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June 16, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Former Virginia State Senate candidate Julie Perry warns...
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Welcome to today's interview on Brighteon.com.
I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon, and today we're joined by Julie Perry, who ran for the Virginia State Senate, and she has details about this developing story involving What may be political corruption in Virginia, dirty tricks, dirty tactics that are used by Democrats in Virginia to try to destroy conservatives, especially in areas like Fairfax County, which is already leaning strongly blue anyway.
So Julie Perry joins us.
Welcome to the show today.
Julie, it's great to have you on.
Thank you for having me on.
Well, we're thrilled to have you on, and I know you probably read my recent story about Hong Kong and that whole situation, even though that was kind of limited to the conservative side, the GOP side of politics there.
But what I'm finding from all the interviews that I conducted of people I talked to who have run for office in Virginia, such as yourself, is politics in Virginia is really dirty.
Yes.
What's your take on that?
Well, you know, I can tell you, the left does not like it when we speak out.
And since I am a conservative teacher, and especially in a blue area, that really bothers the left.
Yeah, I'm sure.
Because, you know, they are using the schools to indoctrinate kids.
You know, in the words of Lenin, He said, if you want to take over a country, you start with the kids.
So obviously, that's why they're pushing their agenda so hard in the schools.
And they don't like anybody that would dare speak out against it.
So just to establish some background, so you teach in the Fairfax County Public Schools.
You're a history teacher, as I understand it, correct?
Yes.
So that must be difficult to teach history while you're watching our current administration make the same mistakes of history.
You know, we just have to teach the truth about history.
And I teach my kids the truth.
I teach my kids, I'm not afraid to tell my kids that America is a great country.
Our founding fathers established this country on Christian principles.
We should be proud to live in this country and be Americans and live for what this stands for.
The Biden administration and the left, they are trying to teach the youth that America's not a great country.
It was founded on slavery and That's not the case at all, you know?
And so there's no other country in this world that endures the freedoms we have in this country.
And if we don't stand up, we're going to lose it all.
Yes.
Because the left, they would love to turn this country into a communist country.
Yeah.
Absolutely destroy the values that this country was founded upon.
So, Julie, I mean, I agree with everything you just said there.
This is so critical right now in history.
We're watching history unfold in front of us in real time.
And most people are oblivious to what's happening, how we're losing, even look at what they did to President Trump.
We're losing the executive protections of the office of the presidency.
Oh, I know.
Yeah, it's just extraordinary.
We're losing the First Amendment in this country with all this censorship.
But for you to be a female teacher in the public school district or the public school system is already very left-leaning.
And then to be in Fairfax County area, that's even more left-leaning.
And then to be a female, most, I mean, you can correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't most...
Female instructors in the school district, very much left-leaning?
Yes.
Yes, I would say a good bit are.
More males are conservative than females, so I am definitely an anomaly being a female and a conservative.
Yes.
And so it's one of those things where it's like you see, you know, in so many marriages you see the wife is liberal, the husband's conservative, and, you know, I've seen it, you know, in my profession, and my husband's seen it in his profession, and so, but there are a lot more closet conservatives and teachers that think like us, but are so afraid to say it.
Yes.
Yes.
I've had teachers around Northern Virginia quietly write to me and say, we agree with you, Julie.
Thank you for standing up.
You're saying what we're all wanting to say, but are so afraid.
Absolutely.
And by the way, let me give out your Twitter handle here.
It's Julie4Senate, and that's the numeral four.
The numeral four.
So Julie4Senate.
And yeah, Julie, J-U-L-I-E, the number four, and then Senate.
Yep.
Got it.
And that refers to your recent campaign of running for the Virginia State Senate.
It sure does.
Yes, it does.
Okay, great.
And as you may know, I've interviewed Jonathan Emord, who's running for Senate for the United States Senate.
And I've also reached out to the Hong Kong team and invite them for a response or an interview, but so far haven't heard back from them.
But anyway, that's a different story.
So, as I understand it, you have been...
In some ways targeted for harassment, and you believe that it's linked to the political left.
Can you walk us through that story?
Well, last year, I actually, when I put my hat in the ring, the incumbent, the former incumbent, he was actually more in the middle.
Nice guy.
His name was George Barker.
I met him.
But, you know, he was primaried by one of the Fairfax school board members, and the only reason he was primaried is because he wasn't, well, far left enough.
And it was kind of like, it's heartbreaking because he was a really nice guy when I met him.
Actually, a colleague of mine who's a Republican teacher, he came in her class, they wrote a bill together, and he was just not afraid to work across the aisles and work with the Republicans.
