to scroll up, just to handle one second of the meat of this nonsense, even though, let's be blunt, again, it doesn't deserve it, right?

It doesn't deserve it, yeah. If you see this and you do the work that Cecil has done, you should vet this information because you should be suspicious on its face vet the information immediately find its suspect and it goes right in your recycling just throw it away just throw it away go find a if you want to know about this because there's plenty of stories about how much they spend on hcps sure there's plenty of stories about the outcomes of cps there's plenty of stories about this but you're going. There's plenty of stories about this, but you're going to get,

if you look up an AP or a writer's or even an NBC5 article, it's at least going to attack it from a way that's going to be like, here's sort of a quasi-objective viewpoint. Yeah. And you're going to have some analysis. You're going to have some quotes from people that you would look up

and they don't seem like a fucking crazy person. But also, I look at this and it's like, well, they're going to spend almost $30,000 a student. I'm like, okay. Yeah. All right. Okay. Okay. What is my alternative? Yeah. Spend less. Yeah. Like in the middle of a crisis of education, which is a great point. Like great point. What you want me to be upset that we're spending money on the education of the future generation? Like, I don't know. That seems like I live in a fucking society. These also aren't your tax dollars, right? So these aren't even your tax dollars.

And you're upset about how much someone else is paying. I can't believe somebody would pay that much for something as shitty as a kid. Like, that's not your money. What means some of it is as federal dollars or stuff, whatever. But but like, that's not your money. It's like like the people who live in Chicago, they all pay into that kitty and that money goes to the money that most, the bulk of this money

is coming out of their tax dollars. It's not even your money. And yet you want CPS to open their wallet on a fucking moth to fly out or whatever, like a Popeye fucking cartoon. Like, I'm just struggling to think of a world where we're like, we really need to fund education less.

Yeah. Like, get the fuck out of here. Yeah. And so another part of this paper is the Safety Act. And so we got to talk a little bit about the Safety Act, which is, there's several pieces of this legislation. But the piece that they keep on fighting and trying to fight against is the bail bonds. Yes.

Right? And so I found an article today that describes what's in it. And so we should read this article about it. Is it from the Prairie Time Epic? It's not. Dot com or whatever? It's from AP.

Is it the Wire AP? It's from the AP Wire. It's not from a Wire-related website. It's from AP. Is it the wire AP? So here's, it's from the AP wire. It's not from a wire-related website. It's from the AP wire, Tom. So Illinois law doesn't make murder or other crimes non-detainable offenses. And that's the big thing. So if you watch TV now in Illinois,

what you'll see is a commercial that says it's the fucking apocalypse. They are going to have the purge here in Illinois. They're just going to open the doors and everybody's going to be able to leave any kind of jail confinement that has any kind of bond or whatever, because they're going to get rid of bonds. The opponents are calling it catch and release. How dehumanizing is that? Terrible. So the claim, go ahead and read the claim and then read the facts. The claim, suspects facing serious charges, including second-degree murder,

kidnapping, robbery, burglary, and arson, will no longer be held in custody until trial under a new first-in-the-nation Illinois law abolishing cash bail statewide. AP's assessment? False. False! Judges in Illinois will still have

discretion to order suspects for these and other serious crimes held in jail pending trial if they are deemed a threat to public safety or if they are a flight risk. But the new law does impose higher standards to meet those conditions that critics say will make it harder to detain people. Social media. So here's the facts. Social media posts and conservative news outlets have been taking aim at Illinois' pre-trial fairness Act, which is scheduled to take effect January 1, distorting how the law will work. The Post lists a range of violent crimes they say will be considered non-detainable, including second-degree murder, kidnapping, robbery, burglary, arson, and threatening a public official.

The Post also includes dire warnings that Chicago and other Illinois communities will soon devolve into a real life version of The Purge. There he is, right there. On January 1, 2023, Illinois will take its place in history when they become the first state to test out The Purge in real life, an Instagram user wrote on Monday. Jesus, these fucking idiots.

Why is anyone... These fucking idiots. The post, which includes an image of the menacing masked marauders from the 2013 movie, received more than 80,000 likes as of Thursday. Illinois' new law ends cash bail or payments imposed by a judge as a condition of a person's release pending trial. It's among the most contentious parts of the Safety Act,

a wide-ranging criminal justice bill Illinois lawmakers passed in 2021 in response to the nationwide reckoning on racism and police brutality following the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other people of color. In this bill is police accountability. In this bill is Illinois police accountability. So of course the police unions are going to be trying to shove this and get rid of it, but they're seizing on this particular piece because they think it's something they can distort enough to scare people into believing it. So the law does not create a new classification

of non-detainable offenses. Suspects can still be jailed pretrial if they are considered a public safety risk or likely to flee to avoid criminal prosecution. The new law states, quote, detention only shall be imposed when it is determined that the defender poses a specific real and present threat to a person or has a high likelihood of willful flight.

