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No End To The Crazy - November 2nd, Hour 3
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All right, news roundup, information overload hour, Sean Hannity Show.
All right, polls closed.
New Joy Z, 8 o'clock Eastern time.
Virginia 7 p.m.
Um I would imagine by the time we get on Hannity tonight, we should be getting numbers uh coming in, and and we'll bring them all to you.
Uh it's uh as we got toward the end of this Virginia race for governor.
I mean, the the flailing that's been going on with Terry McCulliff has been actually pretty entertaining to watch.
Um I don't know what the outcome tonight is going to be.
I've read the polls like all of you.
Uh it's extremely tight, especially in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
If you haven't voted yet, I will tell you, based on the calculations I've made with the polsters that I trust, day of voting will decide.
Today we'll decide the who the winner is, and probably Yunkin, Democrats usually have an advantage in early voting and mail-in voting.
Probably needs 55 to 56% of the of the vote today to actually have a chance to pull this off.
Now, can it happen?
Yeah.
So the polls saying it is a a possibility, a strong possibility.
Yeah, it's actually saying it, but they're also saying that it's very close.
Anyway, here to uh weigh in on all this, two great talk show hosts on their own right, both friends of mine, uh Joe Paggs, Joe Pag Show, Mark Simone, number one morning show at our flagship in New York, AM 710 WOR.
Uh guys, welcome back to the program.
Both of you, happy election day.
Sean.
Hey, right, right back at you.
Let me let me start with Mark only because this is personal.
We both have known Curtis Leewood for so many years, and I know it's it's nine to one registered Democrats to Republicans, and he's also running as an independent.
Um Eric Adams has got nothing but fawning press.
Does does Curtis have a shot?
We've had him on a couple of times.
Yes, he has a shot.
I want you to remember one simple fact.
Republicans have won five of the last seven mayoral races here in New York.
Five of the last seven.
Uh I was there in the uh Giuliani campaign of ninety-three, and even the day before, everybody said he had no chance of winning because of the demographics.
And back then that made sense, because Democrats had just won six of the last six.
So Giuliani shocked everybody uh and and ran.
Curtis was uh campaigning yesterday with our former Governor George Pitaki, who pointed out there was no way he was supposed to win.
The polls showed he couldn't win, and he did the next day.
So Curtis could win.
Obviously, the coverage has been slanted.
A lot of stuff about Eric Adams that should have come out uh and didn't, and that's been covered up, but uh and they've fixed the battle.
What things in particular about Adams did you feel didn't get enough attention?
Oh, the fact that he lives in New Jersey, I would have brought that up a little.
He's well that came out.
I I thought that was pretty well known.
Yeah.
Well, he showed this little uh basement apartment that he claimed he lived in everything.
Okay, that's it.
Problem solved, but uh reporters looked in the closet, his clothes weren't there, the TV was a hundred years old, there wasn't really a working TV in there.
And if you go to the New Jersey building and show his picture, the doorman said, Oh, Mr. Adams, yeah, 23H, we know him.
So they they left that part out.
Uh let's get your take, Joe Paggs on this election day.
Uh how interested is your audience in Virginia, New Jersey?
Uh very interested.
They're also very interested in Curtis and Eric Adams because Curtis has been on the show many times, as you know, we're we're pretty tight as well.
Uh if Giuliani and Pataki can win in New York, it's because of safety and security, I think Curtis can win.
But when it comes to Virginia, Sean, you know this, Mark, you know this.
When you bring up education on your show, it doesn't matter if you're left, right, middle, far left, you know, it doesn't matter the color that that you align with.
If you talk about telling me what I can and can't do when it comes to teaching my kids with the money that you're fleecing from me to to to to finance the educational system, you're gonna be in big trouble.
People are very angry, Terry McCulliff that he said he's lying about Yunkin when it comes to taking books out of the library.
He knows he's lying about that.
He also knows that he looked right at the camera and said, No, parents shouldn't have any say in their kids' education.
He's also lying about critical race theory.
And it really doesn't matter what your politics are.
You guys know this.
If you bring up education and you tell me the parent, and Sean, you know I've got five daughters, two of which are still in public school.
If you tell me that I have no say, at the same time taking my tax dollars to fund and finance the educational system in my area, you're not going to be voted in.
So I think I think that McCulloff is in big trouble.
