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Texas parents, Paxton wage dual battle over school libraries and prayer · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

• 0:23
  Let's check in, shall we?
• 0:25
  On Texas, my friends.
• 0:27
  Welcome to the Dean's List.
• 0:29
  You are listening to the Dean's List on America Out Loud Talk Radio.
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  And we're gonna we're gonna check in on Texas and in on attorney general Ken Paxton, who is also checking in on Texas to determine if indeed the school districts are following the law in Texas.
• 0:51
  Which law?
• 0:51
  Well, my friends, the Ten Commandments.
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  That law are the Ten Commandments being posted.
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  Are there things happening in Texas public schools that the Attorney General want to be happening?
• 1:09
  I guess I should say it this way.
• 1:10
  Are there things happening in Texas public schools that are happening according to the law?
• 1:15
  Now, yesterday, yesterday we we we talked about this situation in Houston, where one mom was removed from a local school board meeting at the Houston ISD because she was reading from a library book, and they threw her out because by golly, the material was inappropriate to be to be read during a public forum, during a public meeting.
• 1:44
  But as the as the mom duly noted, it's perfectly fine for the book to be on the library shelf, really, uh available to minors, but yet adults can't read it in a public forum, or they will be removed.
• 2:01
  So that's happening.
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  And uh in the meantime, here, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced just a couple days ago, last week, Thursday, an investigation into dozens of the state's independent school districts or ISDs, as it were, uh, to confirm compliance with two laws concerning religious displays of the Ten Commandments.
• 2:27
  Well, it's not really, I guess they're not saying it's a religious display, it's just a display of the Ten Commandments.
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  Um the the um the authors of the bill state that it's it's a historical display and a legal display, but perhaps a religious display as well, but not strictly religious.
• 2:50
  And also, uh Ken Paxton wants to confirm if local ISDs, independent school districts, are allowing prayer periods.
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  The the districts must adhere to two laws passed last year, according to Paxton.
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  Senate Bill, which requires display of the Ten Commandments in classrooms, when donated copies within state specifications are provided, and Senate Bill 11.
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  These two bills back to back, Senate Bill 11, which calls on school boards to vote on creating time for prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious texts within the school day.
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  Paxton uh said in a statement, I will always fight for students' fundamental right to pray in our schools and work to ensure that Texas kids are able to learn from the Ten Commandments daily.
• 3:49
  He continued, Texas school districts must comply with Texas law by displaying the Ten Commandments and taking a school board vote regarding the implementation of prayer time in schools.
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  I will never stop defending our students' religious freedom and the moral foundation of our nation.
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  I wonder, you think their first stop is Houston?
• 4:13
  Do you think that's Paxton's first adopt?
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  The Houston ISD.
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  The investigation outlined in a news release from Paxton's office requires listed districts to submit documentation demonstrating whether the Ten Commandments are displayed or not displayed, and proof of a board vote on prayer implementation under Senate Bill 11 andor Senate Bill 10.
• 4:46
  Both measures passed uh during the 89th legislative session last year, and they took effect last year, September 1st, 2025.
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  So we've had the entire year.
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  We've had plenty of time for school boards to set aside, take a vote, set aside a time during the course of the day for students to pray and read religious texts if they want to.
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  If they choose to, there is time available.
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  This isn't mandatory.
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  No one's hand is being forced here except the school boards.
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  The students aren't being forced.
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  It's an opportunity for them.
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  As well as the 10 commandments need to be displayed.
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  You've had an entire year.
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  Now, if they're not displayed, you you better be able to say that your donated copy hasn't arrived yet.
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  Many of the districts required to submit documentation were involved in lawsuits challenging uh Senate Bill, which is the Ten Commandments Bill.
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  This case was litigated by Paxton, and it allowed statewide implementation after lower court challenges uh put a stay on the Ten Commandments.
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  The appeals court made the ruling in a split decision that overturned a lower court block affirming the law, ordering donated 10 commandments posters to be readable from anywhere in the classroom, anywhere in the room, you've got to be able to look up on a wall.
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  And you've got to be able to read the 10 commandments.
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  Congress cannot establish a religion.
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  And because you're posting the 10 commandments in a public school, that's paramount to Congress, establishing a religion.
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  Um, but the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision permitted the requirement to proceed.
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  Permitted the requirement to proceed.
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  The Fifth Circuit said, yeah, no.
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  The Fifth Circuit said, yeah, no, no, you can display the Ten Commandments.
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  No, you you can display the Ten Commandments.
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  This isn't paramount to Congress establishing a religion.
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  This isn't paramount to Congress establishing a religion.
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  It's just simply this school district displaying the historical heritage of our country, the historical heritage of Western civilization of Western civilization.
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  It's just simply this school district displaying the historical heritage of our country, the historical heritage of Western civilization of Western civilization, which, my friends, is America, and which the Ten Commandments is indeed rooted in.
• 7:36
  This is going to the Supreme Court, you know it will.
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  And we've said this repeatedly.
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  This court, I believe, in my opinion, this court will uphold the Ten Commandments.