Which is literally what they can do right now. That's just the same thing. Like, that just makes sense. That just makes sense. Additionally, those charged with forcible felonies in which probation is not an option if convicted can also be detained pre-trial under the law following a required court hearing. That includes

serious crimes such as first-degree murder and criminal sexual assault. Those arrested for forcible felonies such as second-degree murder, robbery, burglary, arson, kidnapping,

and aggravated battery are not required to have a detention hearing since they are offenses subject to probation. The suspects could, however,

still be held in custody until trial if a judge determines they are a threat or a flight risk. Exactly. So like a person looks at the case and says, yeah, all right, this one based on the circumstances and this one, you can go and you're innocent until proven guilty, go home, we'll figure it out. The other one, you know what? This is much more serious. Chances are, for a lot of these ones that have violent chances, there's not going to be a judge. There's not a lot of soft judges

on crime, man. And it's also just, there's not going to be a judge who's going to want to have that on their record. Absolutely right. And it lets somebody out, and then they went and did something.

So it's going to be a conservative way to handle this anyway because it's up to the judge to make those decisions. And it's not like be a conservative way to handle this anyway because it's up to the judge to make those decisions. And it's not like there's a bunch of activist judges out there

willing to like throw a bunch of people who might be violent out into the streets. It's just not true. And the thing is that we have always had a system

which was racist and classist at heart. And it's always been classist. And this is an attempt to fix this. So in other words, if you got arrested for arson and they set a $100,000 bail and you're a hedge fund manager, you just pay your $100,000 and you go on your merry way. Yeah.

And if you are arrested for arson and you are a construction worker and you don't have $100,000, then you go to jail and you sit in jail. The thing is the system always had a way for you to get out unless they didn't want you to get out. It's the same thing. And what we don't understand is like the arsonist got out. There's an arsonist on the street before. Right. He just happened to be rich.

Right. Right. It doesn't make him less dangerous. There's somebody who's a suspected arsonist out on the street before. Right. He just happened to be rich. Right. Right? It doesn't make him less dangerous. There's somebody who's a suspected arsonist out on the street already. Right? He just happened to have a lot of money that he could do it.

And it's not like if he commits another arson, the $500,000 bond goes to the people whose nousy burns down next. That's not how this works. Right. That's not how that money works. So like the idea that these people are okay with rich people being able to buy their way out of jail every single time. And what this bill is saying is that just because you're not wealthy doesn't mean we shouldn't consider,

if you are on a flight risk and if you are in a danger to the public, letting you out on your own. You're basically on bond, on your own recognizance we're allowed to do that we're allowed to do that just despite the like what your fucking w-2 says yep yep and that's literally how it was based that's how it was based before this is you know like judges before in order to keep somebody in jail they had to impose bails that were, like, enormous enough that, like, nobody could reach them. Like, I'm going to hold you on a $10 million bail. You don't have $10 million. I'll hold you on

a $10 million bail. I'll hold you on a $5,000 bail. So they're, like, this just says, like, I'm going to hold you. I'm not going to hold you. I'm not going to hold you. I'm not going to hold you. Yeah. That's better. That's just better. It's just fucking less classist than racist. It's just such a shitty, racist. It's just fucking less classes than races. It's just, it's just such a shitty racist, shitty classes policy. And if you can't like, and think about all the fucking, then the people who aren't hurt by somebody using

drugs, right? Hard drugs. Somebody is using the hard drugs, but they get caught and suddenly we're like, okay, well we can throw them in jail. Right. And pay for that. By the way, all you people worried about your taxes, you're paying for that shit. And then they keep these people. One of the reasons why they, another thing about the Safety Act is they're saying,

we want to have reasonable times for people who are even held to get a trial. Yes. And that's a problem in the United States today. It is. Huge problem.

We have a, it's so fucking, I think about this all the time, Cecil. Like, I am, I'm really passionate about this subject. We are, we are so fucking gung-ho about certain rights and certain amendments.

You have a right to a speedy trial. You do not actually have that right. That is a right which we simply don't have. It is not unusual at all to get arrested and to have your trial take place a year, two years longer after the point of arrest. You do not have a right to a speedy trial in this country. You don't get it. They set the system up to where you essentially are almost blackmailed into waiving your right to a speedy trial in order for procedural activities to push forward. to a speedy trial in order for procedural activities

to push forward. Everybody waives that right because it's a garbage right that we don't enforce because we don't have the system resources, the infrastructure to make that right actionable.

And it strong arms- We're all the fucking Second Amendment fucking gobblers on that shit, man. And it strong arms all those people in jail that are being held because they can't afford it.

