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One of the things that's great about
California public schools is how they really major

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the miners and minor the majors.
There's this huge emphasis. Well, let

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me put it this way. You
have massive structural failures with California public schools

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up and down the state. And
nowhere is this better demonstrated than Fresney Unified,

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the paradigmatic poorly run California public school. The teachers' union flexes its muscles

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to be wildly successful in getting their
members paid, getting more jobs, et

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cetera. They go to the press
with any sob story that makes them upset,

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press gleefully runs with it. And
in the meantime, seventy percent of

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the kids can't read at grade level, can't do math at grade level,

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and all up and down the state
that is the case. But Fresne Unified

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is about ten percentage points worse than
the state wide average. But what are

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the things we worry about? What
are the things that come from Sacramento New

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mandates for all high schoolers in California
public schools to take an ethnic studies course

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as a graduation requirement, not an
elective, a graduation requirement. So now

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we get in the media belly aching
over Fresno Unified. By the way,

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this mandate for ethnic studies classes doesn't
come into effect until students in the class

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of twenty thirty. That's when this
ethnic studies mandate comes in. So this

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was legislation that was recently passed,
but it doesn't take effect. It's only

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students in the class of twenty thirty
who will be mandated to have have an

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ethnic studies class as a necessary part
of the curriculum. Okay. So that

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would be kids entering high school in
twenty twenty six, So not this upcoming

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fall, not the fall after,
but the fall after. Okay. So

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President Unified, looking at budgetary issues, is cutting certain kinds of positions that

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would teach ethnic studies for the moment
since it's not it's not a mandatory requirement

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right now, which is leading to
this uproar from the lefty teachers who want

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to teach ethnic studies now again.
You know, I'm not here to say

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that any arts and letters subject that
does not result in gainful employment is useless.

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On the contrary, I think I'm
a promoter of the liberal arts.

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I probably took too many such courses
when I was in college. But I

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was actually studying, like real disciplines, real topics, actually learning Latin,

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actually learning Ancient Greek, actually learning
Greek and Roman history, actually learning philosophy.

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These are actual, real solid disciplines
looking at some of the great achievements

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of Western culture and some of the
most important concepts and strains of thought.

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And these are all things that have
been useful to me as I went to

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law school. And beyond it's being
a talker on the radio and directing right

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to life and all these different pursuits
that I have, as well as I

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think giving a full human formation,
which is kind of part of what a

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university kind of should be beyond just
you know, the point of the university

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is not purely just to churn out
people for the workforce. Certainly we want

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young people to be prepared for life
and able to work. The problem is

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with something like ethnic studies. Most
ethnic studies courses and disciplines. They are

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often both completely useless as far as
job preparation, but also not real disciplines.

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They are they are a discipline that
is looking at a certain ethnic diaspora

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or a certain ethnicity, a certain
culture through the most left wing, radicalized

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lens possible. If you want to
understand why a bunch of leftist, radical

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college students are setting up pro Palestinian
liberation communes at you know, Yale and

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Columbia and all these fancy schmancy,
elite East Coast schools, it's because they

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were taking these kinds of gender study, these kinds of gender or ethnic studies

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courses in high school and into college, where it's not a real discipline.

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All they're learning is basically critical theory
as applies to that racial group or that

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gender group or whatever it is,
studying these things at a kind of surface

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level where they're just getting tons of
the most extreme left wing ideology possible.

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An ethnic studies course looking at latinos
that has basically zero appreciation of Catholicism.

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So an ethnic studies course looking at
the African American experience with no appreciation for

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the Christianity that most African Americans in
the United States embrace and that most Africans

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in Africa embrace, are very very
many. I'm pretty sure Christianity is the

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majority religion in Africa. So here's
this piece from the Fresno Bee, whining

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and complaining about what whining and complaining
about Fresdent State making budgetary cuts that are

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going to result in fewer teaching positions
to teach ethnic studies despite soon becoming By

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soon we mean several years from now
becoming a state high school graduation requirement.

