Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews - 8/8/23 – Florida VS Learning

Episode Date: August 9, 2023

Tonight Trae and Mark keep tabs on the high-stakes special election in Ohio and discuss Florida's ongoing war on public education/learning stuff, among other fun topics (aliens maybe??). Join us. Support the show

Hi, everybody, welcome back. Happy Skews Day to you. It is August 8th, 2023. I'm Trey. I'm back this week. I heard Mark and Corey had a fantastic time last week, but I'm back in the saddle. Mark, there you are.

What's up? Yeah, but we got a fun show doing more updates from the free state of Florida, and it's escalating world in history and education is, Was Frederick Douglass actually opposed to slavery? The answer might be more complicated than you think. No, it isn't. But since you were gone last week, or me and Corey talked about aliens,

thought I'd do a little treat for you up top before we get to the show. It's a new alien story. This headline, Peruvian villagers report attacks by seven-foot armored aliens resembling green goblin from Spider-Man. The story made me laugh for a lot of reasons. The one's the story itself, which is pretty funny. And then there's the conspiracy theory I have, which I'll get to in a little bit, about what's actually happening here. But so this is a rural district called Alto Nene, which is northeast of Lima, in the outskirts of the Amazon.

The people in this village of 1,300 people say they're under attack from seven-foot-tall armored aliens, like just like the Green Gobbon, Spider-Man. And these extraterrestrials have large heads and yellowish eyes. And they've been launching nightly attacks in communities since the 11th of July. One of them is pretty scary. It's a 15-year-old girl was grabbed from behind and said her neck was cut. It doesn't sound like she was, like, seriously injured, but that would be bad. These are indigenous people, a tribe calls he a kid to, and they say the aliens are immune to their hunting weapons. They've been trying to kill these motherfucking aliens with bows and arrows and spears and shit.

Yeah, well, you know, use what you got, I guess. haven't you hasn't part of your thing been like that alien sightings and alien abduction stories and all that are strictly a western phenomenon or even more so like a like a anglosphere that's the word anglosphere that's the word anglosphere well here you go mark see other people getting on board all right they are they are exceedingly rare in the southern hemisphere outside of australia and uh the rest of the asia um but like so the people started. They appear incredibly convinced this.

They've established nightly patrols to defend the village and hunt the aliens. Some of the villages have likened the aliens to Palak Palakaras, which I guess something from indigenous folklore, talking about beings that live in the forest and feast on human organs. So do you want to do you want to do how this is definitely aliens thing or do you? Well, I don't want to, it's like, you know, I have. I feel like most of the rest of the stuff, you know, we've heard so far indicates that they're not like usually openly, directly hostile, you know,

so this seems to be a bit of a departure for me if they're just wantonly attacking people. Also, the green god. Also, it was kind of funny. I just the sheer, the reach of American pop culture, I guess, because this is an indigenous trap. Did they describe them as the Green Goblin? Because that's wild to me. I didn't know I had the Green Goblin and, you know, indigenous Peruvian.

tribes or whatever that's pretty crazy uh i don't know it seems like it seems like something's after them but you know it could be uh i don't know the mercenaries or something like that people with gear hit it up you know yeah yeah that's that's good that's my conspiracy theory we'll go back to that a second so like i'm fascinated by all things amazon because the amazon is like truly wild it's like very remote um sparsely populated governments can barely oversee it and it's sitting on a bunch of like valuable real estate and extremely valuable minerals. So it's like literally the wild west where you have all these extractive industries like rogue cattle ranchers and rogue mining, you know, uh, interests, doing physical battle with

indigenous people who often are armored guns to shoot at them while the government either is indifferent or mildly fighting it. So like my assumption was like, oh, these are like this is a part of Amazon that's like full road gold mining operations and I was just assuming that these are like some like you know like a scooby-do operation where people like mercenaries or you know mining company employees are dressing up like aliens sort of scare these indigenous people off the land it would also it would be kind of funny if they like not maybe funny is not throughout word but if they if that's what's happening and they are familiar with the local folklore right and that's why they're dressed up like that

is because they're like oh we're trying to make them think it's pelacaras or whatever you said the word was and uh and then that's like their whole plan and then the locals skip right too like no it's aliens it looks like green goblin you know what I mean they got like the mercenaries are back at their uh yeah like I did not see that shit coming I thought we had a ironclad plan with the pellic callus uh get ups yeah that's a more American cultural hegemony because they wanted to use our alien phobia but instead they went straight to the green goblin yeah oh god America's a wild place

but so is Peru apparently so I hope I wish these the Kitu people luck fending off this alien invasion because like if it is aliens this is the funniest fucking thing alien could do

you just spend time around a remote Amazon village be like boogity boogoooo and dissipate to where it's like well you know Mark you don't know there could be a

like there could be a crash spacecraft from a previous mission you know years and years ago that just happened to land somewhere in the Peruvian wilderness, right? And now they've had to come back to retrieve it. Like what, you know, ancient artifacts of Indiana Jones type shit. You know what I mean?

And like an old temple down there or something that you're trying to access it. You didn't think about that, did you? These are all good theories. These are all good theories. Before we continue up, this is completely random. I just hadn't occurred to me until I said the date up top, as I always do. And sorry if this is a stupid question. but is today like important to Nazis or anything like that?

