WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:04.040 Much of the objections to the incoming Trump administration. I 2 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:06.559 guess the objections from the left to the incoming Trump 3 00:00:06.599 --> 00:00:11.800 administration are nearly infinite. But one of the weird sort 4 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:14.960 of attitudes that people on the left are adopting is 5 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:18.079 this idea that there are certain kinds of institutions that 6 00:00:18.239 --> 00:00:22.519 they own and that they always should own, and that 7 00:00:22.879 --> 00:00:31.039 their ownership of those government publicly funded institutions should remain 8 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:39.520 through time immemorial. This, mostly within the context of the 9 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:45.399 Trump era, has applied to federal government bureaucrats, the career 10 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:50.079 employees of the federal government, many of whom thousands and 11 00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:55.399 thousands of whom stay on in their governmental roles regardless 12 00:00:55.520 --> 00:00:58.719 of who is president. So someone might have been hired 13 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:00.600 under one president, but he keeps working through the next 14 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:03.520 president and the next president the next president. Not the 15 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:07.359 political appointees, but the career appointees. And the thing is, 16 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:14.920 the career appointees are overwhelmingly left wing, and many of 17 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:20.599 them have the ability to slow down, stymy, or even 18 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:27.760 directly undermine the efforts of a Republican administration. When you 19 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:31.760 get to the level of the FBI and the CIA 20 00:01:31.920 --> 00:01:38.760 and counterintelligence and intelligence agencies. They can even directly undermine 21 00:01:39.359 --> 00:01:43.400 a incoming or sitting president, as we saw with President 22 00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:47.560 Trump in the way that very very senior FBI officials 23 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:52.840 tried to genuinely get him impeached and removed from office, 24 00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:56.640 conspired to get him removed from office because they politically 25 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:04.760 disagreed with him. Another area where liberals sort of think 26 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:08.120 they should own things, and I think this is relevant 27 00:02:08.159 --> 00:02:14.280 to our purposes here in Fresno is public education. And 28 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:20.240 I'll start by talking about public university education. Certainly, liberals 29 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:23.360 have thought they've owned, have owned public K through twelve 30 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:28.120 education in a lot of places throughout the country, including 31 00:02:28.159 --> 00:02:31.280 in very red states that for some reason produce very 32 00:02:32.039 --> 00:02:36.080 left wing school districts. But K through twelve education has 33 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:40.360 been worse here. You have, you know, deep red states 34 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:43.719 like Texas, where the University of Texas at Austin is 35 00:02:43.759 --> 00:02:47.800 still a very left wing college. You have deep red 36 00:02:47.919 --> 00:02:54.000 states with very left wing colleges that keep pumping out 37 00:02:54.240 --> 00:03:00.840 incredibly left wing politicized educational programs that in many cases 38 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:05.199 are so saturated with left wing thinking that they cannot 39 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:11.439 see the forest for the trees. You know, that's one 40 00:03:11.439 --> 00:03:18.319 of the things about universities. It's really interesting how insular 41 00:03:18.439 --> 00:03:24.360 they are. How if you're living a kind of academic 42 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:26.840 life as a college student or a grad student or 43 00:03:26.879 --> 00:03:31.439 as a professor, your world and your worldview is very 44 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:35.960 much shaped by that institution, by its rhythms in ways 45 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:38.280 that I don't think are true of a normal job, 46 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:44.199 and you sort of lose perspective of what the rest 47 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:50.120 of the outside world is like. You think that the 48 00:03:50.159 --> 00:03:53.240 norm of what people think, since you're at this thinkery, 49 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:56.479 you're at this thinking institution, you think that the way 50 00:03:56.479 --> 00:03:59.560 everyone thinks in the thinking place is how the thinkers think. 