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  Because this court has said, look, we're we're going to give uh we're going to give precedence to use the legal term.
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  We're going to give that to historical context.
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  What have we done historically in this country?
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  We're not just going to consider 1962 and 63 and what that court said, the error that that court made.
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  No, no, we're we're going to look back to all time.
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  We're going to go back to the beginning and we're going to see what did we do as a country?
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  What did we do in the founding era?
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  How did the men in the founding era who drafted the first amendment, by the way, which states Congress shall not establish a religion and or infringe upon the free exercise thereof?
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  I don't think it says and or, but you get my point.
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  The men who drafted this, how did they look upon the Ten Commandments being posted and or displayed in public schools or used in public schools, as it were?
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  How did how did they think about it?
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  This is a very important question.
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  You would think that if they had the opinion of legal scholars of the day, then they would not have allowed the Bible in public schools because Congress can't establish a religion.
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  But we will see that's not accurate.
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  That indeed is not the truth.
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  That indeed is not the fact.
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  Because their use of the word religion, and we've talked about this, all right, but if you've missed it, we're going to talk about it again.
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  Their use of the word religion, and in many instances, in most instances.
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  They define religion as a Christian denomination.
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  What religion are you?
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  Well, I'm I'm Anabaptist, or I'm I'm Quaker, or I'm Anglican, or I'm congregationalist, or I'm, you know, I am whatever fill in the blank of whatever Christian religion you are.
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  I'm Episcopalian, I'm Lutheran, I'm that's your religion.
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  And Congress shall not uh establish one particular Christian denomination over the other.
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  This is the point of the First Amendment.
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  I mean it's simple.
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  You can go back and look in the debates, and it's simple.
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  That's what they were getting at.
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  Uh and this Supreme Court's going to look at that, and they're going to come to the conclusion that I've just come to.
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  I mean, this is my prediction, that they will come to that conclusion, and they will determine hey, guess what?
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  The men who drafted the First Amendment, they were all about the Ten Commandments.
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  They were all about the Bible.
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  They were all about the Bible being used in public school classrooms, because they're going to go back to the Northwest ordinance, which clearly says uh religion morality and knowledge.
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  Uh should be an education.
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  That's the language.
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  I'm paraphrasing, but that's the language, those three things religion, morality, and knowledge.
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  And this Supreme Court, they're going to look at it.
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  And it's that's going to be determined that religion has been a part of our education, and not just any religion, but the Christian religion.
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  It's it's Western civilization, and it's part of our heritage.
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  I'm sorry.
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  Um Islam is not part of our heritage.
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  Buddhaism, Confucianism, uh, whatever isms, you know, whatever else you want to throw out there, it's not part of our our heritage.
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  Our heritage is rooted in Christianity, with uh some uh shout-outs to uh Judaism, because you know, the Bible, uh, but but that's our heritage.
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  And so this is this is who we are.
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  And no, we we don't have to to give the same amount of time to the Quran.
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  I'm sorry, we don't.
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  The Quran isn't part of our uh it's not part of the Western tradition, and it's not part of our heritage, but the Bible is.
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  You can't discriminate against you know, I'm not the one doing the discriminating.
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  It's it's history, and it's our history, and we need to teach our history, and we need to teach our history properly.
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  We need to teach our history accurately.
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  And so here we are, the U.S.
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  Court of Appeals here, the Fifth Circuit had, you know, they've come along and they've said, you know, we're uh we're gonna overrule this decision.
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  Uh yes, the the Court of Appeals was split, but nonetheless, the majority of them overturned the lower court block, affirming that yes, the Ten Commandments should be posted.
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  A federal judge had previously directed these certain districts and the lawsuit to remove their displays, citing establishment clause concerns.
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  But the Fifth Circuit's decision permitted the requirement to proceed.
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  Now, uh Senate Bill 11 orders school boards to take a recorded vote on implementing designated time for voluntary prayer and religious reading.
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  Paxton's office has previously called on districts to start the process of putting prayer back in schools, consistent with the law's provision.
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  Oh, the left doesn't like this.
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  The left is not happy about this because of prayer, how dare you pray?
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  Well, you know, the First Amendment says that Congress cannot infringe upon the free exercise of your uh religious uh expression, can't do it.
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  Can't do it.
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  Now, um, so what's good for the goose is good for the gander here.
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  Now, um, so what's good for the gooses is good for the gander here.
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  Public documents from the attorney general's office state that school boards must act within specified timelines once the law is in effect.
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  Public documents from the attorney general's office state that school boards must act within specified timelines once the law is in effect.
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  The current investigation here that was announced last week would confirm compliance through production of board records and related policies.
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  The current investigation here that was announced last week would confirm compliance through production of board records and related policies.
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  We want to know if you guys have you done what we've
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  We want to know if you guys have you done what we've asked you to do.
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  We're gonna we're gonna look into it.
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  We're gonna investigate.
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  You can't just ignore this.
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  You this school board down there in Houston, which is okay with filth and smut and in the miners' library, by the way, and in a library that is frequented by miners.
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  This school board down there that's gonna kick this mom out of their school board meeting because she's reading from the filth and the smut in a public form.
