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That was what he was trying to do. Persuade people. That is what you're supposed to do in this world when it comes to politics. And he did it. He did it and he did it well. There's a story in the show prep today. I don't want to spend any time on it except for this that talks about, you know, it's from the left point of view. And they say, well, the right has their George Floyd and their hero worshipping Charlie Kirk. No, no. Don't compare Charlie Kirk to George Floyd. George Floyd died. I mean, I believe the autopsy says because of drugs. And I'm not dismissing the cop that, you know, the way he acted. I think it was horrible the way he acted, et cetera, et cetera. But this was a guy who was not a good example for our children that should not be hero-worshipped. Should people, people should say cops should never behave that way. But George Floyd was not a hero the way he lived his life. I don't want, you want your kids acting like George Floyd? You want George Floyd to be a hero for your kids? No, I don't. I don't. And it has nothing to do with race. Nothing. And it has nothing to do with the cops. The cops? Fine. That should never happen. It's horrible. Charlie Kirk? I want my kids to. be self-educated, to be relentless pursuers of education and truth. I want them to be Christ-like. I want them to debate openly and kindly. Yeah, I want, I mean, our nation would be much better off if we had kids looking up to Charlie Kirk and going, that's who I'd like to be. What would society be like if the society said, you know what, George Floyd, that's who I want to be? I mean, it's a pretty different society. So please don't say that we found our George Floyd. No. And don't try to make me feel bad for looking at Charlie Kirk as a hero. I think he was. And so are they, and are they saying that he? is a hero or are they demeaning what George Floyd was? I'm confused as to which way they're going here. Because we were told George Floyd was a hero and we're told that Charlie Kirk is a hate monger. So I don't know which way they're going with that. Part of me wonders... I don't think they really do either. Yeah, I don't think they do either. Again, you know, people just say things. There's a need for it to fill up the internet. So people just say things. But that's a stupid take. And by the way, we're not burning down any cities over it. I've noticed. Let me also give you another name of a hero that everybody should know. Everybody should know the name Lydia Kaiser. This is a hero. Do you know who she is? Lydia Kaiser. Did she discover the bun? Is it? No. She wasn't the Kaiser role. No. No. I'll give you a hint. She's just been able to return to school. at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis. Yeah, this is a great story. I didn't know her name, but this is a great one. Yeah. Twelve years old, she's the girl that shielded a friend and was shot instead of her friend. Okay. She shielded them. What happened to her is she gets wounded and she's had to have three different brain surgeries.

to be able to survive what she saw. Her family says she's going to need ongoing care for the foreseeable future, but she is a brave little fighter. She's feeling stronger every day. There's a GoFundMe account set up for the Kaiser family to help them, you know, with the brain surgeries and everything else after the shooting. GoFund me. Just, I think it's go fund me. Hang on. This is like that amazing. Uh, it's go fund me.com. Help Lydia and the Kaiser family. Awesome. Okay. Um, but you can give to that fund. I think that's great. So there's good news. This hero, that's, that's what I want my kids to have as heroes. I want my kids to be able to look and go, wow. At 12, she's putting her body in front of her friends. Amazing. Let me give you another good story. GoFundMe. Look at the money that GoFundMe has raised. Do you remember the time when, I don't even remember the name of the, the, you know, charitable fundraising website that you could go use and they kept kicking people off. Remember up in Canada? They were like canceling you and tracing, you know, who those people were and trying to turn them in. Do you remember that's what? It was the name of that. Doesn't matter. But GoFundMe came out because they were like, no, we're not going to, we're not going to do any of those things. You want to raise money for conservative causes? You can do that. You can do that here. That's another big thing. You know, it's like when Twitter, when Twitter went to Elon Musk, look how much changed. Go fund me. Look how much has changed. Look how much good we have as people have done. Let me give you another piece of good news. I told you about this yesterday, but let me read, my name is Dave. Like all of you, I was shocked by the murders at the LDS Chapel in Grand Blanc, Michigan on September 28. One of the families that suffered a terrible loss on that day was the family of Thomas Jacobs Sanford, the shooter. Sanford leaves behind a wife and children who must be grieving. They face financial hardship and psychological trauma as a result of this week's horrifying events. On top of that, one of Sanford's sons deals with serious medical challenges that require ongoing care, treatment, and specialized support. In the past, the family has attempted to raise funds for him without a lot of response or help. I have no connection to the Sanford's, yada, yada. I'm just an ordinary member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. James teaches us in the Bible that pure religion and undefiled before God and the father is this, to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction. The purpose of this give send go is to do that. Every donation will go to help provide for the Sanford family daily needs, provide for ongoing medical treatment, and create some stability in a time when heartbreak and upheaval is at the fore. Thank you for your kindness, your compassion, and willingness to lift up those who are suffering. They have now raised, I think it's 400.