In New Jersey, look out for my Paizon Citarelli.
He might do something there.
That would be very interesting.
My Pizon?
We're going back to that old school.
By the way, how many decades has it been since we've heard that Mark Simone?
It's cracking me up.
Well, uh, Phil Murphy, uh, who's like a mediocre at best governor of New Jersey.
And by the way, New Jersey's never re-elected a Democrat in 40 years.
They are always one term.
But he seemed to be a classy guy, been chairman of Goldman Sachs, but in the last debate he was losing.
So at the end, it was the cheapest, ugliest race baiting.
It looked terrible for Murphy.
Called Chitterelli a he brought up uh white supremacy and confederate flags.
Preposterous Sol Alinsky nonsense.
Demonize your opponent.
But this is this is standard 101, though.
I mean, I try to I I've gone through the history on radio and TV of the Democrats and and their playbook.
And the playbook is Republicans are racist, sexist, misogynist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, now transphobic, and they want dirty air and water, and they want they want to kill grandma and grandpa.
It's the same book.
election.
It's a cheap...
Saul Alinsky's the guy that came up with that strategy.
He's demonized and thrown names at the opponent.
But I don't think it works...
Ever since Murphy did that, he's been plunging in the polls.
Uh no one does that more than McAuliffe, and he had a leave that he's lost.
And if he loses the other thing is this uh war on uh on parents, suburban mobs are an important chunk of the democratic base.
This is a war on them.
They're gonna lose that part of the Democratic base, and that's permanent damage that's gonna be done.
The reason maybe I'm more skeptical than both of you is this.
If you look at the mass exodus out of New York, the people that are leaving tend to be more conservative.
Uh the same with New Jersey.
If you look at Virginia, it's unique in as much as as the bureaucracy has grown in DC, Joe Pags, so has the Democratic population in Northern Virginia, and and the numbers are staggering.
We're we're talking about like about a million people.
That's a lot of people that count on the government for their paycheck, and they all seem to and in mass vote democratic.
Yeah, but we can always rely on this.
The Democrats will always go that one step too far.
Here's the line.
We can go right up to the line and really push the this progressivism, really push this change in the value system in our country.
But once they cross that line, I don't care how many people are getting a paychecks in uh in Loudoun County or now Alexandria, it doesn't matter when you tell somebody you're not gonna be able to raise your kids without my help.
I'm smarter than you are.
You have no say.
You have no say in in CRD.
Come on, this guy is actually campaigning with Randy Weingarten.
Have you have you watched do one speak from this woman?
I mean, it's campaign.
Who says this is a good idea?
So I think uh Sean, you're right.
It's extremely blue.
It is deep, deep blue, but still, these are the same parents that'll look right uh right in your eyes and say, Don't tell me how to raise my kid.
Don't tell me how to educate my kid while you're taking my money.
I think that they went across the line.
And Democrats, thankfully, always seem to do that.
Yeah, McCullough made a huge mistake bringing in Obama, bringing in Biden.
He nationalized the race.
He should have kept it local.
That's gonna cost him.
And then at the end, he tried to say Donald Trump is doing an event with Clon Youncan, which was never planned, never on the schedule.
Right in any way, shape, manner, or form.
Look, it's uh it's not that I'm pessimistic.
I try to be realistic.
And I'm I I do see a real opportunity that I didn't think would exist in Virginia.
If that happened, it would be the equivalent of a massive political earthquake.
Um I'm not sure if if McCulloff pulls it out by a hair, I still think the impact is real, and I think it speaks volumes also about the state of Joe Biden, which is uh we never thought that the the moniker Trump gave Joe Biden, Sleepy Joe, would be that real as it was yesterday, Mark Simone.
Oh, you know, when a guy says this is the biggest problem facing the world, number one priority.
I am so passionate about climate change.
Yeah.
As soon as you mention it here, I know.
It was so embarrassing.
And by the way, he was out cold.
And then the eight has to go by and shake him away because I'm I'm watching this and I'm just dying.
Um pretty hilarious.
Let's go to this climate summit, some four hundred plus private jets.
And we're not talking about small private jets, we're talking about massive private jets and the massive carbon footprint.
And I'm looking at the pictures of all these these private jets that flew everybody there, and I'm thinking, do they not see their own hypocrisy here, Joe?
