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June 13, 2022 - Doug Collins Podcast
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Joe Biden wants to withhold School Lunch funding to push Pride agenda
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The greatest thing I have ever heard in my whole life.
I could not believe my ears.
In this house, wherever the rules are disregarded, chaos and mob rule.
It has been said today, where is bravery?
I'll tell you where bravery is found and courage is found.
It's found in this minority who has lived through the last year of nothing but rules being broken, people being put down, questions not being answered, and this majority say, be damned with anything else.
We're going to impeach and do whatever we want to do.
Why?
Because we won an election.
I guarantee you, one day you'll be back in the minority and it ain't gonna be that fun.
Hey everybody, it's Doug Collins back on the Doug Collins Podcast.
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I want to start off today's podcast.
We're going to continue, and I've got several topics I want to discuss, but it is just amazing to me.
As we did last week, we talked about how Biden just seems to blame everybody for everything that's going on.
And one of the things that I think that is just missing so many times in this, and that is the Just the fact that their policies are what is not like.
Their policies are what is being rejected by the American people.
And it just seems to pile up.
Now let's think about this for just a minute.
Biden came in with every advantage you could possibly want, okay?
When he came into office, he had a willing media, a willing press.
Everybody was wanting, you know, from the media perspective, to give him more than a chance.
And then, you know, after the whole instance with the transition, with January 6th, then with the inauguration, with just everything that had piled up on the election from 2020, the media was giving, I mean, there was no bad stories about Joe Biden.
He could have stayed in the basement all he wanted to, and the media would have They never said a word about it.
In fact, they didn't say a word about it.
When he first came in, there was this lifting of spirits that everything was going to get better.
But immediately, they started implementing what Biden had promised is a far left policy of everything from bringing back mask mandates to enforcing them regulations on businesses further.
To continuing a process of isolation that was really more or less designed, frankly, to scare people, it seemed like, more than anything else.
And it began to erode a little bit of that trust, but it never broke.
So let's continue to think about what did it do?
What did they do with all this goodwill, all these great poll numbers he's now so lamenting about and blaming everybody else in the world for?
He came the first step.
And Democrats were desperate.
They had been trying to get it through, you know, many of the Democrats, especially after the election of 2020, when they knew that they were going to get to the Senate, they had been pushing to get this much bigger COVID package out there, the St. Louis American Rescue Plan.
It was just basically a boondoggle of a lot of spending that they were going to get into more and more in giving out just money into the system.
And this system, let's be very careful here as we discuss this system.
This is a system that was fragile in its beginnings.
You were coming off the pandemic.
States were starting to open back up.
But the supply chain, the economic side, and again, the base economics were not where they, I think, Biden wanted them to be especially, and then others wanted them to be as well.
And especially economists who were looking at it saying, look, we've got demand that is not as high as it, we've got demand that is high, we've got supply that is low.
This may not be the time to start inputting more government money into a system, not only into businesses, but also into personal bank accounts.
They ignored it.
In fact, Summers and many of the other economists who said that we're going to, you know, this is going to cause inflation to spike.
This is going to cause the economy to have problems.
They were basically ignored.
In fact, I can remember Jen Psaki and others in the administration from the press podium, Biden himself and others, were pushing back on that saying, and Ron Klain, the chief of staff, were pushing back saying, look, this is not going to happen.
We're going to be okay.
This money needs to get there.
If we don't get this money there, the economy is going to collapse.
All the normal horror stories that come from the left when it comes to not getting their way on economic policy.
So they started that, and that began the problem.
I'm putting this in perspective because, as we talked about last week, discussing here on the podcast, why is he blaming everybody else?
Because I don't think they've learned the lessons.
And the stimulus package, one, then we move into Afghanistan, and we've discussed it in Afghanistan here on the podcast a number of times.
That began the process, I believe, that the honeymoon was beginning to be over the complete debacle that the American people witnessed in Afghanistan was not something that they were willing to put up with.
And that began the downplay and the downturn of these poll numbers.
Again, have you seen anything else outside of the Biden administration's own discussion that are turning these poll numbers?
But they still didn't listen.
They went into the fall, still trying to get Bill back better.