$400,000, something like that, $350, I can't find it here. But another amazing thing that we wouldn't even have considered, you know, when George Floyd went down, you know, nobody was raising money for the families of the cops. Well, those were the bad guys, right? Nobody raised any money on that side, the victim's side. Nobody said anything about their families. And that's fine. We don't do it to compare, but I'm just, I am proud to be a part of people like this. So some good news on both of those things and the Charlie Kirk Highway. I didn't want your Friday to go by without giving you some things that are like, you know what? We're making progress. And Bari Weiss, I think that story is. possibly one of those things too. We're making real progress. I totally agree with that. It's very easy to get down on and realize, you know, worry about all the things that are going on in the world. There's plenty of bad ones. But again, you just think about where we were just a few years ago. I mean, you know, they weren't, we were watching men in dresses in makeup commercials. And, you know, it's not to say that none of that stuff goes on. It still does at some level. But a lot of it has been cleared out. A lot, you know, American Eagle came out and said they had a million new customers. Again, you run an ad. You hope to sell a few pairs of jeans. A million new customers. Because they just said, hey, you know, it would be a good idea. We should just put someone who is attractive in our clothing. You know, like... And I think that that was controversial. Yeah. I mean, the world is going to look back on all of those TV shows, all of these things. They're going to look back. That's going to just seem, that is forever preserved. And when the world comes back to normal, when it comes back to common sense. It's going to look insane. Our children and our grandchildren are going to go, what the hell were you thinking? Yeah. And we're going, it's interesting because I think of, you think of go back to the past like 40 years of life. There have been, you know, bits and pieces, you know, things that have happened, but there haven't been like. eras that are in my mind totally have defied, like have been so incredibly strange looking back on them. And in the last five years, I think we've had two of them. One is the COVID era. We're just like, wait a minute. What were we doing? We weren't going out to restaurants. Like we couldn't go outside. They were putting sand in skate parks and you couldn't go in the ocean. And think of all the crazy things we live through in 2020 and into 2021 in some areas. And then the era that followed that, which, you know, I don't know if you want to define it as that whatever, the woke air peak wokeness, whatever that was, where, you know, the example that pops into my head all the time is the National Hockey League tweeting trans rights are human rights and trans women are women. Like, what the hell? You're a hockey league. So let me go, let me add another one right now. Charlie Kirk's assassination.

This is another one that we have not lived in. We have not lived this. In my lifetime, I mean, I was four when Martin Luther King died. So I don't remember. But, you know, you're not, you're younger than I am. You didn't live through anything like this. Yeah. So there's three things that the first one, COVID, we swore would never, like a month before. I said, well, that'll never happen in America. It was happening in Italy. I said, oh, God, can you imagine that ever happening here? And then two weeks later it was. It was happening. So we experienced that. We said, it'll never happen. Then the trans stuff and, you know. guys in dresses dancing in first grade and preschool and all of that stuff and parents taking their kids to do it was like what what the hell is that never happened before never happened now this i mean we're in five years five years well this is sort of the question i was leading up to and we and this is a longer conversation than we have time for right now but maybe you've put thought into this Have we moved into a time where it's going to be nonstop stuff like this, where we swing wildly from era to era to era to era. And it's not like it was. I mean, part of me thinks, you know, the world, you talk about it with Jonathan Haidt in your podcast, the world that we currently live in, I think might fuel. these sorts of wild changes from one side to the other, the pendulum swinging wider and wider and wider. And that, it's a scary prospect, honestly, because I don't think we handle those things very well. That question will be answered in the next election with Congress and then the next presidential election. I think if we can stay on this path for another six years, Donald Trump told me it would take 12. But, you know, at least six years, we have a chance of being the, we have a chance of being the last outpost of sanity in the free world. But if we don't continue down this path, we will swing so hard back the opposite direction. And then at that point, the world goes off a cliff because it's about to go off a cliff right now without us. I want to talk to you about the Bernalancher or a sponsor. And honestly, I would hope that you would really hear my plea on Burn a Launcher. I believe in this company. They're strong Second Amendment people. But the Burn a launcher was really invented and started because a guy who was carrying a gun was in an incident with a guy who was road raging against him. He pulls over his car just so the guy would pass him, but he didn't pass. He was so full of rage. He pulls over, gets out of his car, and he reaches, our guy reaches for a gun in his glove box. He's like, I'm not willing to kill somebody over this, leaves it there, and he's beaten to a pulp. That's when he realized, I need the burn of launcher. I need to, I need to design something that, you know, I can use. And this is pepper spray tear gas. It's everything except lethal.