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  This school board down there in Houston.
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  You just can't sweep this under the road, you just can't ignore this.
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  You can't just choose to not allow this.
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  So good for Paxton, good for the attorney general's office.
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  Good for him, holding the feet to the fire, as it were.
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  Good for him for making this school board and other school boards in the state of Texas accountable, accountable to the law.
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  I can't believe you're you're making us accountable to the law.
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  Yeah, yeah, you're you're gonna be held accountable to the law.
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  Paxton's announcement points to a lack of adherence by certain districts.
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  Oh, really?
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  No.
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  Districts such as Galveston Independent School District, which Paxton's office has sued in separate actions over their refusal to display the Ten Commandments.
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  So you live in Galveston.
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  If you're a if you're a parent and you live in Galveston and your child is in the Galveston school district, be uh be aware that your school district has flat out refused to display the Ten Commandments.
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  They have refused.
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  An education system has refused to take part in the display of uh historical documents that directly pertain to this country.
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  The Ten Commandments, they are foundational to this country.
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  The commandments are foundational.
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  They're they're they're foundational to Western civilization.
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  And you have an educational school district.
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  You have a system in Galveston that refuses just flat out refuse.
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  We're not going to display this.
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  How dare you force us to display this religious document?
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  It's it's it's otherworldly, it's it's ungodly.
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  Well, uh, we'll see.
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  We'll see, right?
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  We will we will clearly we will clearly see what what's gonna happen here.
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  Uh critics of this law argue that um that they raise constitutional questions about separation of church and state.
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  Supporters, including Paxton say they protect religious freedom and reflect the state's moral heritage.
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  The attorney general has said the measures are re-implementing historical practices and education.
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  Uh the critics here.
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  We we have concerns they are about the separation of church and state.
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  And you know, of course, we've we've got that backwards.
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  We've got it backwards.
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  And we've talked about the backwardness of it here.
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  Uh when Jefferson said in his letter to the Danbury Baptist Association, there's a separation between church and state.
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  I mean, you can read the letter for yourself.
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  He was referring to the the fact that the state cannot infringe upon religious liberty, can't do it.
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  There's a wall there, but the wall is keeping the state out of the church, not keeping the church out of the public square.
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  And the the letter, his words were misinterpreted, turned upside down, flipped on their head.
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  And that's what was used to weaponize the First Amendment against itself as that statement.
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  Uh when in when in fact it's it should be the other way around.
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  When in fact, the Ten Commandments should have been displayed all along in every classroom.
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  Prayer should have been allowed all along.
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  Morality should have stayed in the public school classrooms all along.
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  And the state should not have had the ability to infringe upon our freedom of expression religiously.
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  But they were allowed to, thanks to the weaponization of the First Amendment by a Supreme Court that um I guess was just full of neo-Marxists, ultimately.
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  The listed school districts are attended by hundreds of thousands of Texas students across urban, suburban, and rural parts of the state.
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  Hundreds of thousands of students are being affected here, one way or the other.
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  And Ken Paxton, uh, he wants to get to the bottom of it.
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  So kudos to him.
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  Go after it, Mr.
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  Paxton.
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  Make it make it happen.
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  Get out there and get it done.
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  And we're we're we're gonna stay on it.
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  We're gonna keep our eye on it.
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  Uh, I said to you the other day, you gotta keep your head on a swivel.
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  You have to know what's going on in your school district.
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  And we're gonna help you along with that.
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  If you live in Texas, we're we're gonna help you along with that.
• 20:00
  If you live in Illinois yesterday, we talked about the the Justice Department going after 30 plus school districts in Illinois that are refusing to disallow gender indoctrination, that are refusing to put up a blockade of men using women's restrooms and locker rooms.
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  The stupidity there is is mind-numbing, just mind-numbing.
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  All right, but we're gonna we're gonna stay on it.
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  So we are we're we're happy that uh the attorney general in Texas is he's doing his part to essentially drive out Marxism.
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  I mean, that that's what's happening here.
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  We're we're driving out Marxism because Marxism and all the other isms stand antithetical to American values.
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  They stand antithetical to Western civilization's foundational principles.
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  And and this is really what a classical education is about.
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  Classical education is about Western civilization and about the principles that are rooted in a Western civilization.
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  And Ken Paxton here is doing what he can see to it that some element of Western civilization is uh is a part of the public system there in Texas, including the Ten Commandments, including prayer.
• 25:12
  Uh these are they're important, they're important to our history, they're important to our foundation, and the Marxists are antithetical to that.
• 25:24
  So we have we essentially have a Marxist takeover in uh in the big apple, New York City.
• 25:34
  And we've we've got an opportunity here to watch this thing unfold in real time.
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  The opportunity is is happening right before our very eyes.
• 25:46
  You remember a few weeks ago, um, a month, I don't know how long it's been, but um, you know, mom Donnie has that uh that commercial outside of uh Ken Griffin's uh uh penthouse, and he's talking about this tech.
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  You know, he's tapping the tapping the screen and talking about this tax, and by golly, we're coming after you.
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  We're gonna tax you.
