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Speaker 2: If ever there was a time to illustrate how absurd
socialism is, it's Thanksgivving. I mean, I wish, I almost well,
I do wish. I wish that history classes would have
been taught because there was a dichotomy of approaches, one
that led to you know, famine, death, destruction, and one
that led to wow. But meanwhile, I try to bring
I'm trying to get this story to you about Thanksgiving,
and uh, let's see if I can find it here.
But I will find it somewhere. But there was one
about people that are protesting the whole Thanksgiving thing. And
when I see those stories, I'm always amazed at what
it is they're trying to achieve. You know that that
what is it about this country that they're trying to achieve? Now,
you know, did there again decolonialism? They don't want to
not recognize the holiday, that want to act like, you know,
these these horrible things have happened, and something's wrong with
the country. And it's this anti colonial perspective. And this
one is actually a pretty good story. It's about universities,
school districts nationwide call for decolonizing Thanksgiving and calling it
a day of mourning. As families across the US gather
on Thanksgiving to celebrate one of the nation's most cherished
national holidays, some educators and schools are lamenting the day,
pushing back on it's colleone oneal roots, and incorporating diversity,
equality inclusion into the holiday. Now, this is that retrospective
historical like revisionist history, where people today, having grown up
in the world of today, want to project their their
values that they came to because they think they're, you know,
smarter than everyone else. That they want to believe that
those values translate to history. They don't want to look
at history and context. They don't want to look at
what happened in history. They don't want to look at
the fullness of history. They want to project today what
they believe happened and project it back back as if
they are in the right place to judge all of
the people that not only came here but built the country.
And that's one of the strangest thing. At the University
of California Davis, the California History Social Science Project, which
describes itself as resources in professional Learning. For twelve History
Social Science hosted a Zoom event called Decolonizing Thanksgiving in
the Classroom. We will discuss reframing classroom practices and rituals
about Thanksgiving. The event description explained centering perspectives from Turtle Island,
a name for North America used by Indigenous people. Turtle Island,
by the way, really good restaurant if you're down at
the coast that's under dramatic reconstruction on Okono will help
us decolonize Thanksgiving and spark new conversations about how to
authentically make meaning of this holiday with our students. What's
wrong with using the story of Thanksgiving. Earlier this month,
Washington University in Saint Louis, an institution that has long
been criticized over its DEEI policies, put out a press
release promoting an event that highlights and honors That highlights
and honors quote the way different cultures recognize and understand thanksgiving,
both as part of their history and as a tradition
brought into the present day. It's described as a way
to actively contribute to inclusive and equitable practices that influence
individual and systems change. You know what the original folks
the James Down Colony were for everybody it by the way,
Indians saved them for what it's worth, But they were more,
you know, worried about every infection. You could literally stub
your toe, get an infection and die. You could lice
your Your quality of life was terrible. You you suffered
if you didn't go out and cut would You didn't
have time to sit around thinking about how to judge
people in the past. You were trying to survive. And
you know, when thirty percent of your fellow man died
on any given winter, it was pretty excuse me, men,
women and children died, and you spend a lot of
your time digging graves. Your perspective changes. So these these
elitists in these universities looking back and projecting this kind
of if you put them there at that time, they
would have to make life and day decisions about how
to survive. I mean the quality of life, and I
don't mean to mean anyone here. The quality of life
in our prisons today is a higher quality of life
than many of the people in those puritanical colonies had,
even lifespan wise, the healthcare ssys think about the healthcare sism.
They weren't Obama carrying themselves back then. They were lucky
if they got any fundamental basic care. You think you
had a pain, what you had to alleviate pain and suffering.
It wasn't like they were going to do a morphine
drip on you back then. And you have aspen riberproof
and nothing. There were no bottles in your childproof bottles.
Even more about getting into it is impossible to connect
yourself to them through today's lens or overton window, for
lack of a better phrase. In a statement, at MIT,
spokesman told Fox News Digital the school is closed on
Thursday and Friday in honor of Thanksgiving, but part of
the effort, according to the invitation, includes students traveling in
rental cars to the National Indigenous Day of Mourning in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
At the location of the Bayflowers landing. And this is
the kind of revisionist history. Nobody alive participated in that.
The net results of everything that happened did build the
most phenomenal country on the planet Earth. But this revisionist
kind of history, we wouldn't be set. We would not
be having an Indigenous day. Had there not been a
landing at Plymouth Rock, we wouldn't have had it. Maybe
the country certainly wouldn't have developed the way it did.