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Yeah, it's, I'm not, I wouldn't have done it and I'm not wealthy. But there's really no amount of money that you could have paid me to do that, only because I think if I'm, first of all, if I'm somebody out there who's screaming women and screaming about the rights of women and what, how we should be fighting for people like the women in Saudi Arabia who have real, no real voice or as many rights as we do. then it would be very hypocritical for me to go stand on that stage and say whatever I want. I also think they're not getting, they're getting paid to legitimize these people. That's what they're getting paid. The quotes that are coming out of there, every quote I see, I was like, wow, the Saudis got their money's worth. Like, oh, the royals loved it. It's just like, if you're trying to justify. your appearance in Saudi Arabia. The quote, the royals were very happy is not great coming out of your mouth. Yeah, and I love the fact, again, Chappelle said, you know, he's, you know, what, America hasn't killed people. Yeah, the Saudi prince has killed people. What we haven't? You know, please give it a rest. Because you don't just write it off like that in America. You know what I mean? You know, just like, oh, yeah. So what? Our government has just killed a few people. You don't. But you're going to do it here because you're getting a big paycheck. Yeah, I hear this argument a lot. Oh, how is this any different than the government? This is, I can't, you can't fix that kind of stupid. I can't even, I won't even, even deal with it because it's like listening to a 19 year old in their first year of college who just smoked a box. Like, okay, Saudi Arabia and America are the same. Tell me more about your enlightened anti-American thoughts. Like, all right. Go live in Saudi Arabia then. Let me know how that works out for you. Try making fun of the royal family. Try making fun of the journalists or anything that they said that you can't make fun of. Go let me know how that works out for you and something more than the three days that you spent there viewing. I mean, a lot of it was, it was, it's so like, oh, we, we, they have McDonald's in Starbucks. This was some of the quotes coming from Bill that I was kind of like, yeah, so this is like Tucker Carlson eating McDonald's in Russia. Like, okay. That doesn't mean that these places are the same. I don't know what's happening. Coca-Cola was, Coca-Cola was served to the Nazis in Germany up until like 1942. Hey, we're just like you. No, no, you're not. No, you're not. That Coke bottle doesn't make you us.

I don't know. I'm not sure what's going on. But again, I am of many minds about this because I have been at venture capitalist events and the Saudis have been there. And I don't know why should Jared Kushner be allowed to make money with the Saudis and not the comedians? Right. Like you said in the opening. I mean, I think it's funny how much less the comedians got paid than the golfers pretty significantly. The golfers are getting tens of millions. The comedians are getting like hundreds of thousands to a million to sell their soul out. I don't know. That's just, that's all so funny to me. I'm like, they, they offer the golfers a lot more than you guys. You know, the thing with, you said it earlier, the hypocrisy, they, they don't understand. It's like they have, uh, they never listen to that one of these things doesn't belong song on Sesame Street. I mean, with Jimmy Kimmel, listen to what Shane Gillis said about Jimmy Kimmel's return. Listen. It was good to see everybody stick up for him for free speech. Yeah. I'm just glad they were all there for me back in 2019. You know? He's my brother in being canceled now. You know? He was canceled for what, what was that, 48 hours? Yeah. Mine was a couple years, but no big, what's the doing? He had to hold tight. Probably a very nice kind of modern house on the hills in L.A. He had to sit there and just warm room and he didn't have to lay on a mattress in Queens with two snarky roommates that were like, oh, did you write that apology? Yeah, I could tell. What the fuck? Oh, Shane, I love him so much. I just love him. Yeah, I mean, look, I also feel, and I saw this on Will Kane, when it feels like the world is ending and everything is coming undone, I understand people just grabbing as much cash as they can. And look, some of these comedians were not hugely famous and have been struggling for a long time. And like Shane mentioned, You're sleeping on a mattress on the floor for many, many years before you even make it in comedy, if you even make it. And so I don't know. It's like, get that bag, but you're going to have to hear about this forever. This is going to, there are people who I think for some of these guys that did real damage to their brand or whatever.