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  You're you're not paying enough, you're not paying your fair share.
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  As soon as that happened, any uh any person of intelligence.
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  You don't even have to have a lot of intelligence, but but you could predict what was happening, and I did, and we did.
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  We we said instantly, okay.
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  You're going to apply this tax to Griffin and uh other individuals of wealth.
• 26:37
  Well, guess what?
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  They're leaving your city because they're not stupid.
• 26:42
  They're going to leave your city and they're going to take their wealth somewhere else.
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  Where the mayor is not a Marxist and the mayor is not going to attempt to steal it.
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  And then when they take that wealth, where are you going to be?
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  Who are you going to tax when when the wealthiest are gone?
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  And they have then taken their jobs with them.
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  Then where are you going to be?
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  Where's the city going to be?
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  We're watching this unfold in real time.
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  It's happening before our very eyes.
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  New York Post.
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  Just the other day.
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  The headline.
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  And then the in big letters, we are so out of here.
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  Uh there they go, says the the the caption that the New York Post is uh releasing.
• 27:42
  There they go.
• 27:44
  There they go, Zoe.
• 27:46
  Hedge fund Titan Ken Griffin revealed this week, he's scaling back jobs in the big apple as a direct consequence of Zoran Mom Donnie's tax the rich antics, stoking fears that the well to do are starting to flee the socialist mare, taking their cash with them.
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  That the will to do are starting to flee the socialist mayor, taking their cash with them.
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  Uh we we knew this was coming.
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  We knew this was coming.
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  We absolutely 100% knew that this was coming.
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  We absolutely 100% knew that this was coming.
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  And we're not surprised by it.
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  And we're not surprised by it.
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  We're not shocked by it.
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  We're not shocked by it.
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  We are not, you know, we're not dumbfounded.
• 28:22
  We are not um, you know, we're not dumbfounded, we're not perplexed, we're not we're we're we're none of that.
• 28:25
  We're not perplexed.
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  We're not we're none of that.
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  We are asking ourselves.
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  Uh, you know, we're surprised that it took him this long.
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  That's what we're surprised about.
• 28:42
  We are um and I you've probably seen the clips of um Griffin, where he has said, um, I don't have the clip right in front of me, but this this post continues and says that mom Donnie made the most expensive video in history.
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  Uh Avatar cost 200.
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  This is this is great.
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  This right here is a great uh this is just a nice comparison.
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  Okay, you ready for this?
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  Avatar cost 237 million.
• 29:18
  Mom Donnie filmed himself threatening a billionaire on a sidewalk and cost New York six billion and twenty-one thousand jobs.
• 29:27
  Okay, avatar costs 237 million.
• 29:30
  Mom Donnie just cost New York six billion, 21,000 jobs.
• 29:36
  Uh Ken Griffin, CEO of Citadel, who was previously all in on New York.
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  2500 employees, 650 million donated to the city, a six billion dollar development, 21,000 jobs on the way.
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  Then Mom Donnie filmed himself outside the penthouse promising to tax him.
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  Basically, tax him into oblivion.
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  The video stupidly was titled Happy Tax Day.
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  We're taxing the rich.
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  He stupidly said.
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  That's my adjective, by the way.
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  Uh, stupidly.
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  I guess that'd be an adverb, right?
• 30:16
  How did he say it stupidly?
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  Yes, adverb.
• 30:20
  Mom Donnie filmed it outside Ken Griffin's penthouse, two blocks from where the United Healthcare CEO was assassinated.
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  And Griffin makes comment about this in a subsequent interview.
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  He says, Look, I this is reckless.
• 30:37
  This is uncalled for, that he would basically make me a public enemy, where a CEO just a couple blocks away was assassinated.
• 30:46
  He said he's he's made a target out of me.
• 30:48
  This is this is shameful.
• 30:51
  This is reckless behavior.
• 30:54
  Uh Griffin said he watched Mom Dami's video three times and called it creepy and frightening.
• 31:01
  Then he announced a Citadel was doubling down on Miami.
• 31:05
  I mean, that's it.
• 31:06
  How would you not double down on Miami?
• 31:08
  Griffin had one message for New York.
• 31:11
  What the mayor of New York has made clear to my partners is that we need to double down on our bed in Miami.
• 31:18
  Citadel is now shifting jobs to Miami, and the $6 billion Citadel Tower in New York City is now in jeopardy.
• 31:27
  6,000 construction jobs, 15,000 permanent roles there in the building, might be lost because of one video.
• 31:41
  I think it's better for us to say it might be lost because of Marxism.
• 31:47
  Because this is what Marxism does.
• 31:50
  It destroys everything in its path.
• 31:54
  Those 21,000 jobs that they weren't going to hedge fund managers.
• 32:00
  Okay.
• 32:00
  They weren't going to the ultra-rich.
• 32:02
  They weren't going to the elite.
• 32:04
  They weren't going to the billionaires.
• 32:07
  They were going to construction workers, electricians, office staff, the exact people.
• 32:14
  Mom Dami claims he's fighting for it when really all he's attempting to do is create warfare amongst the classes to create warfare within society.