White Supreme is it like Hitler Day or anything because it is eight eight eight in Nazi iconography eight so the eighth letter of the alphabet so hell Hitler yeah you see Nazis use 88 right yeah so is today like a big day for them or anything they celebrate today or anything like that I don't know I haven't seen anything about the day right usually I just saw like people were going crazy over uh Robert Kennedy RFK junior post a thing about a secret service protection where he used the number is 1488 right because 14 is the white supremacist slogan or whatever yeah 14 words yeah something about securing a future for cracker babies yeah yeah yeah secure we must secure

the future for white children it has it a 14 words we have the slogan is uh I don't know what off the top of my head and it would be suspect if I did yeah uh speaking of uh weird troglody like conservatives today is election day in Ohio. One thing on the ballot, I think, which is Proposition 1, which talked about a couple weeks ago, this is the one that would raise the standard for constitutional amendments to 60% to say constitution because there's a ballot initiative that's going to be on the ballot in November that's supposed to, like, make abortion rights in Ohio

constitution. Right. And they basically know that they pretty much know, or at least very much assume that that the abortion rights thing is going to pass by somewhere between 50 and 60% right so to get out they're trying to get out from that literally 59% they're trying to get out front of it to where you got to have at least 60% for something like that to go clearly expressly for this purpose which is like it's them just baldly admitting like we know that the majority of people in the state want this to be the way things work so we got to fucking do something about that uh or else

the will of the people might prevail which we can't have that no So a villain here is the highest, the highest secretary of state named Frank LaRose, Republican, obviously. He's been openly, been very open about this after trying to be conniving about it. This is about abortion. And his words, keeping a radical pro-abortion amendment out of the Constitution. How radical can something be that has the support of, you know, 59% of your electorate or whatever? That's like, by definition, not radical. A consensus position.

So this guy, he's elected secretary of state in 2019, I think, or 20, I forget, it doesn't matter. But he's running for Senate. He's trying to run against, what's the guy's name from Ohio? He's a good senator. I can't think he was nail on top of my head, the Democrat there, Sherrod Brown. So he's going to be running for Senate. So he's sort of violated, like, tradition in Ohio, which is by being, by being. an openly partisan secretary of state, which is kind of like a no-no because your job's to

run the elections and not take sides and stuff, but he's been very active taking the side on this. He was supposed to do a big public event today to make a big deal out of him going to vote as local polling place and do a press appearance, but he was scared off by a giant angry protest. Matt, you don't play the video of this protest he was scared of? Hey, ho, ho! Ho! Ho! Break my protest has to go! Hey, hey! Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Bring my protest has to go! Hey! It's a riot waiting to happen right there. I don't blame him for fearing for his life. But, yeah, he said it would turn into like a rally, Antifa rally.

And so he wasn't going to take any part in that. And there's eight people there. Yeah. A lot of activists have been very, we talked about how optimistic they were that this was going to carry the day pretty easily, including Matt, a producer. His organization, rural organizing has been heavily involved in this campaign, doing door knocking and yard signs and stuff and polling in a southeastern. Ohio, that Appalachian part of the state. And even in rural Ohio, this is a polling favorably, the no side, which is the, let's keep, let's keep majority rule in Ohio side.

Like, as of Wednesday, you know, last Wednesday, more than a half a million people had already voted by mail or in person, early voting's been booming. That was like nearly double the final early voting figures to Ohio's two previous midterm primary elections, included races for governor and Congress. So people are more fired up about voting for. this and they aren't an actual person, which makes sense. Uh, it looks like Dave Washerman has called it. I was going to give you what the voting

totals are right now, Matt, um, but Matt's already skipped ahead. Yeah, it's, uh, it was 21.4% in, uh, no is beating yes, 69.9 to 30.1. So yeah, it's so overwhelming. They just went ahead and fucking called it. Um, yeah, so congrats to Ohio when, um, it's one of those things that feel like you shouldn't even have to like be forced to vote on. You know what I mean? It's like,

just seems, very fundamentally, you know, democratic in nature, the idea that, you know, majority should rule or whatnot. So good on Ohio. Yeah. Like,

do you know how like, whenever like the filibuster comes up, like, you know, getting rid of the filibuster, I feel like a lot of times some of the Democrats, like, well,

we can't do that because sometimes we need it too. You know what I mean? Like when the shoe is on the other foot, right? So we can't do anything right now. But that logic doesn't apply here to Republicans in Ohio, right? Because they don't,

they know they're not going to want to have a, have another constitutional amendment anytime soon or whatever you know what i mean like if like they generally are not the party of changing shit do you know what i'm saying they want things to stay the same so like it doesn't bother them the prospect of requiring 60% to pass an amendment in the future even though it could possibly shoot them in the foot but either way i guess the point is moot because ohio did the thing so congrats ohio and to matt and all yeah it is weird to have like they thought they could have a big vote and get to get everybody to vote vote of whether or not through a vote should count and they thought they would vote against

right right uh but yeah matt said that they they it was pretty obvious to everybody the ads got more and more desperate like the met's of the recent ads are running in ohio or basically like vote yes or transgender people will groom your kids it's like what has nothing to do with any of this it doesn't it only it only bank shot us to do with abortion it's just a ballot initiative about whether or not voters can change the constitution right so uh congrats congrats to majority rule continuing in Ohio. So, last thing we get to the show, I wanted to shout out a skewer named Sterling, who wanted to let everybody know.

There's an anti-racist rally coming up. I think it's this Saturday. There's an organization called American Renaissance, a conference called the American Renaissance Conference, which is run by out-not-white nationalists. And it's going to be, they're holding their big conference in Burns, Tennessee. They hold it in a public park. And the reason I can gather why, it's Montgomery Bell State Park in Burns, Tennessee an hour outside of

Nashville. Anti-racist organizations have been pretty successful to get getting their hotel bookings and stuff canceled so I guess they're just having it at a park and they've been beefing at this park, the state over this park for a while because the state makes them pay for like to use it and they're like mad about having to pay.

Anyway, you guys want to get involved. You can go to idavox.com. If you just Google American Renaissance conference, no safe space for hate, you'll find information on if you want to hit up Sterling and get involved. So thanks for doing the Lord's Works. yeah yeah and that's uh like you said burns tennessee which is near nashville like an hour outside of nashville so middle tennessee the old uh old stomping grounds there all right well

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we're doing the second half this week it's a lot of fun so yeah sign up on there support the show get some more skews in your life now as for the show tonight the state of florida continues waging its ongoing war on the concept of learning stuff for children being taught facts and things of that nature by aligning themselves with notable antagonists to the concept of learning prager you we'll talk all about that a little later but first the daily dumb ass my act graphic please tonight's d d fanny willis for her star cross love affair with freeway rickie ross at least according to this feller they waited and i probably have another one they say there's a young woman uh a young racist in atlanta say racist and they say i guess they say that

she was after a certain gang and she ended up having an affair with the head of the gang or a gang member, and this is a person that wants to indict me. She's got a lot of problems, but she wants to indict. So he's talking about Fannie Willis, and, like, you've got to, like, I try to figure out what the hell he was talking about, accusing him of having an affair because it's not, like, even the fever swamps internet, I couldn't find a story about what the fuck he's talking about. She's the DA in Fulton County who's about to indict him for, you know, trying to overturn

the election there. And apparently before, I guess Trump flipped the order of events, or, but, you know, he's round of her life story in his head and then inserted some fan fiction because so what happened was like right now she's running a RICO case against a young thug and his associate rapper's YSL before she was DA she was a defense attorney she was a judge before that before that she was a defense attorney she represented a rapper named YSL Mondo who's also affiliated with this group so he seems to made her defend Y.S. Almondo after she was a prosecutor and then inferred that was because she was having sex with him. Yeah. Right.