some more than others. Bridget, I'm of two minds on this because I get the criticism, what we've been talking about, like, you know, the stuff that Chappelle said and stuff, like, I don't like it, and I think it's kind of silly. But I also saw a lot of the... the pushback from like the high-minded I'm better than all of you people comedians that. Yeah, I know. And I, you know, I saw David Cross did some of this. It's like, there's a bunch of people who did it. You're a big fan of David Cross. Oh, yeah, I loved. I mean, I'm a Mr. Show junkie from back in the day. But like, you know, I, it's just like, okay, I get it. But I don't understand why there is a double standard for entertainers. in this world. Like, you know, all sorts of American companies sell products in these countries. You know, as you mentioned, tons of investors do business in Saudi Arabia. I mean, Saudi Arabia is, you know, again, this is not the Nazi regime. This is a, we're not at war with them. They're supposedly in some ways allies of ours. And like, do the people of Saudi Arabia not get to laugh? Do they, do they not get to go to comedy shows? Like, Like, they can't have a festival in their country where people come and enjoy comedians. We saw, we've seen before. No, they, no, unless they're on giant Boeing planes that seemingly every resident owns one. Right, right. But, like, we've seen cultural outreach like this before have positive influences. Glenn and I were talking about this before off the air, and I checked it after Glenn. We talked about it. You know, Billy Joel went over and did a concert in the Soviet Union. This was before the collapse. It was four years before the Soviet Union collapse. I'm not saying that it's probably no more high-minded than getting your bag. I get it, Bridget. But like, isn't there a weird double standard when it comes to entertainers that they're supposed to somehow, you know, I don't know, change the entire regime's mindset before they take a weekend gig? I don't understand it. Like I said, I'm of many minds about this because I think that some of this, that's all absolutely true. And I don't blame really any of these people for taking the money and going at the same time. You also have to understand that you are a useful idiot who's being used by a regime. But understand that. It's fine. I don't think it's the same as doing, here's why I don't think it's the same as doing business because. Business people are smart enough to be behind closed doors and do all this stuff in Parch City as secretive events where they all fly in on their private jets. And entertainers are their, their face is their brand. Their jokes are their brand. Same with the golfers. Ultimately, you're an athlete, but you're also an entertainer.

And I think that's why they get held to this unfair double standard because they're actually quite poor compared to everyone else around them. These are court jesters for the kings, literally. Literally. Well, I will tell you, I will tell you that Jewish state could have put on a comedy festival and paid them the same amount of money, and I bet you. almost all of those comedians would have turned it down because it's Israel. They would never do it. They would never do it for Donald Trump. The government said, we're going to put on a comedy festival for the 250th anniversary, but you can't make fun of the religion or the founding or the, you know, Donald Trump family. They would never, ever, they would cry bloody murder on that. And the last thing is, I am really sick of everybody else taking our culture and then giving us theirs. We seem to be taking all of the Saudi culture. Go ahead. Go to Little Somalia. I don't want that culture. You can keep that culture. You want to borrow some of ours and see and go, that's great. That's the difference with Billy Joel. He went over because they were starving for our culture. They wanted to be more like us. They keep sending us all of their crap. Then saying, you take it. No, no, you keep your stuff. I'd like to keep ours. You're streaming the best of Glenn Beck. To hear more of this interview and others, download the full show podcasts wherever you get podcasts. Hello, Stu, how are you? Great, Glenn, how are you? I am really good. It's, you know, it's Friday. I thought we'd go over some of the big stories of the week, and one of them that we really haven't had a chance to address this week is Ian Andre John Roberts. He is, at the beginning of the week, he is that poor guy that ICE is just going in. Here he is the superintendent of schools for Des Moines Public Schools. He is well known. He is well qualified. He's an upstanding member of our community. And ICE just comes in, guns ablazing, wearing masks, no indication of even who they are. And they just take him. Yeah, yeah, I've read that. I love, you know, a sleepy city is moved to protest for a beloved superintendent detained by ICE. Dozens. Was that one of the headlines? That was NBC News headline. Oh my God. Several dozen students gathered at the state Capitol calling for his release, holding signs reading radical empathy, a tagline he frequently used. Oh my gosh. I love that. During rush hour, people displayed a banner from a bridge over the interstate. We're reading free Dr. John Roberts. Dozens of cars honked. And, you know, when cars honk, you know it's a real cause. No, no, no. That's showing your support. I'm willing to honk. That was the main thing that happened in Nazi Germany. When the SS would roll into town, there would be a bunch of people honking in protest. And that's how you knew they were Nazis. There was a walkout of students. And then you had Jackie Norris, who was a former Michelle Obama.