• 32:27
  To to call out Griffin.
• 32:29
  Oh, he's a billionaire.
• 32:30
  He's got to go.
• 32:33
  That billionaire is providing jobs for everyday Americans.
• 32:39
  He doesn't have to go.
• 32:40
  He he should stay.
• 32:41
  He should be lauded.
• 32:42
  He should be celebrated.
• 32:45
  But Marxism doesn't do that.
• 32:47
  Because Marxism is rooted in evil.
• 32:49
  Marxism is rooted in hatred.
• 32:51
  Marxism is rooted in division.
• 32:53
  There's got to be division.
• 32:55
  There's got to be class warfare.
• 32:56
  There's got to be one group angry at another in order for Marxism to succeed.
• 33:03
  And even that's an oxymoron because there is no succeeding in Marxism unless you're the top, unless you're at the top of the food chain, unless you're Mom Dami.
• 33:12
  Unless you're Stalin.
• 33:13
  Unless you're Pol Pot, unless you're, you know, pick your your favorite communist socialist leader.
• 33:23
  Your favorite dictator.
• 33:24
  I mean, let's let's play favorite communist dictator bingo here.
• 33:28
  And who's your favorite?
• 33:29
  I mean, those are the ones who are succeeding.
• 33:31
  Those are the ones who are winning the lottery here.
• 33:36
  Meanwhile, Citadel's employees already paid 2.3 billion in New York taxes over the last five years.
• 33:43
  Can you believe that?
• 33:44
  The everyday common worker at Citadel.
• 33:48
  Because there's a lot of them are out there paying 2.3 billion.
• 33:56
  And this is what happens when envy is your policy.
• 34:01
  This is it.
• 34:02
  When envy and hatred is your metric and your policy, you end up with the governor of Florida calling you his very best realtor.
• 34:12
  I mean, DeSantis is out there, you know, thanking Mom Dami.
• 34:15
  He's like, dude, you are getting it done for keep it up.
• 34:18
  I mean, keep it up.
• 34:19
  Keep destroying the city because it's only helping Florida.
• 34:22
  This is happening in one of the most prosperous cities in the world.
• 34:27
  And most people have no idea.
• 34:30
  They're just completely completely out there and they're completely clueless, at least the kids are.
• 34:39
  This is this is Marxism, my friends.
• 34:42
  This is what it does.
• 34:44
  It destroys literally everything in its path.
• 34:48
  And it does it with a vengeance.
• 34:50
  And we're watching it in real time happen in New York City.
• 34:54
  What we haven't been watching in real time over the past decades is how it's infiltrated our public school system.
• 35:00
  How it's removed benchmarks, the literal guideposts in terms of our history in terms of the foundation of Western civilization.
• 35:00
  How it's removed benchmarks, the literal guideposts in terms of our history in terms of the foundation of Western civilization.
• 35:15
  And one of those guideposts is what Ken Paxton is is checking on here.
• 35:15
  And one of those guideposts is what Ken Paxton is is checking on here.
• 35:20
  It's the Ten Commandments.
• 35:20
  It's the Ten Commandments.
• 35:21
  It's a guidepost.
• 35:21
  It's a guidepost.
• 35:23
  Having prayer time in schools, it's a guidepost.
• 35:23
  Having prayer time in schools, it's a guidepost.
• 35:26
  And Paxton says it's got to come back.
• 35:26
  And Paxton says it's got to come back.
• 35:30
  We've got to bring these elements back.
• 35:32
  They're foundational to Western civilization.
• 35:35
  They're foundational to an American way of life.
• 35:38
  They've got to come back.
• 35:40
  And we've got at least the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals out here in agreement with him saying, yeah, absolutely, 100%.
• 35:49
  And then it is constitutional.
• 35:51
  It's very constitutional to post the Ten Commandments.
• 35:54
  Guess what?
• 35:54
  It's constitutional to allow a time of prayer for students in the schoolroom, in the schoolhouse, in the classroom.
• 36:04
  And I believe, in my opinion, there's a Supreme Court that's going to support this decision.
• 36:12
  Marxism, my friends, uh, is it divisive, it's destructive, it is um, it is everything that you believe it to be.
• 36:25
  Now, uh, also what I did not tell you is today's a history class, my friends.
• 36:31
  Today, today, May 12th, is uh a history class.
• 36:37
  We can go back to 1949 on this very day, the Soviet Union ended its blockade of West Berlin.
• 36:46
  And you want to know why it had to end its blockade of West Berlin in 1949?
• 36:53
  Because the United States and Britain had overcome said blockade with the Berlin airlifts.
• 36:58
  Do you know what the Berlin airlifts are?
• 37:02
  Uh, okay, listen, we're let's do this.
• 37:04
  We're gonna go to history class, and we're gonna we're gonna get it uh uh on the other side of this break.
• 37:10
  We're gonna hit the we're gonna we're gonna talk about what the Berlin up Berlin, what the what the Berlin blockade was, and what the Berlin airlift consisted of and uh because it's history class today, and this is a moment in history that probably is not being talked about in a public school history class.
