We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Emily Dashinsky,
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the premium version of the Federalist dot com as well. Today I'm joined by
a filmmaker and anti communist, Robbie Starbuck, who's behind the new movie The
War on Children. You can watch the trailer. You can watch the movie
at the War on Children dot Com. Robbie, thank you so much for
coming on the program. Absolutely thanks for having me. I'm excited to be
here. Right before we started recording, I watched the trailer again just to
kind of pump myself up, because you distill so much of what needs to
be said, actually just in the trailer itself, So people should go watch
the full movie because it's even the trailers chalk full of information, just juxtaposing
the media coverage with testimonies from people who've been caught up in the horrible web
of TikTok. Robbie, can you start by just getting us some background on
the film The War on Children absolutely, you know, I think for us,
this started a long time ago. My wife and I were really on
the forefront of this, almost a decade ago. Our oldest daughter's fifteen,
and when she started going to school, she went to a private school that
had a lot of you know, the sort of like elite mindset at it.
You know, I was in Hollywood directing some of the Oscar winning actors,
actresses, some of the biggest music stars, and so there were a
lot of celebrity kids at this school and things like that, and it really
was like a testing ground for all the stuff we're seeing mainstream push today.
And I recognized immediately that there was something wrong with this ideology and that it
was broken in all these ideas that were trying to sell to parents, is
like social emotional learning and tolerance and things like that. They were words that
were meant to make you feel good and make you feel like you were virtuous.
But at the end of the day, where actually this toxic web of
lies that was meant to usher in a new form of communism. And so,
you know, my family, coming from Cuba, I immediately, like
Egle, eyed on this and I knew I had to do something, so
I thought back at the local level with the school and things like that.
But eventually, you know, my wife's from the South, we moved to
Tennessee and we've carried this fight on to try to stop the exploitation of children
and stop this ideology. And one thing we recognized is that, like you
know, we see on a regular basis, story after story, but there's
this thing that goes on in the human psyche where you know, you see
one story and you go, that's awful, and maybe you share it,
but you lose the wider pictures sometimes. And one piece of feedback I've consistently
gotten back since this film came out as people saying, wow, seeing this
all in one place, seeing all the dots connected, all the people involved,
and all of the different industries involved, and how they all tie into
each other. And you know, this goes as deep as the trafficking element.
I don't know if you saw that part of the film where you know,
we've got trafficking survivors who you know, she was trafficked over a thousand
times online as a child, and you know, it's just the roots of
this goes so far, and you have to connect it all together from the
indoctrination in schools, ESG policy, CRTDI, you know, all these different
elements of wokeness, the gender ideology and the transiing of children everything. When
when you really put the picture together and how connects to big farm of government
nonprofits, I think that people start to get a sense that, oh,
this is not just some crazy, whacked out far left activist. This is
a war and there is about and the far left and the elitists behind it,
they know what they're doing. They're subverting parental rights, there's subverting parents
in religion on purpose because they want to be in the role that God and
parents are in in a child's life traditionally throughout human history, and so this
is the avenue to do that. And that's that's sort of the reason why
we made the film was to give people that one place you could go,
like, you've got that friend or family in your life who thinks that none
of this is happening. There's no porn in schools, you know, there's
no sexually explicit drag shows happening. These are just kookie, you know,
right wing crazy people who you know, narrow in on this one thing you
show them this film which you can gift to them. Now where we created
the gifting option on purpose so that people could send this to those people.
They cannot deny the reality of what's going on once they see this film.
And I think that's a very, very powerful, maybe the most powerful part
of this film is the ability for people to gift it and share it with
people at the War on Children dot Com so that you can wake up those
people who are think still. And I want to zoom in on your Cuban
background, because you also interview a lot of non white community leaders in the
film, or people whose children got tangled up in these tragic outcomes and platforms.