And of course, you know, the far left is taking over the Democrat Party, and they can't have people in their party like that anymore.
Wow.
So they primaried him with a former Fairfax school board member who's very woke, and she's a female.
And I put my hat in the ring in, like, late February of 2023.
And, you know, she didn't like that so well.
Because the left...
Their education has been their baby.
They have owned education.
And since, you know, I am an outspoken conservative teacher, I break their narrative.
First of all, you know, she did beat George Barker in the primary.
But the thing about it is, she wasn't going against your...
You're a wealthy Republican, is what I should say that our party's been stereotyped with, I guess.
She was going against a female who was younger than her and who was actually a teacher.
And she just didn't know what to do with that.
Because, you know, she was on the school board.
You know, she voted to shut down the schools in 2020.
And destroyed a lot of families.
She's all about...
This far leftist indoctrinations in the school.
She was the chairwoman on the school board.
And it was just, you know, a lot of things happened that year that weren't good.
A lot of teachers quit.
But the thing about it is, I watched her in the primary against former Senator Barker, and she would constantly use her woman card and her teacher card.
She couldn't use that with me.
So because of that, I don't have the evidence it was necessarily her, but there were allies of hers that made false CPS calls against me.
Wait, you mean CPS, Child Protective Services?
Yeah, yeah.
Thankfully, they called CPS over a tweet I made.
And thankfully, the Fairfax CPS said, you know, the complaint said that the teacher, you know, revealed a student's identity and the tweet did not reveal any personal information of the student.
It just said the teacher's name.
Therefore, we are not going to investigate.
So that was a godsend that the Fairfax CPS wasn't going to investigate a conservative candidate.
That says a lot.
What were the nature of the allegations and in what way did those allegations get publicized or filed?
Well, what happened was I had tweeted that, I tweeted an NHI article about, it talked about how children that struggle with gender dysphoria are, I mean, children that have autism are more likely to struggle with gender dysphoria.
Uh-huh.
And, you know, I had mentioned a student of mine struggled with that, and, you know, I was very upset about it.
And all of a sudden, I got accused by this leftist group for saying I revealed a student's personal identifying information, name, school, you know, all this other stuff, when that wasn't the truth, got a false CPS call made on me.
They, you know, and when CPS decided not to investigate...
Another Democrat activist emailed my principal, literally said I, you know, revealed a student's personal identifying information and just, you know, said some language in the tweet about me that was just like, whoa.
And so my principal had met with me.
And literally, I recorded the meetings because Virginia is a one-party state.
But I got a summary memo threatening to be fired and everything.
And luckily, in the summer, I was able to...
Thankfully, I met my attorney who also ran, Hayden Fisher.
He ran for Senate in the Richmond area.
And he said he would help me, you know, with this case.
And Luke Rosiak from the Daily Wire said, this sounds political.
I'd like to do some investigative journalism.
And so, lo and behold, God, it was so good.
We petitioned.
Hayden helped me petition with the courts.
We explained to the judge why we want the name of the person who made the CPS call.
We explained that my opponent was on the school board.
And so basically the judge came to this agreement, and this is God, because this is Fairfax County.
The judge said, okay.
He said, I will go ahead and I will ask the Fairfax CPS to hand me the name of who made the complaint.
And I will reveal to you who it is, if it was your principal, your opponent, your political opponent, or anybody that donated to your opponent.
Hold on a second.
Before we get there, there's something I don't quite understand.
The complaint filed against you was saying that you had spoken out against...
Well, you were trying to bring attention to the ties between autistic children and the fact that they're very pliable for gender dysphoria.
Right.
And this is an NHI article that published this.
Right, but you did not reveal any identifiable information about any specific student, as I understand it, correct?
No.
Never revealed the name, never revealed the school, never revealed an address, never revealed anything personally.
Okay, so I don't even understand the basis of a complaint.
A CPS complaint normally is accusing a person of abusing their own children.
Right.
But that's not even the case of the accusation didn't even touch that area.
The accusation seems to me to have no basis whatsoever.
I mean, you're expressing an opinion about autism and gender dysphoria.
How is that a CPS issue?
That's right.
And that's why they dismissed it.
And so what it boils down to is they use, when you expose the types of population that the far left uses to reel into their community, they don't like it.
They don't like it at all.
And so what it boiled down to was they, you know, didn't like the fact that I was exposing what kind of targets they used to go after kids that, you know, they can reel into their radical leftist community and inflict their ideology on them.
Yeah, and just for the record, I will add, of course, it's more than inflicting ideology.