It's like uh when John Kerr says, Listen, because my job is so important and because I'm so important, I can fly privately.
I can get a five thousand dollar haircut, and you're you the peasant should listen to what I say.
Because what I say is really, really important.
What I do, don't even look at what I do.
You're right.
400 plus private jets.
The carbon footprint probably can't be made up.
If you pay carbon taxes for the next hundred years, you couldn't make up for the one summit that they did.
Greta Thunberg shows up and she says, blah blah blah, and how dare you, and people clap and and and there's Biden, get asleep, and as soon as the aide wakes him up, he starts clapping as if you listened to one word of what was being said.
It's uh to me, it's nutsy cuckoo, but again, it's what I said a little while ago, guys.
They always go one step over the line, and then people wake up and say, Man, I voted for this guy Biden, but what the heck am I looking at?
I have no problem with people flying him in in private jets at all.
But this is the difference.
I'm not out there lecturing people uh that they need to pay more money for for energy and and gas because it's good for the environment, or you know, if if we're gonna be a part of the the Paris climate accords, giving China and India uh developing nation status so they don't have to pay anywhere near the money that we're paying for this, Mark Simone.
And and the irony of all of this is Joe Biden again is begging OPEC and Vladimir Putin to produce more oil because of his policies ending energy independence that he inherited from Donald Trump.
Yeah, they can never explain this.
You know, we get canceled the pipeline, it's no good.
Pipelines are horrible.
And the next day, it's okay in Russia.
You can have a pipeline.
We can't.
Uh they're talking about solar and wind, and they're holding this in the UK, where Germany, UK, I think 14 other countries gave up solar and wind.
It wasn't working.
It turns out there's not much wind in the North Atlantic.
They've gone back to coal.
Uh the whole thing the you know, you're talking about hypocrisy.
The worst one ever was Bloomberg.
I counted it once.
Eight houses, 47 cars, three yachts, three planes, two helicopters, and you should take the bus to conserve.
I I mean, it's just ridiculous.
Twenty twenty-six summits, and it hasn't made any difference.
So stop with the summits.
Stop with the summits and let's go back to energy independence.
Quick break more with Joe Pags and Mark Simone on the other side.
Then your calls 800-941 Sean, our number.
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As we continue with uh friends, fellow talk show hosts Mark Simone and Joe Peggs are with us.
If we look at the one thing that Joe Biden could actually do that would actually impact the economy in a positive way, it would be to immediately reverse course on the issue of energy.
That's not gonna happen.
He could fix the border tomorrow by bringing back those Trump policies.
He can rescue the Americans in Afghanistan if only he had the will to do so.
As far as inflation and the supply chain crisis that he created, well, a lot of that would be fixed as well once he fixed the energy problem, which he's never gonna do because he's bought into this new green deal is uh socialism, but I'm I'm not even sure at this point he's gonna get anything passed.
Well, you know, the cleanest form of energy, nuclear.
That would solve all our problems.
You could do eighty percent of our energy.
Nuclear cleaning.
I had that workout in Long Island, Mark.
Well, but Mark, when you say nuclear, people start yelling, you know, as Sean said three mile island, you they they start yelling Chernobyl and then it dies.
And you're right.
I mean, it's good, it's valuable, it's worthy, but but people are afraid to even of the word nuclear.
Joe, the French get 75% of their energy needs for homes from nuclear power plants.
No, but they do it safely.
They use it as a boogeyman.
The left uses it as a boogeyman.
You guys are both right.
It's it's valuable, it's good, it works, it's safe.
But we are we're being you know scared out of doing it.
You've got to buy an electric car, you've got to go to electric car charging station.
Don't say nuclear, don't say coal, don't say natural gas, don't say oil.
You're talking about 1980s nuclear stuff, and that that was dangerous, but it's it's right.
2021, very safe.
Even disposing of the nuclear waste is now a pretty safe process.
Yeah, we can hope.
All right, predictions.
I'll play my John McLaughlin role.
What's going to happen tonight, Mark Simone?
It's hard to say, but uh exactly five years ago, at this moment, we were on the air.
Wanted Trump to win, we just didn't know he if he could do it.
We didn't think it seemed impossible.
And it stunned everybody because he's that later that night he won.
So let's hope the same for Curtis and uh Yuncan and Jack Cedarelli.
That's not a prediction.
That was a good cop-out, though.
