The Charlie Kirk Show - DeSantis Vs. Disney
Aired: 2022-03-30
Duration: 33:23


=== Defining Courage Through Ron DeSantis (02:06) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey everybody, what is courage?
[00:00:02]  Courage is hard to find.
[00:00:03]  It's increasingly rare in our society, but Ron DeSantis from Florida, he's courageous.
[00:00:08]  We go through that one man who embodies what it means to be courageous.
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=== The Thinking And Doing Virtue (04:15) ===

[00:02:06]  What is the virtue that touches all the other virtues?
[00:02:12]  What is the virtue that is seemingly absent and is so hard to find in today's time?
[00:02:20]  So if you list the virtues, according to Aristotle, they have a hierarchy.
[00:02:25]  If you list the virtues, they, in some ways, are separate, but others touch each other.
[00:02:34]  So Aristotle would say the virtues would be that of benevolence, spiritedness, friendliness, wittiness, truthfulness, being generous, temperate.
[00:02:45]  But the virtue that Aristotle said is the ultimate virtue because it touches all the others.
[00:02:50]  It's the first virtue is courage.
[00:02:53]  So what is courage?
[00:02:55]  Well, courage is doing the right thing, knowing your ends, knowing what you want, even though you do not know how it is going to work out.
[00:03:03]  Courage is the right disposition towards pain.
[00:03:07]  Courage, as George S. Patton would say multiple times, is the most necessary yet absent characteristic in men.
[00:03:15]  Now, in order to be courageous, you must have a good end in mind.
[00:03:19]  If you don't have a good end, then your actions are actually not courageous.
[00:03:22]  They're foolish.
[00:03:24]  So, for example, the warriors fighting for Vladimir Putin, they might exhibit something that would be categorized by the Russian government as courageous, but we would say it's foolish.
[00:03:36]  You're fighting for a foolish cause.
[00:03:37]  You're invading a sovereign country for land and for treasure.
[00:03:42]  That's not courage.
[00:03:43]  In order to have something be courageous, it's not just having the right disposition towards pain.
[00:03:50]  It's not just doing the thing that needs to be done when you don't know how it's going to work out, but you must have the proper end in mind.
[00:03:58]  You must be fighting for the good.
[00:03:59]  It is a vivid virtue.
[00:04:02]  It is both a thinking and doing virtue.
[00:04:05]  In the Nicomedemian ethics, Aristotle would say that courage is so absent that when you see it, it is an act of beauty, that which is perfected in being.
[00:04:19]  Courage is hard to come by right now in America, but when we see it, we almost stop in awe.
[00:04:25]  We point.
[00:04:26]  When we see a mom show up at a school board meeting fighting for her kids' curriculum against CRT, we stand and we point and we say, we like that.
[00:04:35]  When we see truckers in Canada driving into Ottawa knowing that their entire livelihoods will be taken from them, we stand and we point, we say, we like that.
[00:04:45]  You see, courage has become a spectacle because it is so rare, it's hard to find.
[00:04:50]  Plato would say about courage, courage is knowing what not to fear.
[00:04:56]  Not that you shouldn't be afraid, but it's knowing what not to fear.
[00:05:02]  As there is this lack of courage in America and it seems to be spreading almost a pathogen of cowardice, when we see courage in the Republican Party, we should stop, we should platform it, we should talk about why it's there,
[00:05:18]  why this person is seemingly unafraid of the things that are thrown at him, why other people in similar positions don't act the way that this person acts, and we should teach others why he is being courageous, because it's not that he's just standing up to the mob.
[00:05:36]  It's not that this person is not just standing up to the most powerful forces, both in the media and the cultural space, in the movie-making space.
[00:05:43]  It's that he has a good end.
[00:05:45]  He's fighting for something that is virtuous, that is beautiful.
[00:05:50]  I'm, of course, talking about Governor Ron DeSantis.
[00:05:55]  Now, Governor Ron DeSantis is a courageous leader.
[00:05:58]  Now, mind you, courage is a lot easier when you have your priorities and your values properly aligned in the rightful hierarchy.