It's also chemical castration as well as genital mutilations in some cases.
Oh, yeah.
It seems like if CPS should be involved in anything, it should be in protecting children from genital mutilations.
Absolutely.
100%.
But...
Apparently, they don't get involved in that.
I mean, okay, that's just my opinion, not yours, but I'm just adding that context.
Yep.
Absolutely, because that is horrific child abuse.
My gosh.
Yes, clearly.
Clearly.
And it's so sad because when Governor Youngkin revamped former Governor Northam's transgender policies, the left went nuts.
And there were so many kids around the state of Virginia that said, what if a kid reveals to their parents that they're transgender?
They'll kick them out of their homes.
I mean, the left was filling kids' heads with this stuff.
Wow.
Wow.
Now, let me ask your take on this.
I'm sure you're familiar with this case, but last week the DOJ filed four felony charges against a surgeon in a Texas hospital who was blowing the whistle on the Texas hospital violating Texas law by continuing to carry out Essentially genital mutilation surgeries on children even after the hospital claimed they had stopped doing so.
Wow!
So this doctor, Dr.
Ethan Haim, he blew the whistle on this without naming the children in any way, but the DOJ is now charging him with felony crimes claiming that he violated doctor-patient privacy.
Right.
So instead of prosecuting the doctors mutilating the children, the DOJ is prosecuting the doctor blowing the whistle on doctors mutilating children.
You see what I mean?
It's because the Biden administration is more concerned about implementing their radical agenda than what's best for Americans and children and their families.
And they will literally, they will do anything to bring anybody down that's a threat to their agenda.
Clearly that's the case, yes.
That's exactly what the case is, and that's why they're trying to put President Trump in jail, and that's why they can't have him win re-election, because they want this agenda so badly implemented, they are gung-ho on destroying this country.
And anybody that gets in their way, they want to re-election.
Get them removed from their job.
Put them on house arrest.
Put them in jail.
Yeah, absolutely.
Clearly, they're jailing their political opponents.
This is the kind of thing that happens in a banana republic.
But for how long have you been a history teacher, may I ask?
Yes.
So this is the end of my fifth year.
Okay.
I started my career as a special ed teacher.
So, I am at the end of my ninth year of teaching total, and this fall will be my tenth year.
Okay, okay, great.
So let's say roughly than 10 years of teaching.
Now, over those 10 years, and of course without revealing any identifiable information, obviously, but what can you say about the overall trends of how are children in public schools in Virginia, how have they been impacted by this LGBT agenda, either positively or negatively?
I'll tell you, negatively, but here's the thing that I think a lot of people don't realize.
This was in the schools in the pre-COVID days, but nobody was watching.
I think parents thought everything was fine.
They dropped their kids off at school.
They thought, you know, there's no need to pay attention.
And what happened was when COVID hit in 2020, virtual learning took place.
And parents, for the first time, actually had to listen in on their kids' classes.
Oh, wow.
And when they listened in on their kids' classes, they didn't like what they were hearing.
And even when I would teach virtually, several parents would listen in.
And so they heard for the first time what teachers were actually teaching their kids, and they didn't like it.
So...
Being in Virginia and being near Loudoun County, there was a big rise in 2021 against this indoctrination.
And I don't think the left thought that through when they decided to go to virtual learning.
And so what it did was it woke parents up.
And so what's happening is...
It's parents and a lot of people are pushing hard, and the left is pushing back even harder right now.
And so, because parents are no longer naive to what's going on in the schools, unlike the pre-COVID days.
Right.
And so that's why you see the Biden administration, and remember when Merrick Garland called parents domestic terrorists and stuff?
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah, that's why they are pushing so hard right now, is because people are waking up and fighting against this.
Yes.
That's what's going on.
Now, as a teacher in Virginia, are you part of the teachers' union?
Is that called the NEA? Is that what that is?
So, I was, once upon a time, a part of it.
I fought the big lie.
When I got on.
The way the unions sell themselves to teachers is they say, oh, if you have a problem with administration or a legal problem, we'll be there for you.
We'll give you guidance.
We'll give you protection.
And because there's so many problems in the school system, that's what gets teachers to join.
That's what got me to join.
And so, you know, I was paying 74, I believe it was like $74.99 a month.
And then in 2018, I was in a really bad situation and had blatant evidence and the unions were not there for me.
As a matter of fact, I had to go hire my own lawyer.
God bless my husband.
He took out an $8,000 loan to retain this lawyer.
Wow.
And luckily the school system ended up having, you know, it ended up working out.
But the point is, they were not there for me when they said they would be.