51 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:04.599 All of the world, And it's just not true. 52 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:07.560 I may have lived in South Bend, Indiana for seven 53 00:04:07.639 --> 00:04:10.439 years going to college at Notre Dame, but you know, 54 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:13.319 I can guarantee you that the thoughts, views, and opinions 55 00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:17.360 of the faculty, students, grad students at Notre Dame was 56 00:04:17.480 --> 00:04:21.560 not going to reflect in almost any way that of 57 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:28.959 the broader South Bend populace. And because university has become 58 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:32.360 so insular that they can't see the outside perspective of 59 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:39.240 Wait a minute, you're teaching a whole semester long class 60 00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:46.639 on the anthropology of LGBT Latino artists in twentieth century 61 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:52.399 hip hop. That doesn't seem like it should. 62 00:04:52.120 --> 00:04:52.680 Be a class. 63 00:04:52.759 --> 00:04:56.240 There are problems with the intellectual rigor of such a thing, 64 00:04:57.399 --> 00:05:02.839 but especially with the various aspects of left wing ideology 65 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:05.600 that so many within the university system feel they need 66 00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:10.240 to bow down to. Otherwise intelligent people at the universities 67 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:13.759 don't feel like they have the standing to say, especially 68 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:19.040 if they're white or men, don't feel like they have 69 00:05:19.079 --> 00:05:21.519 the standing to say to. 70 00:05:21.720 --> 00:05:22.839 Maybe a young. 71 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:29.839 Liberal professor who is from some you know, some kind 72 00:05:29.839 --> 00:05:35.399 of diverse group. Hey, that's a dumb class idea. That's 73 00:05:35.439 --> 00:05:38.600 a dumb idea for a semester long course. No, the 74 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:40.279 department's not going to approve. 75 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:42.079 You teaching this. This is ridiculous. 76 00:05:43.759 --> 00:05:45.279 If the department is not going to prove this person 77 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:47.199 teaching this, why did they hire this person to begin with? 78 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:49.560 They hired this person knowing the kinds of academic research 79 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:50.160 they were into. 80 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:54.040 Presumably they hired this person because they did academic research 81 00:05:54.120 --> 00:05:58.120 on LGBT, Latino twentieth century hip hop, or you know 82 00:05:58.480 --> 00:06:01.399 whatever it is for the Anthropology department or the Latino 83 00:06:01.399 --> 00:06:05.000 Studies department. The very existence of programs like a lot 84 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:09.560 of the studies programs, women's studies, Latino studies, African American 85 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:15.759 studies have often been hit with criticism that they lack 86 00:06:16.199 --> 00:06:19.439 intellectual rigor, lack academic rigor. 87 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:22.360 But again, because. 88 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:24.040 These are sort of shibleths of the left, these are 89 00:06:24.040 --> 00:06:30.439 things that are untouchable, uncriticizable, immune from all criticism. They 90 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:32.439 just go on and on and on, and they go 91 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:35.519 on and on and on at institutions that are funded 92 00:06:35.560 --> 00:06:43.519 with our money, with our taxpayer dollars, including in red states, 93 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:47.439 funded with our taxpayer, funded with the tax. Here these 94 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:52.560 ultra left wing programs who only exist because of the 95 00:06:52.600 --> 00:06:57.399 goodwill of the taxpayers of Florida or Texas or Alabama 96 00:06:57.560 --> 00:07:03.399 or whatever. So