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Oct. 25, 2023 - Louder with Crowder
01:12:21
Hamas Denies Resources to Gaza & Trump Attacks RINO Speaker Candidate!
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again and again K29
Well, that's necessary hot tea today, because everyone here, for some reason the bubonic plague has made its way across the office.
It has.
Which is, you know, that's not why I wasn't here Monday, we had a, you know, we work on things behind the scenes, but then yesterday I said, I would go in but I can't hear!
And I still can't hear in my left ear today.
Oh no, that's the headphones.
We're messing with you.
What?
Ah!
So, uh, we have a lot to get- it's just that congestion.
Have you- have you- maybe it's COVID.
Who knows?
Uh, you comment below if you've had COVID recently.
Just don't get tested, please.
Don't get tested because then the communists win.
So- Today we're going to be talking about quite a few things.
I know everyone else is talking about the speaker race, we'll touch on that, but guess what?
Doesn't really matter that much.
What do I mean?
You can't affect it.
Okay, bring up the scorecard there, Toolman.
We're also going to be talking about the first ever non-binary trans referee.
That's redundant, I should just say trans referee.
And then Gaza right now, people are talking about how there is no fuel in Gaza because of Israel.
The truth is, Incorrect.
Wrong.
Boom.
Sorry, not the truth is incorrect.
That is incorrect.
The truth is you are hearing a lie, and we are going to do a segment tomorrow.
So tune in tomorrow on the actual, this long-standing myth that Israel doesn't allow the Palestinians to have access to their own water.
That's not true.
Some of the media regurgitates.
But more importantly today, as we talk about all of this, I like to discuss things that you can control, or things that we can, at least to some degree, have a positive impact when we discuss it.
Property taxes.
This is something that right now may not be on your radar, but as we go into elections, people campaign on it and they try and throw out some red meat lines.
Property taxes, where they go, how they affect you, and really how it's effectively long-term theft.
So my question to you is, how much do you pay in property taxes, where do you think the money is going, and do you feel like you're getting ripped off?
Of course the answer to the last one is yes, but I ask that you show your work.
All right.
That's fair.
Number two, CEO, Gerald, how are you?
I'm doing fantastic.
I have a new lens now.
I don't have the fisheye lens.
Yeah, but it looks like you're in hell.
It all has a red tint.
Yeah, but I have the American flag behind me, so that's... It looks like you're burning the flag.
But I'm not.
I know you're not, but it looks like you are.
Why is that?
Look at me and look at him.
It's a red tint.
You're not that pink.
Do I have a red hue?
You look like one of those lobsters.
Tim, are you doing this on purpose?
Are you punking me right now?
No.
You're making it seem like a Hamas video from hell.
Alright, and then in third chair today, when you hear this you know who it is.
He's going to be at the Chicago Improv Friday and Saturday, the 27th and the 28th.
And now his show Off Limits right here on Mug Club is moving to Tuesdays.
That's news to me, but I'm glad he makes it work.
Brian Callen, how are you, sir?
I'm good.
Give your listeners a second to stop cheering and I'll tell you how I'm doing.
I'm not congested.
Are you guys good?
By the way, do you love how he demanded that we make a promo for Off Limits that looked like Steve Jobs?
Bring that up again.
It was a photo I found.
I bring to you the new Off Limits.
Yeah, that was taken by my friend Aaron.
I don't remember taking that though.
Are you a fruitarian?
I'm a fruitarian and I have no furniture in my home.
I sit on the floor.
Do you know what a fruitarian is?
Yes, it's where you just eat fruit from the tree.
No, no, no.
You only eat... No, see, you're incorrect.
Admonish him.
Admonish him.
I hope he does a lot better on Off Limits.
Tell you what, you are well within the limits right now, okay?
I don't know what you do with your off limits, but fruitarian is where you only eat the fruit that has already fallen from the tree, because that means it wants you to spread its seed.
It's the only way to live harmoniously.
Oh, really?
Because what I do is I take the fruit from the tree, but then I poo outside.
Doesn't matter.
Really?
Fruitarian's only the fruit that has already fallen.
It's the kind of crazy that has Freud shuffling papers saying, I don't have a form for this shit.
Are you a shititarian?
I mean, I'm sorry.
Yes, I do.
Pardon my language.
No, it's a full word.
It's not the word you think it is.
No, it's not the word.
Well, either way, you guys are all congested, and I just want everybody to know that my head is clear, but my heart is full.
Yes.
My heart is full.
But if you're a fruitarian, you'll die young.
Bitch.
He shuns traditional cancer treatment.
By the way, I don't know if we're there yet, but if at any point today while you're watching on YouTube and you see this, Head on over to Rumble and watch on Rumble and of course you get to keep watching Mug Club with one click on Rumble.
We're just on YouTube because, you know, a lot of you still hang out there and you should be ashamed of yourselves.
But I get it!
We're about to head into YouTube dump territory because this is our first, just as a palate cleanse, here is a transgender quad amputee.
Is that the term?
Ampu-quad?
Yeah, I would call it a quadruple amputee.
Quadruple amputee.
See, that's why nothing's off-limits with Mr. Callum.
Well, no, a pentuple amputee would be a... Oh, okay, all right.
I don't think that's a real thing.
Well, if you lost your... never mind.
So, quadruple amputee.
I almost feel we're going to be in the River Styx.
doing a viral trend on TikTok.
And I said I'm a thank you bae.
So, I'm going to be doing a viral trend on TikTok.
And I'm going to be doing a viral trend on TikTok.
the the
look I've already lost the other four things that...
Kickstand.
That's why I said pent.
Yes.
That's why I said a pentuple.
So bad.
I can't count to pent.
I can only go quad.
And then I skip pent and I go to hex.
It's because you didn't pay attention in Latin, dude.
I didn't.
I didn't.
I didn't and I speak French and that's my fault because all the romance languages are based in Latin.
So.
Wait, tell me more about romance languages.
Please.
Please.
I love romance.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
You seek it.
So, trans, but it's not because it's not off limits with Brian.
It's not off limits.
Not everything.
So here's another thing.
I stand by that name!
That was a segue into Monday.
By the way, and of course, a stunning act of bravery.
Stunning, beautiful act of bravery.
Che Flores has come out as the first ever NBA non-binary.
Trans non-binary is the term they use.
Referee.
And by the way, before we move on with this, we actually have a video of the referee in action.
Just off limits.
That's off-limits.
You know where your limits are.
And I'm not talking about my amazing podcast on Tuesday.
Hit the like button if you don't think it's quite fully stunning and brave.
Because we're dealing with nuance here.
Here's a decision to come out.
We're going to get to the speaker stuff that really doesn't matter.
On Z's decision to come out, Shea, formerly Sherry... It's not very creative, you just chop off the yard and the wall.
I mean, come on, that's going the other way.
Says, one piece I was missing for myself was that no one knew how I identified... It's Max Holloway?
Being misgendered, as she, her, always just felt like a little jab to the gut, I can now go through the world and even my job a lot more comfortably.
And this person came out, because this is how you know that people are super oppressed.
How many puff pieces, 3,700 word puff pieces have you read from GQ on referees in the NBA?
Formerly female referees.
Another article about a referee.
This is fascinating.
Yes, that's why I subscribe to Gentleman's Quarterly.
Although really, we just had a quarter gentleman.
I like that it's a little jab to the gut.
Not a jab to the gut, but just a little.
A little jab to the gut.
I mean, that hairstyle is a jab to my gut.
Please.
Come on now.
That's off limits.
If it was the previous person, that would just be a jab to the everything.