It strong arms them into pleading. That's all it is. It strong arms them into pleading because they can't afford it, it strong arms them into pleading. That's all it is. It strong arms them into pleading because they don't want to spend another goddamn day waiting for a trial where they still may be convicted. Man, I think about this every now and again. If I got arrested tomorrow, even if I got arrested tomorrow, it was the wrong crime. And then I got exonerated or whatever. Like I got not guilty. I can't think. Sure. It could still easily ruin your life. And it almost certainly would. If I get arrested and thrown in jail and I can't post my bail, but I'm fucking innocent, I don't get to go to work. Now my bills aren't getting paid. Now after I don't go to work

for a certain amount of time and that time varies, I lose my job. While all that's happening, my family is running behind on my mortgage payments, the electric bill, how are they eating food? I'm sitting in jail. And then I go through this process. Well, now I got to get an attorney. Any money I have, I'm shitting at attorneys and private investigators to help me get out

of this thing that I didn't even fucking do. Your entire life can absolutely be ruined and then we sort of like shrug it off with like well the system works yep not guilty system worked send them home and you're like send them home to what yeah send that guy home to what like they spent do you remember the the story is a big story a few years back the story about a kid who got arrested for stealing a backpack. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He went to Rikers. Rikers. He spent like four years in Rikers.

And Rikers is a dangerous, dangerous jail. Like this poor fucking kid. He was a kid. He's a teenager. So he didn't even steal the backpack. He didn't even get convicted of anything. So like innocent until proven guilty. They never proved him guilty. He didn't steal the fucking backpack anything. So like innocence will prove him guilty. They never proved him guilty.

He didn't steal the fucking backpack. The crime was a nothing crime. Fucking kid spent like four years in Rikers, was so traumatized by the experience of being in that prison that he committed suicide. This is a relatively common issue. Like you go to, you send me to prison for six months. I don't know that I come out the same time.

There's no guarantee of that. And who suffers? This system of bail, this system of pre-trial detention for these extended periods of time are costly to our whole society. And they're racist. Yeah. And in this article, we talked about the sort of invective that they were throwing out. Yeah. But in this article, they're saying, you know, setting criminals charged with crimes like second degree murder. It's the exact same thing. It's the exact same wording from an Instagram post. Yep. It's the same wording.

They're using the same wording because they know it's going to get you emotional. It's going to get you afraid. And they want to get you afraid. I saw a fucking, I saw a commercial the other day about how terrible the crime is in Chicago. How unbelievable, terrible. Since I moved out here, every time I tell people I'm from Chicago, they're always like, I'm sorry. Or, oh, wow. Bet you're glad you got out of there. And I'm like, no, actually I love Chicago. I miss it every day. Like I loved it. And they're like, oh man, I never go down, never go down to the big city. You know what I mean? Like that's basically it. Like I loved it. And they're like, Oh man, I never go down, never go down to the big

city. You know what I mean? Like that's basically it. Like that's it. These people, they're all afraid of Chicago. They're all terrified of Chicago. And this is easy. It's easy to tune these people up. It's easy. It's super easy. And all you gotta do is show a commercial with intense music and a deep voice guy telling them that fucking somebody's going to come and take your shit or kill you. And you'll scare the lot of them. I also want to real quick, harken back to the intentional use of the same language you've heard before. So this is a common strategy. If they use the same language that you saw on that Instagram post, and you use it here, and then we use it at two or three other places, the more often you see it, the repetition of those words

in that same order lend those things an internal credibility that you can't safeguard against because it speaks to certain cognitive biases that we have. It is a psychological

manipulative trick. It absolutely is. I heard that somewhere once before. I don't remember where, but that rings true. And they keep saying it over and over.

Now, this next part is about, it's about this particular person is saying that Democrats who were caught in a scheme that have been accused of something, Pitsker has supposedly said they should step down. Right. And they're asking for more accountability,

even though their party has not been accountable for anything. I'm 100% for anybody who's involved in corruption to step down and be accountable. But it's super funny that they're talking about it in someone else's party and not their own. Right. And there's plenty of opportunities for plenty of Republicans who've done plenty of bad shit to step the fuck down. Like, I don't know, you know, help with an insurrection or something crazy like that. Minor details, minor little things. Also, and not to get too far in this story, but like, also when you read this story, the people that, like, what does,

what do they want the governor to do? Hey, step down. The FBI is investigating. If there's a crime, they'll charge you with it. Yeah. What should the governor do? What should he do? Punch him in the face? Go challenge him to a celebrity boxing match? Right. I don't know. Run him out on a rail? But in any case, this is one of those stories that's, it's written by the particular, uh,

the, the company that put this out, this reporter. But then there's a specifically, you know, they're quoting somebody, uh, they're, they're quoting a bunch of people in here who were basically saying like, look, these people need to be disciplined. And, and here's the thing. I don't disagree. If you're caught in a bribery scheme, you should be disciplined, period. And again, they're quoting the next party. The next one down is the actual article. It's the Kane County reporter. Nobody. There's not a person. It's not

a person. It's not a human. It's the reporter. Right. So even in even in every single day, you don't it's all anonymous. You don't pick up the Chicago Tribune and they say this story is by the Chicago Tribune. This story is by Mike Roico of the Chicago Tribune. Again, if you see anonymous or anything that you see that is anonymously posted anywhere or written, should immediately be dismissed permanently. Yeah, it's suspect. It's suspect. That's trash.