aid. She's kind of in the middle of this. She says, you know, she wants to, it's fitting to take a page out of Dr. John Roberts' book and ask the community to engage in radical empathy. They kept saying this over and over again. As we walk through this situation together, we do not have all the facts. During his time with our district, he has shown up in ways big and small. And that's... That's definitely true. That was true. First of all, I'm not sure he is a doctor. I mean, I know now what we have found out during the week is he played doctor a lot in many ways, you know, in the way you play doctor and the way that you just like, yeah, I graduated from MIT. I got my doctorate here, here and here. I mean, listen to the guy. Let's see here. His credentials. First of all, he got. He was at Sloan School of Management from MIT. He got an MBA from MIT. Then he also attended Harvard and Georgetown. He got his doctorate degree from Baltimore's Morgan State University. And there was another one, too, I believe, that he went to the deal. He didn't go to any of those schools. And it didn't have any of that. He came over from Ghana. and was overstayed his visa, was here illegally. Under the Biden administration, he was ordered to be deported under the Biden administration. Under the Biden administration. That's kind of, that's a tough, that's, that's a, I mean, that's a pretty high bar you have to cross to be deported by Joe Biden. But. He, uh, he wasn't because, you know, they're, well, they're not just going to go out and get this guy. I mean, and he was busy. He had a lot of things that he was, uh, working on. A lot of them seem to be women. Um, you know, he was up, uh, doing his DEI, you know, uh, school board thing, uh, in Pennsylvania. And apparently he was caught having sex with a female coworker on school property. in his role as superintendent who was being a bad girl. The people up in Pennsylvania described him as a sketchy figure and a pathological liar. And they felt that he had been hired there because of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Now, when he went to Des Moines, It's another DEI. He became the DEI guy. And, you know, people up in Pennsylvania said, I'm not sure he's a legal resident. And they ignored that because nobody wanted to see it. Up in Pennsylvania, nobody wanted to see because of DEI. Everybody was just like, when he went to Des Moines, same thing. He's a pathological liar. He just told this person that he's married and has three kids. This person he told he has no kids and he's not married. I mean, he's a pathological liar. He would lie about almost everything. But when they would bring it up, again, everybody in power would say, how dare you? Racist. I can't believe. They ignored everything that they had said. Okay. He hasn't been legally here since 2020.

He was arrested by ICE on September 26. Why? Well, because he knew he was going to be deported and he was found hiding in bushes. Oh my gosh, how degrading for him. How degrading for him? Well, the school-owned vehicle that he was driving contained a fixed blade hunting knife. I'm not sure if he was a big hunter or not. A loaded Glock 19 firearm and $3,000 in cash. Now, how did this illegal get a Glock? Especially since he had already been arrested in 2020 for possessing an illegal firearm. Did he not care about the law? Still, did he not care about the law? Is that what happened there? Some people are saying that. But in reality, we don't really know if it was an illegal firearm because since he was illegal, all firearms he would have would be illegal. There's no path to my, unless you're, I guess, maybe in Gavin Newsom's California. Is a legal firearm possessed by an illegal then because of the double negative? I'm not a school superintendent. I don't know. doesn't cancel it out and suddenly everything is legal yeah yeah that was one of those uh you know pbs scholastic songs about that i'm pretty sure right the double negative cancels your crime out yeah i remember that song that's right yeah yeah yeah uh apparently when he was up in mill creek uh as the superintendent up in pennsylvania uh you know he was caught having sex blah blah blah blah the school district was was inundated I'm quoting, inundated by lawsuits, forced to pay out over $400,000 in sex discrimination settlements. Because he was promoting less qualified women over more deserving men, apparently. That's part of it. And, you know, I think the sex thing, everybody was, it was also a problem. They were in the process of negotiating a $250,000 settlement with Melody Ellington. because she apparently was fired for constructive discharge. Now that's that sounds like something. That can't be real. No, it sounds like something that you go see your doctor about. I think I have some constructive discharge here. Constructive discharge. I didn't know what that was. I had to look that one up. It applies to, I'm quoting, applies to situations when a resignation is involuntary. Okay, resignation is involuntary. That means you're being fired, I think. When your resignation is involuntary due to a hostile or intolerable work environment. Right. Well, it could be like getting pressured into quitting, right? I mean, I think the seeming accusation here is that he was trying to get rid of her for some other reason other than her job, which, again, we can, considering all the other accusations against him, we can guess what this revolved around. But does constructive discharge sound like some sort of PC thing that doesn't tell you anything? Yes, it does. Yes. It just sounds like a bunch of nonsense.