[00:06:06]  We as Christians believe there is a hierarchy to virtue and value.
[00:06:10]  For example, if faith is the most important thing in your life, you can more easily make the right choice when you know it may have a financial implication, that making money might not actually be the ultimate value.

=== Disney As A Powerful Force (07:04) ===

[00:06:22]  We do not believe it's the ultimate value on this program.
[00:06:26]  Nor does Ron DeSantis.
[00:06:29]  Ron DeSantis does not believe power or political popularity is the highest value.
[00:06:34]  In the hierarchy of good, in the view of Ron DeSantis, decisive action, despite the backlash that will be received, is protecting children is at the top of the hierarchy of what a person in political power needs to do.
[00:06:50]  Even the most extreme, small government, minarchist, anarchist, libertarian can agree that the role of government would be first and foremost to protect those that cannot protect themselves, protecting children.
[00:07:02]  This is not a controversial statement.
[00:07:03]  Protecting the innocence of children is not just good for the children themselves.
[00:07:07]  It's necessary for a civilization.
[00:07:10]  It's necessary for a society.
[00:07:12]  A nation cannot continue if the innocence of children is continually tampered with.
[00:07:18]  If five, six, and seven-year-olds are learning things that 15, 16, and 17-year-olds shouldn't really be learning, then the entire social fabric will fall apart.
[00:07:26]  And tyranny will be the only default setting for a generation's innocence who is lost because they're going to try to default.
[00:07:34]  The default setting will be to somebody that could tell them what to do.
[00:07:37]  When innocence is lost, it creates a widespread moral chaos.
[00:07:43]  It creates a country that is in a state of confusion, hysteria.
[00:07:51]  Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, had a choice to make.
[00:07:54]  Now, mind you, I've spent a lot of time in Florida.
[00:07:56]  Was formerly a resident of Florida before I came here to Arizona.
[00:08:01]  Every state kind of has a lobby that the entrenched political class is afraid of confronting.
[00:08:09]  I'll be going to Arkansas.
[00:08:11]  Actually, I fly into Arkansas.
[00:08:13]  When do I get in there?
[00:08:14]  Well, tomorrow.
[00:08:15]  When I get into Arkansas, when you land in Arkansas, it's well known that you could do whatever you want to do politically, but you do not cross Walmart.
[00:08:25]  That all roads to political power in Arkansas go through Bentonville.
[00:08:30]  That the multi-billion megaplex will control public policy all throughout Walmart, all throughout Arkansas.
[00:08:40]  That is what works in Arkansas.
[00:08:41]  Every state has a couple employers like that.
[00:08:44]  Every state has a couple of companies that basically run the whole state.
[00:08:48]  In Washington, it's Amazon and Microsoft.
[00:08:51]  In California, it's Facebook and Google.
[00:08:54]  Every state has a couple massive companies where you just kind of back off and say, all right, I'm not going to sign that bill.
[00:09:00]  I'm going to do whatever is necessary.
[00:09:04]  Well, in Florida, that company is Disney.
[00:09:07]  Not just because of the multimedia component, but of course, Disney World, which basically runs Orlando.
[00:09:15]  Now, Ron DeSantis stared Disney down, one of the largest employers, one of the most powerful special interests in the state of Florida, and won.
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[00:10:49]  So as we talk about courage, we talk about Ron DeSantis, it's important that we dive into the specifics.
[00:10:57]  So Ron DeSantis was given an opportunity.
[00:11:00]  Disney, one of the largest employers in the state of Florida, in fact, I think it is the single largest employer in the state of Florida.
[00:11:08]  We can get a fact check on that, but I believe it is.
[00:11:10]  Came out aggressively.
[00:11:12]  Now, what is it that they came out aggressively?
[00:11:14]  Well, they called it the Don't Say Gay Bill, which of course is Hollywood propaganda.
[00:11:20]  It's not about not saying gay.
[00:11:22]  It is a parental rights bill and an anti-grooming bill to protect five and six-year-olds from learning about sexual activity with men and men, women and women.
[00:11:33]  And guess what?
[00:11:33]  Men and women.