So a 3700 word puff piece in GQ, and I know this seems, but here's the thing, this is how they try to slowly, continually condition you, where you're just going, oh, yeah, sure, yeah, you're a female, you're a referee, yeah, yeah, of course, and referees are the real heroes, that's why we have write-ups on, you know, time, the language from the article.
Is confusing.
And this just shows you people can't even play by their own rules.
It says, but in September, ahead of the trip to Brooklyn for the NBA Referee's annual preseason meetings, Flores realized they could do things more on their terms this time.
In the past, they might have made a trip to the mall to get some unflashy polo shirts and khakis, professional clothes that, in their words, I'm never freaking going to wear again.
So this is the issue that we run into.
So this is trans, okay, but plural.
not binary transnode.
So, let's get started. So, this is the one that I'm going to be using. So, I'm going
to be using the one that I'm going to be using. So, I'm going to be using the one that I'm
going to be using. So, I'm going to be using the one that I'm going to be using. So, I'm
going to be using the one that I'm going to be using.
The French! The French!
You had the opportunity to change your name, change it to something that everybody can pronounce.
By the way, do you think what was going through her head is like, I'm one of only maybe a handful of female referees in the NBA, and they're like, ah, we've got eight female referees now.
She's like, dang it!
I need something else.
I'm the first non-binary trans referee.
But I also love how this person is a man, but also still making the catty women comments.
I'm never wearing unflashy polo shirts and khakis again.
You're a referee!
Shut up!
As a lesbian, which is I think really what's going on here.
I have nightmares about being an NBA referee.
Not just nightmares about being in prison, but I'm surrounded by black guys.
Now, that one man's nightmare is another man's fantasy.
You're going in the outer rims because it's not off-limits.
You see that?
You see that?
This area is off-limits, guys.
And by the way, you guys are going to need to hit the YouTube button.
button just on this very last word we are going to play on my
phone.
We can never do here on YouTube.
We'll end with Rumble, we can, but you know, we'll take your chats and stuff.
Okay.
They hit it.
So, the House Speaker race.
Look, this is a genuine question.
Do you care?
And I say this because, first off, we try to not discuss things at length on the show
over which you can have no appreciable effect.
You're not voting on this, and I know what this process looks like, to be clear.
It is a bunch of phone calls, favors, quid pro quo, and this is why you end up with speakers.
Most of the time, even people who you like before they become a speaker, they end up being compromised.
And you say, oh man, I really was thinking we'd nail it with that one.
This isn't really something you can have a huge effect on, and so it kind of is, it's like sports betting.
It doesn't matter the combination of ringdings and pretzels that you eat at home.
You're not going to change it.
Your job is to elect Your representative, so that hopefully there's a better pool from which to draw.
At this point, this is the swamp, making a swampy decision, and hopefully you end up with one who's not as swampy as the rest.
Right, that's what you hope.
This is more of like a spectator sport right now, but because they're covering it, we just want to give you guys a couple of insights because they're trying to make it look like the Republican Party is in disarray when they're not wrong on this one.
Oh, and by the way, really quickly, before we talk about Jenna Ellis and before we talk about Cohen and we talk about Sidney Powell, Here's the thing, you need to understand, the plea system in our country needs to go away.
We need to change that system.
Just to be clear, we've spoken with a lot of these people, they absolutely 100% believed what they said back then, and now they're just trying to get out from an aggressive federal department of investigation.
That's what it is.
Well, the DOJ is coming after every single person.
The DOJ, I mean, DOJ, FBI, they're all involved.
So to say, oh, these people, yeah, they are turncoats, yes, a lot of these people are cowards, but I can tell you this, they didn't make it up.
They didn't make it up.
How do we know?
Because we were in communication with people back then, and by the way, a lot of what they discussed was correct.
A lot of the evidence that they wanted to present was correct.
This is them saving their ass.
That's all it is.
It's not really that big of a story.
It's a corrupt justice system.
It is not white-black.
It is about those who want to put a target on your back, and they will make it so.
Alright, so maybe we'll talk about it more tomorrow, but right now, looks like Representative Tom Emmer It would have been.
Would have been next as far as a Speaker of the House.
House Republicans have nominated Majority Whip Tom Emmer as the next Speaker of the House in a series of secret ballot votes.
This is the third time in as many weeks that Republicans have nominated a new Speaker, but so far none have been able to garner enough support to win the gavel.
So, you know, we've talked about this right now as far as the nominee is going to be Donald Trump, most likely.
And of course, the selective prosecution, it's a witch hunt right now, and I really would like to see other Republicans actually standing in the pocket and doing the right thing because they will come for you next.
That is not to say that he is without his flaws.
This is kind of an example.
Now, it's more so petty.
So let's go through the timeline.
Monday at 1.33 p.m.
Well, I think he's my biggest fan now because he called me yesterday and told me I'm his biggest fan, so I don't know about that.
I think he's my biggest fan now because he called me yesterday and told me I'm his biggest fan.
So I don't know about that.
We're looking at a lot of people and I'm sort of trying to stay out of that as much as possible.
But they'll get it straightened out.
Okay, so he's going to stay out of it.
Yeah.
Right.
He doesn't want to tip the scales.
This guy formerly wasn't his biggest fan.
That was right before the audio that we came in and now he called him yesterday and apparently he's his biggest fan.
Apparently he's his biggest fan.
There was a phone call.
Alright.
So then Tuesday morning, Emmer won some successive ballots behind closed doors.
But then Tuesday at 1pm, 1.11pm to be clear, and if you need a fact check me, 26 Republicans voted against Emmer in another closed door meeting.
And while his failed bid was sort of becoming public, that's when Donald Trump, who was going to stay out of it, posted on Truth Social.
He can't help himself.
Can't help himself.
He wakes up and he's like, hey, hey, hey.
100% right.
Do you think he just has elastics on his hand where he's like, look, just smack.
He's like, I don't need this elastic!
Boom!
I think things stew.
I think he just kind of like festers and he goes, I can't anymore.
He was saying, I want to stay out of it, but here's my biggest fan.
That was him saying, hey, you know what?
Maybe you should try and vie for my endorsement.
And when he maybe didn't, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, I have many wonderful friends wanting to be Speaker of the House.
Righto, Tom Emmer!
What?
Who I do not know well is not one of them, folks.
He actually spent more time defending Ilhan Omar, can you believe it, than he did me, Trump.
I believe he's now learned his lesson because he is saying that he is pro-Trump all the way, but who can ever be sure?
Voting for a globalist rhino like Tom Emmer would be a tragic, tragic mistake.
That's what he said.
Apparently he knows him well enough to know he's been defending Ilhan Omar.
He's very subtle at least.
We know that.
He's rather poetic and metaphoric.
Then at 1.23 Florida representative Anna Paulina Luna wrote on Twitter, what did she write Gerald?
She was writing that she voted for Rep.
Donalds for Speaker followed by Johnson and that Emmer does not have the votes to be Speaker and so she would be unable to support him on the floor.
And then three hours later Emmer drops out of the Speaker's race.
Dunzo!
And of course the media did not hesitate to make the connection between Trump's post, Emmer's demise, this whole thing.
Just so you know, it doesn't matter who you are.
If you are someone who becomes culturally relevant, the media will make it about you.
I don't know that Donald Trump had a huge effect on this.
I do think that it's childish and you need to stay out.
But it's Trump-ish.
Or be in.
But it is pretty funny.
It's par for the course.
And it's worse than we realized because we actually have the exclusive.
Oh, yeah.
Sometimes we get these, you know, we have our in-camera journalists, our investigative journalists.
We have the exclusive voicemail that President Trump left for Emmer.
Hey, Emma, you lost big time.
You see what happens when you're not in the Trump trade?
You're on the tracks.
And I'm the conductor.