And my husband and I had to take out a good bit of money because the unions weren't doing their jobs.
And so, you know, what amazed me is the next year, flash forward to 2020, the unions worked overtime to keep those schools shut.
They really did.
And I thought, gosh, if they worked that hard to help me when I needed them, boy, I would have been in great shape.
Wow.
So because of everything you just described, the COVID years, And the pushback by parents, we've seen a huge surge across the country in homeschooling.
Huge.
Absolutely huge, yeah.
Now, I'm curious about your opinions on that because here you are working for a school district that is compensated by attendance days, the number of students times the number of days, I believe, is typically how schools are funded.
So homeschooling would take away funds from essentially your salary.
But how do you feel about homeschooling?
I'm not against it.
I think homeschoolers, their academic level is above what most public school kids are right now.
There's a lot of great homeschool organizations.
Parents are working together.
Each parent shines in a different subject.
They have their kids get together, socialize, do fun things.
And so, it's a rising movement, and it's a movement where parents, they, you know, being a parent is, besides your relationship with God and your spouse, being a parent, your kids are everything.
Those are your babies.
And so, you know, when you mess with a mama bear's babies, they're not going to sit back and just be quiet about it.
They're going to do what they can to protect their kids.
Yes.
And they will make sacrifices, and a lot of parents have had to make sacrifices.
You see so many situations where mom has had to quit her job to be at home to homeschool her kids.
And it's because they don't want their kids being in a dangerous situation in schools.
But that's very difficult economically today.
Although, let's say before 1971, when the gold standard was dropped, And the Federal Reserve, of course, since then has been printing enormous amounts of debt.
Actually, most of the debt has been printed in the last five years, you know, in the whole history of the country.
But because of that constant looting of the American worker, it's almost impossible for a family, a typical family, let's say a mom, dad and two kids, almost impossible to survive on one income.
It is.
What are your thoughts on that?
You know, that's why we need school choice.
That's why if parents want to homeschool, that money should be able to go to them.
That should be able to go to resources towards them, help them pay the bills.
Again, if Our tax dollars are going to the public school, and it's supposed to go for every child.
Every child deserves an education, and if they're being homeschooled, let it go to let the money follow the child.
Yes.
You know, and it would really help families out.
And then the other thing, too, speaking of school choice, you know, it's both parents want it.
And there's a lot of teachers that would be happier because it would be nice if as if as a teacher, if we could go to a school, get paid what we get paid in a public school and get much better treatment and be a lot happier.
And when you have competition, that that is more likely to happen.
And so I have teacher friends that actually are in the process of starting their own affordable private schools for families.
I'm seeing that trend across the country as well.
Actually, there's a guy, he's now the GOP chairman of Portsmouth in Virginia, and he currently, as a public school teacher, he's a history teacher, but he's actually really, I think he's going to happen, he's going to start his own Christian academy next year.
Yeah.
Does Governor Youngkin support school choice?
100%.
The problem is he's got to battle a Democrat General Assembly.
Right, right.
Absolutely.
I'm located in Texas, you may know, and our governor, of course, also supports school choice, and fortunately we've made a lot of progress in that space in the last session.
But it seems to be a nationwide trend where you're going to have this bifurcation of education, where you're going to have, and I don't mean to be in any way insulting by this to the public school system, but A lot of the children that end up staying in the public school system, they come from very troubled Absolutely.
Parents may have very poor parenting skills and also mental health issues, sometimes child abuse issues, sometimes violence or substance abuse issues with the parents that reflect on the children.
And very often, and I'd like your comment on this, and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but very often the public school system ends up functioning as a partial system Daycare type of role distracted from education because of having to deal with the more problematic students.
Is that an accurate assessment?
I would say so.
And it's these families, unfortunately, are trapped in the public schools.
They don't have the money to send their kids to a school that would suit their needs.
And so they're trapped there.
The public schools know it.
And all they care about is the money.
And so, you know, I actually have had, over the years, students...
I'll never forget a couple years back, I had a student who had trouble in the public schools, and her mom ended up paying for her to go to this great art academy.
And as soon as she got there, she just blossomed.
And, you know, so because she was able to be at a school that was able to tailor to her learning needs...
to do something that was of interest to her.
Yeah.
And so if we allowed kids in these inner cities to have more of a choice of what school they can go to, they could get a better education.
And, you know, I think that the problem is, like I said, these families are trapped in public schools because they don't have the money to send their kids to private schools.
Both parents have to work so they can't homeschool.
And the public schools know they have these families because they get the tax dollars.
So let me extend that line of thinking.