[00:11:34]  All those topics, according to the bill, are off limits for four, five, and six-year-olds to be learning and to be consuming in public classrooms in Florida.
[00:11:47]  Now, because of that, Disney completely lost its mind.
[00:11:50]  Disney no longer is a media company.
[00:11:53]  Disney is now a Democrat super PAC that owns the rights to Cinderella.
[00:12:00]  Disney is no longer a unique or entrepreneurial or creative company.
[00:12:05]  Disney owns the rights to Hulu and ESPN.
[00:12:08]  Disney owns Disney World.
[00:12:09]  And if you've ever been to Orlando to Disney World, it's one of the most impressive infrastructures you ever go to.
[00:12:15]  It runs like a machine.
[00:12:16]  Tens of thousands of people work at Disney World alone.
[00:12:21]  It basically runs the greater Orlando area.
[00:12:24]  So when they came out against the bill, that was them saying, hey, Ron DeSantis, you don't want to pick a fight with the state's largest employer.
[00:12:34]  Now, again, this is like picking a fight with Coca-Cola in Georgia.
[00:12:40]  It's like picking a fight with Boeing in Chicago.
[00:12:44]  Or it's like picking a fight with Ford Mortar Company, Chrysler, and GM in Detroit.
[00:12:49]  It's like picking a fight with the oil industry in Houston.
[00:12:53]  You just don't do it.
[00:12:55]  You like back off.
[00:12:56]  It's like if the banks came after you as a New York mayor or New York governor, that's the line you don't cross.
[00:13:03]  So when they came out, Bob Chepik, the CEO of Disney, and said he's going to spend all this money and he was threatening Ron DeSantis, Ron DeSantis had every excuse out there to back away.
[00:13:16]  The largest employer in my state, or one of the largest employers in my state, are telling me not to sign the bill.
[00:13:24]  Yep, top employer in Florida.
[00:13:25]  That's right.
[00:13:25]  62,000 employees.

=== Standing Up To Corporate Wrath (14:57) ===

[00:13:26]  Thank you.
[00:13:27]  Walt Disney World.
[00:13:28]  I'm just going to back off.
[00:13:30]  I don't want to crush all these jobs.
[00:13:32]  Instead, Ron DeSantis doubled down.
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[00:14:54]  So Ron DeSantis had a choice to make.
[00:14:56]  Either he was going to stand with the voters of his state and the mission and the promise he made to protect children, or he was going to pander to the major corporation, the number one employer in Florida, and all of the alphabet mafia cartel that was pushing against it.
[00:15:18]  Now, this is not an anti-gay bill.
[00:15:21]  It's not a don't say gay bill anymore.
[00:15:23]  It's an anti-grooming bill.
[00:15:26]  It's against teachers to use their positions of power to communicate extremely radical, graphic, and inappropriate material to five, six, or seven-year-olds.
[00:15:40]  This should not be controversial.
[00:15:43]  This should have been a unanimous support.
[00:15:45]  Disney should be in support of this, actually.
[00:15:50]  Disney is in the business of producing content for children.
[00:15:54]  But according to Disney, they want six-year-olds to know the inner workings of sexual activity between two men.
[00:16:02]  That's Disney's stated position.
[00:16:06]  Now, let's get to the tape here.
[00:16:08]  Let's go to Cut 20, Ron DeSantis at the bill signing ceremony, where he says clearly, I don't care what the corporate media outlets say.
[00:16:18]  I don't care what Hollywood says.
[00:16:20]  I don't care what big corporations say.
[00:16:22]  Here I stand.
[00:16:22]  I'm not backing down.
[00:16:25]  Ron DeSantis is not just bold.
[00:16:28]  Remember, you could be bold for the wrong cause.
[00:16:32]  The warriors of Mao Seitong were bold that they ran into the machine gun fire.
[00:16:36]  The warriors for the Emperor of Imperial Japan were bold on their side of Iwo Jima, but they weren't courageous because their end was not correct.
[00:16:48]  Ron DeSantis is both bold and courageous.
[00:16:52]  His end is to value the innocence of children above corporate donations, above Hollywood approval, and above Disney's liking of him.
