In this hour of Rush to Reason, John Rush is joined by Alvin Louie to break down the growing influence of the Southern Poverty Law Center within the K-12 education system.
The discussion centers on how school counselor standards and “mental health” programs are being shaped by outside organizations—and why simply removing one group won’t fix the deeper structural issues already embedded in schools.
Louie explains how student surveys and data collection are used to drive policy changes, often without parents fully understanding what’s being asked or how the results are applied. The conversation highlights how small, targeted groups can influence
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Okay, welcome back. Hour number two, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Alvin Louie joining us now. Alvin, welcome. How are you? Welcome back.
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Hey, thank you so much for having me. I never take it for granted to be able to come on your show. Thank you.
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Well, you know what? That means a lot. I appreciate it greatly. And real quick, let people know where you’re from and how they find you.
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My name is Alvin Louie from Courage is a Habit. Courageisahabit.org. We make tools and tactics for parents on all 50 states so that they understand what is happening to their children in K-12 and, equally as important, how the parents are getting lied to and deflected. And we also provide tools to help parents understand how to defend themselves so that they can protect their children.
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Okay, and it’s funny, we just talked in the last hour about our public school education, the fact that we have a one-size-fits-all in today’s world, even with, especially now, Alvin, with AI and so on, it’s just ridiculous that we haven’t changed the method of how we teach our kids. But with all that being said, Southern Poverty Law Center, I talked about this last week, by the way, and oh my word, they have been a huge influence upon our school system, and yet we’re finding out that they are nothing more than a funder of hate groups. Let’s just say it that way.
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Well, the Southern Poverty Law Center knew what we… Tension knows. They knew that racism isn’t a thing, that white supremacy isn’t a thing. And so they had to fund it to make it a thing. And so they very much knew what those of us who are fighting this at this level knows, is that, no, nobody cares about race. Why is it all this stuff is coming up the last, you know, 8, 10 years… It’s because they had to invent it. They had to fund it. And so that’s what they’re putting in schools now. As you know, we talked about on your wonderful show that if the SPLC disappeared tomorrow, and we hope for the best. Yeah, we can only hope. Yeah, we just saw this morning that they’ve lost a lot of their – they basically got debanked. A lot of the banks that were funding them and allowing them to have banks there. So basically, they got a taste of their own medicine. They got debanked because they wanted to debank a lot of the conservative pro-life groups and parent groups. So that’s great. We hope to see them in prison, a lot of these people, these leaders. However… If the SPLC disappears tomorrow, nothing would change in K-12 because the American School Counselor Association has adopted the student standards directly from the Southern Poverty Law Center. And when I say adopted, I don’t mean inspired by, John. I mean they literally copy, word for word, the SPLC’s student standards. and behaviors, and mindsets. So they’re copying them. So now if the SPLC disappears tomorrow, it doesn’t change anything in K-12 because the American School Counselor Association already adopts that, and it’s already baked into your mental health. And so the only hope that we have is I want to encourage every state education department to start halting these mental health grants. until they stop using the ASCA standards and we go back to using the mental health for academic purposes only, not emotion, not values, not social justice.
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So in other words, if we don’t push back against what basically the SPLC has done when it comes to our public education, it’s not going to change anything, period?
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It won’t be because these standards have already been adopted through your mental health, through your social-emotional learning. So all the, for example, in Colorado, tens of millions, tens and tens of hundreds of millions at this point, but every year, every three years, there’s like these tens of millions of dollars of grants that are put out at the Colorado Department of Education. And so then the all-school district, whether they’re big or small, obviously the smaller one gets a smaller grant, the bigger one gets a bigger grant, but that money comes in, they all take it. I don’t care if it’s a red county, a blue state, a blue city, it doesn’t matter.
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Right, good point.
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And then the money goes to hiring these ASCA, the American School Counselor Association counselors, who are trained in this student standard that has been adopted by the SPLC. So if the SPLC disappears tomorrow, the training still remains. Those standards are still there. Yeah. The standard still remains. And so the money, when you put into mental health, and we support all students, we all want students to feel welcome. So words like culturally responsive. the be kind, anti-bullying, all that brings in the anti-white critical race theory, queer theory into your school. It’s not what parents think it was, the anti-bullying of the 80s or anything like that. It’s just it’s completely done by anti-bullying, meaning that, John, if your daughter or your granddaughter doesn’t want a mentally ill man in her shower, in her locker room, she’s a bully. That’s what they mean by anti-bullying.