You know, it seems like a lot of the elite media wants and
a lot of you know, really highly educated white people in the elite media
don't really want to talk about what's happening here. But Robbie, again,
you mentioned how this resonates as somebody who came from who's fled a dark version
of communism that has echoes in what we see being spread from platforms like TikTok,
And you talk to a lot of again community leaders, pastors, you
know, people whose whose families came here fairly recently, probably with higher levels
of religiosity than your average corporate media reporter. What did you find as you
were talking to people in those different cross sections of the country, as they
encountered this up close and personal, not just through the media lens, but
in their own lives with their own children. Yeah, you know, I
hate to even call these elitist leftists highly educated, because there's some of these
stupidest people that you have ever come across. And that's somebody who's had to
direct these people and tell them what to do on a regular basis, Like
these are really, really impressively stupid people that are very good at remembering lines,
very good at delivering what they're told to say. And you know,
college is effectively just a center for learning how to do that. How do
you repeat the lines from clap like seal? And it's sad that we've gotten
to that place because some of the most educated, incredibly wise, insightful individuals
I know are people that you know, I think that elitist world would call
ordinary, and there's nothing ordinary about them. Take electricians, you know,
electricians take a lightning bolt, you know, send it through a copper wire
into your house so you can flip a switch and a light turns on.
That's incredible. Honestly, that's like, that's nuts. It sounds crazy.
If you told somebody that and you didn't know for a fact that that actually
exists, you would say that sounds like some sort of witchcraft, you know,
like, that's that's crazy. Those are impressive people to me, these
people that sit around at Harvard and come up with series about white fragility and
stuff like, There's nothing highly educated or impressive about them. I'd like to
see them try to survive in the woods or try to turn a light bulb
on by themselves, you know. But what we found on that front where
you're talking about when it comes to like minorities, is that you know,
it's just the story's grossly, grossly mistold by the media, and the truth
is, you know, their children are falling prey to this ideology just like
white children are. And really there's there's a distinction without a difference in many
ways. You know, like maybe I think when you look at the public
school system today, you know, I'd say there is racism, but it's
principally against white children. But at the same time, you know, the
flip side of that coin, just as toxic as that you're teaching another group
of people, you know, all the other minority groups that they are themselves
oppressed, you know, and that these white people are oppressors. And you're
doing that based on immutable characteristics from children who you know, really these are
just innocent God's children, you know, like they don't they don't have any
concept of all this stuff until adults introduced it to them. And the fact
that we're poisoning their beautiful little minds with all of these ideas about hate and
racism and things like that. You know, if you take these kids and
you just put them together to play, you see sort of the beautiful spirit
of humanity as it's intended to be. But you know, we saw close
and personal with these parents that their values were intrinsically conservative in almost every case,
and even the ones who were not politically what I would call conservative,
they were at least conservative in the sense that, hey, parents rights matter,
and parents should have a say at the end of the day, and
what happens with their children, not the state. The states should not be
able to overrule the parent, you know, unless we're talking about some crazy
case, like you know, a parent trying to give their kid heroin or
something, which, by the way, that sounds crazy to everybody, right,
but so did mutilating your child's genitals only ten years ago, and now
people have accepted that. So you know, you can't say, even with
any sense of reason, that ten years from now, some political group won't
be trying to make it totally okay to give your kid heroin, you know,
I mean, like it sounds just as crazy as mutilating your kids.
Actually, that's interesting because I find people that have come from communist countries backgrounds
like that actually have their eyes open to that in a way that you know,
those of us who don't have recent immigrants in our family don't. It
sounds again, those things sound more and more ridiculous to or sound ridiculous to
people, and then become more and more obvious that this is not ridiculous.
It's entirely within the realm of the possible. But I think going through or
seeing what happened really quickly in places like Cuba or the former Soviet Block States,
people who have first end experience with that seem to me to understand that
this is urgent in ways that other people might not take things seriously quite yet
absolutely. You know, let me ask you a question. Would sound crazy
if I told you that public schools in America tomorrow, they would blindfold all
the kids. They'd put a bowl in front of them, and they'd tell
them pray to God for ice cream. And then they take the blindfold off.
The bowl would have no ice cream in it, and they'd put it
back on and they would say, all right, you're blindfolded again. I
want you to pray to the Democratic Party and Joe Biden for ice cream.
And secretly some activists go in there and they stick ice cream in the bowls,
and then they remove the blindfolds and the kids see, oh my gosh,
we got the ice cream. That sounds crazy to you, Yes,
of course they did it in Cuba. So this this is That's why.