[00:17:06]  Play cut 20.
[00:17:08]  And so we will continue to recognize that in the state of Florida, parents have a fundamental role in the education, health care, and well-being of their children.
[00:17:19]  We will not move from that.
[00:17:21]  I don't care what corporate media outlets say.
[00:17:25]  I don't care what Hollywood says.
[00:17:27]  I don't care what big corporations say.
[00:17:30]  Here I stand.
[00:17:31]  I'm not backing down.
[00:17:36]  And we stand with you, Ron DeSantis.
[00:17:40]  We stand with you.
[00:17:42]  As a governor of a major state, a swing state, he had every reason to try to water down the bill.
[00:17:49]  He had every reason to try to send it back to committee and try to have them cut it up and just like, hey, we can't.
[00:17:56]  It's an election year.
[00:17:58]  How many times do you hear from corporate Republicans?
[00:18:00]  It's an election year, okay?
[00:18:02]  We don't want to tick off the voters.
[00:18:05]  We don't want to try to get a little bit of a rumbling of the media.
[00:18:09]  Ron DeSantis couldn't care less.
[00:18:13]  He said, I care more about protecting children than my approval rating, even though his approval rating is going to go up because he's protecting children.
[00:18:24]  Disney came out aggressively again, and they said, quote, Florida's HB 1557, also known as the Don't Say Gay Bill, should never have passed and should never be signed in law.
[00:18:35]  What is that a threat, Disney?
[00:18:36]  Maybe you're not as powerful as you think you are, you degenerates.
[00:18:39]  Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts.
[00:18:44]  Won't be.
[00:18:45]  And we remain committed to supporting the national and state organizations working to achieve that.
[00:18:51]  We are dedicated to standing up for the rights and safety of the LGBTQ members of the Disney family as the LGBTQ community in Florida and across the country.
[00:18:59]  I mean, have you read the bill, Disney?
[00:19:02]  And the answer is no, or maybe they have, but here's the thing: Disney and Bob Chapik, they're held hostage by their gay employees.
[00:19:10]  It's just that simple.
[00:19:12]  They are.
[00:19:12]  They're in the creative world.
[00:19:14]  And I'm not accusing them of this, just the way it is.
[00:19:16]  They're in the arts and entertainment, and there's a disproportionate amount of gay people that work in that community.
[00:19:22]  And so they're making a huge mess of it.
[00:19:26]  And so Disney is pandering to their employees because they don't want more employee walkouts.
[00:19:30]  They still need to keep their movie production on time.
[00:19:33]  And they know, I mean, it would basically be like Remington, or it would be like any major ammunition manufacturer basically not coming out against an anti-gun bill.
[00:19:47]  Again, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it.
[00:19:48]  It's the way it is.
[00:19:49]  Disney has a lot of gay people that work for them.
[00:19:53]  Now, for whatever reason, these gay people feel really motivated, the employees of Disney, that six-year-olds need to learn about their incredibly graphic sexual activity.
[00:20:04]  Why that's a concern?
[00:20:05]  I don't know.
[00:20:06]  It's creepy and it's weird.
[00:20:08]  Now, has Disney put out a statement about the forceful genocide happening in China?
[00:20:12]  Of course not.
[00:20:12]  They eagerly, eagerly do business in China.
[00:20:16]  Now, to give you an idea of how the Hollywood cartel is responding to this, this was during the Academy Awards.
[00:20:26]  I know that we are all worried about the Will Smith-Chris Rock incident.
[00:20:29]  Here's Amy Schumer, who kind of says she's a disgusting person.
[00:20:34]  She is.
[00:20:35]  She's awful.
[00:20:36]  She talks about like shouting her abortion and all of this.
[00:20:39]  Not a fan.
[00:20:40]  And of course, Amy Schumer and others intentionally smear the truth to the millions of people that were watching the Oscars.
[00:20:49]  Play cut 29.
[00:20:50]  We're going to have a great night tonight.
[00:20:53]  And for you people in Florida, we're going to have a gay night.
[00:20:57]  Gay, gay, gay!