Anonymity is trash. Yeah. And so there's two stories right in a row. The first one at the top of the page that talks about this corruption, and then another one below it that talks about the corruption, but then quotes our local guy who's the Republican running for the House seat here in our area. So he's, they're quoting that guy to sort of get his name in your thoughts. So when you've gotten this far into the paper, you're going to remember it when you go to the polls late next week. Again, another safety act that's here, again, written by the Kane County reporter.

And then they show somebody's face here. It's from Facebook, which is funny. They have an image that they attribute to Facebook. Real quick. Yeah. It's amazing that they credit their images. I know. As I found it on the internet. I found it on the internet. They don't credit the article to a person. It's awesome. But the thing, yeah. So at the bottom of the page, the headline is

shame on Paddock Publications for giving in to JB Pritzker's temper tantrum. So paddock publications, I guess they wound up, they had to print this, I guess, out of state. So they had an in-state person who was printing these. And from what I sort of gathered, Pritzker put in enough, basically like, don't, you can't print that shit. That's fucking garbage. They stopped doing it. And so they had to go out of state to find it. Now I want to read who this guy is. This is the representative. This is, now I just want to say, this looks like a headline, but it's a letter to the editor.

It's not listed as a letter to the editor. It just starts with dear editor, but it's not listed as letters to the editor. It's not sectioned off from the news. It's still, it looks like a news article. It just says dear editor at the top. Now the person who's writing this is a representative in the area. And I want to read who he is. So this is Representative Morrison,

and he is known as a hardliner on social issues. In 2016, he authored legislation denying young transgender children access to restroom of their identity. He opposes abortion in all circumstances, including rape and incest, voted no on an equal pay bill, also voted no on the ERA, the Equal Rights Amendment, previously attempted to constitutionally ban same-sex marriage in Illinois. Became reelected in 2018.

Representative Morrison authored legislation to punish doctors for providing transition healthcare to transgender children experiencing gender dysphoria. Where is this guy from? And it reads transition healthcare. He's a state representative. But what district? I imagine, let me look here real quick. Because Cecil, I'll bet it's not King County. I think you're wrong, Tom. It is from out here. Holy shit, really? Palatine. Palatine Rolling Meadows, Inverness. Wow. I am amazed by that. Palatine, Rolling Meadows, Inverness.

That's their representative. Wow. In any case, this guy, he's just a trash human, right? So, you know, he's got an A rating from the NRA. He condemned that hospital, that hospital from the front page of this. So, literally, of course, he's got an A rating from the NRA. He condemned that hospital, that hospital from the front page of this.

So literally, of course, they're going to post exactly what he has to say. And then again, to your point before, they don't say anything. What they do is quote people saying things. Yeah, and this is just a letter to the editor in a trash newspaper that has nobody, I mean, he could have posted that

on his fucking Facebook page. Yep. The next page says kink BDSM and trans friendly sex toys for Illinois children's school. And again, this is talking about this children's hospital and how they have, you know, stuff that talks about kids getting gender affirming care.

Right. You know, just, just, just make it so that they grow up because we know that they're at risk if they don't express their real gender. Right.

They can be seriously at risk. It can seriously damage kids. And this is the standard for care. Yeah. Like, that's the thing. It's like, this is the medical standard for care. And like, this art of this, like, this top top line headline,

sex toys for school children. Yeah. Where? Yeah. What are you talking about? Yeah. I read through this article, where is the sex toys?

Where's the sex toys? Yeah. Literally, here's the thing. It doesn't even come up in the article. Yeah. And it's not really an article. It's really, when you see this- This is a weird thing.

I don't know what this is. It's really, when you see this, this is a weird thing. When you see this, it's like a whole page, but the font is suddenly like 15 point font and I think they couldn't fill up the whole paper. So they just sort of made

like a big giant 15 point font piece. And then of course they're making fun of the people who are part of J.B. Pritzker's task force because one of them

claims to be non-binary. And so like immediately, they're putting them on a freak show because they want to make it seem like that person is an absolute terror and a freak because they don't, because they fucking choose a different pronoun than you. Yeah.