there's this whining article in the New 97 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:07.720 York Times about this topic. Republicans target social sciences to 98 00:07:07.839 --> 00:07:14.360 curb ideas they don't like. Several years ago, to attract 99 00:07:14.360 --> 00:07:18.879 more students, Gene Muteba Rayhere spiced up the name of 100 00:07:18.879 --> 00:07:22.240 his Introduction to the Anthropology of Religion course. He called 101 00:07:22.279 --> 00:07:25.439 it myth Ritual and Mysticism. Now ray Here, a professor 102 00:07:25.439 --> 00:07:28.079 at Florida International University in Miami, believes the name was 103 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:30.959 perhaps too provocative for higher education in the Sunshine State. 104 00:07:31.319 --> 00:07:34.439 Rayher's class, which was flagged as having unproven speculative or 105 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:38.319 exploratory content, was one of nearly two dozen courses university 106 00:07:38.360 --> 00:07:41.519 trustees voted in September to remove from a course set 107 00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:44.759 of classes that students must choose from to graduate. The 108 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:47.480 slashing of core classes across the state, which has often 109 00:07:47.519 --> 00:07:50.160 been based on course titles and descriptions, is meant to 110 00:07:50.199 --> 00:07:52.600 comply with the state law passed last year that curbed 111 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:56.360 identity politics in the curriculum. The law also bars classes 112 00:07:56.399 --> 00:08:00.160 from the corps that quote distort significant historical events that 113 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:03.839 include theories that quote systemic racism, sexism, oppression, and privilege 114 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:08.079 are inherent in the institutions of the United States. Florida 115 00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:10.319 has become a testing ground for a raft of conservative 116 00:08:10.360 --> 00:08:13.399 policies meant to limit or expunge what Republicans describe as 117 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:17.399 quote woke indoctrination in the state schools and colleges. Faculty 118 00:08:17.399 --> 00:08:20.160 in student critics, I don't give a crap what the 119 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:26.079 student critics say. They're students, they're dumb, have said. This 120 00:08:26.199 --> 00:08:33.720 latest effort infringes on university autonomy, infringes on university autonomy, 121 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:35.320 the autonomy of this. 122 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:37.080 University that we pay for. 123 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:41.600 And could reduce students exposure to courses they believe are 124 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:44.879 necessary for a well rounded education. Academic freedom advocates worry 125 00:08:44.919 --> 00:08:49.759 it marks a new, more organized approach, more organized approach 126 00:08:49.799 --> 00:08:54.039 to what. Rather than trying to regulate what a professor 127 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:57.360 can or cannot say, a legally questionable tactic, the new 128 00:08:57.399 --> 00:09:05.720 strategy is taking aim at entire horses. See this attitude 129 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:08.679 that they own it, that they should own it, that 130 00:09:08.799 --> 00:09:14.200 this is the divinely ordained. Well, you know, because God 131 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:16.679 is a woman. All right, we'll we'll say divinely ordained. 132 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:19.799 As long as God the woman, the divinely ordained, the 133 00:09:19.840 --> 00:09:23.600 goddessly ordained order of the universe and the minds of 134 00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:31.200 liberals is that a very Republican electorate in Florida that 135 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:37.960 doesn't like all this woke crap must continue paying for 136 00:09:38.559 --> 00:09:43.799 with their taxpayer dollars or with their tuition dollars as 137 00:09:43.799 --> 00:09:48.200 they send their kids to this place, must continue paying 138 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:53.360 for these people's mickey mouse classes to be taught forever, 139 00:09:53.440 --> 00:10:05.039 in perpetuity, with no questioning, no questioning whatsoever, that this 140 00:10:05.559 --> 00:10:10.440 threatens the autonomy of the universities. Oh, the autonomy of 141 00:10:10.559 --> 00:10:17.960 this state run university, the autonomy of Florida State University 142 00:10:18.399 --> 00:10:22.600 or the University of Florida or Florida International, these state 143 00:10:23.080 --> 00:10:28.519 funded colleges and universities that the taxpayers paid for, that 144 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:34.799 they put every brick in place, that they should be 145 00:10:34.919 --> 00:10:46.679 autonomous from the democratically elected governor slash state legislature of Florida. 