It Could Happen Here - Agenda 47: Trump's Plan for Education

Episode Date: April 8, 2024

This week we explain Trump’s 2025 policy proposals. Garrison and James start by discussing Trump’s promise to empower parents and fight the communists ruining American schools.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We're going to tell you what they are. I'm Garrison Davis and joined with me is Dr. James Stout. Hello, Doctor. Hi, Garrison. Thank you for having me. Put some respect on my name. Appreciate it. So today we're going to be talking about something called Agenda 47. And actually, we're going to be talking about this this whole week. We've gotten a lot of requests to talk about the Heritage Foundations Project 2025,

which is a kind of a roadmap for how a Republican president could change the country if they get elected next year. And although this proposal is scary and quite big, it's a massive, massive book. Yeah. Trump certainly listens to these types of guys but he doesn't always like really like them he does what the fuck he wants like ain't no one controlling trump he kind of does whatever he wants right and i mean there certainly are uh other people like in congress including the speaker who are definitely pushing this project 2025 and i think we'll probably talk about this on the show at some other point but trump actually

has his own plans for if he's gonna be elected president again and we're gonna be talking about that and that is called agenda 47 which i believe is a subtle reference to the 47th president which will be the him if he gets elected yeah also the 45th president so yeah sell more merch that way so the next the next the next few episodes we're gonna be diving into trump's plans or if he becomes the 47th president of the united states called agenda 47 he has all these listed on his website and one of my favorite parts is that to accompany each one of these like policy proposals, he has a video of him like reading out something on a like a teleprompter. And he very often will go off script just completely and just start talking, which they include the entire transcript for underneath each video, which is just fascinating to read.

Totally divorced of like how he talks. It's just amazing. Also, all of the videos are embedded on his website via Rumble, which is just amazing. Amazing stuff happening. It's perfect. So that's kind of the overview of what we're going to be doing this next week and why. And the reason why I have James here, James, you work in education, right? I do. I do some educating, yeah.

So you have opinions on education, I would assume. Yeah, strong ones. As a doctor. Yes, I do. Yeah, a doctor of modern European history, just to be clear before anyone sends me pictures of their illnesses. Please don't so i'm going to be talking about trump's plan for education and by the end we can see if it gets the james stout approval as someone who works in education yeah yeah i'm i'm you know i'm open-minded let's see what he's got so trump now the problem with us doing these episodes is that all of these are like videos

right for his policy proposals and i i don't want to subject you the listener to just videos of trump talking i don't you don't need to hear that but there's a part of me just deep down a shameful part of me that when i'm reading these quotes i really want to like slip in to like a to like a bad transgender Trump impression which I've tried to suppress I've tried to suppress this urge but every once in a while it just it just sneaks out so as I'm going through these quotes I cannot promise that that certain things might start happening and it's just it's just a part of the deal you've been possessed by the spirit of donald trump oh god so on this note trump opens his education proposal with this line quote our public schools have been taken over

by the radical left maniacs which really sets the tone for the rest of what we're gonna be talking about today i do want to highlight that i've been trying for more than a decade but obviously some other people have been more successful than me in that regard so over these next like 25 minutes i'm going to try to explain what he calls his quote plan to save american education and give power back to american parents and the American parents line is going to be a reoccurring trend here. So in kind of a broad overview, Trump believes that regular public schools, as well as colleges and universities, are just so far gone to not only require like massive, massive regressive changes, but also, frankly, whole new alternatives are needed. Which leads us to our our first policy proposal so trump says that americans are horrified that quote once respected universities express support for the savages and jihadists who attacked israel unquote so that's obviously not great there it is savages very very quick just immediate immediately

getting this sort of stuff despite spending more money on higher education than any other country schools are quote turning our students into communists and terrorists and sympathizers of many many different dimensions unquote what does that even mean what does it i said they're sympathizing with the alternate dimensions you know the mirror universe version they're gaining too much sympathy as well as turning into communists

and terrorists to be fair he is right that like one of the areas where you will find like the few no actually twitter is the other area unreconstructed marxist leninists is in the academy that it's there and on x.com formerly known as twitter so to combat this communist and savage and jihadist incursion into universities trump is proposing something