Choo-choo!
Can you hear the Trump trade?
Choo-choo!
People around the world say Trump trade.
Emma lost his time for the Trump trade.
I'm sure you're finding some things, Emma.
Don't take it personally.
You're probably very good at things like, frankly, sucking.
Because you do.
That's what a lot of people say.
I would never say that myself.
They all come to me.
They say, hey, you know that Emmer guy?
He's a real loser and he's sucking.
One time I walked in a room.
They say this.
I say, don't say that.
They say, I walked in a room and he was sucking a guy.
I say, that's horrible.
E is for everyone thinks you're a loser.
M is for bad.
Everyone thinks you're a loser.
E is for why I did that one already.
Loser.
R is you're right a loser.
Emmer, I think you get the message, frankly.
Maybe you're too dense.
You suck, Emmer.
You lose!
Sucking Emmer, they call.
Who leaves voicemails anymore?
I know, and that wasn't very presidential.
It wasn't.
You know what I mean?
No.
But I kind of like it.
I do too, but I just... I mean, if he sucks, like, literally, then... He does.
Well, you know... You know what?
Is there someone who you think would make a good speaker?
Someone even outside of Congress.
Someone just who you think would be a good speaker.
I guess that's about the only value you can add at this point.
Do you have a good teacher when you were in school?
Let's nominate them.
Yeah, let's nominate them.
They're the real heroes.
Please.
So, alright.
Want to go on to Gaza?
Yeah.
Okay.
Beautiful.
Because why not?
Just when you watch it, they're talking about this.
Oh, is it going to be this part?
It's so silly.
It's so silly.
There's so much that you can do to affect your day-to-day life.
When this show is done, check the references.
We make them available.
Move on with your life.
When people say you're living in a simu... People will try and say this right.
Like, I watched The Matrix once.
Are you living in a simulation?
Look, it's not about... You basically are.
Let me ask you this.
How many interactions do you have with a person on a screen each day versus how many interactions that are meaningful do you have with someone in real life every day?
You will be in front of the people who matter most to you, who will, on your deathbed, you will wish you spent more time with these people.
They're in a room and you were on your phone watching some quadruple amputee TikTok.
Just shut it off!
Who gives a shit?
After our show.
It used to be people spent their day, they went to bed watching Carson.
That's what we want this to be.
You watch the show, educate yourself, but the scrolling, that's the simulation you're living in.
You are living in a fake reality.
Yeah, that's true.
It's horrible.
Horrible.
So addictive.
That's what people say.
The problem is you've got a whole day and then you're like, what is this?
This woman's in a bikini on a skateboard.
I got to make sure she's safe.
Yes.
And then you're like, you know, 40 minutes later, you're still struggling.
Not me, because I have my jujitsu and my meditation.
Yes.
Yeah, exactly.
Sure you do.
You don't know.
I can't do the Transcendental Meditation.
I tried it once.
I tried it once, and it didn't work, because they were being too descriptive.
They're like, you picture a stairway.
And I was like, well, what kind of a... Like, and you picture a nice railing.
I'm like, you're not saying, is it wood?
Is it steel?
Is it some kind of an alloy?
Like, I just... I kept falling asleep.
Yeah.
Concentrate.
Focus on your breath.
I was like, I can't do it.
I know.
I know.
Snoring.
All right, let's go to Gaza.
Let's go to Gaza.
Speaking of kung fu... Dude, where's my fuel, they say.
Aww.
So if you've watched the mainstream media, you probably have heard, and this is the claim, that Israel is keeping Gazans from obtaining any kind of fuel, but they don't have any fuel.
You've heard this throughout the media, they just were talking about it on CNN.
They're shutting down hospitals because of it.
Yes.
The power is flickering and fading at hospitals in Gaza, as medical officials say generators are on their last drops of fuel.
The health system run by Hamas is in a state of collapse.
And you can just hit this as a collage, right?
The UN is reporting that fuel supplies are running out of hospitals.
There's no fuel being trucked in from aid convoys to Gaza.
Okay, here's the truth.
Hamas, actually, the people, by the way, who were elected by the folks of Palestine, by the way, the majority of Palestinians to this day have a favorable view of Hamas, which is unfortunate.
They have plenty of fuel.
Just so you know it's true, when we make all the references available, Reuters, and they really hate the Jews, Reuters even reported the story with this headline, Israel's military tells UN in Gaza, ask Hamas for fuel.
Meaning they're claiming that.
Well Reuters, isn't it your job to verify?
Aren't you fact checkers?
It's surprising that Reuters would even mention this, considering their history with And I don't, they hate the Jews.
So 2010, Reuters even, remember the Flotilla picture?
They edited out a knife being used by a Turkish activist against an Israeli soldier.
This is when the Flotilla was going on.
This was, I think it was 2000.
There was another conflict.
Bring that back up.
See that?
That knife right there?
That man is being held at knife point?
What you see is what is edited out in the Reuters headline in 2010.
What?
Just to give you an idea as to how biased it was.
Wow.
They cut it out so you don't see the knife.
That's kind of the important part of the picture.
It's amazing to me that somehow when you've got... We know that Hamas came in and killed entire families in their pajamas and much worse.
Right.
We have video of it because, oh yeah, they were videoing it and somehow we have to whitewash the fact that they're not that bad.
They would never use a knife or keep fuel from their cities.
That's 2010!
And today they're going, well, Israel claims.
Okay, but hold on a second.
Would there be some kind of a way to verify?
And I get it, people are saying that there's an incentive for misinformation on both sides.
That is true.
Some things can be verified.
Yeah.
Do you have reporters on the ground?
I don't know.
Isn't this the job of the media is to go, Hey, a hospital was bombed.
Wow.
That's terrible.
Let's go look at it and see if we can report on it.
So the world can be outraged and put pressure instead of just like, yeah, come on.
I said it.
We'll take their word for it.
Yeah.
And by the way, if there is a shortage of humanitarian aid, fuel, all these different things, why is Egypt keeping that from them?
I want to turn this a little bit, because it's not just Israel.
Why is Egypt not doing it?
Well, let me get to the truth.
So the truth is that the reason they said ask Hamas, the IDF, is because there are photographs, and I get these are from the IDF, but let me come back to this.
They show that Hamas is hoarding over 500,000 liters of fuel.
So they're stealing, by the way, humanitarian fuel.
I think we even have a clip from CNN.
Fuel, unfortunately, is essential for the Hamas military machine.
They need it for their rockets.
They need it for their underground terror network of tunnels.
And we understand that.
And we had a documented case last week where fuel, I think six tankers, CNN reported, went in through the Rafah crossing with Egypt.
And then that fuel, a large proportion of it, and it was said of course the fuel's going to generators in hospitals
to help save lives, and yet Hamas, at gunpoint, stole a large proportion of
that fuel, and we presume it was diverted to their military machines.
Now I get what some of you are saying.
IDF, you can't trust them.
Okay, but they put out a tweet showing aerial footage of the fuel reserves, okay?
And this is a tweet where it says, this is what more than half a million liters of diesel in Hamas's possession, in Hamas's possession, sorry, appears, ellipses, which continues to make its claim of its inability to supply hospitals, bakeries, and civilians with fuel.
Residents of Gaza do not make any demands on Israel.
You basically should ask Hamas, right?
And here's the thing.
This is not new.
Keep in mind, and we'll talk about this tomorrow, in Palestine, they have the abilities right now, internationally paid for, to at least double, very likely triple their water capacity.
Paid for by international governments and agreements.
By the way, desalinization plants, places to set up pipes.
But the last time they were given these supplies, they used the pipes to turn them into rockets and to bombs.
Hamas did that.