There is plenty of money at the federal level, as you saw, even with Speaker Johnson and the GOP, supporting $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, other countries.
There's plenty of money to create and send overseas.
But somehow there's no money for what you're talking about, school choice in America, or even to build and secure America's border.
Exactly.
Yeah, go ahead.
It's because we've got these politicians in D.C. that are not spending the money properly.
They're spending it on their own agenda that is not good for Americans.
They're only spending it on agenda that makes their donors happy.
And, you know...
And all they care about is the problem is lining each other's pockets.
And so that's a problem.
And sadly, the teenage children lobby is not well-funded for some reason.
No.
They don't run around the halls of Congress making million-dollar donations to U.S. senators.
No.
And the other problem we've got is when schools get money, Yes.
And also, isn't the...
The curriculum, heavily distorted now, and let me provide this context.
So, I'm an employer.
My companies in the state of Texas employ many, many people, millions of dollars a year in payroll.
And I continue to find it to be very difficult to find Students or graduates of the school system who can do basic things like basic math, basic skills, simple logic and reasoning is lacking.
Now, I'm talking about Texas in this case, but I believe this to be a very widespread problem.
What are your comments on the curriculum and what students are actually taught versus what's being missed?
Well, the problem is schools have lost the focus of reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Instead, we are teaching children what to think instead of how to think.
The other thing, too, is unfortunately a lot of school systems only allow teachers to give kids a minimum grade of 50%.
So, if Johnny only decides to show up half the time and, you know, say he gets an A half the year, well, and he doesn't want to show up the next half the year, well, guess what?
The minimum grade I can give him on anything is 50%.
That's a problem.
You know, kids are learning.
Okay, with that, we can do the bare minimum to get by.
Wait a second.
You're saying that you're not allowed to give a score less than 50%?
No.
Ultimately, at the end of the quarter, kids are only allowed to have a minimum of 50%.
We were allowed this year to put in zeros, but then at the end of the quarter, we had to put in the 50%.
Wait a second.
That's crazy.
In other words, if they do nothing, they still get 50%?
Correct.
And, you know, imagine me only showing up to work half the time and getting half my paycheck.
It doesn't fly that.
It doesn't work like that.
No, exactly.
In the real world, you get nothing other than what you earn and what you produce.
That's right.
That's right.
Okay, so, and then I've heard in other states, I think this was out of Oregon, that they wanted to change the grading scales so that 50% would now be a C, right?
Yeah.
So if that were to be combined with what you just said, then we could have a public education system where literally doing nothing and never showing up earns you an average grade.
And that's scary because, you know what, it's causing more and more kids to leave school not knowing how to read, not knowing how to comprehend what they read, not knowing how to do basic math.
Right.
Right.
doing things that they need to survive in the world.
Now, I know you're a history teacher, not a math teacher, but I'm constantly shocked by how many people can't understand basic decisions about money and finance.
For example, compounding interest or credit card debt or loans, how loans work, what are interest rates, how to calculate a 15% tip at a restaurant.
Cashiers at retail stores don't know how to do anything unless the computer does it for them.
I'm absolutely shocked at this.
What are your thoughts?
We've relied too much on technology, way too much on technology.
Unfortunately, we've forgotten to do basic mental math.
My father-in-law, he's very good at math, and so we go out to eat.
My father-in-law says, okay, when you tip, it's $2 for every 10, 20%, you know?
And it's like kids don't even have that basic understanding anymore.
And so, you know, it's like if you ask a child, okay, you're going to a restaurant.
The bill is 40 bucks.
We tip 20%.
How much is that?
They can't tell you off the top of their heads.
Wow.
And whereas, you know, with the older generation, like, you know, especially like my dad, my father-in-law, they can tell you just right off the top of their heads.
Sure.
And, you know, we need, what happens if technology breaks down?
What happens if, you know, we don't have a calculator in front of us?
You know, we need to be able to, we got to know this stuff.
Absolutely.
But also, I would add that people, when children don't learn these skills, and as they grow up to be adults, they become wage slaves to a system of perpetual debt.
Absolutely.
And also reading.
You know, whether we realize it or not, we read every single day.
And if you can't hardly read, you're not going to make, it's very hard to make it independently.
Sure.
I mean, you know, you can't obtain a driver's license.
When we're on the road, we read signs.
We read, you know, as adults, you know, we read bills, mortgage deeds, leases, all that stuff.
You've got to know how to read to function in society.
Yeah, as a side note, I lived in Taiwan for two years, and I learned to speak Mandarin Chinese, but I never learned to read it, because you literally have to memorize thousands of characters.