quote-unquote dramatically different his plan is to seize quote billions and billions unquote of dollars through taxes fines and lawsuits against quote excessively large private university endowments unquote and use that money to quote endow a new institution called the american academy unquote that's already a thing the american academy is already but is he spelling it with an E or it's Y? No, it's with a Y. Okay, so it's a place, not like the institution. So, the American Academy

will seek to, quote, make a truly world-class education available to every American, free of charge, without adding a single dime to the federal debt. And then, to do this, quote, the institution will gather an entire universe of the highest quality educational content unquote and i love the phrase educational content yeah yeah this is uh this sounds a lot like the the short preg of you videos

yeah what are you like you're starting to you're starting to suspect certain things right like yeah what what do you think the american academy is going to be here based on the limited information you have yeah it doesn't seem like a credible university does it it it seems a lot like if if you're a world-class education maybe it's what barry weiss is doing in in texas you know maybe she's going to be helming the American Academy. It sounds like Jordan Peterson's Griffith University is what it sounds like. It's a world-class education after you gather an entire universe of the highest quality educational content. So this content, Trump claims, will, quote, cover the full spectrum of human knowledge and skills and make that material available to every american citizen online

for free unquote that's that's a library what he's describing as a library we we already have those not quite the content quite it's it's not just a library because quote the academy will utilize the latest breakthrough in computing, unquote, as well as study groups, mentors, and industry partners to provide a truly, quote, top-tier education option for the people. For this next part, I have to do it in the Trump voice because otherwise the grammar won't make any sense. Whether you want lectures or an ancient history

or an introduction to financial accounting or a training in a skilled trade the goal will be to deliver it and get it done properly i i love i love the phrase whether you want lectures or an ancient history yeah yeah like you can give yourself a history like you could yeah go back to samaria and insert yourself whether you want lectures or an ancient history or an introduction to financial accounting or training in a skilled trade so you will be able to learn all of this online for free getting a truly top tier education which sounds like okay but trump specified that your American Academy education will be, quote unquote, strictly non-political, unquote.

Good. I'm really excited to learn an ancient history from a strictly non-political standpoint. That's great. We can't discuss the formation of the state because there will be a political stance. Furthermore, Donald Trump promised that at American Academy, quote, there will be no wokeness or jihadism allowed. None of that's going to be allowed. How will I teach without jihadism? My personal jihad is to educate the youth of America,

but now I can't partake in it. Sorry, not allowed. Not allowed, according to Trump. Very sad. Very sad. So this plan also seeks to help the 40 million Americans who have some college education,

but no complete degree by granting credit for past coursework at quote unquote legacy institutions and giving Americans quote, the chance to complete your education at the American Academy for free and much more quickly than is now possible or available, unquote. So now if there weren't red flags going off already, there certainly should be now with that last line, more quickly than is now possible or available, which is a classic tell of an online university scam.

a classic tell of an online university scam now the exact details of how the american academy is supposed to work are kind of unclear probably because it hasn't been figured out yet because it's bullshit and quite possibly never will get figured out yes yeah many such cases in agenda 47 as it turns out but trump university founder donald trump did say that his american academy proposal does plan to quote compete directly with existing and very costly four-year university systems by granting students degree credentials that the u.s government and all federal contractors will henceforth recognize yeah they'll recognize him as fucking useless not degrees degree credentials yeah degree credentials gotta put my degree credential up on my wall this is just another trump university an uncredited scam that trump is hoping to prop up with the federal government this time instead of his

business empire it's it's not it's it's not his entire thing isn't it like yeah that is the whole thing with donald it's not real it's not real he he's he's framing this plan as a quote-unquote revolution in higher education that will provide life-changing opportunities by awarding american citizens with quote the full and complete equivalent of a bachelor's degree i love it when he just fucking sends it on there's gonna be one in my in my episode which you'll hear later this week when he just cannot say the word film and i love that he doesn't fucking try he just he just owns it the full and complete equivalent that's not neither that's neither full nor complete if it's an

equivalent anyway um trump trump ends this video with an eloquent quote enjoy it learn from it and thank you which is just i'm gonna finish all my lectures that way that's and then i'll do like a smoke puff and just disappear so yeah this is this is the first plan to save american education that sounds great i cannot wait to get a a fully complete equivalent of a bachelor's degree credential very very cool yeah wonderful stuff but do you know what isn't a scam james can we say that like we might be oh absolutely you sure i trust my life on every single product and or service that follows this musical sting Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series,

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All right. So while this Trump University 2 will remain uncredited, Donald Trump, creator of the Donald Trump board game that did not sell very well in 1980. The what? Yeah, didn't you? Yeah, creator of the Donald Trump board game. No.