It just wouldn't have. It sounds heartless, doesn't when you
say that, But it just doesn't serve a useful purpose.
It's not that you're glorifying the people who survive those
harsh conditions. What you're recognizing is we are thankful. We
are all, regardless of race, color, creed. In fact, thanksgiving
is being imported into England now. It's a day of
being thankful for the blessings we have. It's a day
because gratitude. Gratitude could be contagious and amazing if you
practice gratitude. If you got up every morning of your
life and you thought about three things to be thankful for,
I'll guarantee you this, and I'm not a self help coach,
but I want to tell you from practical personal experience.
If you get up every day thinking about three or
four things that you're grateful for, your life will change.
It will fundamentally change. Your anxiety will go down, your
dependence on social media will disappear or become less relevant
your family life, and that you'll deepen the connections of
those around you, and you will have a different perspective.
You won't go around just hating people all the time.
So thanksgiving goes hand in hand with gratitude, and that's
what these people are missing, the point of it. They think,
they think that that we're glorifying the people in the colony.
Were nobody out there other you can't even name. Try
to name five people that were part of the thanksgiving,
the original Thanksgiving. You can't. Nobody can't. Well, maybe historical
people could, or people who've get Bradford's diaries, they could
probably do it. And we'll go into Bradford's diaries a
little later. But it's not about glorifying them. It's glorifying
being grateful that, regardless of race, color, creed, background, is
what you should be thankful for.
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Speaker 2: Paul Runko, Senior director of Strategic Indiatives at Defending Education,
told Fox News Digital Thanksgiving is meant to bring people together,
not to divide students or cast blame over heritage. It's
an opportunity for students, parents and teachers to celebrate the country,
build unity in their communities, and share a meal with
family and friends. Two hundred and thirty six years ago,
President George Washington urged Americans to set aside a day
to give thanks for the blessings and abundance of our nation.
Presidents throughout our history have continued that tradition, reminding us
each Thanksgiving to pause and reflect with gratitude. That's the
spirit and meaning of it. That's it. It's not you
know what other people try to make it isn't what
it is. Thank you for holding Bob. Welcome to the show.
How are you today?
Speaker 3: Ture? Congraduate to another fantastic show. And you're very good
at what to do, and that is making out people think, well,
I want to go back in history because I'm mature
over seventy Everyone else is immature, including you. The fact
is that when I was a kid, they decided to
do away with mental institutions in New York. So they
let all the mental institution people out. They didn't have
any plan to follow up with them. It was a
feel good it caused a lot of problems. A lot
of states did the same thing. People can't acknowledge when
they're wrong. The hardest thing in the world to do
is to say I was wrong or I am wrong.
That's the problem. And you have a lot of people
going through life now finding fault with everyone else, but
they can't admit they're wrong. That's what sends to me.
And I've said everyone a happy and blessed Thanksgiving, and
to you and to yours Chad bye.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you, thank you for call Bob and heartfelt,
and there's a lot of truth there. I think that gratitude.
Those who were listening heard me talk about gratitude earlier,
and that if you wake up with an attitude of gratitude,
that it's hard to be it's hard to be angry,
it's hard to hold on to grudges and hatred. But
but furthermore, it promotes humility. It'll remind you, hey, you know,
here's where I probably should have made it better with,
you know, by significant other or my kids or my
parents or whatever it is. So yeah, humility in politics
is a daunting task. And don't think I don't recognize
a lot of people screaming. They're ready to say, wow,
Trump's not real, humble not but then at other times
he is so. But humility is a big deal. That
meeting with Mundannie, there was a lot of humility being
displayed there. But I think it's like, I can give
you an example. In fact, I'm going to give you
an example now because there's there's there's someone else that
that decided to take on And this is Governor Gretchen
Whitmer from Michi, Michigan. And and I want you to
hear what she's talking about, casting aspersions about the cost
of things, and and and and they're here's a perspective
here I wish to share. I'm going to sometimes I
will share that perspective prior to you hearing something, and
sometimes after. In this particular instance, I think that hearing
what she has to say and then reflecting on it
will be useful. So here's Gretchen Whitmer talking a little
bit about kind of this time of year.
Speaker 4: Happy Holidays Michigan. This season people travel near and fire
to be with friends, family and loved ones. It's the
most magical.