And again, they have a headline that in no way matches any of the rest of this stuff. No. And if you scroll down, there's, you know, they talk about, you know, here's the thing where it says using strap-ons. So intro to kink and BDSM at the bottom.

But you want to read it? Yeah. So intro to kink and BDSM. An interest in BDSM can be difficult to talk about with a partner, much less a complete stranger. So how about we make this easy on you? Here's a transcript of our imaginary conversation

for you to peruse in the comfort of your own home. An interesting, and then they have that same paragraph again. It's literally the same paragraph. It's the same paragraph. So I think what this is supposed to be is a screenshot from Lurie Hospital. Yeah. Is that what they're showing?

I think that's what they're trying to show you is a screenshot. But then they don't tell me anything about where this lives. Right. So like anywhere on the website, you're taking a picture from their website, which could be a completely adult facing part. I have no idea. Right. Like, like what? In any case. So that's what it is. And now we move into a big giant headline that says what kids are reading. And it says Illinois public school teachers who once recommended Nancy Drew-like mysteries,

historical fiction to book-loving students are being encouraged to promote a new emerging genre, child sexualization. This is the groomer stuff, right? And what they're trying to do is attach it to public schools to make it seem like they're the ones out there trying to change your children. They're trying to brainwash your children. They're trying to do is attach it to public schools to make it seem like they're the ones out there trying to change your children.

They're trying to brainwash your children. They're trying to convert your children. And this is what they're talking about. And so they have a bunch of books. And each one of these books, it talks about what's in the book. One of them's called Genderqueer. One of them's called Flamer.

Another one's called All Boys Aren't Blue. And My Shadow is Pink. The only one that seems to be a child's book is My Shadow is Pink, right? That one that seems to be a child's book is my shadow is pink, right? That looks like it might be a child's book. It says it's aimed at kids. So I, maybe it is right. Maybe it's a children's book. The other ones don't seem like their children's book. And here's the kicker. They list where these books are found. And then they start listening. But it's not school. Oh, you're right. These are Illinois public library locations.

So these are public. Each one of these is a public library location. These aren't at your school. Those aren't school listings. Those are at your public library. And you have no idea where those books are in your public library. They told you they're in the kids section,

but who the fuck knows? And they didn't even say they were in the kids section. They They told you they're in the kids section, but who the fuck knows? And they didn't even say they were in the kids section. They intimated that they were in the kids section with this dumb fucking paragraph at the top. But all they do is list a big long list of cities where you can find them in your public library, not find them in your school library.

And also the availability of information and the availability of like, like sexualized fiction is nothing new. Yeah. This isn't like nothing new is happening here. Like if you go to a library, I spent a lot of time at the library. There's a lot of erotic material in a library. I remember I used to stock shelves as a, as a second job. I stocked shelves in the morning at the Barnes and Noble. There's an immense amount of erotica available. There's an immense amount of erotic material in books,

which are considered classics. There's a, but the thing is that the erotica, what they're really objecting to is that the erotic material that has always been available has been heteronormative erotica. Yeah, yeah, exactly. The heteronormative erotica that has, and it's been extremely male-centered heteronormative erotica. Yeah, exactly. It's the heteronormative erotica that has, and it's been extremely male-centered heteronormative erotica. Yeah, exactly, exactly.

Like, extremely male-centered. It's all penthouse letters. It is. Yeah. So, like, when you read the classics, when you read classic literature that has erotic passages, if you read Henry Miller, like, there is an immense amount of erotic material inside Henry Miller.

If you read, you know, there's fucking sexual love letters from great writers, which have been, you know, like published everywhere. You can get that shit at any high school library. You always could. And I did.

And that shit is super heteronormative and it's super male centered. What they're really objecting to is all of a sudden there's sexually explicit and erotic material, which is available for people that are

not dudes. Yep. That's it. Yep. Yep. That's it. Cause what they want is they want girls to read about male experiences so that girls can learn how to please men. Yep. That's what they want. And then they don't want anybody else to learn anything else about who they are and what they like and how their bodies work and who they're interested in. And here's the thing, man. You could have a whole library full of gay erotica. Yeah. And as a cishet guy, I wouldn't read it.

I wouldn't read it. It wouldn't appeal to me. It wouldn't appeal to me. And the same thing goes when I was a kid. Yeah. I would walk in and be like, yeah, man, that's not my thing.

It'd be like, there's nothing for me. It'd be like walking to a restaurant that only serves anchovies and goat milk. I'd be like, this isn't my restaurant. That's like walking to a restaurant that only serves anchovies and goat milk. I'd be like, this isn't my restaurant. That's cool, man.

You dig all that, and that's great. But I don't get it, and it's not for me. I'm going to go buy penthouse letters or whatever. For me, that's what I want. And the thing is, that stuff isn't gone. It's still there. They're just super threatened by the one or two examples. And here's the thing.