Right. And so, uh, anyway, that, that's just her journey through Trump's mind palace right there. So like, he's not the head of a gang also. He's just a rapper. It's, I don't even fucking know what you know. It's also funny. It's like, he also called Alvin Bragg a racist, right? I feel like, like anytime, like anytime, you know, it's a black person that's coming after him. He has just explicitly referred to. them as racist because you know obviously what else could it be about but yeah can you just like i mean i guess you can i know that what uh what's the like slander laws and defamation and stuff like that in this country is pretty uh pretty hard to to do or to fight or whatever but it's just kind of wild that he had former super high profile position he can go up there and just literally

make shit up about this uh other public figure um yeah you know i mean that's god bless america baby you run your mouth but whatever you want. For the most part, within reason, we'll probably come back to that in a second because, yeah. So this is a speech he gave in New Hampshire today, which is all over the place. He talked about how you can't wash your hair anymore because the faucets not have enough water. It's normal shit. Bill Biden taking the water?

God damn. I knew it. Yeah, Joe Biden took all our water. The stoves, the cheeseburgers. Now it's your water. Can't even have water anymore. He gave a preview his defense strategy. in the January 6th case.

I shouldn't call the January 6 case, the overturned the election case, because he wasn't actually charged an incitement related January 6th. So he's saying his defense is going to be affirmative that he actually did win the election. Now, he's saying he's going to introduce that 2000 Mules documentary in the evidence,

which is fucking hilarious because there's no way the judge is going to allow that. And his lawyer should probably quit if Trump's trying to make him do that. So he also, like there was a Rolling Stone article talking about what Trump's plans for once he retakes the White House. They basically already have a government, like a DOJ in waiting with plans to prosecute

everyone who investigated him. So this is like a really weird situation where Jack Smith has taken Trump to trial and whoever loses is going to jail. Oh, God, wild towns in America. Yeah, it's appropriate. It's like a, you know, it's like a cage match or something like that. Tablemower leaves town. Yeah, right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. Yeah. Some more highlights from this speech. This is just hidden right here if you want to play this at Chris Christie. Yeah. He's good. No, Christy's he's eating right now. He can't be about it.

Sir, please do not call him a fat pig. That's very disrescent. Don't call him. See, I'm trying to be nice. Don't call him a fat pig. You can't do. He can't do that. Just the worst person in the world.

Yeah. You know it's going to be so much more of that, dude, over the coming months. It's going to be going to be some wacky wild stuff coming out of his mouth. I know he made his doctor lie about his weight, but do you think he thinks he's things? I mean, I wonder that all the time. Like, I think that all the time with him is like, does he not realize what, you know, he looks like? Because, like, he has, like, does he have reversed, or is that still body? dysmorphia, but just the good kind or something?

Do you know what I mean? Like, where he was like reverse body dysmorphia or something, like he looks in the mirror and sees the versions of him that they paint when they paint him, you know, stiff arming somebody at the goal line with rock hard abs or shirtless with a Tupac tattoo or whatever. Does he actually see that when he looks in the mirror? Because, yeah, I mean, you know, Christy bigger, but like Trump ain't good. Actually, on a, like, related, but random note,

I randomly saw somebody found an old tweet from Carrie Lake earlier. like in November of 2016 right after he got elected and it was her saying congratulations to all the obese Americans for getting one of their own in the White House fattest president since Taft

which I mean that's true right he is the fattest president since Taft right think about it pretty sure yeah I mean LBJ was like the 60s version of Fick I'm trying to think but like that's that doesn't care compared to a modern American version right but like yeah

So anyway, I guess he's got beer muscles like Homer Simpson when he looked himself in the mirror and saw like Repting Pecks and shit. So another Trump legal, Trump World Legal News. So Giuliani, we talked about this lawsuit before. He's being sued by a former assistant named Noel Dunphy, who he tried to hit

with a countersuit to be dismissed. So she hit back with transcripts of audio recordings that she has of him saying some absolutely wild shit. These were filed last week. Here's America's mayor, Rudy Giuliani, quote, Jewish men have small cocks because they can't use them after they get married, whereas the Italian used them all their lives so they get bigger.

Yeah. That's how he thinks Wainer's work. Like, it's like they use it or lose it doctrine applies to your, uh, your penis. Why does they think married Jewish people don't have sex? Yeah, that too. That's also weird. Like they don't use it after they get married. Yeah, I don't understand.

But it's like, uh, he thinks like eventually your, your wainter just frivols up and, you know, blows away if you're not getting any or conversely it just swells to elephant time proportions if you're uh you know doing pretty well um maybe it's like it's like a literal muscle it gets yeah it's like lifting weights exactly he thinks like yeah it's like lifting weights but for your for your dick yeah he's wild juliet he also railed against how jewish people quote want to go through all that freaking passover all the time and they should get over the Passover because it was 3,000 years ago, quote, okay, the Red Sea parted, big deal, not the first time that happened.