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Ethnic studies classes offered at Presdent Unified
schools are at risk as the district looks

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to put program expansion on hold amid
planned budget cuts. The district says possible

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cuts are due to the new agreement
with the teachers Association to increase pay and

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reduce class sizes. Oh okay,
so here's what we're doing. Teachers are

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going to have their pay and liberal
teachers. Teachers are going to have their

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cake, and liberal teachers want to
eat it too. So the teachers' union

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negotiates this deal. Hey, we
want more pay, we want all these

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Our president Unified says, okay.
But if you guys want all this more

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pay and you want reduced class sizes, which means we have to have more

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teachers to teach basic classes, other
things are gonna have to suffer. So

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now that those other things are having
to suffer, now that the chickens have

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come home to roost, Oh,
all of a sudden we're bellyaching about it.

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The district says possible cuts are due
to the new agreement with the Teachers

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Association to increase pay and reduce class
sizes. Teachers, for their part,

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say the district has been failing to
offer enough courses for students to meet graduation

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and college admissions requirements. It's not
a grad it's not a graduation requirement.

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Yet, it's not a graduation requirement
until you get to the class of twenty

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twenty six. Excuse me, the
class of twenty thirty. The kids will

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be entering as fresh in fall of
twenty twenty six. But guess what all

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of the kids who are graduating in
the classes of this year's class twenty twenty

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four, next year, twenty twenty
five, twenty twenties, twenty twenty four,

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twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven, twenty twenty

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eight, twenty twenty nine, the
next six graduating classes, including the current

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one, don't have to take this
class. So Fresno Unified is basically just

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taking the posture. Hey, we
have to spend way more on teacher salaries.

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We don't have enough money for the
extra funding to cover teachers who are

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going to teach this stuff, so
we're gonna cut it until we have to

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pay for it at risk during this
budget session is a teacher on assignment position

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that has been in place for two
years to expand the Ethnic Studies curriculum,

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to mentor new teachers, and to
obtain outside support. That teacher received a

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layoff notice when the board approved a
resolution in March that could result in one

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hundred positions lost, meaning those teachers
could lose their jobs or be reassigned to

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regular course teaching. So you had
these teachers on assignment who are only teaching

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this ethnic studies thing. Those people
are being told, who I guess were

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not part of this larger agreement that
President Unified had with the teachers' union.

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Those teachers on assignment are being told, Hey, you're either going to get

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laid off or you have to go
to just normal classroom teaching. The district

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told to be on Friday, they
would try to try to save the position,

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but the final decision will be made
in June. But they've already given

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some of these people layoff notices because
they have to. State law requires them

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to give layoff notices in advance.
In our opinion. We're not going fast

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enough to meet the demand of that
graduation requirement, said Marissa Rodriguez, an

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ethnic studies teacher at Roosevel Hi.
Well, yeah, trying to save her

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job. The problem is beyond lacking
Ethnic Studies course offerings, Rodriguez, another

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teachers told to be but the ripple
effect of asking schools and students to potentially

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choose between fulfilling graduation requirements by taking
available Ethnic studies classes and other courses that

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interest them. That was a completely
incoherent sentence. I guess what it's trying

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to say is that they're lacking Ethnic
Studies or forcing kids to choose between taking

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Ethnic Studies and other things that they
actually have to take because there's not enough

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space in their schedules or something.
They're also arguing there aren't enough teachers to

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meet surging demand for Ethnic studies classes, so the availability of other electives might

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suffer. Rodriguez said, the Department
of Social Science is making hard decisions and

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choosing courses to offer the site used
to have. This is another teaingo.

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They refer to any of their schools
as school sites, and we're not even

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talking about sites. I think we're
talking about the district as a whole.

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This is a terribly written article.
By the way, site used to have

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AP psychology, human geography, world
history, civics, economics, and more.