When you look at this paper, there's only four examples. They only listed four examples on the page. They didn't list 50, 100 books. They didn't show you a whole page full of all these books that are pushing all this, like, you know, different types of sexuality. They didn't do that at all. What they did was they listed four books that are available at your public library,

intimating that it's at your public. It's at your... They intimate not only that it's there, but that the teachers are working actively to force your kids to watch it. And this is taking place, by the way, amidst a backdrop. Why isn't there a front page of this newspaper that says,

here's what's on your kid's cell phone. Yeah. Right. Can you look at the websites? Look at the websites you can find on your kids. Your kids can get on their phone. You think any fucking high school kid doesn't have a cell phone? Yeah, I know.

And you think any high school kid doesn't know how to find porn? Right. That's what I'm saying. Like, if you've got a phone, you've got access to any erotic material you want. Anything. That's what I'm saying. Like if you've got a phone, you've got access to any erotic material you want as problematic as possible. Anything. Yeah. I want to talk about what's on the last couple of pages here. My favorite part about this is on this page, the previous page, we're talking about what kids are reading and they're talking about all these

horrible books that are available for kids and what should we do about it? And then the very next page, it says Pritzker suffocates free speech. And then it talks about JB Pritzker suffocating free speech, basically talking about taking these papers off, right? So he's talking about, it's an article about these papers, right? It's talking about how bad these papers are. Now this is written by a guy by the name of Steve Cordes. bad these papers are. Now, this is written by a guy by the name of Steve Cordes. Now, Steve Cordes, Tom, I want to show you a very special thing now. This is Steve Cordes. Steve Cordes here. Steve Cordes is a local radio personality at AM 560, The Answer. Wait a minute. Hold on though. I want you to read a very specific thing. Steve Cordes weekdays 5 to 7 p.m.

That's drive time. That's good. But here's what I want you to read this first sentence. Can I comment quickly on his face being too smooth? It really is smooth. His face is like

weirdly smooth. I want you to read that first update there, Tom. Update. Steve Cordes is currently on special assignment with the Trump campaign until the election in November.

What election? Yeah. Is it two years ago? You think they haven't updated this page in two years, Tom? Or, yeah, it must be. Why would he be on assignment with Trump for the midterms? For the midterms, right? Yeah, that doesn't even make sense.

Is this a two-year-old non-update that he hasn't come back from? Is that what this is? Oh, that's amazing. Is that what this is? That's because's amazing. Is that what this is? That's because he's too busy writing for the King County Reporter. Playlist unavailable on his website?

Is that what we're talking about here? Is that where we're at? Steve Cordes? We probably have more listeners to this show than you get on AM560, The Answer. But in any case, this is Pritzker suffocates free speech. Now, this is the last page that I sent to Tom, but I want to show you what's on the final two pages

Of this paper, so I didn't scan these and we will post I by the way If you're listening to this and you kind of didn't understand you're like i'm not really sure we're going to post this pdf As a link in the show notes So you'll be able to download this p PDF and read this entire paper that I scanned. So you can go ahead and read it. But on the back, on the second to last page of this paper, they have Tony Danza's giant face.

Giant head. Look at his fucking head. And the best part is that Tony Danza and Richard Marks, this is like local shit that's happening at an event, like event stuff that's happening soon. But the best part is both of these pictures are from Wikimedia Commons. So they took the pictures from Wikimedia.

They didn't even get like, and the thing is like, this is just like a local thing to show you it's a local paper. Here's some local shit that's happening. They probably stole it from a local calendar and printed it from Word. And on the back,

the last page is a bunch of kids that go, and I don't even know if these are real people, but they're listed as people who go to local, it's like the local sports athlete kids or whatever. And they're listed from a bunch of different papers or a bunch of different schools. And so they're listed. I don't even know if these are real.

I literally have no idea. They could be random. I don't know. But they might've just stole these from a place too. I don't know this. Doesn't matter. But in any case, that's the last two pages I didn't scan.

But if you're interested in getting a scan of this, you can go to this week's show notes and check it out. But yeah, this is garbage news. I can't believe they're throwing that at people. It's garbage news and it's all over the state and it's all over the internet too. I mean, think of how many sites they have that all look pretty legitimate. But man, you've just got to follow those rules. And those rules are, where's the fucking ads? Who's paying your bill? Who's paying for this? And when there's nothing in here and there's no way for anybody to take any real action monetarily against you, you know it's going to be a fucking lie. Absolutely. And when nobody signs their name to the byline? Yeah, when everything's like this news service or this, there's no person.