• 37:33
  I doubt that it's being mentioned.
• 37:35
  I doubt that there are public schools at all anywhere in the country talking about the fact that the Soviets, the communists, the Marxists, and Russia had to end the blockade of Berlin.
• 37:50
  Why did they have Berlin block blockaded anyway?
• 37:54
  What was the point?
• 37:55
  What was the point of this blockade?
• 37:57
  And why did they have to end it?
• 37:59
  And and why?
• 38:01
  Why did America and why did Great Britain uh participate in the what was called the the Berlin airlift?
• 38:11
  Uh in order to get around this blockade in order to save people that communism was murdering, destroying.
• 38:23
  It's a destructive, it's a destructive practice, it's a destructive economic system.
• 38:29
  It's a destructive religion.
• 38:30
  Ultimately, it's what it is.
• 38:32
  It's a religion.
• 38:33
  It's a religion that that worships whoever the dictator is.
• 38:38
  I mean, you know, what's his name there?
• 38:40
  Mao Saitong came into China and said, I'm I'm your daddy.
• 38:44
  Okay, the kids need to look at look to me now as their father, not their father, not their actual father, not their actual parents, but me.
• 38:52
  Me.
• 38:53
  They need to consider me.
• 38:54
  And they need to do what I say.
• 38:56
  They need to bow down and worship me.
• 39:00
  This is this is communism, my friends.
• 39:02
  And it's it is horrible.
• 39:06
  It's awful, it's pathetic, it's destructive.
• 39:08
  All right, so let's go to history class on the other side of this break.
• 39:12
  Let's go to the Berlin uh airlift, the Berlin blockade.
• 39:16
  And let's talk about it.
• 39:17
  Let's let's get there.
• 39:18
  Let's let's decide and let's discuss what in the world was this thing that was um spearheaded by communists.
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  Okay, my friends, let's go to history class.
• 41:45
  I hear the history bells chiming.
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  Grab a nice comfy seat in the front row.
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  Pour yourself a warm beverage if you'd like.
• 41:53
  Kick your feet up.
• 41:55
  Let's just enjoy a little bit of history.
• 41:57
  History that young people should be getting on this day.
• 42:00
  People should be getting on this day, unfortunately.
• 42:02
  Unfortunately, I'm sure they're not.
• 42:03
  I'm sure they're not.
• 42:05
  The end of World War II left Germany divided, as you know, into two rival systems.
• 42:05
  The end of World War II left Germany divided, as you know, into two rival systems.
• 42:13
  Western Germany, occupied by the United States, Britain, France, the countries that at the time believed in freedom.
• 42:13
  Western Germany occupied by the United States, Britain, France, the countries that at the time believed in freedom.
• 42:24
  Western Germany was a free zone with a rebounding economy, because well, that's what happens when you have freedom.
• 42:24
  Western Germany was a free zone with a rebounding economy because, well.
• 42:33
  Your economy, which was war-torn, has the opportunity to rebound.
• 42:37
  It has the opportunity to come back, resurface.
• 42:41
  Eastern Germany, however, was controlled by Soviet communists.
• 42:46
  It was indeed a grim totalitarian police state.
• 42:51
  The city of Berlin, Hitler's old capital was divided the same way.
• 42:57
  But it lay deep inside communist East Germany.
• 43:03
  So you've got the city of Berlin in the depths of communism.
• 43:10
  But you know, the West side of Berlin is free.
• 43:16
  It's controlled by the British, by the French, by the Americans.
• 43:21
  Deep inside a communist stronghold, but yet half of the city of Berlin belonged to freedom.
• 43:28
  1948, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin moved to take all of Berlin by closing roads and train tracks leading into the city's free Western portion.
• 43:39
  I mean, you can't have half the city be free, really.
• 43:42
  You can't, because at that point, it just demonstrates to the world how inept your system actually is, how evil it actually is, how murderous it actually is.
• 43:55
  So he really only had one other choice, which was to close off freedom.
• 44:01
  And that was it.
• 44:02
  And so he did, closed it off.
• 44:06
  So sealed off from the rest of the world.
• 44:08
  More than two million West Berliners who were used to freedom, all of a sudden faced immediate starvation.
• 44:17
  What were they to do?
• 44:18
  They were cut off.
• 44:19
  They were being sieged, as it were.
• 44:22
  Harry Truman realized that he couldn't get supplies to the city by ground without starting World War III.
• 44:31
  I mean, ultimately, that's what I mean.
• 44:36
  And World War III would have fired up immediately, as soon as World War II had ended.
• 44:42
  And we would have been fighting a previous ally in Russia, the communist dictatorial regime fought alongside of us to end a socialist dictatorial regime.
• 45:00
  And now the communist dictatorial regime wanted to step into that void, but the socialist dictatorial regime had left behind.
• 45:09
  Truman couldn't start World War III.
• 45:11
  So instead of sending in ground troops, he really made the only decision he could make, which was to do an airlift.
• 45:20
  We had to get food to the free people of West Berlin, and we did it by air.
• 45:26
  Thus began the famed Berlin airlift, one of history's greatest humanitarian efforts.