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Talk to us about, because I’m looking at your website right now. Talk to us about, am I saying it right, the GLSEN 2027 School Climate Survey?
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Yes, sir. So one of the lifeblood of this indoctrination is a data collection. Okay. And let me give you three terms so that when your listeners, when they hear it, they understand what it means. You hear it all the time with counselors and school boards, especially the school boards. Data-driven. Okay. Data-driven. Okay. Research-based. Okay? Research-based and evidence-based. Okay, evidence-based. Research shows, evidence-based, data-driven. Those are those, you know, between those three phrases. When then parents have no idea, they’re like, I have no idea how do I, you know, what do I, what does that mean? I have no way to fight it. So we explain through GLSEN where they’re getting that data. Now, that’s not the only place to get the data, but this is one of the major ones, especially with the transgender stuff. So the GLSEN used to be called GLSEN. They’re always renaming companies. But anyway, all you care about, it doesn’t matter what they name it, it’s a very high transgender after-school club.
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And so a lot of parents don’t even know that their children are going to these clubs after school. And so a survey is given out, and they started on April, I want to say April 15th, I think what it was. And they started to basically roll it out nationwide. Okay. So whether your school gets it this month or next month or the month after that, before summer, they’re going to roll it out, and they’ll continue rolling it out when school comes back. And they’re giving these surveys to children that are already brainwashed. And so when they answer these questions, these surveys, the data, the evidence-based data, will always come back as LGBTQ, trans, non-binary kids, feel unseen unheard they’re suicidal they don’t feel safe that’s what the data will always say in all 50 states always and so they will take this very small remember this is after school club right and they’re only they’re serving children are already brainwashed they’re going to take this tiny segment and they will use it to change the policies in your schools what does that mean That means you need more representation. We need to hire more teachers and counselors and principals that look like them. We need more books, all the books, all the pornographic books. We need more representation, more expression, more flags, more days to honor, more trans visibility days. It’s not a day here and there, but it’s like every day, every week, every month. We need more of that. We need more equity statements. We need more DEI. Then they will take those policies from school. Then they will take it to your state house and say, we need to change it at the education department state level. It needs to be mandated now. That’s what that data is. And so on our website right now, if you go to courageisahabit.org and click on tool of the week, we explain to you in even more detail than what I just did now, as to what this school climate survey is from Glisten, or Gleason, a lot of your schools will still call it Gleason. And then we explain to you who the doctors are behind it. And let me just read you this, if I just take a… Go ahead, no, you’re fine, take your time, you’re good, take your time. One of the data architects, one of the doctors that is behind this survey that will be crunching this data, his name is Dr. Yuqi Wang. He self-described, this is self-described, as an asexual, agender, non-binary, and trans Taiwanese Asian American person. That’s his own description. That is the kind of person, there’s two doctors mainly that’s leading this, and then another one is a Dr. Shweta Morthy, and she believes in something called research justice. Now, what is research justice? Research justice argues that traditional science, which is based on facts, biology, evidence, you know, your control group, those type of things, that is oppressive. What she’s looking for in research justice is a child’s subjective feelings, their lived experiences. Oh, boy. That is what her contribution to this, and her conclusion will always be that parents are dangerous because parents are not accepting of their child. They don’t accept them, quote, how they are. Right, right.
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They’re the bad guys.
