The Daily Signal - Fairfax School Board Meeting Turns Heated as GOP Candidates Weigh In on Title IX Lawsuit

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Starting point is 00:01:06 moment to rate and review us wherever you get your podcast. You can find additional content at DailySignal.com. Now, let's get started with today's conversation right after this. The man running for lieutenant governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia was in the belly of the beast, another one of these school districts that is suing the Trump administration because they are violating Title IX and they want to be allowed to. He is John Reed for Virginia. and thank you, sir. How are you doing this morning? You survived.

Starting point is 00:01:38 It seems like all your digits are still there. You made it out? Yeah, you know, the crowd was not as hostile as one might have anticipated based on some of the rhetoric that's out there. But I will tell you, there's a core group of people and they've all been indoctrinated and brainwashed through the educational system, the colleges and universities that have convinced them that somehow a boy can mentally just, declare himself to be a girl, and that should be good enough that we should base public policy on that delusion. And I'm just not going to stand for it. I think it's ridiculous. I think it's delusional and absurd. I think it's causing great harm to the individual students who are allowed to think that they can change their sex through their mind. And I think it's doing a lot of damage to the school system.

Starting point is 00:02:31 It's very distracting to the other students, and it's harmful to the culture. So I don't know what benefit we're getting from any of this stupidity, but somebody's got to be bold enough to stand up and say, no, I'm going to do that. Well, and talk about this is, to me, and this is my analysis of this, this is a societal conflation of indulgence versus compassion. And they're not the same, but we try to make it that way that if somebody has pain and suffering, and I'm not denying that a kid who's going through body dysphoria or any sort of self-hatred does not have pain. That would be crazy to deny that. But to just accept it and indulge it is not helping it. That's not truly compassionate, John.

Starting point is 00:03:27 Do you agree? I completely agree. I don't know anybody who has had an easy adolescence. Most people have some sort of bump in the road along the way to becoming who they are as an adult. And I don't think we're doing anybody any favors by denying reality in order to placate people's feelings. I think that's a big mistake. And in the school system, we are disrupting the lives of the vast majority. of students and taking our eye off of the end goal, which is to educate them so they can

Starting point is 00:04:06 actually read, write, be critical thinkers. I mean, perhaps that's part of the problem that we've got today is we don't have critical thinkers. We have emotional thinkers. And so they see a child who cries and instead of saying, why are you crying? Oh, well, that's baloney. We're not going to indulge that. They start indulging it. Yeah. And that's the thing. I mean, you know, somebody who's having trouble in school. I was bullied in school. I turned out, well, mostly okay. But we all have had, as you said, you have bumps in adolescence, and you do. And that's where I think we're failing the children, but we're also, you know, the schools, you mentioned how they're wasting. And I'll hear from come tax time. The schools will tell us, oh, we don't have enough resources

Starting point is 00:04:55 and we need more tax money and we need a bigger budget line because we don't have enough resources. Meanwhile, they're expelling all of this resource into something that has nothing to do with, well, maybe it has something to do with biology. It certainly isn't paying attention to biology, but any of the other disciplines they're supposed to be teaching in school are not depicted in this story. Yeah, I think that's a very real point in some school systems, like in Richmond. They barely have enough money to put toilet paper in the, the boys' bathroom. And instead of focusing on what you need to focus on right in front of you, they wind up constantly distracted. This is a Democrat mindset, is to always miss the actual

Starting point is 00:05:45 duty in front of you, always miss the point. You know, they side with the criminals instead of the working class, you know, innocent families. They, in the case of Richmond again, they got distracted by tearing down Confederate statues instead of spending the money to repair the pipes and the pumps at the water system plant. So guess what? We wind up without water in the capital city of Virginia for two weeks and then have it collapse again. I mean, they always miss the point. And the citizens suffer. And I think it's time to have responsible leadership from dog catcher up to the governor of office, you know, the governor's office, people who will pay attention to what the obvious first thing is and deal with the first thing. And everybody is so distracted by this.

Starting point is 00:06:37 You know, and they know it. They know there's a problem because they're trying to keep this secret from parents. This is the other issue is they constantly do these things and they make little packs with the students and try to keep it secret from the parents, as if the parents are the No, these children belong to the parents, not to the principals, not to the teachers. And even people who would never vote Republican agree with what I just said. They want to be in charge of their own kids. They don't have to placate me, John Reed, Republican lieutenant governor candidate. They get to make their own decisions about how they raise their children. Chris and Keswick just texted me. Now, here is someone who articulates the issues at play. Bravo. And I won't out who he is, but that's a pretty seminal endorsement considering what he's been through in his life. And I can tell you that later on. John Reed on with us for a lieutenant governor. But John, you know, one of the things you mentioned is, you know, getting common sense back into the decision-making process.

