Jack Armstrong (29:24)
Yeah, exactly. I couldn't decide whether I was going to kick the dog in this scenario or punch the wife. I would never raise my hand to a woman. But anyway, you get the point. You gotta be careful. Cause if you overreach, then. And anybody who's familiar with Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals knows this. They try to make you the bad guy. They try desperately. It's called a decision dilemma. It's when the, the, the protester comes up and screams right in your face through a bullhorn until you can't take it anymore, and you punch them. Then you notice that they've all got their phones out and are all videoing you in in the carefully edited version. Video of you punching them makes you into the bad guy, and they win the day. They're desperate to get you in a position to do that, so you have to be tactically smart. Anyway, one more scene setter, before we get into the substance. Up until very, very recently, a lot of America would hear DEI and they would think, oh, yeah, diversity, I'm. I'm in favor of that. Equity sounds like equality. And I've been taught to be in favor of that and inclusion. How could I be against inclusion? And. And they had everybody convinced that this neo Marxist philosophy, which is actually just a tool of takeover of institutions, because if they can pin the original sin of slavery on you, and you're thinking, I was born 125 years after it ended, doesn't matter. You're still part of the patriarchy, a white supremacy culture, blah, blah, blah, 16, 19 project, blah, blah, blah. So you're like, oh, I'll do it. You tell me to. Just tell me what you want me to do and stop calling me a racist. So a lot of America was in that attitude, and so they were winning like crazy to the point that they've taken over vast swaths of the American education complex. So that's where this starts, you know, not long ago, when a lot of people, including us, started fighting against this. And the Trump administration is right now. So the Trump administration recently sent a letter to states nationwide with the demand, certify that your schools are not engaging in illegal diversity, equity and inclusion programs or risk your federal funding because they're racially discriminatory, not to mention neo Marxist. But, um, well, not surprisingly at all, several states have pushed back like crazy. For instance, New York State. We will not give in to misleading and damaging myths about diversity. Equity and inclusion work. Okay, all right. So they've gotten away with their own absolutely misleading and damaging myth about what they're doing, but so many people bought it, now they're being called on it. Whoa, whoa, whoa. We've seen the reality of what you're doing. You're trying to tear down the. The pillars of Western civilization. This isn't about diversity. Well, they're not gonna go down without a fight. So here comes the fight. You got the general counsel in Wisconsin's Education Department. I love Wisconsin, but it's politics. Like Illinois, my home state, dominated by the urban areas, lunatic, lefty urban areas that, because of the numbers involved, you know, in a democracy, dominate the vast swaths of Wisconsin that are perfectly sane, good, reasonable, Midwestern people. Actually reminds me of California too, for that matter. But anyway, so the general counsel in Wisconsin's Education Department said that letter that the Trump administration sent might be unconstitutionally vague. New York went back. There are no federal or state laws prohibiting the principles of dei. Yes, there are. Of course there are. It's hell it did. DEI is against everything this country stands for. But they're clever. They've, they've cloaked it. They've, they've, they've put lipstick on the pig. Of that it is. And made it sound like some sort of noble undertaking. Anyway, so President Trump's attempt to reshape American education has sparked a hell of a pro. A pushback from Harvard. Talked about that a little bit. Resistance is also emerging in K through 12 schools where practices. I'm quoting now, I think this is the Wall Street Journal editorial. No, it's Matt Barnum in the Wall Street Journal. Ah, scrolling back to where I was. Sorry. So, resistance has also emerged in K through 12 schools where practices have been slow to change. And many Democratic officials are challenging Trump's edict in court. They are going to fight it. Meanwhile, Republican leaders are cheering Trump's crackdown. For instance, Tom Horner, Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction, said, quote, DEI has no place in education or society, and I've been working diligently to get it out of schools. So you've just got a big battle forming up. Blue states versus the Education Department, which maybe we don't dismantle quite yet because it's a great way to fight DEI, at least for now. Linda McMahon, stay in the job until Italia. So that is going to be just a battle royale for a very long time. Not surprisingly, Cal Unicornia has state attorney general suing over the cancellation of some of the spending. LA