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Literally the only way. So we got a little bit of email I want to cover from several weeks back. First thing we want to cover and talk about, and I think this is super duper important, is we want to talk about Vulgarity for Charity. It's back. Vulgarity for Charity is back's back. Vulgarity for Charity is back and we are doing what we did before, which is we are only taking

a certain number. 100, I believe, roasts are going to be- 100 randomly selected roasts, I believe? 100 randomly selected, but I believe some are also going to be selected from the top donors. So the top donors, if you're one of the top donors,

a certain number- You go in a different pile of random selection. You'll go in a different pile and those top donors will get their roasts for sure. And all the rest of them will go into a pile

and we will select randomly some roasts. And last year, it was great. It was over within five episodes. So we weren't running it out for a year and a half. But this year- And the amount of good, hold on, real quick, out for a year and a half.

But this year... And the amount of good, hold on, real quick, the amount of good you guys did through Vulgarity, for charity, through your donations for those roasts, last year topped $400,000. The average gift is only $700. We are helping, through this

program, six, seven, eight hundred people because of that work. That's just awesome. It's a lot of people. It's a lot of people on the margins, which is that need that help. And especially at this time of year and it's getting cold out

and it's just, it's super necessary for people who can really fall into desperate poverty and it helps those people. But the modest needs is who we're going to be donating to. So what's going to happen is, is you're going to donate to modest needs. It's a minimum of $50. It starts on the 1st.

So November 1st, that'll be the first day that you can donate. So this comes out on Halloween. Patrons, it'll be a little earlier, but for Halloween, this comes out. So tomorrow for the wide release, you're going to donate to modestneeds.org. You're going to take a copy of your receipt. It's got to be at least $50.

You're going to send it to vulgarityforcharity, that's the word, not the number, at gmail.com. It's all one word, vulgarityforcharity, at gmail.com. You're going to send your copy or receipt, and you're going to say, I would like so-and-so roasted and that can be a concept. It can be a person. It can be a whole group of people. If it's a person who you know and not somebody who everybody knows,

please send a picture of them. If they're a local politician, perhaps send a news story, a Wikipedia article for them. Detail, like, you don't write a novel, but like a little bit of detail will get you a better roast.

A much better roast. If you're just like, please roast my Uncle Frank, I don't know your Uncle Frank. I'm just going to make something up. I'm going to say he looks like a basil lip and then I'm going to move on

and that's it. So detail will get you a better roast. Yeah, detail is going to get you a lot better roast. And we are going to be also, big news, talk to Keith

at Modest Needs. There's a $100,000 match on the table. That's just awesome. So right off the bat, we can easily take $100,000 and turn it into $200,000.

We've got to at least do that. That is the bare minimum. Right off the bat. We've got to beat last year. Right off the bat. I want to beat last year. $200,000. Right off the bat, We've got to beat last year. Right off the bat. I want to beat last year. $200,000. Right off the bat,

if we get up to $100,000, our audience is the best audience in the world. It is the most giving audience in the world. We really are. We are asking you to donate to Vulgarity for Charity. Take your pennies that you've been saving up all year. Tell us who you want to roast. Send it to ModestNeeds.

Donate to ModestNeeds.org and then send it to us at VulgarityForCharity at gmail.com detailing who you want roasted. And we will put you on a list. And then we're randomly selecting 100 people. Like I say, the people who donate a lot, if you put a lot in, chances are your roast is going to be picked. The people who put in a goodly sum of money. And last year, I don't remember what that went down to, but a goodly sum of money will definitely get your roast.

So if you have a lot of money you're sitting on and you think, you know what, I really want to do some good and I definitely want to roast Donald, Tom to roast Donald Trump, then you can have it done.

Tom will tear the soul out of Donald Trump and drink it on air. I guarantee it. So come, please donate Vulgarity for Charity. Tell all your friends about it.

And then listen to the podcast because we're going to have tons of special guests on. And we're going to be just doing Vulgarity for Charity for one episode or two episodes a month for the next couple months. We got a message. And this is from Jay. And Jay says,

I finished listening to your segment about weather controlling machines. And it just feels like, what the fuck? Couldn't they just poison people? Wouldn't that be easier? Right. Like he says, like, if you've got all this shit, like you've got access, like wouldn't you just drop some poison in a local water treatment plant?

What is that? And it's so true. You have to make a hurricane. And the thing is, is like dropping poison in a water treatment plant is just as indiscriminate as a hurricane. Right. water treatment plant is just as indiscriminate as a hurricane. Right. Like if you are powerful and indiscriminate, like there are better ways than like-

Better ways. Whipping yourself up a quick hurricane. Better ways. Tom, we got a crazy message here. This is from Mandrake, and it's about the sort of slave auction stuff we're talking about. This is crazy. They didn't like to prom queen back in the 1980s in the South.