Wow, okay. Is it like Monopoly, but you just lie and generate... I didn't look too far of the donald trump board game no no wow okay is it like monopoly but uh you just like lie and generate i didn't i didn't look too far into it for the bit i'm gonna be honest here it's just disappointed i was ready to go on a deep dive but uh donald trump uh also plans to attack the current accreditation system for being run by a communist scourge which leads us to our second agenda 47 topic titled quote protecting students from the radical left and marxist maniacs infecting educational institutions which i believe he's talking about you james yeah which is ironic

because i'm an anarchist and i'm not a marxist you're not a marxist maniac no no no sadly not many such cases but i do make them read the Communist Manifesto in my 101 class. It's okay. It's okay. You got to read it. You got to. It's something you should emerge from history education having read. So Trump starts by talking about how, quote unquote, academics are, quote,

obsessed with indoctrinating America's youth at colleges and universities while charging a ballooning tuition fee. Trump claims to have a, quote, unquote, secret weapon that he will use to, quote, reclaim our once great educational institutions from the radical left, the college accreditation system. It's called accreditation for a reason. It's called accreditation for a reason it's called accreditation for a reason he never extrapolates on that sentence no yeah yeah i genuinely don't i i can't fathom what i think he means it could

go in so many directions there's no way to know yeah there's no way to know just leaves a hanging so trump explains that quote accreditors are supposed to ensure that schools are not ripping off students and taxpayers but they have failed totally unquote which is not really what college accreditors do both government-run and private accreditation organizations exist to develop criteria and conduct evaluations to ensure educational quality and authorize if a school qualifies for student aid programs from the Department of Education. That's generally what accreditation institutions do. They don't look out for if students are being ripped off. That's not really their role, but whatever.

So upon returning to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C., Donald Trump promised that he will, quote, fire the radical left accreditors that have allowed our colleges to become dominated by marxist maniacs and lunatics so he believes that there's like communists that are running the accreditation system and that's what's currently ruining colleges that is that is his belief yeah they come in they sit at the back and this is the right little book happens to be read uh and they just and then we have a criticism circle afterwards where they uh they check how many marks references you've made in your lecture so after sending all these communists to the

gulag trump will then begin to quote accept applications for new accreditors now it's unclear if he's talking about just like the public or private sector here, but these newer creditors will, quote, impose real standards in colleges once again and once and for all. Now, what such standards, you ask? Thank you, James. You're welcome, Garrison. Trump gave us a handy little list, which includes, like, some of the more average, conservative-to-libertarian-esque positions like protecting free speech, eliminating wasteful administrative positions that drive free speech, eliminating wasteful administrative positions that drive up costs, offering options for accelerated and low-cost degrees, providing

meaningful job placement and career services, and implementing college entrance and exit exams to prove that students are actually learning or getting their money's worth, right? Which all that sounds like kind of standard politician talk, right? It's like, okay, sure. But Trump did mention a few other standards that will be imposed once again by this new generation of accreditors which will also include quote defending the american tradition and western civilization and removing all marxist diversity equity and inclusion bureaucrats unquote so dei dei the right's new favorite boogeyman that's responsible for everything from rising university costs to botched surgeries aviation incidents and boats

malfunctioning and cladding with bridges it is it is the the villain of the of the conservative right at the moment and so because this has been a trending topic among conservatives trump's trying to jump on this dei train which sounds incredibly dangerous from their perspective. Because this term, he probably never even heard of before like a year ago. Like, come on. No, I don't think he implemented DEI in his business institutions. I think this is...