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They’re the bad guys. And so we explain all that. And then, of course, more importantly, we provide you with a turnkey copy and paste template so that every parent can opt their children out of these clubs and these surveys. We give you a U.S. code to quote. So it’s turnkey. And then we give you these graphics to explain what they’re doing so that you can – to explain it once we’re off. And so these little graphics will help start the conversations, almost like talking points. So these graphics are ready to go. You can download them right now. It can be done in text. You can put it on Facebook. You can put it on an email list if you run a parent group. You can do it if you have a text group going, text chain with other parents. But we really want every parent to use this letter to opt your child out But more importantly, we want you to give it to five other parents. Because the schools are pretty good at gaslighting and deflecting in verse like two to three or four. That’s true. But it’s really hard when all of a sudden you get 50 or 60. Yeah. When you get 50 or 60 of these things, you get 100 or 150 of these things. Right. Even though it doesn’t sound like a lot. Well, that’s a lot. There’s thousands. It’s a lot to them. Right. Because they’re not used to having even one pushback. Right. Good point. So 150 feels like everybody, even though… So that’s what we want. It’s a very low bar. We want to see about 200 to 250 parents per school district turn our template in, use it, and then either tag us or you can email us and say we used it, here it is, and just keep on top of it. Some schools will immediately honor it. Some schools will try to deflect and gaslight and ask you why. Don’t ever answer why. If a school counselor or teacher or principal goes, why? Just say, because I want to.
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Right.
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Because it’s my parental rights, too.
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Yeah. Great point. Great point. Alvin, it’s great to always have you on. I appreciate it greatly. One more time, Courage is a Habit. What’s the website?
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Courageisahabit.org. Click on Tool of the Week if you’re listening between now and early May. It’s going to be there. If not, if you’re listening to this afterwards, Courageisahabit.org. Click on Search. Type in GLSEN. Type in survey. Type in climate survey. You will find it. Easy to find. And then our socials are at Courage Habit. Always love to interact with people. And then we are a nonprofit, so every time you share our tools, use our turnkey letters. Donate $10 to us. It goes to our small team, and it helps us be able to take these tools and spread it across to more states and specifically more school districts.
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You’re awesome. Alvin, as always, it’s a joy having you. Keep up the good work, sir. Appreciate you very much. Thank you, sir. You bet. Have a great night. Alvin Louie, again, courage is a habit. Golden Eagle coming up next. And Al did a great interview of late. Listen in. If you need Al directly, find him at klzradio.com.
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TJ Panter here with KLZ Radio. And once again, Al Smith from Golden Eagle Financial is with me. Al, how are you?
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Putting reason into your afternoon drive. This is John Rush.
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Okay, we are back. Thank you for listening. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Okay, I talked about this briefly the other day in regards to construction zones and speeding tickets here in Colorado. So I’ve got a few minutes here before Jim Paff joins us from Conservative Caucus. But cameras may soon find Colorado drivers for speeding just a little bit. And this proposal, by the way, is headed to the state Senate for a vote. And what I mean by a little bit is some of these will fine you if you’re only doing five to six miles an hour over the speed limit, which. In almost all cases, maybe with the exception of a school zone, and I know some police officers, and typically they’re not going to do anything unless you’re 10 over or more. Five over, they’re not giving you a ticket. They’ve got too many other things to do. They’re just not giving you a ticket. So what these cameras are going to do is they’re going to look at people speeding, even minor, And if this bill gets passed, it’s Senate Bill 26-152. It lowers the enforcement minimums for speed cameras from the current 10 miles an hour, like I just said, to just 6 miles an hour. So they’re not going to fine you for five, but they are at six. Now, just so you all know, you can check your own speedometer. It used to be you had to go into a shop and they would check it because there was ways to do that and so on. But now with GPS and all the things that are built into your phone, you can check your own speed very, very easily. uh look at any of the different mapping apps and most of them will tell you the speed you’re going at you can look at your own speedometer and see how close you are in other words how accurate you are and then know whether you know because by the way something i don’t talk about this much on drive radio i guess i should for those of you that change tire sizes yes that changes the speedometer You’ve changed the ratio of what’s happening on the vehicle’s drivetrain, and the speedometer will be off. And typically, most speedometers from the factory read a tad fast because they know people drive a little bit over the speed limit. So the way they do that is they will set that thing to be, oh, a mile or two over what you actually are doing. So that if you’re doing five over, you’re only doing three over. If you’re doing six over, you’re doing, you know, four over. You get you get the drill. But you can check to see how accurate your own speedometer is with some of these applications that you can put right on your phone. For example, Waze, W-A-Z-E, which is a mapping app through Google. Google owns it. It tells you where