So to blame your enemy of war for not giving you water and fuel, which to me is absolutely insane?
We're going to discuss that tomorrow in depth.
That is a long-standing myth that people buy Hoekland.
It's not even close to true.
Right now, there would be no water issue.
There would be no water shortage for the people of Palestine, if not for Hamas.
And just to be clear, we've been in contact with some people at the IDF who've sent us They've offered to speak with us on record, but I want to be clear.
I would love to have someone from Hamas, from some Palestinian representative organization, an ambassador.
I would love to have them on immediately after a senior member of the IDF tomorrow, this week.
You can send in your information to LWCtips at Protonmail.com.
We'd love to have you on and provide the opportunity to correct the record.
Now, not what happens with Pierce Morgan, where they just go on there and they say, Oh, really?
Why do you believe Israel?
They lie!
They lie!
Well, tell us how it's a lie!
Give us some... Right now, if that footage is dishonest from the IDF, there are people out there who can dissect this, who can say it's AI.
They know, they can spot deep fakes before it reaches your screen.
No one's actually disputing the authenticity.
The only ambassadors who I have seen from the Palestinian people, representatives, Hamas,
basically, have just said, it's not true. Why do you believe the Jews? Well, hold on a
second. First off, we can put, why should we trust you and refute the evidence? I haven't
seen anyone do it. I've seen people say, we know that it was the Jews who bombed the hospital. Well,
there's been a ton of evidence provided from Al Jazeera, by the way. Yes, from the
international community, international intelligence, also crowdsource international
intelligence. I haven't seen anything to say that it was Israel.
The only people who make that argument are the people who are Team Hamas, Team Palestine, no matter what.
Send it to me.
Send me what we're missing.
What's being left out here, you know, they just found, there were two hostages taken,
a 12 year old autistic girl and her grandmother.
They were found dead, by the way.
They were murdered today.
So let's leave all those atrocities aside.
Why are we not talking about the fact that this operation that Hamas pulled off took
two years to plan?
It took two years to plan.
They had a network of phone communication in those tunnels.
So they have been at war with Israel actively for two years.
October 7th was just the final culmination and the execution of that.
That took crazy amounts of planning.
And their job was to come in and wreak as much havoc against the civilian population, which they did.
And they're reading it against their own civilians right now.
They would rather play victim in the public eye and go, look, we have no water.
Well, hold on a second.
What about that water?
You don't know.
Well, look, our people have no fuel.
Well, what about those 500,000 liters there?
The Jews lie!
They lie every day.
That's literally the equivalent of saying, well, you are one too.
The Jews lie!
I know Jews are, but what am I?
Yeah, exactly.
I am rubber, you are Jew.
That almost works.
I wanted to touch on that because that's their playbook, right?
So it's not just what they're saying, it's what they're physically doing.
Hamas would rather have hospitals run out of fuel so that they could have a photo op and they could have a story run in the media than actually take care of their own citizens.
We know this.
They've used kids as human shields.
Of course.
Yeah.
Playgrounds and schools as places to launch rockets from next to mosques and churches
Yeah, they absolutely 100% do this and then they did finally thank goodness Egypt allowed three convoys into
Gaza for aid I don't know how much of that aid is actually going to make
it to the people because right now Hamas just wants the world
To think they're being starved. They have no water and they have no fuel. So the hospitals are having to run it
They are military. They're doing it to their population Look I it's not lost on me that if you're born right in
Gaza and you you're raised with this You're going you're going to hate the Jews because
everything is blamed on the I am I understand it, and I understand that it's not the fault of those children.
I get that.
I understand that those conditions are horrible.
I understand that.
But let me ask you this.
Do you honestly think that in a time of war, it's the job of your military to provide aid and comforts to your opponent?
Let's just be real.
Do you know what war is?
Even if you absolutely hate Israel, like, fine!
Why is it incumbent upon them to provide water?
And to provide gasoline?
Seriously.
War is meant to be as unpleasant.
It's like prison.
It should be as unpleasant as humanly possible.
You're meant to be defeated.
In prison, you're meant to be punished.
I'm not saying it's a good thing.
I'm not saying that Israel isn't hard.
Absolutely just rougher than sometimes maybe you might think they need to be.
But it is war.
I don't know.
Maybe that's me, Mr. Traditional.
I don't understand why you would go to war with someone and not try and absolutely decimate them.
I also think that people are underestimating the fact that if you really got Palestinians alone, Individually.
I bet you'd find a lot of them saying, I'd love to get rid of Hamas.
I'd love to.
Because people who are defending Hamas should have to live under Hamas.
I wonder what that's like when you're the average Palestinian just trying to get your kids to school.
That's got to be not so much of a picnic because they control literally everything and they steal everything and they'll give you what they'll give you.
This is what evil people do, right?
We have this Board here, where you see Andrew Breitbart, he talked about Olinsky.
So Olinsky 101, it's accuse the other side of that exactly which it is that you're doing.
And that's what they do.
They go, look, look, look, they're bombing us.
No, no, you're bombing hospitals.
Look, they killed civilians.
No, you targeted civilians.
It's the Amber Heard defense.
Look, I was abused.
No, you were physically abusive.
It's the feminist defense.
Oh my gosh, I can't believe, look at how unfair.
No, no, hold on a second.
You're using a system that is unfair and you are abusing men.
This is what we see all the time.
We see it all the time, by the way, with Um, child abuse right now is a trans issue, right?
You have these trans activists who say, hey, we want to put a kid on puberty blockers and give them access to sex changes, and the parents who say, no, they say, you're child abusers!
Take the children away!
No, no, no, you're abusing children.
No, no, Amber Heard, you abused Johnny Depp.
No, no, no, Hamas, you are the ones violating your own human rights.
So, they blame you of doing exactly what it is that they do.
Do not underestimate the art of projection from these people.
Evil people rarely come out and just say, yeah!
I'm starving my own people.
I'm gonna make sure that they don't have water because I want a photo op.
Amber Heard didn't come out and say, yeah, I threw a bottle at Johnny Depp and broke his finger and took a shit in his bed.
No, they don't say, yeah, you know what, we don't care about the long-term ramifications of your child undergoing hormone replacement therapy or having a sex change where the suicide rate, attempted suicide rate, actually gets worse after this.
It's at least 42%.
You know what?
We're doing it for a political agenda, and we're going to try and take your kids away.
No, they say, if you don't go on board with us, it's child abuse.
It is projection.
It is gaslighting.
It's what they do.
Hamas's logo should be, should literally be, instead of a hang glider, should be a lifeless Palestinian child being pulled from rubble.
Because that's what Hamas wants.
That is the actual photo op that they use to Put out there in the world and that's how they get their their advantage.
That's literally what they would rather.
It's a death.
It's a death cult.
They don't value human life.
No.
All right.
Speaking of cult, let's go to the cult of property taxes.
Nice segue.
By the way, if you want to have a tip.
Lifeless children to taxes.
Yeah.
Well, you know, it's death and taxes, baby.
You know, my grass died in the recent drought.
It did.
So if If you want to discuss an issue like property taxes, okay, I get that it's boring for a lot of people, but guess what?
It really is kind of long-term theft.
You don't actually get to own anything.
Ever.
And that's compounded by the fact that you may not be able to actually own homes in the future, considering where the rates are these days and where our credit score is, just to give you an idea.
Let's go to property taxes.
There was something else I was going to say, but you know what?
I was distracted by Jenna Ellis.
Do they have her on an old Acer laptop webcam?
Can't CNN get something?
Can you bring it up full screen?
Look at this.
And these people, they want to act as though, oh, no, no, no, we can't have people online.
They're not legitimate news outlets.
These are tax dollar cameras.
These are tax dollar cameras.