Yeah, it's a word they say when they can't say slurs. They think they've found a funny workaround to saying slurs i mean that's this thing was like every every time someone says like like critical race theory woke or dei they're really just trying to say a slur and if and if you replace if you replace those three terms with just a slur their sentences make a lot more sense because the way they use the word woke does not mean anything in a lot of cases but if you just replace it for a racial slur you're like oh now i can understand what they're saying it's it's it's a handy trick that really is not fun to think about yeah or subtle as a part of this dei frenzy trump has promised to quote direct the department of

education to pursue federal civil rights cases against schools that continue to engage in racial discrimination unquote which also kind of calls upon like older like affirmative action complaints that conservatives have been talking about for years now that's what I wondered if he was going after yeah it kind of it ties into that as well and and Trump added that this race-based discrimination quote includes discrimination against asian americans unquote which is definitely invoking that style of affirmative action conservative rhetoric from like yeah 10 five years ago yeah even more recent when was that supreme court case oh yeah that was that was that was just like last

year becky with the bad grades yeah yeah yeah yeah. So beyond just threatening to sick the DOJ on woke schools, Trump also made the more specific promise that if schools, quote, persist in explicit unlawful discrimination under the guise of equity, unquote, he will not only make sure that their endowments be taxed, but also, quote, through budget reconciliation,

I will advance to measure to have them fined up to the entire amount of their endowment unquote does he realize that no other schools have endowments like i teach at the community college we ain't got an endowment no he's he's i i'm sure that he's gonna go after like the harvard endowment yeah that's gonna track yeah have have fun fining 50 billion dollars from harvard that's totally going to happen but his plan after he seizes these endowments quote a portion of the seized funds will then be used as restitution for victims of these illegal and unjust policies policies that hurt our country so badly colleges have gotten hundreds of billions of dollars from hardworking taxpayers,

and now we're going to get this anti-American insanity out of our institutions once and for all. So, that's cool. Okay, sure. You're going to use this to pay back white people who've been denied college admission. Okay, cool. That sounds like a winning electoral strategy.

Yeah, finally the reparations people have been demanding for decades. Exactly. You know who's had it too hard for too long, James? It's white people who didn't make it through college, guys. It's because they didn't go to Yale, now they have to go to Princeton.

Yeah, terrible. Right. Why would you even bother? So, but it's not just colleges. Trump also threatened to, quote, cut federal funding for any school or program publishing critical race theory, gender ideology, or other inappropriate racial, sexual,

or political content onto our children. We're not going to allow it to happen folks very cool great yeah i used to teach a gender sociology course so i look forward to defund defund yeah yeah no we're going down fight together we're gonna that shit they will have to fight their way in don't say that on air you can't say that you're gonna turn your community college into a you can't say that. So yeah, he's going to go after regular schools, both colleges, universities, regular schools,

if there's doing any CRT, gender ideology. You can tell that some of this was written like a year and a half ago because no one's talking about critical race theory anymore. Yeah, he missed it. But can you imagine teaching a sociology course and just being like, yeah, we're going to skip past race and gender. Politics? We're going to skip past politics. Yeah.

This is a man who himself went to like, did he go to Harvard or Yale? No, he did not go to either. He was sent to a military school by his father when he was 13 for being annoying. Then he, I think he went to a school in Pennsylvania. And then what other school did he go to critical respect to his dad he yeah he went to the new york military academy then he went to fordham university and then the university of pennsylvania's wharton school oh yeah wharton business school yeah not a real graduate degree so the reason why this is all so evil is because trump thinks that a lot of this stuff is

basically forming a new religion all this woke stuff quote the marxism being preached in our schools is totally hostile to judeo-christian teachings and in many ways it resembles establishing a new religion can't let that happen i can't let that happen yeah one thing we take a big swing at is judeo-christian institutions to combat this growing threat of religious marxism his administration i'm sorry i can't i cannot look oh his administration will quote aggressively pursue potential violations of the establishment clause and the free exercise clause of the constitution that's very simple i think you quite understand the full remit of that there luckily we do russian orthodox marxism at my university so we should be

safe oh god yeah well a lot of beards so and then in kind of like a laundry list of policies and talking points, Trump pledged to quote, veto the sinister effort to weaponize civics education. Oh! We will keep men out of women's sports and we'll create a new credentialing body that'll be the gold standard anywhere in the world. To certified

teachers who embrace patriotic values to support our way of life and understand that their job is not to indoctrinate children but very simply to educate them no one's ever done no one has ever created a credentialing body for patriotic teachers who embrace quote our way of life before it's never been done not in the 1930s efforts to weaponize civics yeah just imagine him looking for looking for the civics bill yeah very funny probably distract him for a while stop him doing some actual terrible shit a little bit with that last part with like indoctrinating children and and this next little bit will kind of demonstrate how stuff like q anon didn't simply go away like some have postulated instead it's just been

absorbed into the fabric of american politics no longer does the boogeyman have to be a dnc pedophilic elite now it's been deterritorialized and destroyed mutated into just being any school teacher and or like every trans person right or god forbid a transgender school teacher that's gonna say which is like the the prime evil of the current conservative society and trump promises on day one of his new presidency he will he will quote begin to find and remove the radicals zealots and marxists who've infiltrated the department of education and that also includes others and you know who you are because we are not going to allow anyone to hurt our children.