That was a very political answer, and you're really good at it, and you made it sound great.
So I'm I'm taking that as you don't really want to give a prediction, but I'm I'm hoping as you are.
Uh Joe Paggs, any predictions?
Yes, I I think that uh that Curtis wins because people of New York are smart enough that their safety and security is number one.
You can't see 9,000 cops off the beat uh because of some stupid mandate that Curtis would get rid of in a second.
And when it comes to Virginia, I really think Young can Youncan can pull it out.
He has to be careful about his separation from Trump, not that it's real.
I know that Trump came out yesterday and said it wasn't a real separation.
Uh Trump would beat McCullough in Virginia.
I think you might see something there because parents don't want anybody to tell them they can't take part in their kids' education.
And I don't know, man.
Watch out in New Jersey.
I'm not against uh Citarelli coming through and pulling this off.
Murphy is weak at best.
So I'm predicting all three that we want to win will win.
I'll go there.
That's a bold prediction.
I don't know.
I'm I'm hoping for I realistically I'm with you.
I I would want that really badly, but I think we'll be lucky if we get one on a one out of three.
The leading candidate would be Yuncan.
Uh anyway.
Well, obviously, um, you know, I wake up in the morning, I'm Irish.
What do you expect?
I think the worst is gonna happen every day.
Uh anyway, Mark Simone and uh Joe Pags, appreciate you both being with us as always.
When we come back, wide open phones, 800-941 Sean.
You want to be a part of the program.
Quick break right back.
All right, 25 now to the top of the hour.
Uh uh, all right.
So in well, less than 90 minutes from now, 85 minutes from now, these polls close in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
By the time we get on TV tonight, we should have start having some results.
Here's uh one of the final Yunkin ads leading into today.
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He keeps invoking Trump, Donald Trump, Donald, Trump, Trump, Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Trump, Donald Trump, Trump, Trump, Donald Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Donald Trump, Trump, Donald Trump.
Have you made this race too much about Trump?
Uh no, Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Trump, Donald Trump, Trump, Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Trump, Donald Trump, Trump, Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Trump, Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Trump.
Do you know Dan, this isn't about Trump?
Man, you'd think Trump was right.
It's pretty darn funny.
800-941 Sean uh on this election day.
Uh all right, let's say Samantha, let's say hi to Samantha in Michigan.
Hey Samantha, glad you called.
Thanks for being with us.
Hi, Sean, thank you.
Um, my question for you is this we there are millions of us who feel that we watched an election being stolen in front of our eyes in November of 2020.
And if you say that out loud, you're called crazy or a kook or a conspiracy theorist.
But you'll never convince me that Joe Biden won eighty-one million votes when He can't even stay awake during a global summit.
Um so my question to you is what are your thoughts on what happened with our national election in 2020 and how do we trust the results moving forward and restore our faith in the system, especially with races as important as the one in Virginia today.
Look, there's certain things that are not in dispute, and that is that the laws it were not followed in 2020.
This is not an issue up for debate.
Uh most states have a law that says partisan observers get to watch the vote count start to finish.
That never happened.
The reason I have pushed for voter integrity measures, like for example, there are I'm told counties and areas in Vermont where illegal immigrants are actually allowed to vote.
Uh that should not happen if you believe in voter integrity.
You should be a citizen, like every other country.
I can't go to any country and say, I'm I think I'm gonna vote in your election.
Uh that's number one.
Voter ID is critical.
I mean, they they were talking yesterday about having driver's licenses that have your vaccine status on the license.
I mean, you can't get into the White House or the Capitol without a picture ID.
You can't get to a DNC convention without a picture ID.
You can't buy a six-pack of coarse light without a photo ID or a jewel pod even.
So, I mean, i the fact that Democrats don't want any integrity measures is they think it's to their advantage not to have them.
Voter ID, signature verification, chain of custody controls, meaning when ballots are mailed in that that we have both sides having some control over watching that they can't be tampered with, updated voter rolls, and then yes, partisan observers should be able to watch the count start to finish.
This is for state legislatures to do deal with.
Now, beyond that, we also have the situation, for example, in Pennsylvania, where the state constitution gives very specific and yet very limited opportunities for mail-in balloting.
That was totally ignored by the state legislature.
That that that's a constitutional issue.
As a matter of fact, if we follow the law, follow the constitution, it's a slam dunk case that should have been won.