[00:21:02]  Everyone applauds.
[00:21:03]  Yay!
[00:21:04]  The automatic applause of the clamoring cultural class, even though nothing in the bill is around that.
[00:21:12]  Randy Whitgarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers, said, quote, Today, Governor DeSantis signed Florida's Don't Say Gay Bill.
[00:21:18]  While the governor's intent is political, the non-political consequences are very real and very damaging.
[00:21:25]  Pause.
[00:21:26]  Can anyone ask these people what the very real and very damaging effects are?
[00:21:30]  No, specifically, she says, quote, this bill hurts children, hurts families, and makes it hard for teachers to do their jobs.
[00:21:39]  It's so Orwellian.
[00:21:41]  It's the opposite of the truth.
[00:21:43]  Hurts children, hurts families, makes it hard for teachers to do their jobs.
[00:21:47]  Have you read the bill?
[00:21:48]  Of course they haven't.
[00:21:51]  Now, I'm going to go to cut.
[00:21:53]  Actually, let me now broaden this.
[00:21:55]  This is why what Ron DeSantis has done is so extraordinary.
[00:21:58]  Not only did he stand up to the largest employer in Florida, but he has now differentiated himself amongst other Republican governors across the country.
[00:22:09]  Now, remember Asa Hutchinson, the governor of Arkansas, very unimpressive corporate shill that calls himself a Republican.
[00:22:18]  Remember when he was arguing that children need to have the right to get chemically castrated in the state of Arkansas?
[00:22:25]  This was largely and was suspected, but never quite proven, but we know it.
[00:22:29]  We know what happens because Walmart started to interfere with the legislative process in Arkansas.
[00:22:36]  Remember, I connected the two.
[00:22:38]  If you're going to oppose a big bill that the big employer in your state, Walmart in Arkansas, Coca-Cola in Georgia, Amazon in Washington, so on and so forth, then you're going to have to experience the wrath of that corporation and most governors back down.
[00:22:58]  Remember this when Arkansas governor defended the veto of the transgender bill, said it was overly broad and extreme.
[00:23:04]  This is what, this is how most Republican governors act.
[00:23:07]  Play cut 31.
[00:23:09]  Well, it's a great concern.
[00:23:10]  And let me emphasize that I would have signed a bill that simply prohibited sex reassignment surgery for those minors.
[00:23:19]  But this went much further than that into restricting hormonal treatment with a parent and the doctor's consent or agreement that that is the right plan.
[00:23:30]  This bill was overbroad.
[00:23:32]  It was extreme.
[00:23:33]  And that's the reason I vetoed it.
[00:23:35]  And even most importantly, it didn't have a grandfather clause.
[00:23:39]  Yeah, right.
[00:23:39]  So he's on MSNBC of all places because he knows that any conservative outlet wouldn't have him.
[00:23:45]  As soon as a Republican, you get embraced by MSNBC and the Washington Post, you should know you're in the wrong.
[00:23:51]  That's just the rules of the new tribal moment we're in.
[00:23:53]  I wish that wasn't the case.
[00:23:55]  Those are the rules.
[00:23:56]  So Asa Hutchinson goes on and says, you know, I really think that 13-year-olds need to be able to get puberty blockers.
[00:24:04]  I think that we as Reagan conservatives need to be.
[00:24:08]  No, okay?
[00:24:09]  And Ron DeSantis doesn't believe that either.
[00:24:13]  And so, but this is the new normal, is that most governors, like the spineless governor of Indiana, Governor Holcomb, vetoed a bill banning transgender people from competing against girls in sports.
[00:24:27]  Governor Holcomb stands with what lobby would actually be the pro-trans lobby?
[00:24:34]  Not just the Alphabet Mafia, but the pharmaceutical companies.
[00:24:38]  Pharmaceutical companies stand to make billions of dollars administering puberty blockers.
[00:24:43]  Where do people get their puberty blockers filled?
[00:24:46]  Oh, sometimes maybe at a Walmart pharmacy in Arkansas.
[00:24:50]  Do you see all that all might be connected?