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By the way, geography, world
history, economics, civics all much

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better things for anyone to be taking
rather than ethnic studies. Why are kids

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wanting to take ethnic studies? Probably
because it's an easy a it's not actually

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a real discipline. Abraham Perez,
a Chicanos studies teacher at Edison High,

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told board members at a recent meaning
that he's frustrated some Edison High students might

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be forced to choose between some AP
classes and his class or other ethnic studies

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courses. Yeah, it's not a
requirement yet it's an elective. That's the

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point of electives. You don't have
time to take all the electives. That's

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the nature of electives until the fall
of twenty twenty six, and those kids

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entering in the fall of twenty twenty
six, this this thing is elective.

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So yeah, President Unified is not
going to prioritize it right now. And

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this is the when we returned the
navel gazing nature of these ethnic studies courses,

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as exemplified by one quote, and
how President Unified should maybe really think

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of themselves and really think about their
role, how high school should think about

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their role. That's next on the
John Girardi Show. I'm laughing at the

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rearranging of deck chairs on the titanic
nature of this Presdent Bee story. I

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stumbled across talking about the terrible tragedy
of how students don't have enough access to

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ethnic studies courses in Fresdent Unified high
schools. That there is a surging demand

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among students for ethnic studies courses,
that it's going to be a state requirement

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for a high school graduation that public
school kids take an ethnic studies course.

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But alas Fresney Unified isn't funding it
and providing for it. Why isn't Fresdent

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Unified funding for it or providing for
it? Well, because ethnic studies courses

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were taught by these kind of it
seems like they were almost like adjunct or

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like almost adjunct faculty. So at
a college or university, hire an adjunct

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who maybe teaches one particular course but
is not like a professor there full time

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or regularly. Law schools will sometimes
do this, so like you'll have one

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particular subject where instead of having a
full time faculty member, you hire some

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local attorney to teach that individual course. Maybe it's about those securities law or

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something, so you get a local
prominent attorney who's really knowledgeable in that subject

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area, who comes as adjunct faculty. It seems like that was what was

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happening. It was like people who
weren't full fully contracted teachers. It seems

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to me, from outside looking in, I might be wrong, happy to

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be corrected. There who are teachers
on assignment who are teaching teaching these ethnic

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studies courses, but they weren't part
of the main collectively bargained agreement between Presde

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Unified and the Teachers Union. The
Teachers Union just negotiated last November this huge

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deal to give themselves a lot more
money. So Fresnew Unified doesn't have enough

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money to keep funding all these teachers
on assignment who are teaching ethnic studies.

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Ergo ethnic studies, looks like it's
going to take a hit. Ethnic studies

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teaching, though is not a state
requirement yet, it'll be a state requirement

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for high schoolers in the graduating class
of twenty thirty. The high schoolers who

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are going to start their freshman year
in the fall of twenty twenty six.

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So Presde Unified is just making the
decision, hey, until a until we

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have to, We're not going to
fund this to the hilt. We're going

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to cut some of this stuff because
we need to balance our books. Here

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we're paying all the teachers all this
extra, we got to cut other things.

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This is leading to the liberal teachers
who support ethnic studies stuff to be

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in an uproar and me laughing that
here we are worrying about ethnic studies when

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meanwhile, seventy percent of these kids
can't read or do math at grade level.

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And it makes me think about what's
the point of high school. There's

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tons of inkspilled about the purpose of
a university, education of the universe,

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the purpose of higher education, and
even among in conservative circles, there's kind

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of this tension. Maybe especially in
conservative circles. I think conservatives who tend

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to be more in the world of
business look at the arts and letters offerings

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at a university and they think of
it as a massive waste of time.

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It's a lot of stuff that does
not have a very gainful employment necessarily attached

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to it, other than teaching.
You're a really great English major, what

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can you do well? You can
teach English. You're a really great classics

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major, what can you do well? You can teach Latin at a high

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school. You're a really great history
major. Well, what can you do

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with it? Well, maybe you
can teach history or whatever. But basically

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there's the thought that, Okay,
if you are a biology major, you

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can go to medical school and become
a doctor and make a lot of money,

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or you can become a nurse and
make money. I think some conservatives

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look a scance at arts and letters
stuff in universe in the context of universities.