accidents are, what the best way to get to A to B is, and so on and so forth, where the cops are, on and on we go. But you can actually use an app like Waze, and it will tell you what your speed is. And you can see how accurate is your particular vehicle. And the reason I say that is with these sorts of things coming down the pike, if in fact this passes, and probably will because they’re trying to collect more revenue, if this passes, you better be darn sure where your speedometer is at and how accurate you are. And some of you that have gone through tire change, tire size changes, your speedometer is not accurate. Now, in some cases, it might be right on the money because, as I say, most speedometers from the factory are a little bit over what you’re actually doing. They read over. And if you put a bigger tire on, that’s where you start running into problems. You put a little tire on, the speedometer goes faster. If you put a bigger tire on, the speedometer slows down. You’re going faster than what it says. So it would be a good idea for all of you listening – especially if you’re in some of these areas where you’re going to see some of these cameras, whereby you better make sure that you’re dead on with your speedometer because if you’re doing even six miles an hour or over the speed limit, just six miles, they will give you a warning for the first violation, but then they start increasing after that. And if you’re speeding in a school zone or construction zone, all bets are off. That’s a whole other conversation like I’ve talked about the other day. So you will be fined, and the upper end of the fine, I believe, is $120 if you’re doing 25 or over. Those can be doubled if they’re in a school zone or construction zone. And under the bill, those fines would increase to 50 and up to 150, respectively, beginning in 2035. So the low end will be 50, the high end will be 150 in 2035. Right now, it’s 40 and 120. You know, 40 low end, 120 high end. So just so you know, this is what your lawmakers right now in Colorado are doing, is they’re trying to lower the limit whereby these traffic cameras, speed cameras, will enforce the speed limit and send you a ticket in the mail. And it used to be, and we’ve had Kevin Flesch on many times in the past, it used to be you could disregard those tickets that came in the mail. There was a law that was passed because people were, probably because of us talking about it and telling people just to ignore them. There was a law passed that corrected that, and yes, now, in fact, if you get a ticket in the mail, it has to be paid. Speeding, red light, whatever, you’ve got to pay it. Toll lane violations and so on. If you don’t pay it, they’re going to come after you. They’re going to get it one way or the other, so you might as well just pay it on the front side. Now, in some cases, I guess you could still argue the ticket and you’ll have to figure out what those particular cases are. And Kevin can even help you with some of that at times. But at the end of the day, just you’re going to have to pay the ticket. Now, if you know for a fact you weren’t driving and somebody else was, well, that’s a conversation either you and they are going to have to have. Or maybe you could prove that you weren’t driving and potentially get out of the ticket. But there’s a lot of work involved in that. So point being, A, make sure that your speedometer is dead on. And then B, you’re going to have to be really careful when you’re driving through some of these areas where they’re going to do the speed enforcement because it’s not going to take much to get a ticket. A lot of people. In fact, I would say the majority of people drive at least five, six miles an hour over the speed limit in general. And in some cases, far more than that. Now, I’m also one to say that there are parts of certain highways, I-70, where Denver PD is pretty gracious on letting people speed through there because the speed limit is far too low. I don’t know what knucklehead traffic engineer set the speed limit at 55, but no one drives 55. And it’s stupid that it’s 55. And again, I don’t know what dumb traffic engineer thought that was a good idea, but it’s stupid. And I don’t know whether that’s an engineer or whether that’s some sort of a law, whether that’s a federal thing, because I-70 is a federal highway. I don’t know. But 55 is too slow. And no one drives that. In fact, if you drive 55 on certain sections of I-70 going through town, you’re going to get run over. Period. In fact, if you’re doing 65, you might get run over. But you’re for sure going to get run over doing 55. And that is the speed limit. Fortunately, you can drive 65 all day long and they’re not going to pull you over. Well, this isn’t going to get you pulled over, but if they start putting any kind of traffic cams along those areas and start enforcing that, six miles an hour over, meaning if you’re doing 61, you’re going to get a ticket. And believe me, everybody drives 61 at least, if not faster. So that’s why this is a big deal, because there’s a lot of areas where very, very, very few people drive the speed limit. And that includes, you know, regular city streets and so on. And I’m not telling anybody speed. Please, I’m not advocating for that. You do whatever you’re going to do in the road that you’re on. That’s completely up to you. Be safe. I’m always one to say that. You know, don’t cut people off. Don’t drive faster than you need to. But I will also say this. There are parts in town where the speed limit is 55, and if you drive that, you’re a hazard. You’re the problem. you’re creating a problem. So don’t be the problem. Again, I’m not telling you to speed, but don’t be the problem. And there’s plenty of places around town where the speed limit is far too low. And if you drove the speed limit, you are going to be a problem, and you’re going to be blocking traffic. And, again, don’t be a problem. Speaking of problems, plumberoos, if you need a second opinion on any plumbing need that you have in your house, you’ve had somebody out, you’ve looked at it, you just don’t think that it’s quite the right diagnosis, and you want a second opinion, give plumberoos a call today. Find them at klzradio.com.