You know. That's to say, like people whose families come from these countries,
they're thinking ahead in terms of what the next steps are because our families
already experienced it, and what sounded crazy to our families became reality very quickly.
And I think one of the things that folks you know, really take
for granted is how quickly it can happen. You know, you can be
in this next stage where you usher in modern communism literally in the blink of
an eye. I mean, it can happen so fast it's unbelievable. And
when you have such a large segment of the populace to sleep to this probability,
I would call it. I'd call it probable. At this point.
You know, we're in this fight to stop it. But the reality is
we're talking about a party that is in control of every cultural institution, every
government institution, and we've got a party on our side. It seems to
be on a national level fighting for something. You know, good example last
night, James Langford, Senator, he's fighting for us to fix illegal immigration
by just making sure there's an orderly line of them, five thousand of them
a day. They just need to be in a single file, you know,
I guess going through the ropes or something. And it sounds funny,
but it's not only embarrassing, it's frightening because the reality is we have leaders
on our side who do not understand what time it is in America. They
are not prepared to do what's necessary. Our founders would be deeply ashamed of
them and We need to have leaders right now, like this time in history
is calling for leaders who are going to ask themselves every day, what would
our founders do? Because our founders were exceptionally brave, courageous men. They
have their faults, you know, everybody does, but you cannot say that
they were not incredibly courageous and brave. And we need those men and women
right now to stand up in government, to stand up in every part of
society. You know, like if you're a CEO of a company and you've
got plenty of money at this point in your life, it is time to
put it all on the line. That's why I was fine with burning down
my career in Hollywood. You know. I love when some people, you
know, when this phone thing out, they're like, oh, you're grifting
off the right. I have lost so much money coming out as a conservative.
It's unbelievable. It's sickening. But I'm perfectly happy with it because I
know at the end of the day, when I'm on my deathbed, I'm
able to look my kids in the eye and I'm able to tell them I
did everything I could to stop this from happening, and maybe we'll stop it.
And if we do, it'll be so worth it. But even if
we don't, I'll be able to die with a clear conscience that I did
everything I could within my power to stop this really poisonous ideology from destroying our
country and our world. I'm going to play devil's advocate for a second,
because I think you'll handle this very deftly, Robbie. Which is, some
people on the left, when they hear the idea that TikTok or social media
platforms that they see as the kind of pinnacle of capitalism are peddling communism,
they might say, well, this is you know, this is facially absurd.
There's nothing communist about Silicon Valley. There's nothing, you know, communist
about equity, which again, I know, we know that's ridiculous, But
they would say, this is this is purely a this is social civil rights,
et cetera, et cetera. There's nothing sort of communist about this.
How would you respond? And especially, I think what you were touching on
earlier gets to class. You know a lot of people who are victimized by
this, who don't have time to deal with political correctness. They don't have
a voice in the corporate media. The quote unquote highly educated corporate media where
people are making tons of money living in these deep blue enclaves. They don't
give voice to any of the people who dissent from the party line because those
people are necessarily branded as bigots. But communists might say, real, you
know, leftists might say, there's nothing here that's legitimate communism. This is
just right wing fear mongering. Can you address that, Robbie. Yeah,
it's gonna be a long a but it's going to be a good one hopefully.
So let's think about it from this vantage point. First, why would
you not be able to usher in communism under the name communism in America?
Just forthright, we are communists, this is what we want. And the
reason is we have too many older people in the boomer generation beyond who have
that negative association of communism. You look at the young group eighteen to like
twenty five, and unfortunately they don't have that same feeling about communism. But
when you look up these older ages, the numbers are just too bad.
They could never win an election saying we are outright communists. So what do
they do well? Communists are trained to be subversive. I mean, look
at like the black Lives Matter movement, where the founders admit that they were
trained Marxists. Okay, so you've got to put yourself in this mindset.
First. You're subversive, you want to win it all costs. You're willing
to lie chet steel to do it right. So, what are one of
the core ideals that would be critical to ushering in a new form of communism.
It's some form of state control of the means of production right end up
communication. So let's look at social media. What would be the most wonderful
way for a tyrant to usher in communism? It would be without anybody noticing.