146 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:52.720 That's the attitude that, in no way, shape or form 147 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:54.840 should the university be answerable. 148 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:56.679 Oh, it's threatening their autonomy. 149 00:10:57.000 --> 00:11:00.000 What is that? It's not an autonomous institution. When Florida 150 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:05.960 International can stand on its own two feet without state 151 00:11:06.039 --> 00:11:11.080 funding and just become a private school, okay, then sure 152 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:14.080 talk about that. And because by the way, these kinds 153 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:17.399 of reforms, it's not like the state is mandating this 154 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:20.879 of private schools within Florida. 155 00:11:23.360 --> 00:11:26.080 I think the universe. I think the University of Miami 156 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:29.960 is a private school. I'm not sure. Let me see here, 157 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:32.120 University of Miami. Is that a private school or a 158 00:11:32.120 --> 00:11:33.559 public school? Did it up? 159 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:36.039 Private university? Yeah, University of Miami is not going to 160 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:39.440 be touched by this. But yeah, University of Florida, Florida 161 00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:44.720 State Florida International. These are public schools, Yes, they're going 162 00:11:44.799 --> 00:11:52.200 to be impacted by this. So just just the arrogance 163 00:11:53.039 --> 00:11:57.840 of this is astonishing. And frankly, let's talk about how 164 00:11:57.840 --> 00:12:06.000 this relates to Fresno. Earlier this year, back in March 165 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:11.960 and also back in November of twenty twenty two, a 166 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:14.759 bunch of people in the orbit of Fresno State were 167 00:12:14.799 --> 00:12:20.679 pushing Measure E, and the idea behind Measure E was, 168 00:12:21.120 --> 00:12:26.039 you know, Fresno State is lagging behind with a number 169 00:12:26.279 --> 00:12:29.279 of building and physical improvements that it needs to make 170 00:12:29.399 --> 00:12:34.440 and cannot afford to make. President State's Athletic Department is 171 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:36.679 lagging behind in certain ways of certain ways in which 172 00:12:36.679 --> 00:12:38.399 they want to renovate the stadium that they can't they 173 00:12:38.440 --> 00:12:41.559 don't have the funding for it. Necessarily, a lot of 174 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:43.600 areas in President of State's life where they don't have 175 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:46.919 the funding. So rather than wait for the state to 176 00:12:46.919 --> 00:12:48.679 pay for these things, which the state's never going to 177 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:51.039 have the money. The state's facing all these budgetary problems, 178 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:54.399 why don't we try to pass a county wide sales 179 00:12:54.480 --> 00:13:00.200 tax to help fund Fresno State. Some portion of it 180 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:02.840 will go to stadium renovation and the rest of it 181 00:13:02.919 --> 00:13:09.279 will go towards improving physical structures within Fresno State, which 182 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:12.399 will in turn increase the capacity for various Presno State 183 00:13:12.440 --> 00:13:17.159 programs to pump out more people in more professions that 184 00:13:17.240 --> 00:13:19.960 are needed throughout the San Joaquin Valley. A lot of 185 00:13:19.960 --> 00:13:22.639 the advertising for MEASUREY was saying, hey, we need more nurses, 186 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:24.600 we need to expand the capacity of the nursing program. 