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Live and local, back to Rush to Reason. Okay, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Jim Paff, conservative caucus, is with us right now. Jim, how are you today, sir? I’m doing well. How are you doing, John? Good. Always a joy having you. All right. Let’s talk about, you know, of course, we saw what happened over the weekend this past weekend with Trump being targeted. And, of course, the left will not call any of that out. In fact, they’ll call it out and say that we staged it.
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Well, they they briefly some of them, Hakeem Jeffries included, made statements. Some statements that were intended to be the normal response you’re supposed to have and stuff like this. And then declares the day after that it’s all-out war. These people are in all-out war with the American dream, with who we are as an American republic. As I’ll assert over and over again, Democrats are trying to overthrow the American republic. We, of course, are in a dangerous situation right now in the way we govern. And that needs to change. And Republicans are not providing a particularly strong message opposed to that. Donald Trump is, but not Republicans in general in Congress. And we have a lot of problems there. But the reason that stuff like this happens is because at the frequency that’s happening in particular is because there is an environment of hatred and disgust for Donald Trump, and for what he stands for, which aligns with people like you and me, by and large. In fact, almost entirely. We all want this to move forward, but Democrats don’t want it to move forward because it harms their ability to hold and maintain power in the future. It is a power grab that Democrats are under. So to do and assert this, they say… inflammatory things constantly, Donald Trump’s Hitler, they go after him in the legal sphere, all this kind of stuff, and then they build up this momentum that really encourages and frankly inspires actions like what took place on Saturday. It is absurd for Democrats to try to distance themselves from this entirely. And of course, I’m not saying I’m not blaming them directly, but they do have some indirect culpability here because they’re unwilling to treat our American republic in a fashion of respect and honor that the American people deserve. And they need to be constantly called out for it.
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And I agree. I mean, to me, and, you know, I talked about this earlier in the week, too. You know, you look at even these knuckleheads like, you know, Jimmy Kimmel and some of what he does and some of his rhetoric. And the guy, again, won’t take any accountability for the stuff that he does. And I get it. You know, the left continues to promote guys like him. And he’s going to be on air just because of the individuals that own the network that he’s on and so on. I mean, that’s not going to change. Anybody wanting that to change, including Donald Trump, Jim, it’s not going to change just because it is what it is, unfortunately. But I think… In my opinion, does even folks like Jimmy, do they have some culpability in what happened over the weekend? Yeah, I think they do, actually.