Speaker 2: Time of the year.
Speaker 4: It's also the most expensive too. Holiday travel, gifts, meals.
Families spend up to two thousand dollars on average Thanksgiving
turkey to Christmas ham, new socks, and plane tickets. It
all adds up pretty quickly. On top of that, everything's
more expensive because of the federal government's chaotic tearf policies.
Grocers keep going up, along with toys, electronics, and clothes.
Here in Michigan will keep working together to lower costs
and make life easier for all. I'm proud that my
seventh balanced bipartisan budget does exactly that.
Speaker 2: So Gretchen Whitmer, you heard the A couple of whoppers
here and one. She can't say because she's a Democrat
and they've pull tested things and they have some absolute
knew jerk reactionaries. She can't. They can't typically say Happy Thanksgiving.
A Democrat and a Democrat stronghold can't say Happy Thanksgiving.
They have to say Happy Holidays, can't say they can
barely say Christmas. They have to say kind of holidays.
They have to lump it all together, Happy Holidays. She
said something about the cost of groceries and Thanksgiving. Actually,
as we talked about yesterday, an American Farm Bureau had
disclosed that a feeding a family of ten is five
percent cheaper this year than last year. That is true. Now,
what I find most interesting about what Whitmer had to
say is during a time when inflation was at ten
plus percent and things were spiraling out of control, after
the Inflation Reduction Act did not reduce inflation, Whitmer said nothing.
The Democrats wouldn't even acknowledge that the economy was in
horrible shape. So her casting aspersions about federal government chaotic
tariff strategy is jacking up costs more. There's no evidence
to suggest it's that much more. People actually, actually incomes
are up. But this is the kind of they are
trying to feed the beast of propaganda. They're trying to
feed the beast because if you feel like things are
getting better, I don't know. If I were advising Democrats,
I would say, hey, grab onto the economy is make
it your winning issue. Talk about why the economy is
getting better because of what you did. But instead, what
they're doing is they're throwing everything out because you that
you They cannot afford for you to believe the economy
is getting better. They cannot afford for you to think, wait,
gas prices are okay. They cannot afford for you to
realize your energy bill is going up because of green
policies that drew that subsidized all these other energies that
aren't giving you cheap, abundant energy, and your energy bill
is going up because of their policies. They can't acknowledge
that the immigration thing is working out well for America.
They can't acknowledge that the border secure. They should This
should be something to say, you know what, many of
us in the Democrat Party wanted that border secure, and
we are very upset and disappointed the previous administration for
not securing the border. We do like global peace. We
are proud of the administration's effort to bring about peaceful
solutions because we want peaceful solutions too. We want to
support that. But they are so hell bent on you
must feel bad for them to do well, and that's
not the way it should work. You don't need to
feel bad for one given party to work. Certainly, the
Republicans are going to try to convince you that things
are going well, and by any kind of objective measure,
they are going well.
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Speaker 2: Now one place that I think the Democrats are doing
a great job. One of their tried and true ways
of projecting and images is class warfare traditionally has worked
for them. We've seen at various times in history where
naming something a certain way, and I can give you
a historical context here for another position. There used to
be something called tax increment financing and tax increment financing.
They put it before voters in North Carolina I think
three times, and every time they put it before the voters,
the voters shot it down. It wasn't hard to shoot
it down because it had the word tax and financing
in it, and voters didn't like the naming. So a
bunch of them got in a room, the people who
wanted to promote this, and they created something called self
financed bonds, and it's tax increment financing, but they called
it self financed bonds, and people were like, wait, bonds
that financed themselves and it passed overwhelming. It was the
exact same thing that had been tried multiple times in
North Kana. And then they renamed it self financed bonds,
same thing, just called it something different and it passed
and it became legal in North Carolina and the first
time they used it, well, one of the first times
was the Randy parton theater up in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina,
and it absolutely fell in its face. It didn't pay
back the bonds. The city had to pick it up.
The taxpayers are still pay for It was an absolute nightmare. Nonetheless,
tax increment financing passed because they changed the name. So
why do I bring that to your attention, Because because
Democrats have tried and tried and tried with class warfare,
the wealthier bad, the poor are the victims if not
for those evil, selfish and I've even got a story today,
are the are the wealthy more selfish people? Well, there's
a lot of psychopaths and sociopaths that are wealthy, and
and and maybe that narcissism and everything that makes them
that way. Maybe that maybe that and projecting it was
a way, it's a way to try to project that
wealthier people are somehow not altruistic, you know. And then
toward the end of the article they say, well, not all,
not all wealthy people are bad. But it's still it's putting.