And so I functioned in a society in a way that was locally illiterate, and I had to rely on other people to tell me what the sign said.
What was that like?
It was very...
So you felt a little bit helpless at times, but very grateful to the locals, because the Taiwan people are very nice, and they always help me.
But imagine me.
I mean, I'm a very high IQ person living as an illiterate person in a country where I can't read the road signs or maps.
So then imagine what it must be like for an American in America to not be able to read.
Yeah.
I understand that.
You know, when I was in college, I read a non-fiction novel about a woman who was 35, lived in West Virginia, and couldn't read.
Wow.
That was an eye-opener to me because she couldn't obtain a driver's license.
She could not live independently.
She basically did not know.
She understood symbols such as McDonald's and stuff, but she didn't know where anything was.
And basically, she couldn't get a job or anything.
And so I was like, wow.
Wow.
And so she learned to read.
She went to school and like, you know, she wrote that book and she said, you know, I can't tell you how important it is to know how to read and not only know how to read, but understand what you're reading, comprehend what you're reading.
Absolutely.
But this, this used to be, these were all basic skills.
I mean, I went to a public school system and I remember, I think in the third grade, they were There were reading assessment and reading comprehension tests for us to determine whether we were, you know, comprehending what we're reading.
And today, that would never be done at a third grade level.
No.
No.
As a matter of fact, when I first got my teaching license in Virginia, it was under former Governor Bob McDonald, and he was one of the four governors that refused to join Barack Obama's Common Core.
And he actually really upped the stakes for teachers in Virginia.
And so when I got certified in Virginia, it was a tough certification because I had to take like five rigorous teaching tests.
I had to take just a reading and writing rigorous teaching test.
Really?
And it was very much it was reading comprehension.
And looking back in hindsight, I'm glad I had to take that because, you know what, it was basically a way of saying if you're going to teach, you need to be able to comprehend what you're reading to the kids.
You know, you need to teach.
Sure.
And so, you know, and that obviously the test scores for the practices, which are teaching tests, were very high.
And so I felt really prepared.
And now it's gone way down.
And so it's kind of one of those things where we got to keep the standards up.
Now, I'm very glad Governor Yunkin has done a lot of great things for education in Virginia and has really tried to get rigorous back in the schools.
That's been a good thing.
But, you know, you go to some of these other states and all they want.
Do you remember when Nancy Pelosi, former Speaker Pelosi, said, we will we don't we will find out what's in the bill when we pass it?
Yes, right.
We will have to pass the bill to see what's in it.
That is exactly what the left wants.
They don't want us to look into things.
They just want us to blindly...
They want to teach kids to blindly follow along with their ideology, and that comes with dumbing them down.
Yeah, absolutely.
But there's also, of course, a timing issue.
You know, the bills are written by the lobbyists and the corporation lobbyists, and then they're submitted with not enough time allowed for any human to actually read the 1,000 pages.
You know what I'm saying?
You said this.
Oh, yeah.
In fact, I want to ask you, so are you planning on running again for the Virginia State Senate?
I don't know.
Not for a couple years because I just need to take, I kind of just want to take a little break, you know, and kind of recuperate from running in 2021 and 2023.
But I'm not ruling it out.
My husband says, you know, go for it in the future.
So it's always good when you've got the spouse's support.
Yes.
But, you know, I'm not ruling it out.
I would definitely rather be in a district that's a little more red.
But, you know, I'm glad I started out in a blue district because it helped me get some name recognition.
because if, to be honest, if you try to start to run the red district, it's not going to happen because they've kind of already got candidates in.
So you kind of got to find some way to get some kind of name recognition, especially when you're like me who doesn't have a lot of money.
I think, you know, if you're somebody that has a lot of money, you do have an advantage, obviously.
But I think for me, being an outspoken teacher has gotten a lot of attention because people are Parents are starving for it.
Society is starving for it.
And, you know, the more people that speak out, the more parents and teachers that speak out, the harder it's going to be for them to implement their agenda.
That's right.
That's right.
Let me give out your Twitter handle yet again.
It's at Julie4Senate, and that's the numeral for the digit four.
Julie4Senate.
And then on Facebook, you're at Julie4SenateVA.
Yep.
Okay.
That's great.
And, you know, the thing about Virginia is it's fascinating that you're a history teacher because, of course, there's so much history right there in your own backyard.
Right.
Oh, I know.
I know.
I mean, it's extraordinary.
Like, do you ever have the opportunity to take students on a field trip?
You know, Mike, you know what's amazing?
George Washington's home.
Mount Vernon, Fairfax, Alexandria, right near me.