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I think that there is culpability. And listen, let’s define the term here. Culpability doesn’t mean guilt. What it means is you are promoting ideas that the logical conclusion of which lead to things like this. See, it’s one thing to oppose culpability. of Republicans politically and to say, we have a different idea, we think things ought to go this way. There’s none of that happening in the Democrat Party right now. It’s one of the reasons that my spidey sense tells me that November is not as much at risk for Republicans in spite of themselves as one might think by certain numbers that they see. Because the American people are not dumb. They do understand when a certain political movement has no care or concern for them. They sense that in a way, and that tends to show up in elections. It certainly shows up ultimately in elections because the Tea Party movement is just one of those instances, although more mild than the MAGA movement, which has gone even further. So I really do think it is not inappropriate to put culpability on the entire Democrat Party apparatus. and everything that it does. It is only an anti-Trump party. It is not even a party. It’s just a gathering of people who hate Donald Trump and concurrently wish to have power and influence just because they love power and influence. I mean, there’s nothing more than… The Democrats don’t love the country. They don’t love the American ideal. They love power. They love influence. They love to win a debate in some…
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short-term sense by you know winning some emotional uh tit for tat but never really going anywhere no no and you know everything you just said is exactly right they are uh literally um how should i say that um Literally, they have TDS so bad that they can’t really, Jim, and they don’t, won’t, maybe is a better word to say, they won’t talk about the real topics and have any kind of real conversation or debate. I mean, it’s simply a matter of, you know, I hate Donald Trump and anybody that likes him. I mean, let’s make sure we add that in there because, you know, they hate you and I as well. So it’s not even that they hate Donald Trump. They hate anybody that would actually stand up and talk about you know, for him or with him. And do I agree with every single thing Donald Trump does? No, of course not. But on the same token, is he, in my opinion, one of the best presidents of my lifetime? Yes, in fact, he is. Now, if I were to say that to a lefty, oh, my word, Jim, they’re going to hate me just as bad as they do him. That’s the problem.
SPEAKER 05 :
Listen, people have to recognize, too, this is part of a much broader movement that that has been building and growing in this country i think you can tag it back a little bit before the 60s certainly uh the 1960s kind of push it forward more quickly but you get into the 1990s when democrats having lost the house in 1994 for the first time in 40 years or lost congress for the first time in 40 years they started to go berserk. Then the rise of the religious right and the conservative movement in general was a severe threat to them. And they came to the conclusion at the end of that decade that what Bill Clinton was doing was not going to advance Democrats. Now, not all Democrats thought that at the time, but there was a movement within the Democrat Party that said, yeah, no, you don’t compromise. Bill Clinton, by today’s standards, truly did compromise. He was forced to politically, but he did do it. And they said, no, we’re not going to do that anymore. And as they decided that it was more important… to be brash and win than on the issues that they believed in, which had already been influenced by Maoist communist ideas. Let’s just be honest about it. They decided that they wanted to consolidate that power even more fully. They got their chance to do so when Barack Obama became president. And a lot of the deep state and administrative state problems that have been developing for many decades in the United States now had an advocate in the White House who would consolidate that power even more fully. I mean, we have a reinvigoration of racial politics under the Obama administration. We saw deep state actions taking place that were profound beyond anything that we had seen. It was pretty bad beforehand, but it was even much worse in the Obama administration, culminating with John Brennan becoming CIA director and utilizing the intelligence community against the American people instead of what it was designed to do, which was to protect the American people from threats outside. Added to that, he eviscerated the military. He got rid of every good general who still had a connection to the wonderful history of our military in the past, for whatever fault you want to find in it. We had an honor and respect and a way of doing business in the military that Barack Obama broke down completely. Then Donald Trump comes on the scene at the very end of this. and the threat of all that they had built, this includes the whole NGO industrial complex that went in steroids during the Obama administration, Donald Trump came and truly threatened that. And then when he won, it so blew them back that Barack Obama initiated this overthrow of the American government that Donald Trump was about to undertake, and now we’ve been set off on what’s been happening for 10 plus years now. And that’s the battle that we’re in, and Donald Trump represents the change from it. As I’ve said to your listeners before, I was saying in 2016, if Donald Trump becomes president, he’s going to kick over the trash cans in Washington, D.C., which I knew very well up to that time. Right. I was working in Congress for much of it. And he’s going to expose what’s really the problem in D.C. And he has done that. And it does make him one of the greatest presidents in American history. And the overall scope of what he’s done is incredibly, incredibly positive. But the only way to stop what he is doing and the momentum that has built up over the last year and a half, is to destroy him, just like the momentum he had built in his first administration they had to try to destroy.
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Well, and to prove that point, I’m reading there’s an article right now in Huffington Post, which is the Huffington Post, and the headline reads, Perfect Storm, Trump Berated. Key word there, Jim. Berated a female journalist in the latest attack, and it’s quite telling. Now, let’s tell the real story here. And I saw the interview. It was with Nora O’Donnell. And basically, President Trump called her a disgrace because she was reading part of the manifesto that the shooter had, of course. And in that manifesto, he calls Trump a racist and a pedophile and so on. And Trump comes back and said, yeah, he did write that. But this is a quote. I’m not a rapist. I didn’t rape anybody. I’m not a pedophile. And he got after her for actually reading that because essentially – Again, going back to what you and I are talking about, the left is a part of the problem that happens that that Saturday night.