Starting point is 00:07:43 When you have a U.S. senator telling us that our rights come from the government and to think anything else is radical. Islamic like they do in Iran. I don't know if we can have a logical. I know you, I think you been trying to get a debate with your opponent, Ghazala Hashmi, but I don't know how you debate this anymore. I tried in the Daily Signal to point out where Tim Kaine might have come up with this idea that rights come from the government. But I wouldn't know how to debate the point. It was really shocking that a former governor of Virginia, a former lieutenant governor, the guy was the mayor of Richmond, Virginia. He's married to the daughter of a former governor. I mean, this is, this isn't one of the typical Yahoo, nobody's who, you know, just kind of stumbled into elected

Starting point is 00:08:33 office that Tim Kane, a sitting senator for so long, would say something like that in public. I mean, I watched the tape and I thought maybe, maybe they caught him off guard and he was actually talking about something else. And this is one of those cases where the press is blowing it out of proportion. But no, it was, you know, sometimes people say things that really reveal their true mindset. And it was historically very foolish to say what he said. And I think it revealed a real corruption in his understanding of his role in the federal government. You know, he's constantly lecturing everybody else about how, oh, you know, you can't go to war without the Congress authorizing this, the Senate getting involved, and yet he screws up and makes a stupid statement

Starting point is 00:09:23 like this. And as, you know, I'm not even going to get the opportunity, it seems, to debate Ghazawa Hashmi, a sitting state senator. Just yesterday, at about five o'clock, I got a message from the public radio, NPR in Washington, where we had been going back and forth with their program director about doing a forum on the air live on the day that early voting starts. And you know what Gazala's team said? And I assume this comes from her. No, they don't want to, they don't want to do it. They won't do an event with me in the same room. Well, I'm sorry. I am going to make that an issue. You cannot run for statewide office without doing a debate with your main opponent. And it shows she's scared that she's incompetent. She's not prepared to defend all of the bad things.

Starting point is 00:10:12 that she has voted for and promoted as a senator, and I'm going to hold her accountable for that. Well, and it seems to me it indicates that she doesn't want to govern all of Virginians, just the ones that are going to vote for her. They want a radical Islamist like Gazala Hashmi to be our lieutenant governor. They are sending a signal across the United States by giving this lady the nomination, by promoting her, by preparing her to be lieutenant governor, and then guess what, Virginia, you decide what you want. You're going to have Gazala Hashmi in Q to be your governor in four years if she becomes

Starting point is 00:10:49 lieutenant governor. And that will send shockwaves across the entire United States. So you decide, is that what you want? Or do you want someone like me who's reasonable, who's responsible, who's fair-minded to everybody in the state, who's a native Virginian, who's rooted in strong economic principles based on my business background, who's been a conservative. and an outspoken conservative on my entire life,

Starting point is 00:11:15 worked for Ronald Reagan, work for George Allen. I mean, this is an important race, and I know it's the second tier race, so some people say, oh, it doesn't matter. Oh, it's going to matter. Trust me. As you mentioned, Tim Kane was mayor of Richmond,

Starting point is 00:11:32 and believe it or not, one of the very first investments in American politics by this fellow named George Soros, who found a city, counselor Tim Cain to be his liking. So when he ran for mayor, some of the very first political contributions

Starting point is 00:11:47 George Soros ever made, as a matter of fact, if you go to Alex Soros's Twitter feed, there's a picture of Tim Cain and Alex Soros back slapping one another, and Alex's caption is, I love this guy. Oh, wow, okay.

Starting point is 00:12:06 That says a lot, doesn't it? I wish it had said a lot last year. Somebody asked me, yesterday, would Glenn Junkin run against him? I said, it's going to be 2030 before his seat comes up for re-election. And he said, what? I said, yeah, you didn't notice there was an election last year? Yeah, six-year terms for U.S. senators. So once you get them in there, they hang around. And, you know, it's very telling that these Virginia Democrats pretend to be moderate when they're running. Like Abigail Spanberger is pretending to be a moderate. She does this whole,

Starting point is 00:12:40 I'm a mom of three kids and I've been a law enforcement officer when in fact when you look at the voting record, it's a pretty extreme leftist voting record that's dictated by the radicals in the Democrat Party. You know, at least my opponent, she won't do a debate, but I think she's being told shut up and sit down by her own people because she is such a radical and she's so proud of being a radical. And this is the woman who went marched with the pro-Hamas Palestinian crowd. after what happened in Israel. I mean, this is not normal people were appalled by what happened in October of two years ago in Israel. And John, you... And she went and embraced the radicals. And she wants to be the lieutenant governor and then the governor.

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The Daily Signal - Fairfax School Board Meeting Turns Heated as GOP Candidates Weigh In on Title IX Lawsuit

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