Yeah. What? When else did the Red Sea part? Also, like, I don't feel like I've ever heard Jewish people, you know, going on and on about the Red Sea and Passover. I feel like that's not a thing that they can't get over, you know what I mean? It's mostly just like the temperature of the soup at the diner or whatever, you know what like that right uh there's another part where the transcripts where they're talking about

which celebrities might be republican and she was trying to think of somebody and she suggested matt damon and uh no he suggested matt damon and she says man no matt davin's very liberal i don't i don't know his politics and the juliana counter matt damon is a use the f word slur uh bad damon is also five two eyes are blue coo coochy coochy coochee uh apparently some his brain is mush man or something it's got this is just like the incoherent ramblings of a lunatic man matt damon's also 5-2 eyes are blue coochy-coochy-coo uh not true he's definitely not some song from the 20s i was about to ask if that was some kind of reference because it sounded like it must be but also it's ironic that he called damon the f slur because you know damon himself famously

retired the f slur a few years ago from his own vocabulary so uh yeah that had to hurt Poor Matt. Matt Damon's 5-10, by the way, according to that if anybody cares. Anyway, but that lot of stuff was just in the lawsuit to embarrass him, but the main stuff is about him sexually harassing her, which is the, I know, the weirdest part of this. I mean, quote from Giuliani here, again, former America's mayor, a credible presidential candidate at several points. Come here, big tits, Giuliani says on one occasion, come here, big tits, your tits belong to me, give them to me indiscernible. want to claim my tits i want to claim my tits i want to claim my tits these are my tits

pretty straightforward that one yeah man knows what he's about i guess uh but yeah speaking of conservatives and and uh you know their sexual proclivities or uh lack there of either way our first time i'll mention for daily dumb ass is evangelicals for lying and saying they don't want to hear all about hot premarital sex this is from a uh Republican Congresswoman speaking, Nancy Mace, speaking at a Tim Scott thing. Prayer breakfast. Another year, another standing room only event. And when I woke up this morning at 7, I was getting picked up at 745, Patrick, my fiancé, tried to pull me by my waist over this morning in bed.

And I was like, no, baby, we don't got time for that this morning. I got to get to the prayer breakfast. And I got to do that time. and a little TMI but I he can wait he's got I'll see him later tonight all right so

the part the part is like no honey why can't throw down right now I got to make it to the prayer breakfast that kind of sounds like a little Morgan bit to me or something and if y'all don't know when I love Lynn Morgan I'm saying like she can really do something with that but yeah Southern comedian if y'all don't know her Netflix special is very

funny but anyway yeah so Nancy there as you know she said fiancee not her husband she's talking about and the horror audible gas. Yeah, and she's old enough to being, I don't look how old enough she is, but it'd be weird if she was a virgin. Yeah, 45, I think, is what

I saw somewhere. It'd be yeah, Nancy Mays 45, yeah. It'd be uncommon, let's say, if she's a virgin. I don't want to judge anyone else's choices as far as when and where they make love. But so, like, one thing, the people at the prayer breakfast are weird for being offended by this, and they were weird.

That's some whole talk tweeted a Florida Florida congressional candidate, Laverne Spicer. Here's a reminder that Nancy Mace's trash wrote a conservative comedian with a comedian said that where they had a hundred thousand followers. A bunch of people in a line were madder for this shit. She can't read the room, but I honestly, no one, including hers, seems to have a good handle

on whether these people actually believe what they profess to believe. But I would have went with probably in this setting. Right. Yeah. Right. They don't approve of fucking outside of the conference. finds a marriage and you show up there open with a story about how you yeah yes but at the same time and i mean you know she's a woman so obviously pretty different but like you know at same time

don't trump's got porn star lawsuits and multiple marriages and all that shit and he's their god emperor you know what i mean so it's like they're oftentimes completely okay with it but again you know she's a lady and so that makes it to very hoary what she was saying but also did every goddamn one of them's pork in before marriage if they're not currently married you know like give me a fucking break for sure i did the whole thing was just very deeply weird and funny to me like i would i wouldn't i had sex for marriage yeah right because you're fucking cool that's why yeah exactly but i wouldn't go i wouldn't go to my mom's church group and talk right yes for sure right yes i mean you're right about that it's a prayer breakfast it is kind of an odd thing to bring up

so i can't i can't forget who's weird yeah it's just a matter of tact i think i don't think anyone did anything wrong, but, like, the fact, like, she's a part of this retrograde movement that wants to take away women's rights while bragging about how she's using her right to have sex outside of marriage. Like, what would you do if you got pregnant, Nancy? Right? Yeah. So, like, like, it's like, just like, no of these, I can't figure out what these people actually think. I guess they have beliefs. They don't think their beliefs apply, their belief system should apply to them or constrain their behavior, I guess is the gist of it. Anyway, yeah, that was just funny. It is fine. Nancy Grace will now never be president.

even more so yeah that's i don't think that was in the cards anyway but yeah all right so let's talk about florida all right so we talk a lot about florida you know because desantis is burning it down in a vain attempt to be president um but it's also a third most popular state i know we have some viewers outside the country you might not realize that a shit ton of people live in florida and i don't know 20 some percent of them voted for desantis the rest of them either didn't vote can't vote because they're felons or the kids or whatever so They don't deserve to be subjected to this shit, but like we talked a couple weeks ago about how the new educational standards are like saying that you're going to teach kids that like people learn valuable skills and who slated or whatever, which is a historical nonsense. And like we already talked about that.

But this is like even more nuts. Prager You, which is Dennis Prager's outfit, which is not a university at all. It's just a place that makes YouTube videos. Has gotten has gotten some of its videos approved as supplemental curriculum for use in schools. now they're unaccredited they're just a right-wing advocacy group they don't know anything about anything but we're going to show you some of these videos

in a minute but these weird cartoons like some of the five videos are titled do you understand the electoral college was a civil war about slavery and I bet their answer is no without watching it the inconvenient truth about the Democratic Party why left the left and war on boys these are the type of video as this organization makes

and Florida has become the first state to recognize Prager Yu as an approved education vendor and 10 more states in the process of granting the same approval. Now, it's not clear what schools, just because they're approved doesn't mean schools will use them, but I think they might to avoid the headache from the state. So that's the part we're going to get to in a little bit. But this is the kind of stuff we're going to talk about if you're going to play this first video I'm at. This is Christopher Columbus talking to a couple of cartoon kids. I'm sorry, Mr. Columbus, but I heard at school that you spoiled paradise and you brought slavery and murder to peaceful people. Leo?