187 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:26.720 We need more engineers. Let's expand the capacity of the 188 00:13:26.759 --> 00:13:34.960 engineering program. This, that, and the other. Well, I think 189 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:37.080 one of the problems is, look, Presno County is a 190 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:42.759 red county. Clearly this presidential election shows it beyond just 191 00:13:42.960 --> 00:13:54.080 the simple difficulty of raising taxes in any context. I 192 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:58.159 think among a lot of people on the right, there's 193 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:02.600 a thought of, well, Fresno State is still an extremely 194 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:11.120 left wing institution, extremely which we already are forced to 195 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:17.240 pay for with our taxpayer dollars. Look, there's a lot 196 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:19.360 of conservatives in the San Jauquin Valley who have a 197 00:14:19.360 --> 00:14:21.200 lot of affection for President of State who went to 198 00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:24.600 President State. Our alumni of President State give to certain 199 00:14:25.320 --> 00:14:31.240 select programs within Fresno State. Really like Presno State Sports 200 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:32.679 support President of State Sports. 201 00:14:32.759 --> 00:14:38.799 We broadcast president State sports from here. But let's be real, 202 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:43.360 Fresno State's got a whole. 203 00:14:44.600 --> 00:14:49.000 Swath of different academic departments that are crazy left wing, 204 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:51.440 that are pumping out. 205 00:14:51.279 --> 00:14:53.159 Graduates who are super left wing. 206 00:14:56.759 --> 00:14:59.360 Presno State's student health department, as with the student health 207 00:14:59.360 --> 00:15:01.519 departments of every CSU, and you see throughout the state 208 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:04.840 of California doles out the abortion pill, not the morning 209 00:15:04.879 --> 00:15:07.919 after pill. The abortion pill, well, they also deal out 210 00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:10.320 the morning after pill, but the abortion pill. You know, 211 00:15:10.440 --> 00:15:14.480 lyphi PRIs stone, the whole purpose of which is to 212 00:15:14.519 --> 00:15:17.840 cause an abortion up the ten weeks into pregnancy. Yeah, 213 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:25.120 you know, I don't necessarily want more of my taxpayer 214 00:15:25.240 --> 00:15:34.399 dollars going to support it. And I think there's a 215 00:15:34.440 --> 00:15:38.320 lot of conservatives who feel the same way in this area. 216 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:41.759 And I guess what I'm saying is it doesn't have 217 00:15:41.960 --> 00:15:47.360 to be this way. When we return some of the 218 00:15:47.399 --> 00:15:52.080 First Amendment related issues that touch on this problem of 219 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:56.440 public schools being super left wing and conservative efforts to 220 00:15:56.480 --> 00:16:00.200 curtail that. That is next on the John Girardi Show. 221 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:04.720 Liberals across the country are screaming bloody murder as certain 222 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:09.120 red states are daring to mess with the nice gravy 223 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:14.000 train they've set up in public universities. So for decades 224 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:17.240 we've had these deep red states like Texas that have 225 00:16:17.279 --> 00:16:21.919 for some reason just allowed incredibly left wing universities to 226 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:28.840 just exist and thrive funded by the taxpayer dollar, with 227 00:16:28.879 --> 00:16:33.399 no one really saying boo about it. And finally Florida 228 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:35.519 is saying, actually, no, we're going to look at the 229 00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:38.759 academic rigor of a lot of these ultra left wing 230 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:42.080 programs and we're going to cut some of these things. Basically, 231 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:46.559 the curriculum is not something that is untouchable and unaccountable 232 00:16:46.919 --> 00:16:52.279 to the voters of Florida, working through their elected representatives, 233 00:16:52.600 --> 00:16:55.600 the governor and the state legislature, and we're going to 234 00:16:55.679 --> 00:17:04.519 look into this now. A bunch of the objection to 235 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:11.160 this comes from kind of a First Amendment perspective. Professors 236 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:21.839 within a public university, when they say something, can they 237 00:17:21.880 --> 00:17:26.799 be disciplined for it by the public university? Well, some 238 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:35.400 First Amendment issues arise in that context. The university can't. 239 00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:39.960 The university is a government institution. The First Amendment, basically, 240 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:43.559 as it's applied and as we accept it today, as 241 00:17:43.559 --> 00:17:50.359 we've received it today, basically says the government cannot censor 242 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:55.160 core protected political speech. It cannot say, it cannot be 243 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:59.079 picking winners and losers, has to be kind of content neutral. 