You know, this colossal bill that was going to We're good to go.
But this was an infrastructure bill that had such a left turn in it and such an emphasis on climate policy and equity and roads and everything else that it just turned away to be something that, frankly, the Democrats could get behind but they weren't excited about.
The money for actual roads and bridges was less than 20% of the entire package of this bill.
And so in the end, what was supposed to be this grand bill passing, in the end, didn't really do a whole lot.
And as it progressed and nothing was happening, as we then began to see gasoline prices spike.
Why?
Because of the policies of the Biden administration.
They shut off the Keystone Pipeline.
They shut off oil well leases.
They shut off about 20% of the capacity and production of exploration here for domestic oil energy.
And so they cut all that out and then they started saying what was actually going to happen, what they were warned about through the spending package last year.
There's inflation began to creep up, gas prices began to creep up.
And then they think or thought, however you want to put it, that they were at least messaging wise saved when Putin invaded Ukraine.
And when that happened, then they can say, look, all these gas prices, everything else, we're going to blame this all on Putin.
Bottom line is that nobody's buying it.
And I will go back through this for just a minute because I wanted to emphasize that it is the policies behind this.
It is the policies that people are now looking at.
And as we go into an election year that I believe is going to favor heavily the Republicans in the fall, especially in the United States House, probably in the United States Senate.
Those policies are what is driving this force.
But then I could have not even predicted this one.
This one is just one that if you would have told me over and over again that they could actually come up with something dumber in the Biden administration to drive people away from them and to drive people off and see their poll numbers just continuing to flag, I was wrong.
And it came from the most unlikely of sources.
Now, To give you a little background, the school lunch program is not handled through the Department of Education.
It's not handled in the normal education rounds.
It's handled through the Department of Agriculture.
The school food program, the WIC program, a lot of the food SNAP program, those kind of things are all handled through the Department of Agriculture.
Food nutrition is one that Republicans and Democrats can't agree upon.
There's something to be said that providing for schools nutritious lunches, especially in areas in which they have a food desert or there's a large population who are not able to eat proper food all the time, the school lunch program, whether they get breakfast or lunch, provide those meals for those kids every day so that they can have the nutrition they need to go ahead and study and make a positive impact on their education.
For the most part, Republicans, and I know at least from my perspective and others, conservatives, our biggest concern with the school lunch program was helping people pay their share.
The ones that needed the help, yeah, let's make sure that they get fed.
The ones that could afford a little bit, we reduce lunch program, we could help them out a little bit.
And if your family could afford the $2 or $3 a day for a school lunch program, you paid the bill.
That's been some of the biggest changes.
And of course, we had during the Obama administration, we had Michelle Obama basically taking school food and making it not fun again.
They took out all the salt.
They took out some of the frills, if you would, that made the food more appealing to kids.
And in turn, that turned a lot of kids away from I tell you all this to say now in a brazen appeal to the left The Biden administration has went into an area that I never thought they would go into.
I thought, just honestly, I am dumbfounded.
That now in May, the U.S. Department of Agriculture sent a letter out to, and a policy statement out, saying to school systems all across the country where they get theirs, where they send out school nutrition, Funds that they are going to withhold these funds unless, and I'll read this.
This is straight from the USDA order.
It said, as a result, state and local agencies, program operators, and sponsors that receive funds from the food nutritional services must investigate allegations of discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation.
And then catch the last part.
Those organizations must also update their non-discrimination policies and signage to include prohibitions against discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
Joe Biden's administration is now holding school lunch money hostage to the leftist agenda of the LGBTQ community.
And basically, enforcing upon the school system that if they don't allow the children to pick which bathroom they want to go into, if boys wanted to go into girls' bathrooms, the transgender issue, this whole issue that they're basically making gender neutral your schools.
At a time in which these children are having an enormous amount of trouble just understanding and getting back in the educational system that came through a pandemic in which most of them are out of classes to start with, the Biden administration, from pressure from the far left, is choosing to use the school lunch money program to hold these systems hostage to their left agenda on campus.
It's sexual identity and gender identification.
This is amazing to me that you have an administration that is, either this is what I feel is happening.