Sorry. It's what I read and heard at school. Caramba. Those are some accusations. The place I discovered was beautiful. But it wasn't exactly a paradise of civilization, and the native people were far from peaceful. I'm sorry, Mr. Clayton. Maybe me and you're, you know, getting up there in years haven't been in, like, elementary school in a very long time. And also, I was in Tennessee. You're in, like, rural Virginia. Maybe things have changed.

but, like, that's not even a little bit what I heard about Christopher Columbus in school. You know what I mean? Like, it was never always very much the opposite, really. I was like, you know, the main thing was he sailed the ocean blue that one time. I forget. But yeah. Yeah. And, you know, found America.

There was Indians there. They had Thanksgiving. Whatever. Pilgrims came. Like, that's pretty much the whole thing. They definitely were not going in on Christopher Columbus for, you know, being the rampaging, you know, colonial side driver or whatever that he actually was. The thing everybody that most people know about Christopher Columbus is that poem

that was written in the 1800s about the, which you just quoted selling the ocean blur. But none of it like, you don't need to rebutt kids assumptions that like Christopher Columbus was a like a gentle siddle maniac because they're not even fucking time. Exactly right. That's exactly what I'm saying. It's also like what and we're going to watch some more of these videos.

But one thing I take a little bit of solace in I think is like I'm just assuming that any kids are subjected to these videos are going to immediately. have their eyes glaze over and not really take in or retain much of it anyway because they're off as somebody who has kids and everything like this is not going to hold kids like young kids attention at all they're atrociously boring and thus perhaps will be ineffective as propaganda measures i hope no it's more like they're they're pre-inoculating them against ever learning any real history when they do become old enough to learn what christopher columbus was actually up to right right if they if they were going to remember anything it's going to be like oh, the Indians, the natives' revages, and he civilized them, which is to that message, which is like, like, no one's saying that the new world was Shangri-law before white people got here. It's just like, they didn't deserve what happened to them. It's like that part, those two things are disconnected.

Yeah, everywhere had wars, there were probably a criminal among the population that he conquered. It doesn't mean, everyone does that have to be a great person in order to fucking, I know. Well, that, yeah, sometimes you're like that. Sometimes you'll have these people talk about, they'll bring up the different native tribes and stuff like that. And they'll be like, you know that like they had all kinds of wars amongst themselves. They were killing each other, doing all kinds of crazy stuff or whatever. And it's like, okay, so that's why they deserve to be genocided with smallpox or whatever. It's like, because that's the, that's the sort of, it seems to be what you're inferring.

And I'm not entirely sure that I agree with that. Yeah. Let's, uh, I wanted to listen to some more lessons these kids are getting in these videos. is what i'm as a narrator explaining that embracing climate denialism is akin to participating in the warsaw uprising uh there's one with a character named matteo who's the son of mexican immigrants who learns about the myth of police racial profiling and the importance of supporting the police to protect his neighborhood from rioters um some videos tell children to not feel guilty about using plastic or expound upon the virtues of reganomics the world you're going to tell us eight-year-olds about reganomics right and how the war on drugs was good uh side note the regan also used the opportunity to praise him as being popular, handsome, a talented actor, and good at sports. All right.

The rest of it, we could argue about. He was not a good actor. All right. He was in movies with monkey. Bad time for Bonzo, I believe. Yes. Which is nothing wrong of being in a movie about monkeys.

Maybe you could have won an Oscar if you were in better movies, but I'm saying you don't have any proof of it. Right. I'll be, if somebody wants to put me in a movie with a monkey, it'll be the best days of my life. So please, I would be the movie with a movie. I would love to be in a movie with a monkey.

Yeah, it's funny that all these like historical and accuracys and stuff that you're like, the one that absolutely cannot stand is that Ronald Reagan was a good actor. And I, you know, I'm with you. Yeah. There's like a Nickelodeon like gross out game show like Double Dare where they

quiz children on the lives of people like Ein Rand and Amy Coney Barrett. Can you, I think you're fucking. nine-year-old. I just want to go to recess. You've got to learn about Ein-Rand. Yeah, that's awful. Also, the kids in the in the game show, is it just an excuse to slime kids or something? Are they really getting the questions right

about fucking Ein Rann and Amy Coney-Barritt? Because that would be wild. Yeah. Maybe they just slime the feminist kids. Or like if you have two mommies, you get slime. These are the one, like the probably the funniest one. It's an instruction video telling girls that conforming to gender

stereotypes is a great way to embrace their femininity. I quote, most gender stereotypes exist because they reflect the way men and women are naturally different and those differences aren't bad. Yeah, because boys would naturally play with trucks. A lot of times, that's fair. Some like to play with dolls though. That's fine, too.

But the video is encourages girls to, quote, master the art of makeup, not, quote, expose the parts of your body with it, send the wrong message, not to develop the reputation of being a gossip, and to be grateful when a man goes out of his way to show you respect and also to smile. The official position of the state of Florida

on what women should do is smile more than look pretty much. and not be a sorry-ass ingrate, recognize how good you fucking got it. That's how official state of the Florida Board of Public Education. The one that was like most weird to me is there's one that's a dramatization of the supposedly civilizing a benevolent era of British colonial rule in India, which is that's not even their fucking fight. Yeah. Yeah. That's one I don't have to participate in.

That's between the South Asians and the British. you know they can let them do their own arguing over revision of history but like the one that is our fight is like you know America's original slender what center whatever you better believe they got takes on slavery there's one which I the vibe is weird but like the message is like these two kids are apologizing to Booker T Washington for slavery the same two kids in the other videos and it goes like well you have nothing to be sorry for I'm like no one's arguing that 10 and 12 year old kids in two 2023 then And Cotter and Madison are personally responsible for slavery. No one thinks that.