244 00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:05.039 So if you had and this has been something that's 245 00:18:05.079 --> 00:18:08.960 been a shield to protect the few remaining conservative professors 246 00:18:09.200 --> 00:18:13.319 within public universities. Here's some conservative professor says something conservative. 247 00:18:13.359 --> 00:18:17.680 It ticks off his faculty or administration at his ultra 248 00:18:17.759 --> 00:18:22.240 left wing public university. They take adverse action against him, 249 00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:24.039 and he's able to sue in the context of a 250 00:18:24.079 --> 00:18:26.000 public university in a way that he can't in the 251 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:30.119 context of a private university, to say, Hey, you're disciplining 252 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:34.119 me because of my viewpoints. This is a violation of 253 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:38.240 my First Amendment rights. This is the government hindering me 254 00:18:38.279 --> 00:18:46.079 in what I can and can't say. Now, how then 255 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:49.240 is that going to suss itself out in the broader 256 00:18:49.279 --> 00:18:53.559 context of Look, we're the University of Florida. We don't 257 00:18:53.640 --> 00:19:02.200 want to present this government speech. What this is government 258 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:07.599 funded speech advocated, you know, pushing certain kinds of academic programs. 259 00:19:07.880 --> 00:19:11.200 We want to change the curriculum, We want to change 260 00:19:11.279 --> 00:19:16.599 the program, the academic program within our publicly funded university, 261 00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:23.079 Our publicly funded universities Florida State, University of Florida, Florida International, 262 00:19:23.079 --> 00:19:25.200 and all the you know, I'm sure there are lots 263 00:19:25.240 --> 00:19:28.400 of other you know, University of Florida and Florida State 264 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:31.559 campuses in different parts of Florida. 265 00:19:36.359 --> 00:19:38.119 So how are we able to do that? 266 00:19:38.640 --> 00:19:41.119 Frankly, it's I think it's kind of an interesting legal 267 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:43.920 question because for the longest time it's been sort of 268 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:48.279 taken that we look at the individual university professor, them 269 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:52.759 saying something, them getting adverse consequences, and the defense as well, 270 00:19:52.799 --> 00:19:59.119 they're protected by the First Amendment. Well, maybe I'm been 271 00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:01.440 maybe people have looking at that kind of the wrong way, 272 00:20:01.440 --> 00:20:04.279 and I'll, you know, I'll freely admit that maybe I'm 273 00:20:04.319 --> 00:20:09.319 taking very conveniently shifting sides here when my side is 274 00:20:09.359 --> 00:20:11.880 in a different position now that conservatives are in a 275 00:20:11.880 --> 00:20:14.519 position of power in Florida to change the curriculum all 276 00:20:14.519 --> 00:20:16.119 of a sudden, I don't really care about these First 277 00:20:16.119 --> 00:20:19.200 Amendment arguments. Okay, maybe I'm I might be hypocritical here, 278 00:20:21.079 --> 00:20:23.440 and maybe I was too willing to just accept, you know, 279 00:20:23.599 --> 00:20:27.079 the professor has a First Amendment right, I don't know. 280 00:20:27.160 --> 00:20:31.759 I mean, when you're talking about a university setting that 281 00:20:31.920 --> 00:20:36.200 university professor is a paid employee of the state government. 282 00:20:37.119 --> 00:20:38.799 Is that state speech? 283 00:20:40.599 --> 00:20:43.519 So one of the principles of First Amendment law is yeah, 284 00:20:43.599 --> 00:20:46.480 individuals can't be censored by the government for their speech, 285 00:20:46.680 --> 00:20:52.480 but the state is allowed to express the viewpoints it favors. 286 00:20:53.799 --> 00:20:56.960 I hate the fact that they do this, But California, 287 00:20:57.000 --> 00:21:00.400 for example, is allowed to push out messaging that's pro abortion. 288 00:21:02.039 --> 00:21:05.000 They're allowed to do that. That's state speech. 289 00:21:05.240 --> 00:21:09.000 Now they can't force private actors to endorse their speech. 