Either they are so far down that they just don't think they can ever get back up and they're going to throw as much in it as they possibly can and they're going to let it happen and, you know, they look, they say, we're going to lose anyway, we might as well just put our agenda in there and put our stamp on it.
Or they are just so tone deaf to what is going on in the American public right now that they, you know, again, they're going to push forward with ideas and still blame it.
I just want to use a few numbers for you.
I mean, this is how important this is.
This hits low income the most.
Now, understand something.
In communities in which You're being forced into gender-neutral bathrooms, gender-neutral locker rooms, and in which we have seen pushback all across the country on this.
We saw it in Virginia in the governor's race.
We saw it in other areas in which we are just continuing to be amazed at the pushback because people want to be involved.
Now, understand something.
It's not a matter of mistreating There's a standard that's already put there for non-discrimination of folks who choose to identify in different ways.
The problem is in that identification process is how it is being implemented, especially in schools and others, in which the identification of Especially males identifying as females, but not making the transition, being able to use girls' bathrooms or girls' locker rooms.
This is something that we've become more and more familiar with.
We're hearing about it all the time.
You have what is the attack on women's sports, which science and documentation have stated all along that this is a problem, that males competing in female sports, you can just see it mostly in the results, if you want to see anywhere else, that this is becoming a problem.
So, I say all of this to listen to this.
The ones that are not for a divisive issue such as this.
Liberals who are all the time talking about the poor, the underprivileged, those who don't have the abilities on their own to feed themselves or have adequate housing or these kind of things.
These are the ones that are actually going to be hurt the worst.
So, in their push to...
Bring everybody into their left woke agenda when it comes to gender identity and sexual preference.
These are the kind of things that are being discussed.
They're going to use food money to do it, and they're going to basically put food money at risk for the kids who actually need it the most.
And it's just amazing to me.
Now, let me give you a number.
In 2018 to 2020, averaged about 26 million kids were fed through the school lunch programs.
26 million kids through 2018 to 2020 in lunches served.
And the percent of those receiving the free or reduced lunch was about 68%.
So think about what we're dealing with here.
Not only are we spending $26 million, but for those also who are being subsidized in this program so that they get free and reduced lunch, it was about 68% of these students.
So, again, there's a large percentage of folks out there.
And whether we realize this or not, and if you're fortunate enough to live in an area in which you have a grocery store or two grocery stores on every corner, consider yourself lucky.
But there's a lot of places in our society today, in cities and urban areas in which crime and other issues are just jobs and economics have caused the grocery stores to leave those areas and not be apart.
They are actual food deserts, if you would, in the middles of some of our largest urban cities.
And to take away or threaten to take away funds that would provide for the school systems to provide lunches or breakfast to those students who come to their schools is just a thought to me that is abhorrent.
It's amazing that they're using the pawn of kids in schools to press forward on a left agenda that is going to do nothing but tear up the communities in which they're involved.
And then if the communities choose not to take or they get cut off from these funds, then they're going to have to assess these funds onto their own budgets.
Many of them are going to have to raise, if they choose to do so, raise property taxes, or they're going to have to find other ways to cut stuff in their school budgets to provide for the food.
Again, when you look at this, it is interesting to me.
And we're doing this, and again, just from a statistical point of view.
You say, well, Doug, you know, the LGBTQ community and all ought to be, they should not be discriminated against.
I'm not saying you discriminate against them.
But also you have to put it in perspective that we're doing this, especially when it comes to the gender identity.
We're dealing with less than point, really 1% of the entire population.
And most of the time, depending on the study, it's been less than that.
It's grown recently in some of the younger studies.
But for the most part in the population as a whole, you're less than 1% of the population who this would affect.
And these are the adult populations.
It's harder to number the kids in this.
6% total, 7% total identify in some way in the LGBTQ community as a whole of our population.
I do not deny their rights.
I do not deny their existence.
And that's a choice that they get to live in a free country such as ours.
What is amazing to me is that Joe Biden and his administration is willing to put this all on the line for a food school nutrition program.
And they're going at the very issue that kids who need this food, who need these abilities, and also there are summer programs that also fall under this as well, that let kids have at least one good meal a day in their life.