• 45:34
  Beginning in June 1948, American and British planes made more than 277,000 flights across Germany into West Berlin, delivering food, coal, medicine, a variety of other supplies, toiletries.
• 45:54
  The list is endless.
• 45:56
  At times, planes landed in West Berlin as often as every four minutes.
• 46:01
  Talk about an operation.
• 46:04
  I mean, like clockwork, every four minutes, we're dropping supplies.
• 46:08
  Every four minutes, planes are landing.
• 46:11
  Just a few years earlier, Allied bombers had been pounding Berlin to rubble.
• 46:17
  Now, U.S.
• 46:18
  cargo planes dropped candy by parachute to German children who scrambled to retrieve it.
• 46:25
  Nearly 100 U.S.
• 46:27
  and British servicemen lost their lives during the operation.
• 46:32
  But after 11 months of sending planes in every four minutes, Stalin gave in and finally lifted the blockade.
• 46:43
  I mean, at this point, he was just being made to look the fool in the eyes of the public who are paying attention.
• 46:53
  You've got one man refusing food and necessities to hundreds of thousands of people.
• 47:03
  And you have three countries ultimately combining their efforts to get food to those people.
• 47:12
  I mean, this is communism.
• 47:16
  This is what communism does.
• 47:22
  It's all fun and games until people start starving and start dying.
• 47:28
  So yeah, Stalin had to give in.
• 47:30
  He had to lift the blockade.
• 47:31
  The planes kept flying through September 30th, 1949 to build emergency stockpiles.
• 47:39
  In all, they delivered some 23 million tons of supplies, more than a ton for every man, woman, and child.
• 47:47
  As a result of the Berlin airlift and the heroic struggle of the West Berliners, freedom survived in its most exposed output, outpost, I'm sorry.
• 47:58
  And today is the day that Stalin buckled.
• 48:02
  And he said, I gotta lift this.
• 48:04
  I gotta lift this blockade.
• 48:06
  I'm being made to look like a like who I actually am.
• 48:10
  People are starting to see the truth.
• 48:13
  And he buckled.
• 48:15
  This story not only needs to be told on the anniversary, which today is, but it needs to be repeated early and often.
• 48:23
  It's as if you were voting in Chicago.
• 48:25
  Do it early and often.
• 48:26
  Tell the story early and often.
• 48:30
  But it's not being told in our education system any longer.
• 48:35
  It certainly hasn't been told in New York for the citizens of New York to be duped and to fall into the trap of a communist mayor who's who's telling them, hey, you're going to get free buses, and and hey, you're going to get free groceries, and hey, we're freezing your rent.
• 48:58
  And hey, and hey, and hey, and this and that and the other.
• 49:00
  That and the other, and and hey, oh, and and by the way, the city is in a budgetary crisis.
• 49:00
  And hey, oh, and by the way, the city is in a budgetary crisis.
• 49:05
  I mean, that's what he announced.
• 49:05
  I mean, that's what he announced.
• 49:07
  The city's in a budgetary crisis after stupidly, stupidly calling out Griffin and other wealthy businessmen and women, and telling them, hey, I'm going to tax you into oblivion.
• 49:07
  The city's in a budgetary crisis after stupidly, stupidly calling out Griffin and other wealthy businessmen and women and telling them, hey, I'm gonna tax you into oblivion.
• 49:24
  Oh, you're going to pay your fair share.
• 49:24
  Oh, you're gonna pay your fair share.
• 49:28
  And Griffin's not going to.
• 49:28
  And and Griffin's not gonna take that sitting down.
• 49:33
  These people of wealth are intelligent, they're not stupid.
• 49:36
  They're gonna back up and they're out, they're gone, they're out.
• 49:42
  Speaking of stupidity.
• 49:45
  Speaking of stupidity, I yesterday I read the Substack from John Leek.
• 49:54
  Uh John Leek and Dr.
• 49:56
  Peter McCullough have a uh a substack together.
• 49:59
  It's called focal points.
• 50:01
  Courageous discourse.
• 50:02
  And sometimes it's McCullough posting medical information, and other times it's leak posting um other good stuff.
• 50:11
  Yesterday, his his Substack post was entitled, How Did Germany Become a Moronic Inferno?
• 50:18
  And so that caught my eye.
• 50:21
  And and his subtitle is Dietrich Bonhoeffer's 1943 essay on stupidity has never been more relevant.
• 50:29
  And so he he starts talking about you know history of Germany and how it it became this moronic inferno.
• 50:36
  Uh, he was over there at uh at an event, and he's talking about you know free speech and how it's under assault.
• 50:45
  But uh you can read the piece.
• 50:48
  I encourage you to go to his substack focal points and read the piece because it's it's just good, it's very good.
• 50:55
  Uh in the piece, he cites Bonhoeff, and he says to understand how to deal with stupidity, we must try to understand its nature.
• 51:04
  This much is certain.
• 51:06
  It is not essentially an intellectual but a human defect.
• 51:10
  There are people who are intellectually agile who are stupid, well, intellectually inept people may be anything but stupid.
• 51:18
  We discovered this to our surprise in certain situations.