It's putting it out there to feed the beast that
that wealth and to create the to to create the
view of class warfare. Now, take it a step further,
that hasn't sold as well. It hasn't sold as well
for the political lefts. So what do you call it now?
And I alluded to this earlier with Gretchen Whitmer. I've
mentioned it on the air before, But it's the affordability crisis.
That we have a crisis of affordability you And it's easy,
I mean, because it's not really hard. It's not if
I got on the air and told you, hey, it's
tough out there. Things are expensive. You go to the
I mean, post COVID, it's absurd how much you have
to pay to get food at a restaurant these days.
Or your electrical bills are going up, they are your insurance,
especially if you're along the coast. It's absurd. It's going
it is. It is more expensive. Now. What you failed
to what I would fail to say, is it was
a lot of policies in COVID, post COVID. It's a
lot of a lot of different factors. But it's easy
for me as a Democrat to say the affordable ability
crisis is because those Republicans in Congress and the President
and I absolutely believe that is the issue. They're going
to try to hang their hat on. They're not going
to hang on immigration, They're not going to hang on
on a foreign policy. They're going to try a little
bit with the tariffs, but that's not selling, especially if
there's a two thousand dollars tariff relief thing that comes through.
I'm not the biggest fan of that for a thousand
different reasons, but from a public relations standpoint, it probably
will sell because a lot of the folks in certain
income brackets would get it. But I do believe that
the affordability crisis is one that the Republicans are not
doing a good job at getting out in front of it.
I get why the President would be frustrated with that.
And certainly one of the things that Democrats are losing
as an issue is crime because they're not I mean,
Chicago today is still trying to repute Pritzker in Illinois,
they're trying to repudiate any assistance to try to bring
crime down as a woman gets set on fire in
a subway, the Irena situation in Charlotte, where you've got
Democrats trying to act like the Irena law that's going
to put criminals in jail. They're on the wrong side
of history there, they're on the wrong side of crime,
and Democrats are going to lose if it becomes if
it becomes defined by public safety, Democrats are going to
win to lose. They don't have to. They could embrace,
say we want to enforce the laws too, but right
now they're more inclined to hate the president. But the
affordability issue, when they continue to tell you that times
are tough, it's easy to say times are tough, and
it's but ascribing it to one party. I think the
Democrats are doing a very good job of making it
look like the Republicans don't care about that issue. And
Republicans really are saying we don't have I mean saying
we don't have an affordability crisis. If someone's having trouble
paying bills, defeats, I mean, may there isn't an affordability crisis.
But if enough people believe there is, the psychology behind it, boom.
It's kind of like the markets if people believe if
people psychologically believe that the markets are overvalued, then there'll
be a rush on the markets. It'll be a massive
sell off and the stocks will drop. That's not what
they believe right now because they're looking at rate cuts
and some other things. So the markets are recovering nicely
over the past week or so. I mean, heck, the
dows up over three seventy right now. I'm looking at
the Marxis and P's up almost the percent, and the
Nasdaq's almost up a person. So people believe in the markets.
What they don't believe is that that affordability is good.
So we'll see how that all shakes out, because I
do think that that's where the Democrats are going to
struggle a little bit. Now we get back, I will
talk about taxpayers flee in California. I might go into
the Psychology Today article about the rich being selfish, because
these are all kind of the way they want you
to believe things. And I do want to go to
the pro public of one that green policies, the ones
that are being struck down right now, are going to
kill millions. It's just they don't and pro public erote it,
and it's shameful, but we got to talk about it
a little bit.
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Speaker 2: Some stranger, I want to get to the pro public apiece,
not not I don't want to spend too much time
in it, but I love the way Pro Publica discribes themselves.
Pro public is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Now,
if you were to do more than a cursory glance
at pro Publica, what you would find is that that
headline is somewhat true. It really is a nonprofit newsroom
that investigates the right pretty much exclusively. And not only
does it investigate the right, it makes claims that are
not necessarily true. So when it says it invested, so
I'm reading this because it is the first lie? Is
the description of the journalistic enterprise before the headline, or
not before that, before the lead, so to speak. So
what is it? What is pro public a nonprofit newsroom
that investigates abuses of power. So you're thinking, I'm going
to give you a story about abuses of power. No,
new advances in environmental science are providing a detailed understanding
of the human costs of the Trump administration's approach to
climate change. Well, that's not necessarily true, and nor is
that an investigation. Increasing temperatures are killing enormous numbers of people.