Terrible lighting.
Oh, God.
I mean, you can't even see her.
She looks like Casper.
I know.
I know.
They cost $20,000 each.
God.
I just got distracted by you complaining about your grass dying.
How do you think Gaza feels without all that water?
Well, you know what?
It's far away, so I don't think of it.
Oh, all right.
Sorry.
I like to create some perspective.
Yeah, perspective, because nothing's off-limits with Brian.
Certainly not on Tuesdays.
Home ownership here is a big deal for Americans.
It's part of the American Dream.
That's what a lot of people talk about.
I don't think that the American Dream is dead.
I think people have shifted their priorities and their values, to be clear.
You know what I would love to do?
Maybe we could put a segment together with a Gen Z person, working often from home, right,
flex work, and have them work in a factory or on the lines like a boomer did, who did
get, by the way, full benefits in pension, and have that person swap with a Gen Z person.
I bet you they would both say, hey, I would rather take my current job and position.
But again, I think a lot of people who bitch about the American dream going away, you're
not working in a foundry for 30-something years and getting a pension in basically a
a way that allows you to live in a 1,400 square foot home and get two weeks of vacation.
So I do get it that the deck is stacked.
The cards are stacked against you.
I understand that right now as far as the wealth at the top and these giant corporations who are taking a bigger and bigger piece of the pie without baking new pies, unlike medium-sized businesses used to.
It's not a culture of free enterprise.
It's a culture of CEOs giving themselves bonuses at the taxpayer expense.
That's not lost on me.
All right.
That being said, if you believe that the American Dream is dead, you're probably looking in the wrong places.
There are ways to make it work.
That being said, homeownership is a huge component of that.
There is a problem with that, and it's property taxes.
It makes it feel or seem or on paper act And legally, be defined, I would argue, much more like renting.
So, it's so bad in places like Texas, by the way, you'd think a very free state, that some people now are finally stepping up trying to fix it.
Texans want to own their own property, not win it from government.
We must provide that by eliminating property taxes in Texas.
Okay.
And he's a wheelchair guy.
He's getting there.
So, here's the thing.
That's good to hear.
Unfortunately, if you don't pay your property taxes now, You don't own your property anymore.
Well, they can come and take it from you.
Yeah, they come and take it from you.
Literally.
At gunpoint.
You could have paid for the house.
Yes.
Over 30 years.
Let's make no mistake.
Taxes are, they take your money, and if you don't give it to them, people with guns take you to jail.
Yeah.
Just to be clear.
And those people with guns who will take you to jail for not paying something that you already own, many of those people believe that you should not have the right to own guns.
Now I'm not saying that you take out an AR-15 if someone tries to collect property taxes or the HOA shows up.
Don't misinterpret it.
Those are worse.
They're often a local tax, property taxes, and they do vary a lot depending on location.
So let me give you a couple of quick numbers.
Average property tax in America is about $3,800.
That's low.
Lowest average tax bill is Alabama, $882.
Highest average tax bill, New York State, $12,000.
These are averages that I'm giving you.
Now let me ask you this.
Before I move on, what do you think property taxes pay for?
Because I'm willing to bet that a lot of people will say, hey, things like roads, police department, maybe fire department, you know, things that you would think are legitimate roles of governments that are, you know, non-rivalrous, right?
These are terms that people would use like, okay, there's no incentive necessarily for private enterprise to get in, there's no way to necessarily make more money.
I would argue that's not necessarily true with things like roads, but okay.
So that's probably what you believe.
Let me go through the claims versus the truth with property tax.
Here's a claim.
They tell you that property taxes are necessary for funding social programs.
Okay, here's the truth.
The lion's share of your property taxes go to schools.
Now, I know you're thinking, hey, that must be a good thing, right?
The average is 40% across the country, okay?
The high is 89% of property taxes going to schools.
Alright, so you might say, but that's a good thing, right?
We need public schools.
It's the apple of my eye.
Yeah.
The crown jewel of the United States.
But what if I don't have kids and I don't want to pay for school?
Well, you know what?
You're shit out of luck.
I have kids, I'm just, you know.
I know, I know.
They're not in school yet.
I know.
You just don't want to pay for them.
You have a wonderful beard.
You might think, good, okay, so it's not really going to Rhodes, it's not really going to the police, it's not really going to the fire department.
Alright, but it's going to schools, that's a good thing.
Okay, so let's go to another claim.
The only reason you would think that's good is because you believe that schools need more money to improve education, or you believe that more money equals better public schools.
Here's the truth.
No.
And this is what, if nothing else, you need to disabuse people of this notion that money equals better schooling.
Because even people on the right, when they're running for office, they go, and we need to fund our schools, or you'll hear people say, money to Ukraine!
Those billions of dollars could be used, even if you took every single dollar that was spent, sent over to Ukraine, guess what?
It wouldn't help at all.
It would not improve the metrics in public schooling.
The way our schools are, it's actually incapable of improving.
With increased funding.
Public education is a public disaster to the tune of trillions of dollars over the last few decades.
This is a terrible way to spend money.
So your property tax is largely going to schools.
From 2000 to 2020, per-pupil spending in the United States went up 27%.
The average is $16,000 per-pupil.
in the United States went up 27%.
OK, the average is $16,000 per pupil.
We make all the references publicly available.
OK, so $16,000 per pupil is the average spending, meaning per person in the class.
Yeah.
Okay.
Went up 27%.
What do we have for that?
More money?
Better schools?
Nope.
Results?
Education performances by all observable, by everything quantifiable, plummeted.
We're worse off.
More money and we are worse off.
From 2013 to 2022, scores went down.
Fourth grade math scores went down 2%.
Reading scores down 2%.
In the 8th grade, math scores went down 5%.
So it got worse.
Reading scores went down 3%.
I don't even know, if it already went down in the 4th grade, how are you even reading in the 8th grade?
Why is that even relevant?
You should stay in 4th.
I didn't think you'd get the pass.
The SAT scores.
Think of how much money.
The lowest we've seen since 2005.
Wow.
The lowest we have seen since 2005.
And we always say look to, you know, try to look to an extreme example.
And sort of scale it back from that.
Okay, let's get a case study.
New York City.
Okay, so the median property tax in New York, $9,000.
Okay, $9,091, right?
That's the median.
It's the highest in the United States.
The per-pupil spending, remember I just gave you the average of $16,000?
It's $32,000.
Really close to $33,000 in New York.
Geez!
New York City.
Per-pupil.
Yes, highest in the United States.
to $33,000 in New York.
Geez.
New York City.
OK?
Per pupil.
Yes.
Highest in the United States.
The result?
Half of third through eighth grade students fail reading tests.
And think about this for a second.
Not only is reading comprehension going down, it's going down at a time when people have more access to literature than ever.
Yeah, but then there's TikTok, so it's hard to compete.
Exactly.
Never has a generation of people had more tools at their disposal and been less capable in the basic, fundamental skills of reading.
Now, this isn't just talking about, oh, Zoomers.
No, the schools are obviously failing them.
But so is our culture at large.
Half.
Half.
$32,000.
That means that if you're spending $32,000 on that child in New York City, and there's a 50% chance that that $32,000 has created an illiterate child.
That's unbelievable.
$32,000 per year.
So do the math.
Kindergarten, first, second, third.
You've got about $120,000, $130,000, depending on where you are.
And can't read.
Yeah.
For that much money?
That's bad.
It gets worse.
It gets worse?
Yeah, it does.
It does get worse.
I know what he's thinking.
Mr. Offalewicz is like, I knew I shouldn't have stayed home tonight!
Baltimore, okay, per-pupil spending there is $21,000.
Not as much as New York City, but, you know, it's not... Properties are less valuable.