The the other state that interested me the most in 2020 that we followed closely was Wisconsin.
And that is that that people had to show that they were homebound uh if they wanted a mail-in ballot, but they they were setting up in parks in the middle of COVID uh registration centers where people would have to go sign up to say that they're homebound, leave their home to sign up and say that they can't leave their home and then vote in the election.
And then what was a three-four Wisconsin Supreme Court decision, a stinging dissent by the chief justice of that court.
So those are the issues that I focused on.
That's what I looked at the law, I looked at the Constitution, and on top of everything else, I thought we believed in whistleblowers, and nobody wanted to hear from eyewitnesses what they saw that was actually happening.
So the answer to your question is if we don't have integrity measures implemented in every state, especially the ones that we know matter the most, then I I I you know I don't know what to tell you.
You can't guarantee integrity and confidence in results if you don't adopt these very simple, very fundamental, very fair measures.
And as far as Virginia goes, for example, today, you you had to request a mail-in ballot.
You had to, you know, testify that it that you are that you're the person that's making the request, um, which is different than just mailing out ballots all over the place to everybody, which some states are still doing.
But that's really going to be up to the state legislatures.
I've been urging people as a first step, if you want integrity in elections, to start at the local level with your state representatives and your governors and your state senate and making sure that integrity measures are adopted and adhered to uh on election day.
I've not heard many reports today of of any funny business going on, but I you know, I what do I know?
I don't know.
Does that answer your question?
It does.
It does.
I appreciate that, Sean.
It's very frustrating, though, when you try to get these measures put in place and the automatic uh reply is you're racist.
Well what what part of that is racist?
You're trying to block you're trying to um, you know, you know, they're they're saying that people of color are unable to get to the polls.
And if you want to.
They say that every election season.
I mean Barack Obama went into Virginia and tried to suggest repo Republicans do not want minorities to vote.
It's just not true.
But having election integrity and confidence in results.
Look, let's just follow Joe Biden state of Delaware.
There's no early in-person voting in Delaware.
You need a photo ID in Delaware.
There's no drop boxes in Delaware.
Joe Biden hasn't lifted a finger to make voting more accessible in Delaware.
But yet his Department of Justice goes after the very accessible voting law in Georgia, far more accessible than Delaware.
I think it tells you everything you need to know about Democrats and and this is not about integrity for them.
This is about a political advantage for them.
That's what they're hoping for.
Well, thank you, Sean.
I appreciate your time.
All right.
Thank you, Samantha.
Let's say hi to apparently is it Representative Patrick Penn, is that really your name?
Yes, sir.
Sean, how are you, sir?
You're a state representative in Kansas?
Yes, sir, I am.
Uh right out here in the Sunflower State.
Thank you so much for picking up my own.
What's going on?
Glad to call, sir.
Hey, thank you, sir.
Your team is awesome.
Uh just want to let you know your producer's very good.
Uh, they are great people, and I'm very blessed.
You are astute in your observation.
Yeah.
Hey, listen, I just wanted to let you know.
Uh I heard your your talk with Mark Simone and Joe Pags, and uh I grew up in Richmond, Virginia.
As a matter of fact, I grew up in foster care, so far north in Florida that they call it Georgia.
And then we came up to the old Dominion back in the day when um there was a governor by the name of Mark uh of uh uh Douglas L. Wilder.
Okay, L. Douglas Wilder, I'm sorry.
And he was a Democrat.
And uh I remember the the old Dominion State as I was coming up in middle school and high school, uh being run by Republicans, and I just know that they didn't have those bones in their bodies of racism and everything like we saw uh them trying to say with Mark Allen and uh Gillespie at Gillespie, his his wife was our uh Spanish teacher at my school there.
I lived in Chesterfield County.
And uh I'm trying to tell you right now that the things that people are seeing and sensing right there in Virginia is is correct.
They need to believe their lying eyes.
Uh critical race theory is something straight from the pit of hell.
It's something that's straight out of the cultural Marxism.
I have the receipts on it.
I'm out here leading the charge with a great team of legislators in the Senate and the House to bring legislation to ban that here in the great state of Kansas.
But I'm gonna tell you something right now.
Young has the wind at his back and uh uh he needs to win this because as we see right now, uh the weak man of the West that we call uh Glasko Brandon, he's out there falling asleep on the world stage, losing all types of credibility.