They're willing to basically bludgeon local school systems and state school systems to come under the purview of this is what we want in this social agenda, or otherwise we're going to cut school funds off to you.
This is, again, an amazing point that I just don't understand when it comes to the Biden agenda.
When the Biden agenda is out there and they're frustrated, they're trying to turn their attention to everything else in the world.
And trying to take gas prices, they're trying to lower gas prices, they're talking about it, don't do anything about it, because if they really truly wanted to lower gas prices, then they would actually go after our production and increasing our production.
So when you hear the Biden administration out there basically saying, we are at a point in which we either don't, you know, we're going to complain about our poll numbers, But we're not going to do anything about it.
In fact, I think the bottom line here is I think the Biden administration has realized that they are in a bind when it comes to these issues.
They're in a bind because nobody likes their policies, but they have to appease the base that got them there.
And they also feel like it's not going to matter anyway.
So they have seemingly, in many ways, have given up.
They've just thrown their hands there and said, look, We're not worrying anymore about, you know, the elections in November.
We're not worrying about, you know, we'll deal with the presidential race in two more years from now.
But for right now, we're just going to push as many of these radical policies through as we can.
And the most amazing one today that I'm bringing to you here on the Doug Collins podcast is that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is threatening the school lunch program in order to further their agenda.
Folks, I can't make this stuff up.
I really can't.
But you're going to know here on the Doug Collins Podcast because I want you to be informed.
So if you hear from your school board system or you let your school board system know, you know, ask them what are they going to be doing in this policy, I think you're going to see it far more.
I mean, we've already seen school board meetings become contentious.
This is going to get even more so because if these school systems choose to adapt their policies, change their policies, and notice what that, I want you to go back here for just a second, that I don't want you to miss.
It said they must update policies and signage.
So this is not going to be something that you can hide in a policy manual at the central office.
This is not going to be something that you can take and move away from the policies that are out there.
This is something that you're really going to have to take a look at because when you take a look at it, you're going to find that You're going to see signs change.
You're going to see the girls and boys bathroom signs come down.
You're going to see the girls and boys locker room for PE and other activities to come down.
These are the things that we're facing when you deal with an administration that is out there on this far left agenda.
And we're seeing it now and it's coming back in to a lot of areas.
But I'm tying this together because I want you to know what Democrats and liberals are willing to do.
This is what I've talked about many times in the past, that Democrats are willing to push agendas, even if unpopular, and even at a price for their own elections.
Remember, I've said this many times, I'll state it again, I want you to just sort of beat it into your head with this, that the left is much more ready to give up positions in power to gain a policy.
Now, I'm sure that Biden right now is in the middle of getting finished his second year here.
He is looking, as he has said, to run for president again.
I know Harris and many of the others are trying to figure out that they want to keep the presidency.
But when you look at what they're doing, they're making no adjustments.
This is simply saying, look, when you go after the school lunch program, you've made a determination that said, look, we're not concerned anymore as much about the elected public as we are pleasing our base when it comes to these issues, and we'll deal with the elections later.
This is why I bring these up.
This is why we talk about issues like this here on the Doug Collins Podcast, because I want you to know the extent at which we're seeing this creep into.
The debate, whether it be the debate on abortion or it be on athletes and transgender athletes competing and male athletes competing in women's sports, these are all issues that have raised themselves out of a small percentage of the population to import their beliefs and their wishes upon the rest.
And the Biden administration has been willing to take this on and grow and not only take it on, but double down on it.
People are starting to see this.
You're starting to see it.
I will keep informing you of what's going on as we continue here on the Doug Collins Podcast.
I just wanted you to be aware of it.
Before we go today on the podcast, I want to touch on another issue that we talked about last week as well.
We went in depth with guns.
We went in depth with the different statistics on guns.
Since our last podcast time together on guns, the House of Representatives have went ahead and passed a package of legislation That in the end will go nowhere in the Senate.
And again, it goes back to what I have said many times, and that is what is, I said even on this podcast, what will heal you doesn't make you better.
They're going to raise the bill in the House that said they're raising, and I love how they continue to frame this, and we talked about this on the podcast, that they're framing it as the semi-automatic rifle.
A semi-automatic rifle is simply one pull, one shot guns.