• 51:20
  All right.
• 51:21
  So then he he quotes Bonhoeffer.
• 51:23
  Bonhoeffer says one gets the impression that stupidity is often not an innate defect, but one that emerges under certain circumstances in which people are made stupid or allow themselves to be made stupid.
• 51:39
  We also observe, we also observe that isolated and solitary people exhibit this defect less frequently than socializing groups of people.
• 51:49
  Ah, groupthink.
• 51:51
  Groupthink creates stupidity.
• 51:54
  You know, I have a uh a Substack piece out over the weekend uh talking about the courage of Dr.
• 52:03
  Lehman Hall, the signer of the one of the signers of the declaration from Georgia, who fought groupthink, who stood against it.
• 52:11
  He was probably one of the lone men.
• 52:14
  Uh I mean, he wasn't alone, but he was one of the lone voices who spoke up against the stupidity of groupthink.
• 52:22
  Just a little shout out there.
• 52:24
  Uh Bonhoeffer continues, a closer look reveals that the strong exertion of external power, be it political or religious, strikes a large part of the people with stupidity.
• 52:38
  Yes, it seems as if this is a sociological, psychological law.
• 52:43
  The power of some requires the stupidity of others.
• 52:48
  Just that line right there.
• 52:50
  Oh man, that gets me.
• 52:52
  It makes me laugh.
• 52:53
  The power of some requires the stupidity of others.
• 52:58
  Under this influence, human abilities suddenly wither or fail, robbing people of their inner independence, which they more or less unconsciously renounce to adapt to their behavior to the prevailing situation.
• 53:14
  The fact that stupid people, Bonhoeffer continues, are often stubborn, should not hide the fact that they are not independent.
• 53:23
  When talking to him, one feels that one is not dealing with him personally, but with catchphrases, slogans, etc.
• 53:31
  What we would call talking points today.
• 53:34
  Bonhoeffer continues, that have taken possession of him.
• 53:37
  Yeah, the catchphrases, the slogans, the talking points.
• 53:42
  They've taken possession of this person.
• 53:44
  This person does not have the ability to think on their own any longer.
• 53:49
  Bonhoeffer continues.
• 53:51
  He is under a spell.
• 53:52
  He's blinded.
• 53:53
  He is abused in his own being.
• 53:56
  And then he concludes by stating this.
• 53:59
  Having become an instrument without an independent will, the fool will also be capable of all evil.
• 54:06
  And at the same time, unable to recognize it as evil.
• 54:11
  Here lies the danger of diabolical abuse through this.
• 54:15
  A people can be ruined forever.
• 54:19
  Oh man, that is powerfully potent.
• 54:24
  That one, two, three, four, those four paragraphs from Bonhoffer, are unbelievably potent.
• 54:34
  The power of stupidity.
• 54:36
  Never underestimate the power of stupidity in small groups or large groups, as it were.
• 54:44
  And this is what we see unfolding in New York City.
• 54:48
  We see the power of stupidity unveiled.
• 54:52
  I mean, this is what uh I I think Griffin might have used the word stupidity.
• 54:58
  I don't know if he did.
• 55:00
  He might have.
• 55:01
  If he didn't use the word, I could I could paraphrase it right in there.
• 55:06
  Stupidity unveiled, stupidity unmasked, and it is destroying the city.
• 55:13
  And we're watching it happen in real time.
• 55:16
  We're watching incompetence and we're watching evil because yesterday I kept saying we could call it incompetence, but truly it's evil.
• 55:26
  It's evil, it's evil.
• 55:28
  And Bonhoeffer's concluding statement here that uh having become an instrument without an independent will, the fool will also be capable of all evil, and at the same time, unable to recognize it as evil.
• 55:45
  And this is the problem.
• 55:46
  They are operating in evil and they they can't even see it.
• 55:50
  They're they're blinded so deeply.
• 55:53
  And we can say the hatred of Trump, you know, we can refer to you know Trump derangement syndrome all day long, but this was long before Trump came along.
• 56:00
  This was long before Trump came along.
• 56:03
  They're blinded to the evil because stupidity has allowed that blindness to set in.
• 56:03
  They're blinded to the evil because stupidity has allowed that blindness to set in.
• 56:12
  All right, so go to Substack and you can read uh John Leake's entire piece there on Focal Points.
• 56:12
  All right, so go to Substack and you can read uh John Leake's entire piece there on focal points again.
• 56:18
  Again, it's called How Did Germany Become a Moronic Inferno.
• 56:18
  It's called How Did Germany Become a Moronic Inferno.
• 56:22
  While you're there, go to the Dean's List and subscribe to our Substack and then read and enjoy.
• 56:22
  While you're there, go to the Dean's List and subscribe to our Substack and then read and enjoy our uh post from the weekend.
• 56:34
  Uh, what was it?
• 56:35
  What's it called?
• 56:36
  Hang on.
• 56:37
  Uh, how to have courage when standing against conventional wisdom.
• 56:41
  There it is, my friends.
• 56:42
  All right, get out there and get it done today.
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• 56:48
  Let's unite to renovate the age.