And that's where we are right now, because they essentially own these social
media companies with the exception of X, and they're able to do as they
wish. Why do I say that because I speak from experience as somebody who
was deeply affected by the government's actions. I was put on a list essentially
a censorship list by the US government where DHS was outsourcing through this group called
the Election Integrity Project, which is just like another one of these dystopian names.
Right, integrity is in the name. But what they actually did They
acted as a proxy. Yes, they acted as a proxy for the US
government to censor people, and so I was deeply involved in that. I
was on their list of the top twenty what they called the top twenty misinformation
spreaders in the United States are in the world actually, And so what's funny
about that, though, is that we ended up dating access through elon muh
Twitter to all of the tickets that we're sent in by the EIP. We
went through every single one and any any reporter can look at these. Not
one, not one ticket they put through is even halfway false, let alone
verifiably false. And they put me on a list along with Stanford, of
the top twenty misinformation spreaders in the world. Okay, that in itself is
just ludicrous. So this is you know, there's there's a case the Supreme
Court right now Missouri is running their ags running that is very important. And
I think we'll see an anarchist brief soon that you know, I'll be a
part of, because you know, we've got to fight back against this machine
because essentially what it is is government control of the means of production without needing
to actually go and seize it. Because if you're able to use it for
all of your purposes, you're able to use it to boost your election prospects,
boost your fundraising, censor your opponents, able to censor any dissenters,
and you're able to build these ideological echo chambers where you say, hey,
we want to target let's say TikTok's case, we want to target young people
with this idea that their identity is damaged, it is wrong, it is
broken in some way. There is something that is just wrong with them,
and we need them questioning that, We need them looking for sources of validity
within different communities where they'll be accepted in a family type setting. And all
of this leads back to the idea that the state is your daddy and mommy
and it'll take care of you when your parents don't, and your parents are
not going to treat you the way you deserve to be treated. And so
you know, when you look at it from that advantage point, if you're
somebody on the left and you are not a communist, but you're pushing back
on this because you think that big tech is capitalism, it's inherently not okay.
And now let's move on to something like Amazon. Capitalism is not the
gross sheeting of a system, so that you can win, and that's what
Amazon did, and I think that they deserve to be absolutely broken because of
it. They lost money on purpose for an extended period of time to build
up a market share that was just so massive nobody could compete with it and
drove small businesses into the ground. And that was their plan to not pay
taxes, lose money for an extremely long period of time. And then once
you ms the market share that is undefeatable, you boost up the prices,
You start ranking in profits that are just unbelievable. And that's where we're at
now. So this goes on and on. And when you look at the
government tentacles in any one of these companies, you've got so many former intelligence
assets inside these companies you really need to start to wonder are they former intelligence
assets or are they doing their job for the US government by being in those
places. I agree with just about everything you said there, rob Yeah.
The documentary features an interview with Senator Rand Paul and I think this is really
interesting for a number of reasons. But one of them I want to ask
about, Robbie, is that we see often trojan horse legislation be introduced by
you know, big government Republicans, big government Democrats to address issue use and
to exploit issues that seriously need to be addressed, and TikTok is one of
them. We saw that horrific power grab bill addressed that would give vast sweeping
powers to the federal government in order to address TikTok. And Senator Paul has
been, you know, for the last decade plus, a very forward thinking
voice on this, whose comments going back more than a decade have aged extremely
well as we've moved further and further into this period of monopoly and duopoly in
the tech sector. So, Robbie, what can be done or what,
let's say, maybe even what optimism do you have that we will be able
to deal with these platforms on a federal level. And you know, you
mentioned the Missouri case and the court system. That's an important element of this
too, and maybe you have thoughts on that as well. But it seems
to me that this is all just going to be exploited more and more by
you know, some members of the political establishment here in Washington, d C.
Who will exploit the fears of parents for their own power grabs. Yeah,
so I'm a realist on this in terms of what could be done that's
productive, and I think that, you know, I've thought long and hard
about this whole thing. Do I think we're going to get, you know,
the holy grail of everything we want to know because there's way too many
competing interests. I mean, look at even on our own side. You
know, there's some senators I even like, but you know, let's say
a large number of Republican senators who are taking money from big tech while then
going in to the hearing rooms and House members as well. They go into
these hearings with big tech and they do their little sassy hit where they say
something spicy and then they send out a fundraising email. And that's the extent
of the totality of their interest in engaging the big tech issue because they know
at the end of the day that these checks are coming in for big tech
companies and their packs and their proxies, and they want that to keep going.