school system has not shifted its policies in response to Trump, Superintendent Alberto Carvalho has said. Caught between California law, which bans discrimination on gender identity. In fact, as you know, you can't even tell if you're a teacher. You can't tell a kid's parent, hey, Johnny says he wants to be known as Jenny now and is claiming to be transgender. I think you need to be aware that you're forbidden by Gavin Newsom State to tell that. But California is, is, is doubling down too, on the DEI stuff. So, anyway, but there are a couple other notes that Are are more encouraging in the K through 12 world. For instance, the Supreme Court heard just yesterday. Oh, and guys, I was, I was so busy I forgot. If we can get as much audio as possible of the oral arguments before the Supreme Court yesterday on the Montgomery county gender bending kids case. That was the big oral argument yesterday. Montgomery County, Maryland is not letting parents opt their kids out of this super progressive, radical gender theory education stuff. For instance, imagine this is Ashley McGuire in the National Review. I'm gonna quote on and off here, but imagine if you're four year old at preschool was given a book with the intersex flag, drag queens, references to underwear. And this is part of, this is a search and find word list. Intersex flag is on the word list. Underwear, leather, xoxo and drag queen. This is from a preschool class and the parents are saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, if you're gonna do this stuff, you've gotta let me know and you've gotta let me opt out. And, and this radical Montgomery County, Maryland school district has said no, no, you're not gonna opt out anything. We're not gonna tell you what we're teaching and you don't have an option to opt out of it, no matter your religious or moral concerns. Whether you're a Catholic, a Jew, you're a Muslim, you're a devout evangelical Christian. I mean, and nevermind whether it's age appropriate or has any frigging educational value to begin with this crap. But in Mahmoud vs. Taylor, which is the name of the case, if that helps, religious parents are asking the highest court to hold the Maryland school district policy unconstitutional. They argue that the policy violates the parental rights to educate their children on sensitive matters about human sexuality according to their faith, without interference from the state. They're not even asking the school district to remove the books from the classroom or ideological sexual material from instruction, which I believe they ought to do yesterday. They're merely asking for the right to be notified and up their children out, which is a long standing precedent in our public schools with regard to sex education. And, and this stuff is just so radical compared to the, you know, testicles, ovaries, you know, uterus stuff that we' all took. But getting back to Ashley's piece in the National Review, quote, my home county has bizarrely dug in. The book list is part of a broader initiative in the district focused on Pre K through 5th grade titled Building Community with LGBTQ plus Affirming Picture Books. According to slides from that initiative, which were presented to teachers and obtained by one news outlet Teachers have been, you know what? That, that's, it's easy to pass by that PHRA1 news outlet was able to obtain slides from this district wide initiative. Like they had to go under deep cover and sneak in at night and find the locked file cabinet. Excuse me. And because they try to keep this stuff secret. I mean if that isn't a proof of guilt. Has there ever been because you hear this a fair amount when you get into this radical gender bending ideology in schools, you hear a lot of whether official policy or just teachers saying you don't have to tell your parents about this. In fact don't tell your parents about this. They might not understand it. So let's keep this between us. Name a time where it's ever appropriate for a non parental adult to say to your kid, hey, let's keep this a secret from your parents. That is sick. And that is what? That's the entire school district's official policy. The good news, the justices of the court, aside from the radical leftists, seemed very sympathetic to the parental arguments in this yesterday during the oral arguments. And we will bring you some of that audio as soon as we can get it later on in the show. But anyway, this could be a really landmark case in this topic. I went on so long about this. We don't have time for this now. I'll try to get to it later. But Ohio has like Arizona and a couple of other states. Texas is, is going big on this too. And Florida. Yeah, Florida. Serious school choice for parents to opt out of their local government school. That is not teaching the kids and or indoctrinating them into radical ideologies. Ohio is having some wonderful success with school choice programs. So we'll get to that a little bit later on. We have Mailbagger, our freedom loving quote of the day both coming up in seconds. Hope you can stick around.