But if you think about it, it's like, you know, you're getting rid of somebody for some reason that is... you know, constructed, right? It's that, what was the term you used the other day, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, yeah, yeah, I can't listen to anybody. Me being fired, my, my resignation is a false construct. Right. Yeah. That it is. And by the way, that, that's particular settlement, which was a quarter of a million dollars, a lot of money. I mean, you wouldn't want to hire someone who's in the middle of that. That was being settled right at the time he was getting the job in Des Moines. It was in the middle of the settlement when he was like, I'm going to go to Des Moines and get it. Go to a bigger city and get a bigger job. So my question is, how did he get this job? I mean, there is serious corruption in the vetting in Des Moines and, quite honestly, Mill Creek. Now Mill Creek, this is the one up in Pennsylvania, Mill Creek said they followed a vetting and search process. by a recruitment firm, Ray and Associates. And the recruitment company didn't respond to the request for, you know, information from, you know, journalists like us. But the school district said we received all clearances, including an FBI background check prior to Robert serving as superintendent. No disqualifying events were identified. Okay. Well, that's weird because he had charges against him. you know, of a legal possession of a firearm that you would think schools would go, oh, that's a problem. But here's the thing, Ray and Associates, now this may mean nothing, but methinks there's something rotten in Minnesota. This Ray and Associates that did all the vetting on this guy is from Minneapolis. And it just could be my bias on what's happening in Minneapolis and how Minneapolis is being run and how Minnesota is being run. So I don't know anything about Ray and Associates, but we will soon. We will be looking into them. It's just this whole system of corruption. How do you... hire somebody like this. How do you clear somebody like this? The people in, in Des Moines, he shouldn't be the only one that's gone here. Who vetted him? Who hired him? Well, I love the story of our friend Jackie Norris because, you know, if you remember, former Michelle Obama aide was out there saying, you know, we need to show radical empathy and all this. And then all this stuff comes out and you think, okay, she's got to be what in hiding? She's probably resigned. Like there's this really embarrassing. They knew. Well, what is she actually doing right now?

She's running for U.S. Senate because of course she's running for U.S. Senate. What better I hate to qualify you for a Senate run than this particular scandal? None of this stuff matters to the left. None of this matters to the left. This is why you must be a merit-based society. Because if you're just going to say, well, DEI, he's good at DEI, which apparently he wasn't good at DEI, he's good at that. And you know what? We need a hire that has his, you know, he's, he's an immigrant, he's black. He apparently is very, very sexy. He's got all these degrees. Well, does he have all those degrees? I mean, does, I mean, pathological liar, you just hired him because he's settling a lawsuit for sex discrimination and you still hire him. What is? Because it doesn't matter. The crime doesn't matter. His past doesn't really matter. Whether he went to these schools or not, doesn't matter because he's going to help us on this, the DEI thing. Until America comes to a place to where they can recognize this is all a sham. and you actually have to have real standards based on real merit, this is going to continue to happen. And until people like Michelle Obama's, what is her name and what state is she running for? In Iowa. Jackie Norris is her name. And she's running for Senate in Iowa. Iowa, you're going to get exactly what you deserve. Unfortunately, so will the rest of us, because she's running for U.S. Senate. But you're going to get exactly what you deserve until you start saying, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, how did this happen? Who hired this person and fire all of the people involved in this and fire all the people? There were teachers, there were people on the school board. Apparently they were all saying, hey, this is something's wrong here. We should check into this. Those people should be elevated and the people who told them, shut up and sit down. Those people should be fired. That's what common sense Iowa people would have done when common sense actually existed. Does it exist in Iowa anymore? We'll see.

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