[00:24:53]  Or how about the Utah governor, Spencer Cox, who recently has come out in the last couple of weeks and he vetoed a bill protecting women's sports and how state Republican lawmakers were able to override his veto.
[00:25:07]  He intentionally defied his voters.
[00:25:10]  So there you have Holcomb, you have Burnham from North Dakota.
[00:25:14]  Governor Burnham does not stand at all with female athletes in North Dakota, typical corporate position.
[00:25:21]  Asa Hutchinson, Governor Holcomb.
[00:25:24]  How many of these Republican governors continually defy their voters?
[00:25:28]  Answer a lot.
[00:25:29]  Play cut 21.
[00:25:31]  Now to the state of Utah enacting an anti-trans sports ban after lawmakers voted to override the governor's veto.
[00:25:38]  GOP lawmakers in Utah yesterday pushed through new legislation that bans transgender athletes from playing on girls' teams, overriding a veto from the governor.
[00:25:48]  I just love how they say it's anti-trans.
[00:25:50]  No, no, no.
[00:25:50]  Actually, it's just pro-children, pro-women.
[00:25:54]  And so here you have Spencer Cox, you have Asa Hutchinson, you have Doug Burnham, you have Holcomb, four Republican governors.
[00:26:01]  And guess what?
[00:26:02]  What do Arkansas, North Dakota, Indiana, and Utah all have in common?
[00:26:07]  We can get the Jeopardy music going.
[00:26:09]  They're all more Republican than Florida.
[00:26:12]  A lot more, actually.
[00:26:15]  Arkansas, Indiana, North Dakota, and Utah are states where I'm just guessing, we can get it fact-checked, that on average, Trump won by 15 to 20 points.
[00:26:24]  North Dakota, Utah, Indiana, and Arkansas are some of the deepest red states in the country.
[00:26:30]  And yet Ron DeSantis, in a state where fact has more registered Democrats than Republicans, signs a bill that Asa Hutchinson, Holcomb, Burnham, and Spencer Cox wouldn't get near in touch.
[00:26:42]  Now, they're separate bills, but they're all in the same sort of family of bills.
[00:26:46]  They're all in the similar category.
[00:26:48]  Why is that?
[00:26:49]  Because Ron DeSantis has a spine.
[00:26:52]  Ron DeSantis has another piece of anatomy that I won't say on radio, but you could fill it in.
[00:26:58]  The type of anatomy that Asa Hutchinson wants kids to be able to remove.
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[00:27:59]  It really does come down to: are you willing to embrace the machine gun fire coming from the media towards a virtuous and moral end?
[00:28:11]  For Governor Holcomb of Indiana, the answer is no.
[00:28:14]  For Governor Bergnam of North Dakota, the answer is no.
[00:28:17]  For Governor Cox in Utah, the answer is no.
[00:28:20]  For Governor Hutchinson in Arkansas, the answer is no.

=== Holding The Line On Education (04:59) ===

[00:28:24]  For Ron DeSantis, the answer is yes.
[00:28:26]  In a battleground state, in an election year, Ron DeSantis holds the line and says, I don't care.
[00:28:34]  I am here.
[00:28:35]  Basically, here's what he's saying.
[00:28:36]  And it's a beautiful thing to hear because there's a spiritual component to this, which is I am elevating what is good over what feels good.
[00:28:45]  I am elevating what is right for my voters over for what might give me comfort and pleasure.
[00:28:52]  The Washington Post has come out with a lengthy defense of Spencer Cox from Utah.
[00:28:59]  Washington Post comes out and says, on transgender kids and sports, Spencer Cox puts the whole GOP to shame.
[00:29:05]  See, the Washington Post has great things to say about Spencer Cox in Utah.
[00:29:11]  And what does the media say about Ron DeSantis out yesterday?
[00:29:16]  How Ron DeSantis is emulating Vladimir Putin.
[00:29:20]  So teachers are starting to speak out in Florida.
[00:29:24]  This super creepy teacher.
[00:29:27]  Someone's got to keep eyes on this person.
[00:29:30]  Really weird.
[00:29:31]  Shouldn't be allowed to teach if this is how they're thinking.