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A because there's not a lot of
practical job opportunities other than teaching attached

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to a lot of those subjects,
but also because those subjects are so dominated

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nowadays by the left. Ninety nine
percent of philosophy professors probably are ultra left

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wing across the United States of America, ninety nine percent of English professors across

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the United States or ultra left wing, et cetera. So conservatives have this

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disdain for it. But the idea
of a university degree was to have someone

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who was well formed in a broad
variety of subjects. Including some of these

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fundamental questions of human life, in
human existence, and our ultimate end with

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the Queen of the sciences, theology. So the idea of the well formed,

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the liberally educated person, Yeah,
it would not necessarily disdain studying philosophy

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or theology or things like that.
And at the very least, at my

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alma mater, University Notre Dame,
everyone is required to take some philosophy courses,

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take some theology courses to at least
in some way to try to capture

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this well rounded, well formed human
individual with a genuinely liberal education. High

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school, though, is a little
different. We don't talk as much a

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what is the purpose of high school? A lot fewer high schoolers are going

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to be at the level of going
to college. Right, huge percentage of

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high school graduates are never going to
graduate from college, and those people are

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valuable and worthwhile. I've ranted and
raved on this show about how California public

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school California public schools have as their
goal going to college, and a lot

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of it is this baby boomer mindset
of the path to success in America is

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going to college. The path to
success in America is going to college.

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My family plays this out perfectly.
My great grandfather came to Italy on a

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boat. He was a grosser and
a shoemaker. My grandfather, his son

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went to college. He went to
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did pretty well. My dad went
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became a physician. Now his son
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yaps on the radio and runs nonprofit
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the Girardi family in America over one, two, three, four generations was

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higher education. Great grandpa came to
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didn't go to college. Grandpa went
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and medical school. I went to
college in law school. More and more

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and more education. I guess kind
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But more and more educational leads to
more and more success in America. That

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it went downhill because I made less
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the path to success in America.
And that's so the baby boomer idea is

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the path of success in America's higher
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though, the realities of twenty twenty
four are just very different from the realities

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of nineteen ninety four or nineteen eighty
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of debt that it didn't have in
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That baby boomer mentality isn't going to
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of college for all, as idealistic
and egalitarian as that sounds, is just

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not the reality. It's not the
reality of what happens. And we shouldn't

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characterize everyone who goes through high school
not wanting to go to college as a

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failure. So why don't we have
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Why don't we have a more robust
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for the workforce. You know,
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job preparation versus a well rounded liberal
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why do we have that for high
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have a more concrete job oriented focus
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these kids are not going to college. Okay, large percentage of them will

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not graduate college. So let's give
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as opposed to know this quote,
this quote from one of these ethnic studies

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teachers at President Unified, students are
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their community for the first time in
ethnic studies courses. It's an opportunity for

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them to finally see themselves reflected in
the curriculum. What a bunch of tripe

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they're learning about themselves. Talk to
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yourself. Like, the idea having
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biggest waste of time. It's already
a waste of time usually in the university

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context, and is even bigger waste
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kids. Here's these high school kids. Seventy percent of them can't read a

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grade level or do math a grade
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them are in no position to go
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to teach them ethnic studies whatever that
is a flim flam subject. Basically to

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just give them the most radicalized,
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Latino history African American history possible that
completely excludes the story of Christianity from the

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stories of Hispanic peoples in North South
Central America or the experience of Christianity for

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African Americans like which is a key
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what a complete waste of time this
is when we return. I want to

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criticize the constant right wing instinct to
try to him give it. You gotta

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hand it to liberal temporary allies like
Bill Maher. Why I never want to

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hand it to Bill Maher. That's
next on the John Girardi Show. I'm

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I've been confused by the phenomenon of
Bill Maher pretty much ever since I was

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a kid. And I remember as
a kid, like you know, a

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teenager, starting to listen to talk
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was listening to Rush and you know, starting to think about politics. Bill

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Maher was, for conservatives in the
two thousands, the ultimate boogeyman. He

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was the ultimate villain. Nobody was
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Maher. No one hated George W. Bush more than Bill Maher did,

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and so he was, you know, basically, mar was for conservatives,

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the the most the most hated,
one of the most hated liberal public figure,

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kind of comedian types of the era. So we all just liked Bill

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Maher, and I I've also just
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he's very sarcastic and smug all the
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his shtick, and he always seems
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some kind of paid television job.
I mean, he's had a show for

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gazillions of years in one format or
another. You know, he's on.