And the reality is, I think the one thing that is is possible
with this be productive, because there's plenty of things that are possible that would
be absolutely horrible, but in terms of productive, would be for senators and
House members that are aligned ideologically to propose a set of rules and regulations that
are based around children and a very anti regulatory state, so it's very rare
you will see me say that, you know, some new regulation would be
a good thing, but when you examine this war on our kids, you
know, you've really got to start to think about things like, you know,
we regulate the age a child can you know, smoke cigarettes, by
alcohol, things like that, and social media is having such a horrific effect
on their mental health and their health overall that I think you can make a
really valid argument that it should be regulated in the same sense. Because here's
the thing. If you leave this up to the societal reality that we live
in, the majority of parents are not going to take social media away from
their kids because they don't want to deal with the fallout of that, and
they don't want to deal with the emotional aspect of that and what it would
take to do all that. However, if the government is responsible and it's
their fault that the social media companies can't service TikTok to a twelve year old,
then you know it's a lot easier for them to go, oh,
well, we wish we could, but you know we can't because the government
said, no, I think that in reality, there has to be some
sort of regulation to that regard, or at the very least to really start
to police the sexual exploitation and child pornography that's happening on these websites, because
when you see the numbers, I mean, it is it is the most
terrific thing you can imagine. I mean, honestly, it's beyond comprehension that
if you go on one of these major social media websites, you know that
right now, at any given time, there are thousands of pieces of child
pornography unique being shared right the second millions and millions and millions incalculable on a
year over year basis, And you get these reports that get sent into the
National Center for Michigning Exploited Children. Very few are solved, very few of
these victims are helped. And the reality is, without demand, the pipeline
of production of this type of horrific material greatly decreases. And I think that
that's the start. But also here in the state of Tennessee, you know
there's things that are not exactly like the linear set of thinking of oh,
this is about social media, but this is about an overall broadening of sort
of like as a society, how we safeguard children. You know, in
Tennessee, I've been proposing for about two years that we pass a law that
will be the death penalty for child rate this and at first everybody said they
that's not going to happen. There's Supreme Court decision that has precedent back in
the day, while precedents were made to be challenged when they're bad precedent.
And now we're at the point where my friend William Lambert, who's in the
War on Children documentary, proposed to the bill that I've been pushing that will
give the death penalty option to judges here in Tennessee for sentencing child rapists.
I think the more we get into a mindset of making all of these crimes,
all the exploitation of kids, such a horrific set of consequences if you
engage in it, that it becomes unthinkable that only an absolute lunatic who wants
to die would engage in this behavior. And the more we normalize that throughout
a society, the more we protect our kids, protect their innocence. Honestly,
I think the more our ancestors look down and favor on us and our
God as well. I think, you know, it's it really should be
our top priority, especially parents and grandparents. I mean, I don't think
there's anything more important. And again, for the full story, people can
check out the War on Children at the War on Children dot com. But
Robie, you mentioned trafficking, You mentioned the absolute proliferation of pornager fee.
There are, for example, parents whose children have really easily purchased drugs on
things like Snapchat and the movie is You've focused on TikTok for a lot of
important reasons. Can you talk to us, Robbie, about how TikTok has
facilitated some of these tragedies in particular? And you know, again, some
of our listeners might not be on TikTok. Hopefully many are not on TikTok
and might not have kids who are dealing with us, you know, left
and right every time they leave the house. How shocking is the content that
people can sort of find haplessly easily on TikTok. I can't even put it
into words. It's beyond belief. It's like it's much worse than I thought
when we started investigating it. It's just some of the most awful stuff you
can ever imagine. And I think that if we can continue to behave the
way we have about it, it's only going to get worse. And I
think your average parent doesn't understand how bad it is and what their kids are
being exposed to. I mean, the average age a child's exposed to hardcore
porn is like eleven years old now, and it's going down, you know,
It's getting lower and lower year over year. And most of the time
this is happening in cases where these kids are not trying to find it.