And so now they're taking basically all long guns, all hunting guns, the long rifles, and they're taking it from 18 to 21 and saying we're going to match it to handguns.
And so really what they're trying to do, and I want to frame this in the proper language, they are not removing these from criminals.
Hear me clearly.
They're not saying that we're going to remove these guns from criminals.
They're saying that legally...
Able Americans who are able to buy a firearm can now no longer, if their bill was signed into law, buy it until they're 21 years old.
Now, this same 18-year-old can be asked to and be held in court as an adult.
They can be tried in court as an adult.
They can be sentenced in court as an adult.
They're able to enter into contracts.
They're able to enter into property, home buying.
They're able to enter into other aspects of adult life.
I'm concerned that there has been some who have been under 21, just like the Texas shooter who turned 18, bought two AR-15 rifles, that if we just do this, this would solve the problem.
Now remember, not all of these mass shootings were done with long rifles.
Not all of these were done with those under 21. Some were younger individuals who have had issues, but again, When you're looking at the big picture, gun deaths, as we've talked about before, are not among the rifle shotgun category.
Again, it's something to respond to.
It's something to make people say, look, if he had not been 18, this would have been in place, this would have happened.
I'll grant you that.
If this law had been in place, he could not have legally purchased the firearm.
But my question to you is, is if he wanted to actually do something bad with a firearm, do you not think he could have found it?
Joe Biden's words himself said back in the 1990s, not any laws or any restrictions are going to keep those who illegally are criminals from getting firearms.
This is Joe Biden's own words from back in the early 90s.
Also in this package was, again, looking at magazines, bump stocks, as you...
Move forward in just the normal wish list of liberal ideas when it comes to guns and also getting into safe storage at home.
Again, guns are used for self-defense.
The vast, vast majority of Americans who have a gun have a gun for self-defense.
And now if you're going to mandate storage, you're going to mandate how they store them and where they store them and the access and easy access to them in the middle of the night.
Again, you're sort of relegating this gun as far as from a self-defense perspective to non-existence.
If you're using a gun for self-defense and you have one at night and you want to be easily accessed to it, you're not going to go through a code or a combination or a key print.
You need to be able to access that firearm in a quick manner if someone is breaking into your house in the middle of the night.
Again, this is all about show.
This is all about taking the issue and moving forward.
Now, I do want to update you though.
The Senate is talking about a couple of issues that you do need to be aware of.
One is red flag issues and mandating certain parameters to the states.
This is something I want you to watch very carefully.
I know 19 states, including Florida and others, have already had these red flag laws up.
There has been a lot of concern about who can report, how they can report, and what new process rights are being given away if you report somebody that is either going to hurt themselves or hurt others with a firearm so that the police and the judge can write an order saying that you can take those firearms for a short amount of time.
This is being negotiated by John Cornyn and others.
This one would be one that I can see moving a little bit.
What you're not seeing is the age restriction on age limit being raised from 18 to 21. You're not seeing that in the Senate bill.
So, there are certain aspects here that I think you may see.
As this goes forward, it will not be what the House has presented.
And, you know, again, this is a discussion that happens every time we go through this, but there seems to be some movement in the House and the Senate.
The House, again, version will not pass the Senate, will not make it passed, and they're not going to change the cloture rule in the Senate to make this happen.
So just an update, quick update here on discussions that we've had on the Doug Collins podcast about where the gun regulations are and what the Congress's response to the tragic shootings in Texas are going to be.
So to sum it up today, again, for a Biden administration that is so worried about poll numbers, is so worried about, you know, supposedly their image and why they're not getting things done and how can they do things better, They went after today, again, the school lunch program.
Is there any bottom left to this administration that they would attack the monies for school systems that feed kids, many of which who can't afford school lunch, is the only place that they get a healthy breakfast, a healthy lunch, and when they put that out there, they're deciding to confront those and not to pander to those on the left,
that they're willing to say that unless your school system Changes its signage, changes its policies related to gender identity, and the proved view of the Biden administration when it comes to the LGBTQ community, you're going to be cut off from your school lunch fund.
Take that one and think about it.
And we'll be back next time on the Doug Collins Podcast.
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