290 00:21:09.279 --> 00:21:11.279 California got slapped on the wrist for that when they 291 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:14.559 were trying to force pro life clinics to let people 292 00:21:14.599 --> 00:21:18.000 know where they could get abortions, But the state itself 293 00:21:18.279 --> 00:21:23.039 could have advertising that they pay for saying this is 294 00:21:23.039 --> 00:21:26.960 where you go to get abortions. In the context of 295 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:30.279 a state university like University of Florida, like President State, 296 00:21:31.440 --> 00:21:36.839 is it legitimate for a conservative new university top executive 297 00:21:36.839 --> 00:21:42.519 administration to say the speech of these ultraliberal professors we 298 00:21:42.599 --> 00:21:47.240 don't like and that's not going to be our state speech. 299 00:21:48.279 --> 00:21:49.799 We're going to fire this person, We're. 300 00:21:49.680 --> 00:21:53.799 Going to get rid of their courses because that's not 301 00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:57.279 the speech we wish to promulgate. It's kind of an 302 00:21:57.279 --> 00:22:01.759 interesting First Amendment question, and I confess that I may 303 00:22:01.839 --> 00:22:05.039 have been inconsistent on this as far as my thinking 304 00:22:05.039 --> 00:22:08.200 about it, but I'm really pleased at the very least 305 00:22:08.200 --> 00:22:11.160 to see conservatives not lying down and just accepting as 306 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:14.640 if this is the preordained reality that public universities have 307 00:22:14.680 --> 00:22:17.759 to be liberal for the rest of time forever. And 308 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:21.440 it's sort of a sad thing here in California that 309 00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:25.440 that is going to be the case, including at Fresno 310 00:22:25.519 --> 00:22:29.000 State when we return. It seems to take a stolen 311 00:22:29.119 --> 00:22:33.160 House seat for National Republicans to see the insanity of 312 00:22:33.200 --> 00:22:40.359 the problems with California elections. What could National Republican funders 313 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:44.799 do about it? Next on The John Girardi Show, the 314 00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:49.759 Adam Gray John Duarte race is slipping out of the 315 00:22:49.759 --> 00:22:53.200 GOP's fingers as every vote update. 316 00:22:53.279 --> 00:22:57.119 Is more and more and more in favor of Adam Gray. 317 00:22:58.839 --> 00:23:01.960 Duarte was winning by a couple of thousand votes shortly 318 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:07.599 after election night, and here we stand twenty two days 319 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:10.960 after the election. He is now I believe it's one 320 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:17.359 hundred and eighty votes behind per the last update, and Duarte, sorry, 321 00:23:17.519 --> 00:23:21.799 Adam Gray was picking up votes with every update and 322 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:22.400 a couple of. 323 00:23:22.400 --> 00:23:24.079 Hundred votes here, a couple hundred votes here, a couple 324 00:23:24.119 --> 00:23:26.200 hundred votes closer, here, a couple hundred votes closer here. 325 00:23:26.319 --> 00:23:29.920 Why, well, it's through a system that I've talked about 326 00:23:29.920 --> 00:23:32.119 it a couple of times on my show and Trevor's 327 00:23:32.119 --> 00:23:35.559 show over the course of this week. But it bears 328 00:23:35.559 --> 00:23:39.240 repeating because now we've got like National Republican figures noticing it, 329 00:23:39.279 --> 00:23:41.759 and takes a stolen House seat for them to notice 330 00:23:42.839 --> 00:23:50.200 it is the ballot curing system in California. It's not 331 00:23:50.799 --> 00:23:56.160 on accident or through sheer incompetence that California takes a 332 00:23:56.200 --> 00:23:57.640 long time to count its votes. 333 00:23:58.119 --> 00:23:59.039 It's on purpose. 334 00:24:00.160 --> 00:24:03.079 This is deliberately how the system is set up, and 335 00:24:03.079 --> 00:24:08.759 it's set up to basically provide an institutionalized, legalized way 336 00:24:09.759 --> 00:24:16.119 for Democrats to cheat to win. Here's what happens. You 337 00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:24.920 have an election, it's really close. A lot of the 338 00:24:24.920 --> 00:24:29.920 people who voted voted by mail, because California does universal 339 00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:38.160 automatic you're opted in for vote by mail voting. A 340 00:24:38.200 --> 00:24:41.519 bunch of the ballots that are sent in via vote 341 00:24:41.559 --> 00:24:46.920 by mail don't follow the instructions or there's something otherwise wrong. 