It just pops up. It happens on social media. I think almost every
adult has had porn pop up on their social media feed at some point.
So imagine a kid doing it, you know, and that being their first
exposure to the idea of sex, you know. I think if you look
down the road at what the effects of that are going to be long term,
it's going to be extremely, extremely damaging in ways that we can't even
conceive of right now. I wish I could give a whole litany of potential
side effects and outcomes, but I think some of them are so bad none
of us could even take them seriously at this point. But if you looked
out into the future and you saw these possible roads we go down, people
would double and triple their efforts to make a difference right now and to stop
this. As you said about interviewing people who've been directly affected by this for
the documentary, are there any stories that really you think, are you found
to be especially shocking or really put everything into perspective, especially well that people
can look forward to seeing in the Warren Children. Yeah, I don't know
i'd used the word looking forward, but incredibly impactful. There's a lot of
learning stuff. I mean, I heard from quite a few people that are
like, they had a notepad out and they're taking notes on a bunch of
stuff they want to share with friends. But so I think that's really great
for people to know that there's a lot of stuff that you probably don't know
that's included in this. And some of it includes, you know, sort
of the training on psychological aspect as a filmmaker that has worked with some of
these huge stars in terms of how you affect society. I think that that's
something that a lot of people had no clue existed, and you know sort
of what it looks like and once you hear it once you know it,
you go, oh my gosh, this is so clear, this is so
obvious. It was sitting there this whole time and I had no clue this
is how they do things. But I would say an interview that just like
it broke my heart more than anything, and it just it really lays bare
the brutality of the state and just how disgusting and evil they can be.
Is There's an interview we did with this mom. Her daughter's name is Jaylee,
and Jaylee was just a young girl beginning of high school going through some
mental health stuff. You know, I mean a lot of young girls that
age, they're having body image issues, like depression, things along those lines,
and her mom wanted to get her help. You know. It took
her to a doctor, talked to the school principle. While the approach they
all took was to question her identity, to gear her into the idea that
she was born in the wrong body, might be a male, secretly put
her into an LGBTQ club at high school and did not tell the mom,
did not disclose any of this to mom, did not disclose that she was
starting to transition at school to the mom. And you know, later on
The mom finds out because the other sister of this child tells her what's going
on. The mom says, no, you're you were not a boy.
You were a girl. You've always been a girl, and you know,
we need to get you help for the underlying issue here, and that's that.
I'm going to help you. I'm going to love you through this.
But you know you are a female, you always have been. And so
she tries to begin that process of getting her help, and instead she's reported
to CPS by a doctor. DPS in the state of California takes jay Lee
from her mother, and CPS then assists her in transitioning into a mail and
amidst that transition, Jayleie calls her mom one day and expresses that she made
a big mistake. She wants to de transition. He's afraid because all of
her new friend groups and the people you know involved on the state level were
going to be really upset at her and afraid of the fallout of that.
The next day, her mom gets a phone call that Jaylee threw herself in
front of a train and committed suicide, and that story Live in Person with
a mom's Grief is one of the hardest conversations I've ever had to have.
And you know, as a parent who has a daughter around that age,
it just it's unthinkable, you know, And it's sort of it's similar to
a young girl we talked to in the documentary. Her name's Laylah Jane,
who was one of those child victims of medical exploitation and sexual exploitation at the
hands of social media school and this whole apparatus that convinced her that she was
not actually a girl, she was a boy. And thank god, she's
figured it out at a younger age than a lot of people do, and
she's fixing all of it, and she's detransitioning and she realizes that this was
a mental health issue. But that interview as well was just really tough because
they operated on her before she was even fifteen, the age of my daughter.
And so when I look at my daughter who was fifteen, and I
think about the medical system or the government or all these entities getting together and
working to do hurt and mutilate a child like this, like it's just pure
evil. I mean, it's honestly, I feel like I'm in hell when
I'm thinking about it, because I'm like, how much worse could hell be
than doing this to kids, you know, and it just it bottles the
mind. But yeah, those stick out to me. I mean, I
can understand why it's just these stories and this is you know, I think
a good place to start wrapping up Robbie, because it's so that's so powerful.