[00:29:34]  Quote, really upset that this teacher can't discuss his gay love life with kindergartners.
[00:29:42]  It's so unbelievable.
[00:29:43]  You have to laugh while I do this.
[00:29:44]  Just play cut 32.
[00:29:46]  Yeah, you know, it's twofold.
[00:29:48]  It really hits hard in my heart professionally and personally, both.
[00:29:53]  Professionally, it truly makes me feel like I am not trusted as a professional.
[00:30:01]  That's what we do as educators.
[00:30:02]  We build relationships with our kids.
[00:30:04]  And in order to build relationships, you talk about your home life.
[00:30:07]  You talk about what you do on the weekends.
[00:30:09]  That's building community.
[00:30:11]  It scares me to death that I am not going to be able to have these conversations with my children because they're going to ask me what I did on the weekend.
[00:30:19]  I don't want to have to hide that my partner and I went paddleboarding this weekend.
[00:30:23]  Wait, hold on.
[00:30:23]  He said, my children?
[00:30:25]  They're not your children, actually, weirdo creep.
[00:30:28]  You're a kindergarten teacher.
[00:30:30]  Teach them phonics.
[00:30:34]  What were you doing before this bill, exactly, you creep?
[00:30:38]  Oh, yeah, I was paddleboarding through the Miami Bay shirtless with my gay lover.
[00:30:44]  Like, actually, you shouldn't be talking to kindergarteners about it.
[00:30:46]  You're proving the point why we need this bill, you weirdo.
[00:30:50]  No, we're going to build relationships with you.
[00:30:52]  Actually, you shouldn't be in your children if that's the way you're talking.
[00:30:56]  Like, okay, you're college.
[00:30:57]  You can go talk to college kids about your gay love life all day long.
[00:31:00]  Yeah, I don't want kindergartners around that, and you shouldn't either.
[00:31:03]  Like phonics, math, physics, they're not your children.
[00:31:08]  They're not.
[00:31:10]  Ron DeSantis had a perfect response.
[00:31:13]  This is how every Republican should act.
[00:31:15]  Courage, courage, courage.
[00:31:17]  Play cut 30.
[00:31:20]  There's even people in Hollywood that are opposed to providing protections for parents and enforcing parents' rights.
[00:31:28]  One thing I'll say about that is: if the people who held up degenerates like Harvey Weinstein up as exemplars and as heroes and as all that, if those are the types of people that are opposing us on parents' rights, I wear that like a badge of honor.
[00:31:47]  And you should.
[00:31:49]  In a bill that should not be controversial, now proven by this weirdo on MSNBC who's like really worried his kindergartners won't be clued in to his like gay paddleboarding sessions all over like Melbourne, Florida.
[00:32:03]  Like, super weird.
[00:32:05]  Like, yeah, I'm not trusted as a professional.
[00:32:07]  Actually, yeah, I don't trust you at all, actually, after that clip.
[00:32:11]  The media is losing their mind because they lost.
[00:32:14]  That's why they're losing their mind.
[00:32:15]  They don't lose their mind when Spencer Cox runs to the hills and retreats.
[00:32:19]  They don't lose their mind when Asa Hutchinson panters to Walmart.
[00:32:21]  They don't lose their mind when Holcomb retreats in Indiana or Burnham in North Dakota.
[00:32:26]  No, they lose their mind when they lose because they did.
[00:32:29]  Disney, with all their clout and their $250 billion in market cap, Ron DeSantis said, nice try.
[00:32:35]  The people are with me.
[00:32:36]  The Alphabet Mafia tried to do everything they could.
[00:32:39]  Nice try.
[00:32:41]  And by the way, we have tons of gay friends on this program that feel exactly the same way we do.
[00:32:45]  Guy Benson, Rick Rinnell, Dave Rubin, they think this bill is not just good, it's a great bill to protect children.
[00:32:53]  Ron DeSantis is a profile in courage.
[00:32:57]  Most of the Republican Party is a profile in being the Vichy French.
[00:33:01]  If you don't know who that is, look it up.
[00:33:06]  Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
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[00:33:15]  God bless.
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