SPEAKER 05 :
Listen, if you berate somebody and it’s an unjust beration of their character or what they say, then there is a reason to be negative on it. If you have in that berating attitude. exposed a real untruth a lie or an immoral activity then these people need to be berated there is a necessity for shame in culture the thing that can protect a culture is shame against evil and not shame in general but shame against real evil that means that you have to assess this absolute dichotomy between the truth and a lie. You have to make that distinction. Donald Trump does a pretty darn good job of making those distinctions. He fails probably once in a while, in my opinion, but not much. Because those distinctions, if they’re not made, which we used to make well in this culture, if those distinctions are not made, then evil is allowed to propagate. And so we have this distinction not being made between crime… and appropriate moral activity and culture. Democrats fall on the crime side because it’s a political operation against those who try to stand for acting in a moral way. behavior. We have this thing between what a man and a woman is and what it’s not, and they fall on the wrong side of that. I can just list a whole bunch of them. And this is why it is not immoral to berate anybody if they’re absolutely wrong. Jesus berated the Pharisees.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, and really quick, too, I want to throw this in, too, Jim, because I watched the interview and I don’t see, I mean, he was basically defending himself and basically saying, you know, you are wrong for reading this in the first place. I don’t, I mean, I’ll go one step further, Jim. I don’t even see this as berating her. He was simply correcting her on what she was saying and in a way basically saying you’re part of the problem. And by the way, correct statement.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, I think that’s true. I mean, I do think it’s true. The definition of berating is to call out. I mean, that’s really what you’re doing. And so, yeah, we can argue on the semantics, but the reality is, yes, fundamentally that is what he was doing, and the distinction I was making. Yeah, and that’s where, of course, Huffington Post runs with that.
SPEAKER 09 :
They run with that headline and make it sound like he’s a creep and she’s an angel. Well, nothing is farther from the truth. But again, I go back to even Huffington Post. Are you, Huffington Post, part of the problem as to what happened Saturday night? Yeah, they are, Jim. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, they’re entirely part of it. In fact, they’re one of the main instigators of it. I mean, they have persistently been against the core values of the American republic for at least two decades now, if not a little bit longer. And on the back end. what was becoming really actually something of a renaissance in America where Americans were getting more involved in politics than ever going in through the 90s really in the 80s leading up to the 90s recognizing that there are problems in government that need to be fixed real ones inspired by Ronald Reagan and then we were already naturally running away from the Jim Crow racism that did exist in certain parts of this country. And by the way, it never existed all over the country. It just existed in certain geographies. But that had gone away. You know, by the way, we just had the Supreme Court decision this week that gets rid of the challenging of districts and the seeming requirement of districts to be majority-minority districts. And and when you look at the actual numbers, I think the number is 62 black serving members of the House right now. Four of them Republicans, the rest Democrats. And of the 58, only 10 of those are in majority-minority districts. What does that mean? That means white people are voting for Democrats, or for blacks, I mean, in very high numbers. The idea that racism still exists in the manner that it did in the 50s and before in this country is an absurd argument. The only place that it still exists is in the minds of Democrats. Right. who in reality wanted these majority-minority districts so that they could have extra Democrat districts. And anyone supporting that were Uncle Toms, who were really only about Democrat power. They were not about freedom and fairness and treating all human beings with the same respect that everybody else does and everybody getting the same shake under the law. Democrats do not stand for that.
SPEAKER 09 :
No, they do not. Jim, best way for folks to find you, conservative caucus. How do they do that?
SPEAKER 05 :
theconservativecaucus.com That’s theconservativecaucus.com As always, Jim, thanks for your time tonight.
SPEAKER 09 :
We went a little bit over, but I appreciate you being with us. Thank you very much.
SPEAKER 05 :
Good to talk to you, John.