I know, but that's like, but that is like fundamentally their whole thing that they've built up in their head when it comes to critical race theory and stuff is like literally exactly that. That's what they have convinced themselves is happening or what the problem is. Is that like Connor and Madison are being like pointed at and blamed for slavery in school every day and it makes them feel bad at nighttime or whatever, which yes, is of course, ridiculous. Again, I, you know, we all, you know, depending on where he grew up in varying degrees, but we're taught about slavery. And I never remember feeling like, again, you feel bad. You should feel bad. The subject is slavery. It'd be weird if you felt good, but I didn't feel like personally responsible for it when I was nine or whatever. White guilt to the degree people have it. It's like a survivor's guilt. It's not like a direct responsibility guilt. It's like, oh, shit. I feel bad that other people had to suffer shit. I didn't. Right. It's like not. Yeah.

Empathy, you know. Yeah. It's like when somebody says, oh, man, I'm sorry that happened to you. And they go, like, well, you didn't do it. I'm like, I'm not saying I'm, like, I'm responsible for it. I just feel bad. That thing happened. Yeah, right.

So, but this one, like, here's one with Frederick Douglas, which absolutely distorts the history of the Civil War in really crazy ways. I'm not to get you to pause at a couple points, Matt, to tell you what I'm talking about. Children, our founding fathers knew that slavery was evil and wrong. And they knew that it would. do terrible harm to the nation. They wanted it to end, but their first priority was getting all

13 colonies to unite as one country. The southern colonies were dependent on slave labor, and they wouldn't have joined the union that had banned. They were dependent, right? The framing is that it just happened. Nobody did it.

It was just a thing, it was like the weather. It rained. Right. Anyway, get play bad. Are you okay with that? I'm certainly not okay with slavery But the founding fathers made a compromise To achieve something great

The Making of the United States It was America that began the conversation to end it But Leo is correct that All right So interesting framing there Was America that began the conversation to stop it If you want to make that case You've got to point to the fact

That one of the first governments to ban slavery In the Western Hemisphere in the colonies was the state of Vermont, all right? You can make that case. America started the conversation to end it. But you've got to include some other information that, like, for example, Haiti was the first country to do so, and the rest of the world held them hostage to make them basically buy their own personal freedom from France,

and they're still in debt because of it. It's one of the reasons Haiti is so poor. Denmark, Netherlands, France, UK are all among the countries to beat us to outlawing it before we did in 1860, whatever, whenever the Civil War was over. and it was formerly made illegal with the 13th Amendment. Cuba and Brazil were after us, which is why the Confederates fled there, including Jefferson Davis, fled to Cuba.

So you keep having slaves. But like those are just like stone cold facts. That like slavery was a temporary problem that everyone agreed needed to be ended, but they had to work around. That's not remotely true. They're using they with the founding fathers. Like they were this like they were like a consensus group instead of a bunch of motherfuckers and hated each.

Right. and plenty of them like own slaves and we know that and I know that they you know like with some of like Washington or whatever it's like yeah he did own slaves but he was like oh after I'm dead then you can free them because I do feel kind of bad about it but I'm still going to keep them for now though and you know that type of shit but like still yeah it's not like they were united and they're discussed for slavery the founding fathers and and yeah like you you know it was like fierce opposition to the idea that we shouldn't have slaves in this country by a whole big chunk of the powers it be for a very long time, sort of how that whole war thing happened.

Right. Big problems need to be approached very carefully. Have you kids heard of William Lloyd Garrison? No. Nope. He's an abolitionist like me. And he and I used to be friends, but we aren't any longer. We don't agree how to solve problems.

William refuses all compromises, demands immediate change. And if he doesn't get what he wants, he likes to. to set things on fire. Sounds familiar. Sounds like you know the time. Right. One of you could be talking about there. Yeah, just a side swipe

of the Black Lous Manor movement from Frederick Douglass of all fucking people. So are you familiar with William Boyd Garrison? I mean, I remember learning about him or whatever, but I don't remember, I can't sit here and give you details about his life or whatnot. Me neither. It was like a name I remember hearing one.

I was like, oh, what's to do with that guy? What's he even referencing? Why does Dennis Prager have a big beef with him? It's because he burned a copy of the Constitution in July 4th, 1854 in Massachusetts. And him and Douglas were like, I guess, allies for a long time in the abolitionist movement. Garrison's a weird guy. He went back and forth between a pacifist and, like, a violent anarchist who supported John Brown. And, I mean, I can understand how being horrifically offended, rightfully so by the institution of slavery.

you could drive someone to not having consistent views about whether or not you should kill all the motherfuckers doing it. But like, so they did have a parting of the ways, of the minds. When like, like, so Garrison burned the Constitution because he thought the whole thing needed to be started over because it was

so pro-slavery. And Douglas thought that you could work within the the Constitution could be construed as an anti-slavery document. It might misneed amendments, but you could do so without destroying the government. You can understand why a person who's in a minority would not want the complete chaos and anarchy of not having a fucking government, especially coming off the heels of a civil war, where at least

you were safe in half the country, kind of, right? Anyway, but if you think that Douglas was some sort of softy about slave or your slave owners, here's a quote from him in 1852 about the fugitive slave law. The only way to make the fugitive slave law a dead letter is to make a half dozen or more dead kidnappers. He's talking about murdering slave catchers. Yeah. He was not morally neutral in the question of slavery or forgiving to the people that perpetrated it.

This is all, like, maddening. And like you said, it won't, you know, I doubt that kids will stick with this much longer. But here's a college professor talking about this guy named Michael Butler gave an interview today a couple days ago to a Florida paper where he says at the college level, we're going to have to do a lot of deprogramming. And that resonated with me because one of the things that radicalized me leftward is like, like when I got to college, learned actual history and realized that all the people around me didn't lie to me my entire fucking mind about the nature of reality and history. And so why are these sitting kids up? If they're not indoctrinated, they're going to go the other direction.