You know who you are. You know who you are. So this is the weaponization of nearly eight years of QAnon rhetoric, right? That is, that has grown past the need to actually invoke QAnon. Plus the two years of the Republican Party, the Daily Wire and Libs of TikTok, working to shift QAnon's kind of disgraced and unfocused momentum towards a manufactured continuation in the form of this transgender groomer craze that's taking over American schools.

Quote, Joe Biden has given these lunatics unchecked power. I will have them fired and escorted from the building and I will tell Congress that any appropriations bill I sign must reaffirm the president's ability to remove defiant employees from the job it's all about our children unquote i'm just imagining an executive order to remove someone from their lecture hall i am going to be signing an executive order on this podcast to go to another ad break. That's what my podcast Post Run High is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. You know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout? Well, that's when the real magic happens. So if you love hearing real, inspiring stories from the people you know, follow, and admire, join me every week for Post Run High.

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Check out betteroffline.com. On Thanksgiving Day, 1999, a five-year-old boy floated alone in the ocean. He had lost his mother trying to reach Florida from Cuba. He looked like a little angel. I mean, he looked so fresh. And his name, Elian Gonzalez, will make headlines everywhere. Elian Gonzalez. Elian. Elian. Elian. Elian. Elian. Elian Gonzalez will make headlines everywhere. Elian Gonzalez. Elian. Elian.

Elian. Elian. Elian. Elian Gonzalez. At the heart of the story is a young boy and the question of who he belongs with. His father in Cuba. Mr. Gonzalez wanted to go home and he wanted to take his son with him. Or his relatives in Miami. Imagine that your mother died trying to get you to freedom. At the heart of it

all is still this painful family separation. Something that as a Cuban, I know all too well. Listen to Chess Peace, the Elian Gonzalez story, as part of the My Cultura podcast network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We are back. And thank you, James, for reaffirming my ability to remove defiant ads. Yeah. Well, while you were all away, several federal agents came in and inserted an ad break. In this last section here, we're going to return to Trump's conception that entire alternatives are needed to America's broken woke school system. Now focusing on the grade school side rather than just the post-secondary.

So in this vein, Trump is courting the growing number of homeschooling families. Though according to a Washington Post poll from last year, Republican homeschooling families though according to a washington post poll from last year republican homeschoolers outnumber democrat ones two to one so he kind of he kind of already has the majority of that vote but still it's something he is going after according to trump ever since quote the china virus america has seen an estimated 30 increase in homeschool enrollment unquote just a just a funny term is homeschool yeah yeah just going to the home school to enroll i'm gonna be enrolling at home school very funny and if elected president for a second time he will do everything to support quote parents who make the courageous choice of home school

unquote again he the way he uses home the word homeschool is unlike anyone else I've ever heard talk. It is a very odd use of the English language. Yeah, he doesn't seem to understand parts of speech. Like, he just does what he wants. No. And Trump said he'll work to ensure that homeschoolers will be entitled to all the benefits available to non-homeschool students, like being able to participate in athletic programs, clubs, after-school activities, educational trips, and more. like being able to participate in athletic programs, clubs, after-school activities, educational trips, and more.

He pledged that in his next term, he will allow 529 education savings accounts to be used for, quote, costs associated with homeschool education. Current 529 savings accounts allow families to withdraw up to $10,000 a year to spend tax-free on tuition for private schools, which Trump called a, quote, tremendous win for school choice, very important school choice. Remember that term, unquote. That term never comes up again in this video. Oh, great. So Trump is planning to expand this tuition savings program to include homeschooling families as well with a very unknown system of checks and

balances to determine what exactly qualifies as costs related to homeschooling and often homeschooling is used by abusive parents to just have kids do free labor around the house and they try to make it count as like education and like if you're now allowing parents to put money into a savings account to remove 10 000 a year tax-free to spend on education like what does what does that mean does that mean just curriculum does that mean like household supplies because that's being put towards their home school because they're schooling at home like very very unclear and it's kind of refers back to some of the general problems homeschooling especially in like conservative homeschooling where just is a large way to abuse children not like the groomer way that right-wing people talk about it's like no you're just literally like limiting your kids access to