Isn't that incredible?
Yeah.
The first Jamestown, the first establishment, 1607, is right here in Virginia.
Yes.
It's such a rich location.
It is.
And look at this.
I look at the Civil War, you know, and did it Appomattox in Virginia.
There's so many.
The funny story, my husband and I were in Manassas and we were trying to go to Golden Corral.
And I was driving and I accidentally got off at the wrong exit and my husband was like, oh dear.
And then we looked around and we looked out and we were like, whoa, this is one of the battlefields and it was bull run.
Ah, yes, I've been there.
And it was the greatest wrong exit ever because we got out and we were like, wow.
Wow.
Wow!
And it's just like, we drive around, there's so many Civil War battlefields just in Virginia.
Yes.
And by the way, that battlefield's like 10 minutes from our place and we didn't even know it.
That's amazing.
What's your take on how the left wants to destroy the statues of history?
Because this is always part of a cultural revolution leading to communism.
They have to take down the monuments so that people forget history.
That's right, because they want to erase history because if we learn from the good and the bad, they can't implement their agenda.
Right.
And so they want everything down so they can implement their agenda.
And so, you know, the real reason they want, you know, these statues down is because they don't want us to learn from the past.
Right.
They want us to, you know, they just, if we don't learn from the past, we're doomed to repeat.
And so you think about what has happened over history and And when we don't stand up, or when we're naive to what's going on, then evil can take over.
And let's think, it happened in the Russian Revolution.
It definitely happened in World War II, you know?
And in China's Maoist revolution as well, the cultural revolution there.
That's when they were dragging teachers out of their homes and murdering them in the streets because they thought academics were a threat to the power base of the government.
Absolutely.
And you know what's amazing is the statue of Lenin in Seattle, they have no problem with that hanging and not coming down.
Yep.
But they want the statue of Robert E. Lee to come down.
Well, exactly.
And also, there's a very disturbing two-tier justice system now that has emerged in America, which has its historical roots, as you well know.
But today, if you deface an LGBT painting on a crosswalk, you're charged with multiple felony crimes.
But if you tear down the statue of George Washington, nothing happens to you.
That's right.
And again, it's because they want to implement an agenda.
And anybody that interferes with that, they consider a political enemy.
And so that's why they're doing everything they can to stop Trump from getting back in the White House.
Exactly.
Based on your knowledge of history, is your focus American history or is it world history or European?
I do world history, world history one and world history two.
Okay, great, great.
So, based on your knowledge, where is this republic headed if we don't alter the course of current trends?
We're headed for destruction.
We really are.
We are headed towards a country that will be taken over by the radical left or the communists if we don't stand up and if we don't keep pushing back against the left.
I think, you know, After President Trump was found guilty, he raised $34 million in just one night, and he raised $400 million in one week.
Yes.
That's what it takes.
And that is a statement of, we have to stand up against this.
And so many people donated that have never even donated to political candidates before.
Because they were just, people are that upset.
Well, and also, you may know that elections just took place across the EU. Literally, just in the last couple of days, and those elections showed very strong rejection of the more left-leaning candidates in the EU. In other words, there was much stronger support for stronger border protection to crack down on illegal immigration.
And also, by the way, strong support for candidates that oppose the continued war with Russia, candidates that want to resume trade with Russia rather than fighting with Russia.
What do you think the implications are or is that a sign of things to come for the elections in November?
I think so.
I really do.
I think the problem is President Trump was never supposed to win in 2016.
He won.
The far left did not know what to do.
It put them in absolute panic mode.
They had to come up with this COVID-19 virus, and they pretty much did everything so fast and so quickly that people were just like, whoa, wait up, back off.
And so they got themselves in such desperation mode that they did it too quickly.
And because of that, it's woken a lot of people up.
And so that's the problem that they have.
And the other thing that we can be very grateful for is the Second Amendment.
Yes.
Because what's really standing in the left's way right now is the Second Amendment.
Because, you know what, our founding fathers were brilliant to put that in the Constitution.
They said when the First Amendment doesn't work out, the courts become corrupt and the judicial system becomes corrupt.
The only thing you've got is the Second Amendment.
Yeah, you don't have to remind me.
I'm a Texan.
We take that very seriously here.
Come and take it.
Our Second Amendment includes cannons.
Gonzalez and all that.
But the First Amendment is under attack.
The Second Amendment is under attack.
Fourth and Fifth Amendments.
Even, you could say, the Tenth Amendment.
Fourteenth Amendment.
Look at the prosecution of Trump.