What the planet's been warmer before, and cold kills a
lot of people. A pro publican Guardian analysis that draws
on sophisticated modeling by independent researchers. Notice that it's sophisticated.
Therefore you have to agree with them. It's very sophisticated,
and it's independent. It's not leaning left right, it's independent.
Has found that Trump's Agenda First Agenda America First agenda
of expanding fossil fuels and decimating efforts to reduce emissions
will add substantially. Most of the people expected to die
from temperatures in the coming decades live in poor, hot
countries like Africa and South Asia. Pro Publica, And this
is the line I really wanted to get to Pro
public in. The Guardian's analysis shows that extra greenhouse gases
released in the next decade as a result of this
are expected to lead expected to lead not that it will,
but expected to lead to as many as one point
three million more temperature related dusts worldwide in the eighty
years after twenty thirty five. In other words, this is
an ass assertion that can never be proven and won't
take place until most of you are dead and gone.
In fact, twenty years after twenty thirty five, that'd be
ninety years from now, So it is expected to kill
one point three million more people over the next ninety years.
The actual number of people who die from heat will
be much higher, but a warming planet will result in
fewer dusts from cold. But again they can't substantiate any
of this. In fact, there's some emerging sites that the
planet may be cooling down, so the acceleration that we
were promised fifty years ago hasn't happened. But this is
the kind of fear that isn't necessarily it's not factual.
The absence of the United States when the world gathered
at their international conference in Brazil, which has four percent
of the world's population but produces twenty percent of the
greenhouse gases, has been pointedly noted by participants, I would
say notably by partisans. Afghanistan, Myamar, and Samarine are the
only other nations that did not send a delegation. Our calculations,
meaning pro public as calculations, use modeled estimates by the way,
and it's gonna sound like I'm trying to deflect a
little bit here, but our models on hurricanes are still horrible.
That's why we have spaghetti models, right You all know
what a spahetti model is, because there's twenty different models
and they look for some kind of convergent but they're
not always right. Even now, and we know a lot
more about hurricanes. Calculations used modeled estimates of the additional emissions.
It will be released as well as a peer reviewed
metric for what is known as the mortality cost of carbon,
the metric which builds on Nobel Prize winning science. By
the way, al Gore won a Nobel Prize for his science.
He's not scientists, but for his documentary, and none of
his predictions have come true. By the way, just worth
noting because they're relying on the same kind of menti
circular logic of people. The estimate reflects deaths from heat
related causes such as heat stroke and exacerbation of illnesses mindset.
Now Nowhere in this, by the way, do they pick
up that we're getting better at building building things in
the third world. Nowhere in this do they do They
act like you know things are getting better in some
of these places, because they are nowhere in this do
they talk about how capitalism actually helps address all sorts
of things even if this were true. So they're acting
as if we're frozen today, meaning not frozen, but I
guess we're in a pressure cooker today and everybody's going
to live exactly the way they did for the next
ninety years, and therefore one point three million more people
are going to die. There will be no changes in society,
according to pro public in this liberal rag, there will
be no changes in society. That I mean if you
were to look at the South right now, the southern
United States, traditional South Texas over to I don't know,
North Carolina. Let's exclude Virginia for now because that would
make it racist because we'd have robbery lee. But we're
going to exclude that state. So Tennessee, Texas, all Alabama, Georgia,
of Louisiana, Florida, and right now, we were to take
air conditioning and remove air conditioning from the South, how
many more people do you think would die? Ever you
just air conditioning becomes extinct, I don't know, because of
some kind of apocalyptic electromagnetic pulse and air conditioning no
longer works. How many more tests would we have? A lot?
A lot? Air conditioning saves lives. So pretending that it's
a static world in which nothing changes is just just asinine.
It's just lacks common sense. So when you read this,
the sheer numbers are horrifying the US climate action networks
so that they're going to kill millions of people. Again,
it's this is the kind of thing where the where
democrats love to look at and the left and general
likes to look at static things as if we're just
going to sit there and the Sosunaimi's gonna hit us
and we're not going to get out of the way.
All right.
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