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I remembered seeing him doing an appearance
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if it was Conan or a Conan
O'Brien, or it might have been Jay

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Leno or something. And he comes
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it's Jay Leno, it's network TV, it's the to it's not like

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it's not late night, it's not
on cable. And he tells two jokes

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that are so filthy and unpleasant that
he's like already losing the audience, and

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he looks incredibly unpleasant, like the
segment is bombing. I never have understood

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the appeal of Bill Maher. Why
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he was just the forerunner of what
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and Jimmy kim Ma all these basically
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sort of, especially Colbert, these
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of liberal feel good sessions where they
just bashed Donald Trump and tell jokes about

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how terrible Donald Trump is and conservatives
are and just whatever the liberal party line

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is, and that's the entire sum
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the things I've noticed, any of
you who consume talk radio or watch Fox

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News have probably noticed this, this
constant citation of Bill Maher as an unlikely

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conservative ally where Bill Maher says something
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So Bill Maher is very supportive of
Israel, and he is very much

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disliking all the radical left wing pro
Palestinian campus protests and things like that,

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the bizarre bedfellows of Palestine and the
bizarre bedfellows of like the most left wing,

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sexually transgressive university activists possible who believe
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whatever rainbow coalition with the pro Palestinian
position, Which is hilarious giving that given

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that you know hamas the ruling government
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who is identifying as LGBTQ whatever,
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Anyway, Maher is very pro Israel. Why well, because Maher is reflective

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of basically baby boomer liberalism. He
was the cutting bleeding edge of baby boomer

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liberals. He was their muse,
he was their comedian. So all of

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the conventional, most hardcore left wing
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two, that's who Bill Maher was. And guess what liberal circa two thousand

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and two, they all were pretty
supportive of Israel. Okay, they all

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kind of wanted They wished Bill Clinton
had succeeded in the nineties, and Clinton

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was close. I mean, Israel
is practically giving away half of its territory

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for the formation of a Palestinian state
to Yasir Arafat and Airfat turned it down

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and immediately Palestinian started attacking Israelis.
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most part pro Israel. All right, They're not a bunch of anti Israeli,

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pro Palestinian people. So it's not
that mar is Oh wow, he's

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so intellectually consistent. No, that's
just who he is. He's a he's

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the same guy he's always been But
what I hate is this whole conservative like,

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this conservative instinct to try to find
some celebrity who kind of agrees with

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them and to promote them as if
they are wonderful. Like for years in

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the pro life movement, we would
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Oh h, John Voight. John
Voight is conservative. John Voyd is

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pro life. I don't give a
rats. But what Joe John Voight thinks

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about any No one has cared about
a single opinion John Voight has expressed on

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any topic. He has not been
a relevant actor since the nineties. Okay,

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he was in I'm trying to think
of the most recent movies he was

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in where he was any good.
He was in Heat with with al Pacino

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and Robert de Niro. He was
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was in like the first mission Impossible, But since then pretty slim pickens for

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old John Voight. I don't care
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of conservatism. I don't care what
uh, who's the guy who played chacci

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by Bio or Blio whatever the so
many James Wood. I don't care that

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James Wood's a conservative. The conservative
instinct to try to find the lamest sea

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tier celebrities possible, as if that's
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they make, some that they say, some inane thing that sounds conservative.