How many amendments or civil rights were violated in that rigged prosecution of Trump?
Oh, a lot.
And my prayer is the Supreme Court comes in and does something because at this point I think they need to.
Yes.
Well, that's – an appeal has been made to SCOTUS, so I think that's only a matter of time.
You know, Julie, this is really fascinating.
We started out talking about your particular teaching and campaign, but we're talking about history unfolding on a global scale.
As we're almost out of time, we're wrapping this up.
What would you like to leave our audience with, you know, to think about, to take away from this conversation?
I would say no matter what, we have to keep standing up.
We have to keep pushing back.
We have to, my hope is parents and teachers keep resisting against the left's agenda in the schools.
And more importantly, this election really, really matters.
We need President Trump to win.
And we need him to have the Senate because we need him to appoint good judges.
And we need him to have the House.
And so...
I hope people across America see the importance of not only electing President Trump, but really looking at the Senate races, the House races, because, again, Trump is a lot stronger when he has a Republican-controlled Senate and House.
Well, that's true.
But he had that in the first two years of his first term.
And my criticism of the GOP, at least at the federal level, is they love to talk tough when they don't have power.
And then when they do have power, they do nothing with it.
And that's why what I love seeing.
Oh, sorry.
Go ahead.
No, go ahead.
What I'm loving now, unlike Trump's first two years, is we're seeing more and more patriots get into Congress.
And we're seeing more patriots rise up.
I look at that senator that President Trump endorsed in Ohio, which is, I think, Vance or something?
Yeah, J.D. Vance, yeah.
He's excellent.
He is.
It's incredible to have someone like him in the Senate, Senator Tom Cotton.
Senator Kennedy, you know, we need more and more true American patriots to represent us in D.C. And so, you know, I know in Virginia we have a primary on Tuesday.
And so my thinking is Tim Kaine needs to go.
That guy is corrupt to the core.
He cares more about his elite status and his donors and could care less about this country.
And we'll see this country run into the ground.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's I think our audience agrees with you on that point.
One more question.
Why does Virginia have elections in what the rest of us consider to be odd years?
You know, we, us in New Jersey, you know, you know what?
We, it's interesting because in 2021, the whole world was watching our gubernatorial race because, you know, it wasn't very many states having an election.
And same, and kind of with New Jersey.
And I, you know, I guess, I don't know.
It's interesting how we have elections in these odd years.
And I keep hearing it's because, you know, a couple states, they want to see how things change in just one year after a federal election.
But we are a very odd state in the fact that we have these elections in these odd years.
Our state and local elections are not like most other states.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, but I guess that's part of the beauty of the The, you know, the federalized system, which is states get to control their own election process, so there's decentralization.
That is true.
That is very, that's a very true statement.
So, yeah, hey, I say more power to the states, as far as I'm concerned, and let states do what they want.
And actually, I say more states.
We should have, like...
A new California, a new Oregon.
Yeah.
More states.
Absolutely.
And the good thing about having our gubernatorial races in odd years is it does get a lot more attention nationally.
True.
It really does.
And so, you know, it's interesting, us in New Jersey.
That is interesting.
Well, Julie, this has been a really fascinating conversation.
Definitely.
Definitely.
And so, yeah, thank you for having me on.
Absolutely.
In fact, I hope I can have you back for some interpretation of what's happening.
And as you said, I think in a week or so you have this primary in Virginia.
But, you know, we've got the big election in November.
A lot of people are concerned whether we're going to have an election without some interruption between now and then.
Who knows?
But I'd like to have you back to help interpret what's happening.
Absolutely.
I would love to.
And we'll see what happens next Tuesday.
That's for sure.
For sure.
All right.
Well, that sounds really great.
Keep in touch.
And let me give out your Twitter handle one more time.
Julie4Senate.
And that's the numeral four.
And Julie is spelled just like you think it is.
J-U-L-I-E. Julie4Senate.
And then on Facebook, you're at Julie4SenateVA, which is Virginia, for those who don't know.
We do have a lot of overseas listeners.
Oh, okay.
So, thank you so much.
Thank you, and I really like natural news.
I appreciate you guys reporting the truth.
Well, thank you.
We are always working on getting the truth out there on a number of topics, but we care about the Republic.
We care about humanity and trying to help people stay informed.
I've been a fan of you guys since 2020.
Well, thank you.
I did not know that, but thank you, Julie.
All right.
Have a good one.
All right.
You too.
Take care.
And thank you all for listening today.
Mike Adams here of Brighteon.com.
So be sure to watch the primary elections coming up in Virginia and catch more interviews at Brighteon.com.
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