These stories really get no play in the corporate media. These parents have
no voice because the corporate media either believes that objections raised to these policies stem
from bigotry and they are fully on board with the DEI ideology and agenda,
or they're terrified of the people who do adhere to the Dei ideology and agenda,
who do categorize all dissent necessarily as bigotry or violence. And in the
film, there's a very stark contrast between, for example, the media coverage
of pornographic books like Gender Queer and the books themselves. As you were compiling
the documentary looking through media clips, can you speak to what that taught?
Not that you needed to learn this or be taught this, but I imagine
it drove home even harder. How devious and incompetent in some cases, but
mostly just evil. A lot of the media has been when it comes to
shedding light on this and covering it accurately so that parents have the right information
for their kids. Oh my gosh, these people are devious, evil and
narcissistic monsters, the likes of which I want nowhere near a child, not
even of my worst enemy. Okay, I mean going through media eclipse is
one of the most disgusting parts of making it documentary because these people lie with
such ease it's unfathomable to me. I mean, there's no integrity, no
honor, no anything except for the need for narcissistic adauation for people to sit
there and think that there's something important and at the end of the day.
You know what, Maybe I'm morbid in this sense, but I think about
what am I going to think of myself on my deathbed. I think I
mentioned it or earlier, you know. I want to know how my kids
will see me when I die, and those people are going to have some
real nasty stuff to have to think about on that day. And I try
to live my life in a way where I'm not going to have those feelings
and thoughts on my last day. I want I want that to be a
clear conscience for me. And let me ask you a question. You know,
you talk about the media. How often does the media ignore a film
that gets millions of us on its trailer in forty eight hours? And you
know, how often do the big tech companies all refuse money from a film's
advertisements? How often does that happen? Right? No, I mean that's
a good point to the serve Devil's advocate conversation we were having earlier about whether
these companies are truly capitalist. No, they're they're ideologues, they're capitalists exactly.
We our ads were banned on Facebook, on YouTube, on TikTok,
you know, to reach the widest audience possible, we said, let's do
ads everywhere they banned our ads, and the media will not touch this film
with the ten foot pole. You know, they'll touch films generally where they
feel like. Okay. The other side is is you know, elevating this.
But there's things we can poke holes in. I think the most powerful
thing about the War on children we can't poke holes in it. We were
very careful to be really really backspased. You know, I think there's a
part of it. We talk about chemicals and food and things like that,
and we talk about atrozine, and you know, to give like sort of
a good example of this. You know, if you hear Alex Jones and
say they're turning the frogs gay, the left is going to jump all over
that and be like they're crazy. But in the War on Children, when
we actually show you the science of how atrozines being used as a pesticide,
you know, being sprayed, it's in foods, it's in water, it's
in runoffs, so it ends up in half water. Kids drink it on
a regular basis. And then we show you the scientific studies from UC Berkeley,
hardly a conservative institution, where Tyrone Hayes there did a study a professor
there and showed that when they introduced atressine to frogs, seventy five percent of
them turned gay and over ten percent of them it was either ten or twenty.
I'm going to go with the low ends, and nobody fact checks me
here, We'll say ten percent of them actually started to produce eggs. Okay.
And this is something we're introducing the children and have been giving the kids
for quite a while now in their food and water. And the only study
that seems to have been done seriously on humans was to adult males and showed
that it affected their seamen quality, and that was sort of a narrow focus
that they looked into. And then in rodents showed cancer risk and things along
those lines. But we just give it the kids willing illy on a regular
basis and are not even studying the effects of it. So that goes into
a litany of sort of issues from why is the media not questioning these things?
Why are we as parents allowing this to happen? And I think that
the War on Children opens up a lot of questions but also opens up a
world of answers and a pass forward that you know, if we choose it,
we can change things. Robbie Starbuck is the filmmaker behind The War on
Children. You can again go to the War on Children dot com to watch
the trailer, to watch the film, to gift the film. Robbie,
thank you for stopping by Federalist Radio Hour. Thank you appreciate it. Of
course you've been listening to another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm men
Lekashinski, culture editor here at the Federalist. We'll be back soon with more.
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