342 00:24:48.599 --> 00:24:50.920 Maybe they didn't put the signature on, maybe the signature 343 00:24:50.960 --> 00:24:53.200 doesn't match, et cetera. So in some way or another, 344 00:24:53.680 --> 00:25:03.160 that vote by mail ballot gets disqualified. What Democrats are 345 00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:05.759 able to do, well, what both parties are able to do. 346 00:25:05.799 --> 00:25:09.720 But Democrats obviously have more money in California, more infrastructure 347 00:25:09.720 --> 00:25:12.920 in California, more capacity to do this than Republicans will 348 00:25:12.920 --> 00:25:15.599 ever have for any close election of any sort of importance. 349 00:25:18.079 --> 00:25:21.799 Is they are able to go to that person who 350 00:25:21.880 --> 00:25:31.440 turned in that suspect ballot and have that person cure 351 00:25:32.359 --> 00:25:36.440 their ballot, fix whatever the problem was that caused that 352 00:25:36.480 --> 00:25:42.079 ballot to be disqualified in the first place. So this 353 00:25:42.160 --> 00:25:47.200 has been happening very aggressively. In the John Duarte Adam 354 00:25:47.200 --> 00:25:53.839 Gray race. Christine Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi's daughter, is in fact 355 00:25:54.079 --> 00:25:57.319 heading up the effort to get as many Democrat votes 356 00:25:57.400 --> 00:26:01.599 cured in that race in that district as humanly possible. 357 00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:10.200 And of course this is shady. Of course, this is 358 00:26:10.400 --> 00:26:15.759 maximally shady, and it runs contrary to the whole tenor 359 00:26:16.160 --> 00:26:22.359 and spirit of American election law. From sea to shining sea, 360 00:26:22.400 --> 00:26:28.160 American election law is basically the norm in America, the 361 00:26:28.160 --> 00:26:31.079 way we exercise our vote is we vote in person 362 00:26:31.200 --> 00:26:34.000 in our local precinct on election day using a secret 363 00:26:34.039 --> 00:26:36.319 ballot voting booth. That is how we. 364 00:26:36.279 --> 00:26:40.000 Vote in California. That is how we vote in America. 365 00:26:40.160 --> 00:26:46.079 Rather, everything else is an extension of that is basically 366 00:26:46.160 --> 00:26:50.799 a concession from the state to deviate from that ideal, 367 00:26:51.519 --> 00:26:55.279 and we hold that up as the ideal because it's 368 00:26:55.279 --> 00:27:01.759 obviously the most secure way to do it. You've already 369 00:27:01.799 --> 00:27:04.839 registered in advance. We know you're eligible to vote. We 370 00:27:04.960 --> 00:27:09.039 know you're a citizen. You present In most states, you 371 00:27:09.079 --> 00:27:10.400 present your ID. 372 00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:13.240 Okay, we think. 373 00:27:13.319 --> 00:27:16.079 Driver's licenses are pretty secure things in America, pretty well 374 00:27:16.119 --> 00:27:19.440 relied upon system for proving identification. If you don't have 375 00:27:19.440 --> 00:27:20.920 an ID, maybe you have a passport. If you don't 376 00:27:20.920 --> 00:27:22.400 have a passport, maybe you have some other form of 377 00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:23.720 government issued identification. 378 00:27:25.200 --> 00:27:28.000 We trust most of our government issued IDs. 379 00:27:31.480 --> 00:27:33.920 We know that you've registered to vote, we know that 380 00:27:33.960 --> 00:27:37.599 you're eligible to vote. We know it's you that's voting, 381 00:27:39.559 --> 00:27:43.440 and we have perfect chain of custody over your ballot. 382 00:27:43.799 --> 00:27:47.359 And we know because you're voting in a secret voting station, 383 00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:51.240 a secret ballot station, we know that your vote hasn't 384 00:27:51.279 --> 00:27:56.920 been unfairly unduly influenced by someone else. No one can 385 00:27:56.920 --> 00:27:59.119 see who you voted for. No one can double check 386 00:27:59.559 --> 00:28:02.559 who you've voted for or how you voted. No one's 387 00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:05.640 intimidating you. No one's threatening you. There's no one going 388 00:28:05.680 --> 00:28:08.319 to grandma at the nursing home saying, oh no, no, no, grandma, 389 00:28:08.400 --> 00:28:09.160 you don't want. 390 00:28:09.000 --> 00:28:12.720 To vote for Donald Trump. There's no ballot harvester. 391 00:28:13.839 --> 00:28:18.359 Working for a pack or something, some left wing pack 392 00:28:18.400 --> 00:28:20.480 who says, oh no, missus mcgillicutt, you don't want to 393 00:28:20.559 --> 00:28:24.279 vote for that Donald Trump. It's Kamala Harris is who 394 00:28:24.359 --> 00:28:26.960 you want to vote for? Yeah, no, she's the good one. 395 00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:27.160 No. 396 00:28:27.359 --> 00:28:29.960 Remember, Trump was bad. He wanted to do bad things 397 00:28:29.960 --> 00:28:34.599 for seniors. You know your hair's a Oh okay, sounds good, honey. 398 00:28:35.279 --> 00:28:41.559 There's none of that happening all right now. The various 399 00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:52.200 states will grant exceptions to that ideal norm. When I 400 00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:55.200 was a college student at Notre Dame, I was still 401 00:28:55.680 --> 00:28:59.400