They had something called Daisy Day. In the morning of Daisy Day, all high school girls were given a daisy, a real one. The rule is that if you spoke to a boy, you had to give him your daisy. This included saying things like, sure, when asked if they could borrow a pencil. So this could be trickier than it sounds at first. The boy who had the most daisies at the end of the day was prom king. The prom king was literally the guy who deflowered the most women. This metaphor gets even weirder the more you look at it. It has the idea of it's dangerous to speak to boys and they will trick you. And look what happens then.

You lose your flower. Wow. We might resist, but eventually they'll get you if you are not really, really careful. And then men gain status from taking daisies and women lose status. Wow, that metaphor is terrifying. It's terrifying, Cecil, but it's a really apt metaphor for the toxicity. Yeah, for that toxicity, yeah. If you were like designing an experiment to show why this was problematic, you couldn't design a better experiment except for they don't do the and this is problematic part. And then this is problematic.

They're like, no, they revel in this. Right. Instead, they're just like, and now you're prom king. And you're like, what? Oh, yeah. We got a message and this is from Len.

And Len says, who do I consult with to see a video of adult Tom frolicking in a park trying to fly a kite with no prior knowledge? This will make me join as a patron. Okay.

Okay. Tom's going to build a computer while he's flying. Yeah, there we go. It'd be perfect. Why don't I try to catch a baseball while I'm at it? We got a bunch of images because it was many, many shows off. And this one's from Seth and it's about the Alex Jones trial. You're going to want to check it out.

It's an Austin Powers reference. Always welcome. Always welcome, Austin Powers reference. Then we also got another one. This one is from Seth and this is Alex Jones and this is a Saturday Night Live reference. So check that one out.

That old one. Chris Farley. Saturday Night Live reference. So that was good. And then we got another one from Seth and this one is a desk reference. Us fighting over the desk. Seth is crushing.

So Seth has sent another one and he sent two actually about the desk, which we are going to show. Seth is crushing it. So Seth has sent another one, and he sent two, actually, about the desk, which we are going to show. So you can check out both of those images that he created. Stone Banana sent the same one that Seth did, but Seth sent it first, Stone Banana, so we're going to show Seth's.

Got a crazy image from Stella. If this is real, I don't even want to live in this world anymore. This is an image of Trump and I'm going to describe it. We'll post it, but I'm going to describe it. It's Trump on a cross

and the cross at the top normally says Irini or whatever. At the top, instead it says MAGA across the top on the ribbon. He's nailed to the cross. Nancy Pelosi is stabbing him in the side with a spear.

Melania is at his feet like the Virgin Mother. Anointing him with oil. The a spear. Melania is at his feet like the virgin mother. Anointing him with oil. The virgin mother. What's the loincloth? The loincloth is an American flag, Tom. It's an American flag. Good God. Looks like Putin's in the background and so is another dictator. That's Kim Jong-un. Yeah, Kim Jong-un

and I don't know who the rest of them are. I can't figure out what the rest of the people are, but in any case, a bunch of people are looking on. I don't know if Putin's supposed to be good or bad in this. I don't know. And then it looks like there's another thing, but I can't really make it out. So anyway, check it out.

What a mess. It's an absolute disaster. I would buy that though. If I saw that like at a garage sale. Yeah, if that was a shirt. Are you kidding? Who wouldn't wear that? We got a Holly sent in this video.

And I mentioned my wife freaking out about company coming over. We'll post it on this week's show notes. It's a hilarious video of someone just basically running around screaming that they have to clean the house and it's actually super duper fun. It is great.

So check it out. It's on this week's show notes. And finally, we got an image and this is from Negative Person and they sent in an image of Ted Cruz going to the Yankees game, getting a Yankees salute. So we're going to post it on this week's show notes.

Fuck Ted Cruz. Of course, you're going to have to check it out. Yeah, getting a Yankees salute. So we're going to post it on this week's show notes. Fuck Ted Cruz. Of course, you're going to have to check it out. Yeah, Ted Cruz is such a trash human. I really, you know, just because of Ted Cruz,

I hope the Astros lose. Just because of Ted Cruz. I don't even follow baseball, but just because. who the Astros are, all I want is Ted Cruz to lose. It's the Houston Astros, Tom. Okay.

Yeah, you want him to lose. I want him to lose. You want him to lose. Houston loses no matter what. Houston, it's just a big loss. It's just a loss. You know why it's the Houston Astros?

Because they would fucking go to space to get away from Houston if they could. It should be the Houston ass to mouth-stros. All right, that's going to wrap it up for this week. We're going to leave it like we always do with the Skeptic's Creed. Credulity is not a virtue. It's fortune cookie cutter, mommy issue, hypno-Babylon bullshit. Couched in scientician, double bubble, toil and trouble, pseudo-quasi-alternative, acupunctuating, pressurized, stereogram, pyramidal, free energy, healing, water downward spiral, brain dead pan, sales pitch, late night info-docutainment.

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