the outside world because you think if they go outside they're gonna turn gay so but even if oh sorry there's there's one one final quote from this homeschooling video which are just fucking phenomenal to every homeschool family I will be your champion do not vote democrat they're looking to destroy you if you don't mind me saying that Joe Biden can't put two sentences together

and yet he's looking to destroy you do not vote democrat do not vote for crooked Joe vote for honest Donald Joe. Vote for Honest Donald. Thank you very much. It's funny because in the video, when he says vote for Honest Donald, he also starts to crack up because he knows how ridiculous this is. Do not vote for Crooked Joe vote for honest donald thank you very

much very very cool they're looking to destroy you if you don't mind me saying yeah if you don't mind me a man who rarely asks permission to say the most insane shit so even if parents are not choosing to homeschool trump wants to let voters know that he will fight for parents' rights, which isn't quite a dog whistle, but it does refer to a very specific style of patriarchal rhetoric popularized by hyper-religious conservative think tanks that propose an extremely narrow version of how the American family should operate within society. More on this later. But so what can Trump do to let right-wing religious parents know that he will be their champion, even in like blue states or big cities? As much as Trump might want to be a dictator, he doesn't have unlimited power to impose his war on wokeness in liberal cities. But Donald Trump, who was impeached for trying to blackmail the president of Ukraine in summer

of 2019, does have a plan. He wants to, quote, implement massive funding preferences and favorable treatment, unquote, for states and school districts that make four specific, quote, historic reforms in education that Trump has decreed. These four specific reforms include abolishing tenure for K through 12 teachers so that we can, quote, remove bad teachers and adopt merit pay to reward good teachers. The second is to, quote, drastically cut the bloated number of school administrators, including the costly and divisive and unnecessary DEI bureaucracy. Third, to adopt a parental bill of rights that includes complete curriculum transparency in the form of universal school choice. And lastly, quote, implement the direct election of school principals by the parents.

Trump calls this last bit the ultimate form of local control, something our country has never had or at least has not had for the last 50 years. So those are his four reform plans, which is like, yeah, you know who's had it too easy for too long teachers let's abolish tenure adopt merit pay a disaster of a system cut administrative roles put more work on teachers have parents be able to fire uh fire principals by voting and a vote to elect their own principal and universal school choice school choice is actually more of a dog whistle than it just refers to a series of very racist urban planning policies to direct rich white people's funding into a very few selected number of schools instead of where they actually live and instead of the actual district they live in.

So there's all of that. And what Trump keeps coming back to among all these quote-unquote reforms, it all kind of relates to complete parental dominance. And part of this was the Parental Bill of Rights, which you've probably seen some conservatives talking about more these past few years. And this is another quote from Trump here. It's all about the parents for their children. More than anyone else, parents know what their children need. And if you haven't heard of a parental bill of rights directly, you most certainly have heard of one by another name, the Don't Say Gay Bill. That was a parental rights bill, ostensibly targeting education.

But these bills often end up giving parents just complete control over every aspect of the child's life. They dictate how children are allowed to express themselves and allow parents to impose nearly any discipline or punishment they desire. The total control over what the child eats, what they wear, what they read, what they watch, what they see online, and what they're allowed to learn in school, who they're allowed to socialize with. Some of these bills that I read through for this also bar mandatory masking policies in schools, back when that was a thing, and then are often full of anti-vax talking points and attempts to ban sex ed and quote-unquote gender politics. As a part of these bills, teachers and school administration are legally

required to act as parental surveillance tools to report how a child behaves, how they socialize, how they dress, how they like to be referred to, and who they are friends with. This includes outing children as gay or trans to parents if anyone in the school suspects that the student has a non-heterosexual sexual orientation or is acting in any way inconsistent with their assigned gender at birth. These types of bills often have other consequences as well. In states where some of these bills have passed, like North Carolina, due to legal risks, some elementary schools have been unable to talk about or give out educational materials on consent or how to identify when child sexual abuse is taking place as a part of the safe touch programs. These programs are