Yeah, yeah, you know, I mean, they're, you know, Bob's big boy and a couple of crack houses.
Crack houses coming back, though.
They are coming back, but they don't pay a lot of property taxes.
That's true.
So it's the fourth highest rate in the United States, per-pupil spending.
What's the result?
Again, property taxes, most of the money goes to schools.
Let's go to the areas where they spend more money on schools.
40% of high schools did not have... This number is going to shock you.
Hold on, hold on.
A SINGLE student proficient in math.
40% of high schools in the Baltimore area did not have one single student proficient in math.
Just kidnap an Asian!
I was gonna say, get some Chinese students in there!
Pull that back up!
Is there no Chinatown in Baltimore?
None!
Zero!
Look at that, the article says it, and then to make sure at the very end, not one student.
To make sure that you understand, this is not hyperbole.
Not one student.
Give them more money!
Wow.
So we've given more money, we've given more money, we're throwing money at the problem.
More tutors.
And that comes from your property taxes.
So when you pay that check, I guess if you pay by check anymore it's probably on auto pay, but the point remains.
That's going to not one single student proficient in math.
30% of all Baltimore high school students, by the way, they have a graduation rate below 50%.
One of the high schools was 14%.
Now think about that.
You just talked about the money.
Let's say a kid goes through a few grades, you've now spent $90,000 on them, and they drop out anyway.
You thought Gaza was bad.
That's what we call a societal loss leader.
It's like college.
How is Baltimore a thing anymore?
What are we doing here?
I thought Detroit was the worst place.
It used to be the worst.
It did!
It used to be the worst, and by the way- Hold my beer, said Baltimore!
We could maybe pull from, I did a, we'll pull it later, I did a documentary, Detroit in Ruins.
This was in 2009 or 2010, where I talked about how children in Detroit high schools, and their per pupil spending back then was higher than the national average.
I think the national average was around $10,000.
I'm going by road, I think Detroit was $13,000.
That shows you how much the spending has increased.
It's over $14,000 now.
In other words, if there was enough money, Detroit schools will be doing well.
Yeah.
And a student who enters into high school in Detroit, freshman, has more chance of ending up in prison than graduating, right?
Now, I had that in the document.
I stand by it, completely.
I was fact-checked.
You know what they said?
No, and this was the Department of Education there in Michigan, or the teachers' unions, and then it was circulated through local, I think, Fox outlets or MLive.
They said, oh, that's actually not true.
The vast majority of Detroit seniors graduate high school.
I did not say seniors.
I said someone entering into high school has more of a chance, there's a higher likelihood that they end up in prison than graduating high school.
The fact that the teachers unions were involved in fact-checking me on that tells you that they don't actually want what's best for your kids.
Why would I give a rat's ass about the people who've already made it to senior year?
It's a career!
We're talking about a career average here.
That was back then.
Think about that.
14% graduation rate at a school in Baltimore.
30% have rates below 50%.
That is at over $20,000 per pupil.
We'll get into why.
We'll go back to... I don't want to go to the guy at work right now.
He's been trying to get in here.
So here's another truth that you need to know.
If more money worked, Here's how liberals manipulate, leftists manipulate you.
Generally speaking, you in your household, if you get more money, you spend it on things that you need.
Right?
You are allocating money to things that you need.
Right.
So, they're banking on you making that logical assumption of the government.
That's not true though.
That is not true.
When it's not your money, you don't spend it that way.
You don't allocate it that way.
You assume that more money means more resources to achieve the results that you want.
So you copy-paste that to government.
More money must mean they have more capabilities of creating better schools.
They do not.
Here's why.
From 2000 to 2019, the hiring of administrators is what they place a prayer.
It far, far outpaced any type of growth in student or teacher populations.
Wait, wait, wait.
Is this in high school?
Yes.
It's across all schools.
Administrators.
They hired more administrators.
Because they will say, we need more teachers per classroom.
But that's not what they're doing.
They're hiring more administrators.
So what do administrators do?
They fundraise?
Bureaucracy?
Yeah.
To give you an idea, as far as when we're taking schools collectively, and how many people are involved, students, teachers, administrators, students and teachers, they make up about 10%.
of the population. 10%. Administrative positions, 87%. So when people, so when you hear Barack Obama...
That's the growth. So just to be clear, student and teacher population grew by 10%?
Sorry, the growth, yes.
Administrative positions by almost 90%.
Grew by 87%.
Wow.
That's insane.
They have outpaced them by 87% to 10% their growth, respectively.
I don't mean that's the total.
You probably should have admonished me on that.
Well, later.
I should have been very clear.
That being said, 87% growth in administrators versus 10% growth in teachers and students.
So when you hear them say, you know, hey, if you remember a great teacher who changed your life, go and thank a teacher.
Sure.
Do you remember a great vice principal secretary?
Nope.
Who had an impact on your life?
I actually do.
I actually do.
There was one, her name was Mrs. Traynor.
She let me use the hole punch when I was supposed to be punished.
She let me use the hole punch and then I'd open it up and have a mask.
Well, one does.
But it didn't change my life.
No.
And it certainly wasn't worth $32,000 a year.
So then you have the administrator's salaries also outpaced teacher salaries.
The money is not going to teachers.
So in 2023, the average teacher salary was about $68,469.
The average K-12 administrator salary is $102,650.
And guys, can you let me know, is that annualized, or is that what they actually make?
That's what they actually make?
I believe that's what they actually make, which if you add in the three months off... If you add in the three months off, teachers aren't doing that badly.
That means it's about $85,000 a year, plus full bennies.
In Massachusetts, the average was $92,000.
That's for the year.
For a teacher?
For a teacher.
Bring that overlay up really quickly.
The one that we just did that had the salaries in there.
You can read up in there in the top on the left.
Mississippi was at like 48,000.
92,000 Massachusetts.
Wow.
I mean I don't mind that teachers are getting paid more, it's the administrators that are getting paid more than the people.
I mind that the teachers are getting paid more because of the stats we just quoted on how poor students are doing.
Yes, that's a good point.
Listen, you get less pay until they do better.
Your children are illiterate, so you get...
Nothing!
I know it's a bigger issue than just teachers.
Teachers might be fine, it might be the parents that suck.
Or the lack of parents.
That's a good point.
But you can't just come in and keep asking for more money, more money, more money, please.
I agree.
Well, it's across the board, though.
It's across the board that public schools don't do a good job.
They all suck.
So, an administrator, $102,000.
Of course, and the benefits, the kind of benefits that you can't possibly imagine unless you're either a public sector worker, or educator, or administrator.
Hero.
Hero.
Say it.
Hero.
Sorry.
True hero.
Say it right.
True hero.
True hero.
And by the way, you should be able to work from home and Zoom because, you know, if you show up with some kids who have the sniffles, you're taking your life in your hands.
Yes!
Pick a different career.
The roles of the administrator have almost nothing to do with teaching your kids.
Again, this is all about property taxes.
79% of school districts.
We tried to take some bigger districts, they have more than 100,000 students.
They have a chief diversity officer.
There you go.
They have a what?
They have a chief diversity officer.
To make sure there's an equal number of... They're a bunch of useless people.
People of color in gym?
Yes, yes.
How would you affect...
Is it the teachers they're supposed to, and administrators to have diversity?
Well, I'm just taking this as an extreme example of absurdity because people bitch about DEI, right, and these kinds of corporate scores, but your taxpayer, your property taxes are paying for these absurd costs in schools, and then you have someone like a chief diversity officer, who by the way, let me give you an example, Columbus, Ohio, the city school, Chief diversity, $137,000 a year.
I'm getting whoever this person is on Off-Limits so I can push back.