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SPEAKER 09 :
Okay, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. And again, thank you so much for listening. To prove the point that Andy and I make on an ongoing basis, that, and we just talked to Jim Paff about the left and how much against Donald Trump they are. They’ve got Trump derangement syndrome and so on. And I believe had a lot to do with what happened on Saturday night. Now, were they directly responsible? No, but were they indirectly? Absolutely. And I will stand by that. Yes, they were. It’s your party. You need to get control over your party. But they like inciting violence. That’s what the left does. Look at the different things they do, the rallies, the protests and so on. They like violence. They think that’s a good thing. We don’t do that on our side. We don’t. Those of you that are on the left, you don’t see that on our side. You’re not going to see that on our side. It’s not what we do. Now, I also feel like Donald Trump has to fight another side, which is the far right. Now, I say far right loosely because I think these people are actually on the left. I don’t think they’re on the right. I don’t claim them, won’t claim them. They’re not me. They’re not a part of me and what I believe in. That’s the folks like Tucker Carlson, in this case Marjorie Taylor Greene, Candace Owens, in fact, even now, Megyn Kelly. which because she has way too much influence from nut job Tucker Carlson. But Marjorie Taylor Greene said that Trump would not have been able to become president if he didn’t agree to show allegiance to Israel. She is a wackadoodle. And I’ve said that for a long time now. And by the way, she’s a Jew hater and an Israel hater, just like Carlson, just like Candace Owens, and unfortunately now just like Megyn Kelly, which I didn’t think I’d say that about Megyn Kelly, but she’s becoming that as well. She went on to say, or she did say, I should say, to become president of the United States, there’s deals that have to be made. Otherwise, you aren’t allowed to have that power, Green said. Like Green’s all-knowing, by the way. And you can go president by president throughout time, and especially throughout our lifetimes. You can look at every single president, look at their career and the decisions they have made, and you can very quickly see that they made their deal to support Israel at all times. Why does the United States of America do that for one foreign country? It makes absolutely no sense. We don’t do that for any other foreign country. Again, MTG, she is a nut job. And by the way, dumb as a rock to boot. She knows why we support Israel and what we do and what they do for us in that particular region. And it’s a bargain with what they do for us as a country here. And if you don’t believe me and you don’t agree with that, go look it up for yourself. And by the way, if you believe her, you’re a dodo head as well. And by the way, you’re a Jew hater and Israel hater also. So no other government on earth does every single U.S. president, the vast majority of members of Congress, completely pledge their allegiance. They pledge their complete allegiance to the government of Israel and their purpose and their protection. I believe that Trump had to make a deal like this in order to become president. Green continued. Proving my point. MTG, you just continue to prove the point. And by the way, why you should not be a representative and why your best bet was to quit, which thankfully you did. We know where your allegiance is, and it’s not to our party. It’s to the wackadoodles out there like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owen and others. And she needs called out. Now, she’s not going to get called out because there’s a lot of folks out there that think Tucker Carlson hung the moon. And I’m not one of those. I never have been. For the record, by the way, I was never a huge fan of his when he was on Fox News and he was in their good graces. Because he was a little bit wacky even at that time. And all that happened is he just got wackier and wackier as time went by to the point where he is a complete wackadoodle to this day. And will continue to be that. Now, some say he’s that way because it builds clicks and it makes him more popular and that’s how he makes his money and so on. And I don’t believe that. I believe firmly that he believes in what he’s saying. Yes, it makes him money because he’s so far out there, but I think he believes in what he says. I really do. And… The problem with Tucker is he’s not grounded enough in his own faith to know right from wrong, unfortunately. And there’s others like that. Candace Owens, no, she claims to be a Christian. I don’t know about Megyn Kelly. I don’t know where her faith stands. 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SPEAKER 09 :
All right, really quick in closing. No, I do not believe Donald Trump made a deal with anybody to be president. He’s his own person. He doesn’t make deals with anybody along those lines. He knows exactly what he wants, and he tends to get that, as in the case of what’s happening in Iran right now. Jersey Joe is going to be joining us here in just a few minutes. We’ve got several things to talk about. He’ll be with us from 5 to 5.30, and then I’ll have open lines after that. If there’s anything you want to call in about, we’ll be able to do that at that time. Guys, hang tight. Jersey Joe will be with us in a moment. Hour 3 is next. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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