basically unable to happen because teachers will now be held personally legally liable if any parent objects to this material. So parental rights bills have been signed into law in six states over the past two legislative years, famously Florida, as well as Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Iowa, and North Carolina. Since then, similar bills have been introduced in more than 25 states, many of which have passed through at least one chamber. Some of them are still in the process

of either passing through a second chamber or being signed by the governor. I'm gonna end with two quotes here from Trump that kind of reiterate this this this parental dominance thing that he's really pushing for and also people like ron desantis have been pushing for ted cruz a lot of a lot of a lot of right-wing politicians quote as the saying goes personnel is policy and at the end of the day if we have pink-haired communists teaching our kids we have a major problem when i'm president we will put parents

back in charge and give them the final say we will get back to teaching reading writing and math called arithmetic and we will give our kids the high quality pro-american education they deserve they're gonna teach you math called arithmetic magnificent it's amazing we may spend the most but we're going to be tops in education no matter no matter where you go anywhere in the world we're gonna be tops in education there will be no bottoms in the american education system going forward. So this is Donald Trump, the second host of the TV show The Apprentice, who is run for public office. This is his plan for education. Dr. James Stout, how do you feel about these education reform proposals?

Yeah, it doesn't seem like a great idea, if I'm being honest. Having listened to it, I think perhaps he hasn't got the sharpest grasp on what's going on in the education system. The reason we have education is because your parents don't necessarily know what's best for you, right? Your parents can't be an expert in everything. Yes. So some of us go and get PhDs, so we can.

And then we teach your people the important things about that. By definition, your parents cannot fulfill all the roles that an education system fulfills. Unlike pink-haired communists who have complete total control over every aspect of what a child should learn. It's one of the things when you enter the university, they do a tuberculosis test and then they pass you a pink hair dye and i mean you get a nose piercing as well a lot of this is very much reminiscent of like the the fears of like communist

education that you see in like the 1930s how there's a lot of political a lot of political tension trying to be raised over the fear that there's communists teaching you in universities and schools yeah it's interesting because at the same time like frankfurt school style stuff yeah yeah i've written a lot about like uh anarchist ideals educational ideals right so they're at the same time they were anarchists in spain being like you know what we should do? We should do all our classes in the forest. Let's just go out into the forest. Absolutely. There was a school by the sea where they taught kids.

They were just having this incredible utopian education dream, which in many ways we still haven't adapted to some of the things that that really could offer. And instead, yeah, we're having this McCarthyism part two. Well, that is Trump's plan for education in case in case you didn't know so watch out for those pink haired communists keep an eye out for any parental bill of rights being proposed in your state and it is probably has a little little to do with actually protecting uh children and more to do with making parents just a complete dominating force and controlling every aspect of their child's life. And I mean, the other sinister thing about this is like it removes access to for for kids to talk about things that that they may be upset about.

And access to mandated reporters like I'm a mandated reporter. Like this seems to get away from that exactly and and i mean the idea that that that schools are going to be legally required to out a child if he's if they're acting like perceived to be deviant in some like gender sexual way like all of these things are just ways to enable parental abuse in a variety of ways that are explicit and non-explicit. And it's quite upsetting. And that's the thing that conservatives are currently trying to push for. This is a big topic.

This stuff was talked about in the Republican primaries that were completely useless. Constantly, stuff like this is referred to while invoking this fear of this pink-haired transgender communist teacher, which is currently the biggest threat to america according to most conservatives yeah they can take us down from the inside that and jihadism which are probably linked somehow yeah yeah i think well that's the pink-haired jihadist the famous well that is it for us today uh what are we going to be learning about next for agenda 47 james well we're going to be learning next about uh immigration donald trump's border policies many of you will be shocked to hear that they're not very good uh and well we're gonna i have two

classes this summer if you're if you're in san diego and you want to get in before they take the marxism out of the education system uh you can but strike now i do love how i do love how much of this is like you know who's had it easy for too long transgender teachers they they they're having yeah yeah yeah the people who are so fucking broke they have to have like go fund me's up for the gender reassignment surgery like great wonderful stuff yeah all right we will be back tomorrow to talk about trump's border policies things that will for the gender reassignment surgery. Great stuff. Wonderful stuff. Yeah. All right. We will be back tomorrow to talk about Trump's border policies,

things that will probably be totally normal, totally chill. Yeah, it's very, very similar to both. Sadly, they are similar to Biden's, but that's a whole other dystopia. That's a whole other discussion.

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