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I just don't care, and I
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happening lately with Bill Maher every time
I've never watched one second of Bill Maher's

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show, But what do I say
every time I hear about Bill mahert's Oh,

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here's a Fox News News story.
Oh. Bill Maher says that the

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campus liberals are radical. Oh.
Bill Maher said it. You got a

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hand it to Bill Maher. He's
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Maher. Bill Maher is wrong about
I don't know ninety six percent of issues

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around this same time that all these
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us, as if this is some
wonderful virtue. Bill Maher also basically laid

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out the liberal position of yes,
I think abortion is murder, and I

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also don't care because the world has
too many people, and so I'm okay

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with murdering unborn children. I acknowledge
flatly that it's murder, which is the

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worst position to have. At the
very least you could you know, at

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the very least, there are some
people who their pro choice advocacy is in

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some way saying something along the lines
of, well, look, the unborn

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child doesn't have value. No,
Bill Maher is the most evil position you

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could possibly fundamentally have that acknowledging that
abortion is murder and just being completely okay

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with it. Why should I hand
him anything? And this is the thing,

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all of the liberal ideas that his
generation of liberals sewed. That is

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what we are reaping today with the
entire panoply of what we call woke social

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values and ideals and positions. The
idea that Marr is now alarmed at all

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the things that his political viewpoints for
the last forty years have spawned, well,

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I'm sorry that he feels upset and
uncomfortable about these things, but that's

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what happens. Like this is what
his generations liberalism has provoked. The only

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reason Mar hasn't shifted to the left
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Bill Maher does not have any children. If Bill Maher was married and had

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children who were in their twenties and
thirties, whom he would have sent to

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ultraliberal universities, who would have adopted
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those universities. He would be so
afraid of upsetting them and not appearing woke

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enough to his own children, that
he probably would have adopted all of their

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radical, lefty woke views. The
only reason Bill Maher hasn't done that is

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because he famously has never made worried
and has never had any children. So

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you feel because he lacks all human
connection and kinship and interact in this he

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has not actually adopted those terrible views. Some of those terrible views like four

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percent of the left wing panoply of
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three things that he actually disagrees with
most liberals on. So no, I'm

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not going to hand it to him. I'm tired of handing it just all

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well, so and so Lee are
the gal who played the wife on the

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King of Queens she said a conservative
thing? Or oh you know the lady

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from Everybody Loves Raymond, she's a
conservative. I don't care. I don't

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care. Patricia heat like, it's
lovely that they're conservative, it's lovely that

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they're pro life. Wonderful. I
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who's going to shift the culture or
something, all right, I just do

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not give a darn turn. Just
to wrap up the show, an example

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from the city of Santa Monica of
why the state's approach to tackling homelessness is

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not working. That is next on
the John Girardi Show. This is a

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fascinating example from the city of Santa
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is completely failing and we're not addressing
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house be unhoused. So Santa Monica, the City of Santa Monica, has

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approved a new apartment complex for the
homeless. It is going to cost one

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hundred and twenty three million dollars.
It will have one hundred and twenty two

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units. One hundred and twenty three
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units, over a million dollars per
unit. I'm sorry, that's not going

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to work. There is no godly
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off the streets. If even if
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housing a housing first approach, even
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you're gonna spend over a million dollars
per unit built, we're never gonna do

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it. There's no way the state
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housing. It's insane. And why
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Well, there's labor union prevailing wage
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just this endless list of things that
make it just unfeasible for builders to build.

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to build housing for lower income people
or for middle income people if they can't

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make money. And that's why you
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Like look around the Fresno Clovis area. The only stuff that's getting built

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are government subsidized quote lower income housing
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like condos that are clearly very upper
crust expensive because anything in the middle ain't

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gonna make money. So this is
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for lower income housing for homeless people, Like presumably these are these are apartments,

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These are not for bedroom houses that
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to build. These are you know, apartments for one or two people live

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in, maybe three, like stretching
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completely insane, but this is California. Like we are absolutely so beholden to

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all these other liberal orthodoxies that make
it impossible to actually address the problem at

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hand. And so basically it's like
we're doing everything in our power to fight

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homelessness. No you're not. You're
doing everything you're in your power to fight

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homelessness with one arm tied behind your
back. That's what you're doing again,

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Santa Monica, one hundred and twenty
three million dollars for one hundred and twenty

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two units for the homeless. That's
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John to already show see next time
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