How can children not learn if not for a woke environment?
That's how they flourish.
They need to be led by a chief like this.
I guess we don't have it.
Never mind.
Oh, thank you.
There it is.
Nothing like being late to the push.
They call our squats on fifth.
I was ready with the off-limits.
Squats on fist.
Did you say squats on fist?
Brian said off-limits.
Your property taxes are funding propaganda.
Propaganda concentration camps.
Let's be really clear.
What do you think happens when your kids are being taught by a bunch of teachers
who refuse to go into work because of COVID?
You know, right there, where they line up politically on that.
They bought everything hook, line, and sinker.
They supported the idea of vaccine mandates, of masking all your children, which has, by the way, created irreparable damage to children's social... being able to pick up on social cues, facial recognition.
We have our own internal facial recognition software.
They don't know how to interact with people.
They have suffered from the highest mental health mental illness that we've seen, and our addiction rates are
through the roof, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, kids don't know what to do when they get into the
workforce.
So these teachers supported that, all the lockdown.
Okay, then you have these entire unions and administrative officials supporting chief
diversity officer.
What kind of people do you think are spending that $32,000 a year of your taxpayer dollars,
your property taxes?
What kind of people do you think are handling that money?
And maybe that's why your children are illiterate.
Are you sure about those property taxes?
Yeah.
And by the way, they have no problem making sure that they have access to books that describe sexual acts to four-year-olds or five-year-olds.
Yeah, exactly.
Pornography, right?
They literally have pornography in the libraries.
They have to make sure that they go and spend the money on those types of things.
And making sure that you can't complain about it, because then they call you the counselor, which goes back to what you said, the Solinsky tactic.
We want you to not have these books in there.
No, no, no.
We're not trying to ban books.
We're trying to ban pornography.
Yeah, but Gerald, anal sex can be dangerous if not performed properly.
That's true.
You've got to manicure the target first.
You know, you've made a point that I can't argue with, but I feel like is irrelevant.
Yeah, well, as long as it may be irrelevant, but it's not off limits.
Yeah, it's not off limits.
Oh my god.
You don't know the world that they're living in.
Stop showing me that!
Now that you said Steve Jobs, it's ruined everything.
No, it's awesome.
It's fantastic.
It's not off limits.
I'm glad you dished the black turtleneck doily under your t-shirt today.
Well, I had to show my wrestler's neck.
Is that a Russian wrestler or a Brian Callen?
That's a baseball player's neck.
I don't know that.
And I don't mean, that's not the Jewish baseball player's neck.
That's the 1950s baseball player's neck.
Yes, exactly.
Where they're hitting 56 mile an hour fastball.
The kid is lean!
Not an ounce of fat on him!
And I tell you, he really likes, he has a pre-game ritual with a cigarette and one finger of scotch.
He says that he's sharper on the ball.
Now, let's review this again while we go through property taxes.
Okay, you never actually own anything because of property taxes.
In America, up to 89% of your property taxes go to fund schools.
They're spending more money than ever, largely on administrative positions.
Chief diversity officers, while your academic performance as it relates to your children is dropping dramatically, two-thirds of American children cannot read good.
And your tax money is being used to fund a completely failing system that is indoctrinating kids about white privilege, common core math, diversity, wokeness, while they tell them that American history is something that could be triggering, so we're not going to let them know about the founding fathers.
There you go.
There you go.
Are you starting to realize the scheme?
When people talk about a rigged game, property taxes is one of them.
And when I say we should defund the Federal Department of Education, you guys think that's extreme?
I'm starting to think that most state schools suck as well.
They absolutely do.
And you know, when you guys talk about this, I always try to... He just acted like he wasn't even talking.
He did.
Oh, I'm so sorry.
But I want you to hold that because I want you both to get it.
Yeah, I just got so worked up.
Because Gerald's going to give his on-limits comment.
Yeah, this is...
I'm going to start a new show that's called On Limits with a white background and me and a black face.
That's not going to happen.
Yeah, I can't do that.
So look, here's the solution.
Blow up the Federal Department of Education.
We've already talked about that, but we need to get rid of public- Careful!
We had a foresight.
Literally.
Yeah, my God.
Okay, guys, folks.
Crying out loud.
Metaphorically.
Dismember the Federal Department of Education?
I don't know.
No, don't physically do anything.
I'm just saying the organization itself needs to go away.
Can't say that either.
The problem that we have right now is that it's not a money issue.
We've thrown money at this problem for decades.
Literally trillions and trillions of dollars wasted on public schooling.
What we need to do is to tie parents to the success of their children again.
It is not the responsibility of the government to educate your children.
It is your responsibility to make sure they're prepared for life.
Period.
When you have communities like this that we talked about in Baltimore and New York that are struggling like this, those are communities typically that live in poverty and parents don't tend to pay much attention to their kids' schooling and this does not absolve teachers and administrators.
They are a huge part of the problem because they know And then they still ask for more money as though that will solve the problem.
So right now, every single, and there are problems with this, but talk through it.
Every single state now, you have to sell every bus, by the way, the bus that I rode to school that didn't have a seatbelt.
I know.
Kids.
I was always getting mixed messages.
They were saying buckle up.
I'm like, well, all I have is the safety bar of the seat in front of me.
That just shows you back in the 1990s that the money that you're spending on schools, that's how they innovate.
They're like, ah, Yeah!
Kids, buses, they could die in a car crash.
We typically protect them with like special seats and stuff in cars.
We don't have enough to take care of.
Getting curb-stomped on the bench in front of you is a learning experience.
Yeah, but lesbian Susie Q needs some more money and three more months off apparently, but seatbelts will get around to that, right?
We need to get rid of these things, sell the schools right now, over time start bringing in the private sector to actually, sorry, the public sector to actually start putting programs together so that you can have better education systems and we'd Stop funding these things altogether.
Accountability, right?
Get out of the education business.
And here's why I know it works, right?
Parents tend to pay a little bit of attention when you're in public school, right?
They're like, ah, you gotta get good grades on your report card.
The minute mom and dad start writing checks to a college and they're like, holy crap, what are you doing with this?
Accountability kicks in.
Because now you're physically writing the check.
It's not just property taxes and you're not really sure where it's going.
You're writing a check going, you're doing, you failed how many classes?
No, no, no, no, no, no.
You're going to community college.
It works when you make the parents responsible for what's going on with their children.
Guess what?
Your children.
And you can change it, by the way.
This is why your local elections matter.
You can have a direct impact on both your property taxes, where they go, and how your schools are being run.
That's something you can do.
You can't control.
Which asshats become speaker?
You really can't.
At this point, it's out of your hands.
What is in your hands is the people who are in your own backyard, the taxes that you pay, your property taxes, and holding their feet to the fire.
Yes, Mr. Offlements.
Well, I'm thinking about the fact that... I'm thinking about the fact... I like that.
Mr. Offlements is good.
I'm thinking about the fact that it's... When you have a party, a political party, that is aligned with this kind of insanity, from gender ideology to giving more money, indiscriminate money, to schools and stuff, How are you supposed to be in the middle?
How are you in any way supposed to say, I'm Democrat heavy Republican light?
That doesn't exist anymore, right?
You're either on the right, or you are far left and part of the insanity.
And that's that's kind of the the so when you say something I had a guest on my podcast off limits.
Who said that he had worked for Biden and said, I think Biden's a moderate.
The problem is he may be temperamentally a moderate or maybe historic.
If he's aligned with this kind of stuff, then he ain't a moderate.
He is on the far left and he is a disaster for this country.
And you only have one choice, which is to be, don't call me far right, call me traditional and sensible and on the side of truth, which would be, I don't know.
Conservative.
