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Jared and Nick discuss the wave of legislation across the country hellbent on making life more and more difficult for people who aren't white, male, and heterosexual.
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Popping one open because your boy's voice is back.
This is the weekender edition of the Muckrake podcast.
I am Jared Yates Sexton.
I am at 95 percent, Nick, and that is better than most people's 100 percent.
Well, lead me through the mic.
Give us a little dulcet tones, would you?
Doesn't it sound good?
I don't know.
Anyway, everybody, welcome to the Monk Rake Podcast.
I'm Jared H. Sexton.
I'm here with Nick Hauselman.
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Nick, What we gotta start with today, it ain't pleasant.
It ain't pleasant.
No.
And you know what, it's a time of self-reflection.
We spent a bit of time talking about our roles, like in Russia, or what Ukraine needs to do, but you know what, there's a lot of things we gotta deal with back home first.
There are!
And they're all interconnected and they all work together because this is, after all, an international authoritarian movement, but we need to talk about something that It's not cool.
It's been coming for a very, very long time.
What shape the Republican attack plan moving forward is going to take has been, it's been telegraphed for a while.
And because on this show we have been charting a lot of the rightward movement of the GOP and culture, we've been talking a lot about things like QAnon and these conspiracy theories that of course there is a Satanic, child-abusing cult that runs the world.
The globalists, obviously, are harvesting adrenochrome and abusing children left and right.
A lot of people said, you know, Q is gone.
We're never going to have to deal with this stuff again.
And here we are.
We literally have one of the two major parties in the United States of America.
They have no policy.
They have no principles.
They have no plan.
They have no agenda.
Literally at this point, Nick, the only thing that they have is pointing at the other side and saying that those people are attacking children.
That's it.
That's all they got.
Right.
Well, you've seen the blob, the movie.
and it's kind of like that where maybe the big circle are like conservatives and the GOP and then these small blobs continue to just devour the GOP whole and so this is it's it's like non-stop there's no way to stop the what's going on it's now at a fever pitch with what they're doing legally to trying to you know to basically and we talked about this before where it's it's rooted in fear
But the things they're talking about, and maybe we need to explore a little bit more, is like the role of public schooling has a lot of, when you're talking about the Venn Diagram of that, has a lot of overlay of like governments.
So, first of all, you've got to deal with people who are so conservative that they can't handle gay people living amongst us without thinking that they're groomers or they're pedophiles.
Literally.
Which is Q, right?
This is the QAnon kind of thing.
It's the QAnon conspiracy theory.
But it really helps to get people who had never heard of QAnon into this circle because they're already predisposed to sort of have this weird notion of which we're trying to maybe help kids not grow up believing and that's sort of the root of I think where the language is coming from from like I don't even call it the left but just you know, what should be sane, rational ways of teaching kids in younger grades.
And I feel like we need to explore that and how this is now, it sort of touches so many different buttons on the right and that it's like, you know, it's like a pinball machine.
When you really break this down, we're going to talk about what the developments have been over the past few days.
When it really boils down to the, and we talked about this a little bit on Tuesday's episode, the Republican Party and conservatives, they will come up with the most terrifying apocalyptic scenario imaginable.
And, And all of this is, it's an apocalyptic thought, right?
So like if you actually go back to the actual quote-unquote apocalypse in terms of Book of Revelation, The entire point is saying, hey, we're not in charge, but let me tell you something.
You may be in charge, but if you keep making the wrong decisions and things keep going in the direction that they're going, I'm telling you right now, this is going to end in an apocalyptic scenario, right?
And I know because I've seen visions from God, I've been told these things have been delivered to me.
Right now, In the United States of America, a lot of what is occurring is very much an extension of Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and evangelical sort of mindset.
And the idea here is, and you remember this, you're old enough, like they were saying, if we let gay marriage happen, America is going to be smited by God.
The next thing you know, we're going to be allowing bestiality.
We're going to be allowing child abuse, all of this stuff.
And the conservatives keep tapping into this idea.
And in the past, it was these people on the fringes.
And when Robertson or Falwell would say it, there'd be like a little bit of backlash.
Well, now this is, first of all, it's happening in the state houses around America.
We have all of these bills that are being pushed out there.
Ron DeSantis is completely making his career and staking his claim to the Republican nomination based on these ideas.
The laws that are attacking a problem that doesn't exist.
This idea that there's this grooming happening in the United States.
And then, of course, the patron saint of repulsive behavior, Marjorie Taylor Greene, comes out.
And we know she's about spectacle.
We know what she does.
She comes out and she says in so many words, and this is an actual quote, and I'm going to make Nick put this in the opening of the show.
She literally says, Democrats are the party of pedophiles.
Teachers are trying to transition elementary school aged children.
And she says that the entire identity behind the left is the most disgusting, evil, horrible things.
This is where we are right now.
We're not even to the midterms yet.
We're not to 2024.
This is only going to escalate.
Well, Jared, I think I just need some help because my thoughts are racing all over the place with this whole ideology and I think it would help to figure out or get a little bit more organized about what we're dealing with because you have parents who basically want to teach bullying in my mind.
It seems like what the guidelines are for what teachers want to do when they're talking about, you know, Especially when you're talking about very young kids in kindergarten through fifth or whatever.
You know, they want to have the freedom to be able to recognize differences.
People who are different and we can accept them.
So, what is so awful about this that the parents have to pass laws that will prevent this from happening?
Well, so, you know, there's a thing that's happening with this.
And this happens with white people, it happens with men, it happens with straight people.
They come to believe that their mindset or their viewpoint is the default mindset, right?
They're the normal people.
They are the default.
Everybody else is weird or different or whatever.
And so like, you know, we were talking about this a little bit, this idea that like, All of a sudden now it's like Disney is a groomer company simply because they realized that they could not financially, you know, turn their back on this Don't Say Gay bill.
Well, guess what?
Every Disney movie enforces a viewpoint.
Like, as long as you're having a princess finding her prince, you're saying heterosexuality is the way that people are supposed to be.
If you are reading a book to kids in an elementary school, and there's a married couple, if there is a boyfriend or a girlfriend, and by the way, America is the land of sexualizing children.
Oh, isn't she so pretty?
What a little heartbreaker.
Oh, do you have any girlfriends?
It's gross!
It's always been gross!
And the idea of like...
Staying with that default is what the conservative movement wants.
They want to stick with this complete indoctrination.
And quite frankly, let's be very clear, they want kids, and I think we both know this, kids are pretty smart about who they are and how they feel and what their identity is very, very early on.
They want kids who are gay or trans or different from their quote unquote default.
They want them terrified.
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