This is going to backfire all these parents who are trying to coddle Madison and Connor. And I don't know. It's just extremely short-sighted to me. Yeah. Well, I said, like, they're, I've seen people hypothesizing or whatever that it's all about just like an attack on the public education system. in particular to like fast track the idea of privatizing it or whatever. So they're just trying to like basically make the public education system like inoperable or

whatever, you know, eventually just trying to blow it up from the inside because they want it to be privatized and that whole thing. Yeah. A school board member in Hillsborough County, Hillsborough, Florida made that point this week when she found out basically after the decision had been made that the school was basically eliminating a lot of Shakespeare from the curriculum because it's too much sex in it. Yeah. So her exact quote was she blamed the Department of Z's a woman named Jessica Vaughn,

who's like I said as a school board member, said that blame the Department of Education, the State Department of Education, and the legislature. Honestly, it feels like much of this is intentional in order to cause as much chaos in public education as possible so the collapse of public education is swift and the agenda of education privatization can move forward with less obstacles. because this is like in 23 with every kid having a smartphone

and parents not knowing how to block the internet thinking that kids are going to get horny because they're showing complete texts of Shakespeare instead of just excerpts that are scrubbed clean Right What planet are you doing? Yeah Like it's just making kids dumber

Like you're not going to stop kids What kid is reading Henry the 4th and feeling like he should like Give it like lose the virginity? I don't fucking understand the thought process at all. But this is why I'm afraid some schools might actually adopt the, the, the, the, the, you stuff is because it's so much chaos out there.

No one knows what the rules are anymore. These school, these school district officials just made this decision because they're afraid because we don't understand and they're, they don't want to be doing it. All the teachers are like, yeah, this like, I can't teach Macbeth under this standard. I don't think I can. So we're just not going to do it because I don't want to fucking end up like in court or in jail or lose my job because I taught Romeo and Juliet, it's like, it's utterly insane to me. Like they're destroying public education so fast.

Like, okay, this happened yesterday. On Monday, the Deputy General Counsel in Orange County, which is Orlando, sent an email to principals announcing new policies for the upcoming school year, basically about what words teachers can and can't use. It basically says transgender teachers cannot use their. preferred pronouns or titles, like they can't go by, they're born or missed or they can't be missed, basically. They must use the pronoun title that corresponds to their co-pological sex.

It also gives teachers staff and students to write to misgender trans employees and forbids teachers from asking for students preferred pronouns. It doesn't say, I couldn't find whether if the kid says they prefer to go by she instead of he, whether the teacher's forbidden from using it. But this is, none of this is going to survive any free speech stuff. It's just going to, like, suck money out of school budgets to fight litigation because this can't survive any sort of First Amendment challenge to require people to use language. Like, it's utterly ridiculous.

But there's like a set, there's this whole procedure they established for students who wish to use a name at school that is different from their legal name. Kids must get their parents to fill out a form granting a teacher permission to use any such name as class. It applies to all students, not just transgender ones. So a kid named Robert who wants to go by the baby will not have to get his mom to sign a permission slip. Yeah. Small government, Mark.

Yeah, it's small government conservatives for you. Yeah. One of my best friends in high school changed his name like five times for ninth grade because he was, it was Jimmy, Jim Bob, then James Robert, then J.R. It's like he would have to get like 10 different permission slip signed for every one of those fucking changes. No of this makes any sort of sense. Yeah, part of the, they had that house whatever, that Florida new

regulation it like defines sex as being a immutable trait assigned at birth or whatever. And so because of that, you know, the idea of being transgender is invalid basically. And that's and so that's like their basis for why

the teachers can't use any other pronouns or that type of shit. So it's literally just like, I mean, they're literally legislating the people out of, these people out of existence, or I mean, you know, trying to, like that's baldly what they're trying to do, which is pretty wild. But, you know, I mean, he's been bragging about it. It's that whole, you know, video kerfuffle he had. I mean, it's his whole thing.

He's like, yeah, I'm going after him, taking them down. We just had a whole election cycle that was based upon transender, dumb transgender shit, and Republicans horrifically underperformed. And they're just doing it again. Like, I can't understand. understand somebody should raise their hand in one of their meetings and be like, hey, uh, besides all this hate being evil, uh,

it's not actually helping, but like also like just, I've made this point before, but there's nothing less American than not minding your own fucking business. Just mind your business. It's a very easy solution to this. Just mind your business. Yep. Yeah.

Amen, brother. I'm Matt. Find us some, uh, comments there. We're actually getting to them this week. That's fun. Got 10 minutes left to talk to the people. We're going to check it on the Ohio.

results but we already did that that happened real quick i'll update a 33% of the vote in just so you see how the it's a little closer than it was it's 63.2 to 368 with a third of the votes in so yeah uh maybe it's going to be funny if it still would have passed the 60 60% threshold right yeah yeah all right what you got for us matt well matt's uh finding some stuff and other educational fuckery over in Houston, which has had their school district taken over by the state. They decided to eliminate librarians a lot of schools and turn libraries in the discipline centers at 28 campuses.

So no books, but jails. Yeah. Fun. Flemont van der Beck. I'm sure that's how you want me to pronounce it, but it just felt right. Very fancy name there says Republicans are self-destructing, hence why they have to try to change all the voting rules so they have a chance to stay in charge. And, yeah, it's been like the thrust of their whole thing for a while

and that with like gerrymandering and the voter restriction laws and all that shit. It's all about them realizing that, you know, they don't represent the will of the people or have the support of the majority of the people or whatever. So they have to bend the rules in whatever fashion they can to maintain their trust on power. Vivek Ramoswamy, part of his, the other, the dipshit running for a, you know, brand campaign for president. Part of his campaign is like raising the voting age. of 25 and making it so you have to pass

a citizenship test to vote, which would be really fun. If like, if like 66 year old Republicans had to pass the same test immigrants do to vote, that'd be really funny because they could do it. Yeah, they get smoke. Yeah, absolutely. Nisa Hower says, what's your guys' reaction to the Alabama boat dock thing? Oh yes, the Battle of Montgomery

to Bamma Boat Dock brawl. I mean, you know, not, and I know Mark feels the same way, at least in part. One of my favorite things about it has just been watching the response to it and all the resulting memes and reactions and stuff that have come out of black Twitter or the black internet in the wake of that brawl because it's been truly wonderful.