But you also, what was funny is you said gender indiology.
I said Indiology and I meant it because the Native Americans... Chicks with dicks!
I see a parody song.
I'm going to play it.
I'm going to play it.
And I would love to hear from you.
You can comment below, hit the like button, it helps with the algorithm.
We're going to go on to Mug Club here in a little bit.
Before we get to what you just said, which I agree with, but you know that's not going to happen.
I have had a call out to anyone, any actual representative, member of the Teachers Union, because their policy forbids them from supporting this, any member of the Democratic Party who opposes this policy, anyone who actually carries some weight as a legislative official or representative, I don't care if it's the ADF, whatever it is, or the ADL, or what's the other one, Southern Poverty Law Center, anyone who actually in an official capacity opposes School vouchers.
I've never heard an argument against it.
I've never expressed it to anyone who, once they've understood it, has been against it.
We did white and black and the gray issues, right?
Black and white and the gray issues with this one lady, black lady and her daughter.
Who immediately went to every single trope they could imagine.
White fragility.
Check your white privilege.
White guilt.
Colonialism.
The nuclear family is white supremacy.
And even they, when I said, well, what about school vouchers?
And I said, before we change anything else, before we go to dismembering the Department of Education, before we go to charter schools, just make it so that the average per-pupil spending is attached to the student.
And if you're willing to drive or use your bicycle, Or take a municipal bus.
You can take that number, that money, to any school you want.
That's the only, just that, as the first change.
Rather than money goes to the school, you go to the school.
That would incentivize schools.
Money attached to the student.
That's the easiest first switch.
I have never heard a single valid argument against it.
No one has even presented it, yet we don't do it in this country.
It's incredible.
As a matter of national policy, when we talk about common ground, why don't we change that tomorrow?
And do you know how I know it's not that hard to do?
That's effectively what happened where I was raised in Canada.
I didn't realize until I moved to the States, and Canada sucks!
But I went to a school that would have been outside of my school, a public school.
I went to Centennial Regional High School.
If I were in the States, I would have had to go to Chambly High.
That was the drug kid school.
They said, oh yeah, if you're willing to get on this bus, or if your parents are willing to drive you, you can go to any of these schools.
And guess what?
They were far better than the United States.
Still a far cry from private schools or charter schools.
It was so foreign to me when I came to the States and I said, wait a second, when I was looking at houses, what does that mean that they say, oh, that's the school in your district?
I go, you mean one of, they said, no, that's your school.
That's the school?
If I live here, I have to go to that?
You don't have any choice?
None.
That's a uniquely American, for the shining city on a hill, That is a uniquely American stain in our history and it is not being changed because of Special Interest Group today.
And by the way, what's the ProtonMail?
Maybe we can have them reach out just like the LWC Tips at ProtonMail.
One legislative official, or let's say a member of a think tank as it relates to education, who can lay out the case for why a school voucher program Would be a bad thing.
I've never heard it in my life.
I am open to having my mind changed.
Our school system as it exists right now, it doesn't work.
It's about as useless as, you know, we brought him in as an intern and now he's on retainer.
I know what the argument is.
He's on retainer.
You know, we wanted to get Charles Xavier and we got his brother Chet and he's out there right now.
We've had problems this morning.
Is he still there?
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
Hey Tim, come here please.
The printer isn't printing.
It looks like it's got nothing to do with these cartridges being out of alignment.
and you probably gotta change them.
All of them.
Printer's f***ed.
All right.
Yeah, that was this morning.
I know.
That was powerful.
Yeah, this morning I know just as powerful um Um, the.
There's an argument.
I know what the left would say with school vouchers.
I know what they'd say.
They would say racist.
No, they would say no.
The problem with school vouchers is the people that can afford to get on a bus, a bicycle or in a car.
And go to that school, would go to those good schools, and those schools would compete for those dollars and get better, and then the kids that couldn't afford to, it's exactly the same argument they make for the lack of an ID for voting, or for example, why a lot of times they should have voting on a different day because people have to work, and they can't, etc, etc.
It doesn't hold water, but I understand the argument.
I wrote it down.
It ends public education.
That's what they will say, but here's the thing, it doesn't.
I'm not even talking, I'm saying before we get to any type of private, you're still spending the same amount.
Baltimore?
Sorry, New York City?
$32,000 per people.
You're still spending $32,000 per people.
I'm talking about before scaling back a dime, just make it so they have The choice, and I know, and yes, they'll say that, but guess what?
It still doesn't change the fact that they're no worse off!
Right now, if they do have a parent, or they do have the ability to get onto a bus ticket, or get on a tandem bicycle, guess what?
They still have to go to that shitty school!
So if you're saying that some people have such awful parents, have no bicycle, have no friends who will carpool with them, have no ability to ride a bus, and so, and so, okay, and so, and what happens?
Well, they'd end up at the exact same school where they're forced to go now!
Yeah, no, my point is it shines, what it would do is it would shine a light on really bad schools, and parents would not put up with it, and it would end the public education system.
They don't say it ends the public education system.
They would say it's not fair because it would pull money out of the public education system.
And you're right, it wouldn't.
It would just transfer it, and it would highlight, these guys are good, y'all are really bad.
And by the way, you know what else could happen?
The most likely scenario?
Even if that school where they're going right now... Okay, right now.
Let's just... All right, here.
Let me give you a visual aid.
All right.
All right.
Here's... You should get your whiteboard.
You guys, we should all run for office.
Just kidding.
Okay.
Here's a circle right now.
I don't know if you can see.
A circle.
You drew a penis.
Good circle.
Get it without a compass.
So there you go.
Right now, I live here so I have to go to this school.
Now we say, wait a second, school choice, voucher, meaning a voucher, meaning same money as spent.
We're not cutting any money.
Circle's a little bit bigger.
Now there's one, two, three, stop it.
Looks like a boob.
You are adults.
Sorry, sorry.
We are?
You're supposed to be.
Stop it, Mr. Out of Bounds.
Take it up with Mr. Off-Limits after the show.
So right now, you have to go to this school.
So we just expanded.
And by the way, you might have a school that's only five blocks away that you can't go to.
So right now, this school, when you're in this scenario, there's a little bit of nipple hair.
If you are in this scenario, there is no reason for that school to improve, right?
At the very least, we know they have not improved.
Test scores have gone down.
They've never gotten better.
Never gotten it right.
They've had enough time.
Let's put it that way.
Draw the other one.
Stop it.
We need another school.
I did do another school, they're just not big enough.
By the way, you might want to go to a doctor and get this checked out.
Now, let's say the person has to drive a little further.
Alright, they have to drive a little further.
The argument is, but if they don't have parents with the car, or if they don't have an ability to take a bus, or... Okay, so the assumption is this school will take all of this school's money.
Or do you think the more likely scenario is so that this school avoids being shut down for the first time?
In the history of this school, they might actually start trying to provide better schooling.
And even if it's not as good as school number 2, 3, or 4, guess what?
It'll be better than it is now.
There is no real-world scenario in which every school doesn't improve to some degree.
It would be impossible.
And you know what happens if that school shuts down, and the other schools are too?
There'll be another school.
Still taxpayer-funded, you and your property taxes, assuming that you still believe in them and that we can't have actually privatized school.
There is no scenario in which anything gets worse.
It can only improve.
Anyone out there, send in your representatives.
Send anyone you have who can make a cohesive argument that makes any sense.
We are going to continue, by the way.
Hopefully you don't comment if you guys like when sometimes we go We go in deep.
Diagrams are good.
What happens when they go to the school that's shaped like a vagina?
No, no.
Well, here's the thing.
Sometimes you have double school district, but then you can actually, if you have a plane, you can privately...
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