I did twenty years in the military after graduating out there in Virginia, uh served time in Afghanistan multiple tours, and it breaks my heart to know that we have Americans behind enemy lines and this man is doing nothing but worried about pronouns.
But that is exactly what Terry McCollus is all about.
I remember when he became governor and I was out there in grad school at George Mason University, that bastion of liberal ideology, you saw it happening out there too.
And I just want to let you know that what they're trying to do is basically tear down all the pillars of the society.
And this goes back.
If you want to know about it, I can I can go through it.
Uh but we talk about it.
Look, we know what the left is about.
The left is about radical new Green Deal socialism.
Um we know what their agenda is.
It's been laid bare, and we're fortunate as of now, we've been able to stop the worst of it.
But if we don't reverse course quickly, the damage will be irreversible to me.
And yeah.
And that's the type of thing that I'm talking about.
When I sit on my committee for K through twelve education budget out here, we had our Department of Education testify before us out here in Kansas.
And there's uh over a hundred and twenty-one billion dollars siphoned off uh from the various cares uh relief packages going straight to the school districts around the state houses because they know that the state houses are overwhelmingly after 2020 Republican.
So those go straight down to your school district for curricula.
And the curriculum that they're teaching and they're going to be picking out is something that we called um they call it different names, but it's it's basically SEL, social emotional learning or diversity, equity, and inclusion.
And all that that is is the critical legal studies, critical race theory, uh intersectionality type of stuff.
There's there's no doubt, and I appreciate the call and thanks for being with us.
There's no doubt that this indoctrination is real, that this is what they want to do.
And it is the saddest thing to look at the amount of money that we throw at education, more per capita than any other industrialized nation with the worst results.
It is it is so easily fixed, so preventable.
It's uh it's stunning.
And I would take all social debate out of the classroom, and I first focus on making every American child proficient in math, reading, science, and the thing computers and the things that matter.
And at that point, yeah, if we get to that point, we will have done a great service to our kids and our grandkids.
It's never gonna happen because you have an unholy alliance that has existed now for decades and decades, and that is the the teachers' unions and the Democratic Party, and the teachers' unions' massive contributions to Democratic candidates.
You know, it it got them in the door that they could even write uh some of the rules regarding COVID and and education, uh, because that's how much power they wield.
It's a lot, and it's full control almost.
And meanwhile, our kids are the ones that suffer.
And education is the ladder to success in America and around the world.
And we're failing our kids spectacularly.
At best, it's institutionalized mediocrity in a good in a good school district or one recognized as a good school district.
Sharon, Tennessee, next, Sean Hannity Show.
Sean, and thanks for taking my call.
That was a good springboard answer.
What I wanted to do talk about.
Um, so we have purposefully taken our youngest daughter out of public school and put her in a in a private school, a Christian school.
And um, we have two older kids who went through the public school system.
We could see the turning cod, you know, over the course of years.
My oldest is actually homeschooling her kids.
My my girls are all spread out.
So um the question that I have is if we were to have school voucher programs, um, would it force our Christian school to change uh curriculum or anything like that?
And well, there are attempts to do that.
I mean, and this is where the courts at different times weigh in on specific issues, yeah.
And and you know, of course, the the teachers' unions don't like it.
Look, it in New York they spend over 45, I think about 45 grand per student in terms of their yearly education.
If you were to cut these parents a check, schools would pop up all over New York.
And the the schools that provided simple, basic, fundamental uh reading, writing, math, science, computers, and coupled with that, a learning environment where they have zero tolerance for any kids acting up or causing trouble.
Parents would flock to those schools.
Every parent knows that the best thing they gift they can give their child sort of nourishment and love, emotional, spiritual, etc., is an education.
And we're we're robbing these kids of the competitiveness that they're gonna need in a global economy.
And you know, I never I never depended on the school system for my kids to get educated.
I I took that responsibility upon myself, and even in the summertime, I would hire tutors and make them spend an hour or two a day in the summer, so that you know kind of teaching them that education is a lifelong pursuit.
I learn more every day because I read piles of information every day.
Anyway, glad you called.
But yeah, it's amazing that this is now popped as a top issue in Virginia the way it has.
And actually, maybe it's time to examine the real problem, which is the teachers' unions and the Democrats and their unholy alliance with each other.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
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