It's been absolutely hilarious. It is. Like I haven't seen, you expect to see like the grifters in the right. I haven't even seen like somebody like try to make it out like any of the people who defended the dock worker were in the wrong. That's been kind of like everybody's in the same side. I know. I think it's because like we all saw the video or whatever and it's like.

you know, they all, they swarmed him. You know, it's like five on five or six on one or whatever. All, you know, a bunch of white dudes. It started out one on one, one white guy, one black guy. And then like four or five other white dudes run in. And, you know, like, even the dip shittiest of conservative commentators, like, what argument can you make? I'm kind of surprised that they're not doing something about how, like, well, actually,

you know, that black guy's got a criminal record. And you know what he said? I'm kind of surprised we're not doing that. sort of thing at least i mean yeah i just feel like they don't really have a leg to stand on with this one because it's pretty pretty cut and dry uh seems yeah i saw a couple a couple hours ago uh a couple hours ago three people caught charges so far and all three of them were the uh shirtless white boat guys although i would i would anticipate the guy who hit the lady with the chair is probably going to catch charge yeah uh but yeah uh just move your

boat. Just move the boat. Absolutely. The original dot worker guy kind of had a badge in his shirt, so he's sort of a cop, so maybe that's part of it. But like, it's also just like a little harmless brawling, you know, it's like an episode

of Dukes-a-hazer or something where they're just like hitting each other with the chairs and said, it's fine. It's just the South, man. Yeah, I just, I don't, you know, I don't know what they expected to happen considering, you know, the sheer number of, uh, of the amount of support, but the, uh,

they evidently had there just out of frame before the brawl starings and motherfuckers came in. Everyone dude literally jumped in the water and swam over there to whip some ass. My kid of a publicist within 12 hours. He's 16.

Yeah. Yeah, they deemed the internet deemed him Aquaman and Michael B. Phelps. That's not that one here. C. Murder. S.E.A. murder. Albrina says, I guess they tried it in a small town and fucked around and found

out yeah that's what people people made an edit of the brawl with try that in a small town playing over it which is great uh jules he says i knew the minute the guy tossed his hat i knew this is going to be epic my thing is like okay so at every point

the the chuds i saw we we shared there was a viral post where someone said the people were racist and they got to the hospital they're using the n-word i haven't seen any i haven't seen any I have second source or anything for that. I have no idea if these people are racist. People are assuming that because they're white in Montgomery, Alabama with boat money.

It's fair. It's a fairer, yeah, right, yeah. But like, at every point they could have de-escalated, they could have moved their boat eventually. When they got untied their boat and shut it off, your boat's not irretrievable.

You're literally in swim trunks. Just jump in the water and go get the boot. Like, there's no point to resist it. And he's like, stop resisting. Just move your boat. Mark, if you'd been standing that, there on that boat dock when all that went down obviously not with those white guys you were just there in the proximity what would you what would you have done if you're runoff just filmed it you know what i mean like you don't end up collateral damage or whatever or you know there was a co-worker of the the dock worker dude who tried to intervene he was like like a teenage white kid and he got shoved away and they jumped him too so like my instinct is always to peacemaking those situations i would have like got in between and break it up if i know but i mean i'm kind of the same way but like we we dude, we'd have got our shit wrecked if we'd done that.

You know what I mean? It's like, it's like a dude in like a trench coat, you know, trying to help the cops during a school shooting or something like that. You know what I mean? The cops are going to be like, he's one of them. Yeah, that's true. Oh, you know, you're saying, I got my shit wrecked by the black folks. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I see.

Yeah, just right, just because, yeah, right. They're not going to know. Yeah, I do look like part of the problem. Yeah, right. Judy Kidder Brownings has any thoughts on the latest George Floyd cop conviction. I didn't see that. Yeah. Nobody didn't see it.

I didn't see it. Yeah. Always just smile and nod at this point in the show while Mark gives a cogent response. Oh, okay, yeah, one of the other cops, the bystander cops, the Asian dude. I guess, you know, yeah. I mean, like, they were more focused on crowd control than stopping. Derek Chauvin was their training officer, so there was a power imbalance area. But when you're watching somebody commit murder, even if you're a trainee cop,

your instinct should probably be like, yeah, should, uh, instead of trying to stop people from filming this. I should be like, hey, Derek, uh, what's up with the knee, buddy? The guy's subdued in cuffs. Yeah. What's the, you just looked it up. What do you, okay, what do you get? 57 months. All right. Um, so for almost five years, um, but I imagine with good behavior, if he behaves good, uh, it'll probably be like three and a half, I'm at imagine. Hmm. Yeah. Laura Borealis back again, says, hey, try, will there be an audio book version of your book with Corey. Yeah, absolutely. I just recorded it the week before last. Post a little

montage I made of myself doing it too. It's on my pages if you want to check it out. But yeah, me and Corey are reading the book and should be fun. I was going to say, I knew the answer to that one, because Corey sent me extra video clips of him trying to do it and making himself laugh where he couldn't get a take. Gutter Viking says, thanks for mentioning the Amran protest, guys. Love y'all. Everyone who can come out, please do.

I don't know if that Starling or a compatriary of Starling. That is Sterling. I remember his Twitter handle was a gutter viking. Yeah, thank you, buddy. Yeah. Yeah, go annoy the shit out of those racists. The people who want to go back to the Renaissance and Antwicator is so weird to me. They complain about modern architecture.

Like, it's the fault of, like, liberal progressivism. The buildings are more boring than it used to be when Romans did slave labor or something. Just shut the fuck. Yeah. people that remain outside the past in any capacity has always been kind of wild to me on account of just all the plague and death and murder and also and the fact that like in most of the world the vast majority of us would have been

like peasant underling trash with no rights at all who would have just been stepped all over by the powers that be it's like you watch those like old-timey shows or whatever and you might put yourself in the position of the characters or something but it's like these are fucking nobles and roy like i'm the dude outside plucking a goose getting you know you get used for target practice

and shit it's like I don't want no part of that they'll show a Western but like they show the guy riding into town and riding out of town they don't show that it took him like nine days to get between the towns yeah right yeah that didn't have an

iPod he didn't have deodorant he had this look for water that sucked yeah it does suck all right well thank you guys for being here we appreciate it let me remind you again real quick as we close go to Trey Crowder.com. Get your tickets. Come see me on the road. You can pre-order me and Corey's book on there as well. You can also go to weekly skews.com slash more or look me up on Patreon. You can

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