Unlearn16: Class is in Session - The One Where I Side With The Mouse and Destroy Desantis

00:00:00.000 classes in session hey and welcome to unlearn 16 classes in session guys today you just get me you

00:00:10.460 get to you get me and you get a lot of anger i've look i want to come at things with sarcasm and wit

00:00:20.540 and humor but i'm at a point where there's certain states and certain issues that are going on where

00:00:28.240 where I can no longer find the light way to come at it. And I think it's about time we talked about

00:00:33.820 it. Now, we're going to do Florida today. I know there's many states we could talk about. And I

00:00:43.420 know for my American listeners, they're like, Joanna, why aren't you doing parts of Canada?

00:00:47.120 Listen, I can go through a whole bunch of wrongdoings and own it for individual provinces

00:00:54.400 and countries and states in the United States. But I feel as though there's a handful of states

00:00:59.960 in the United States who it's at a tipping point. And Ron DeSantis in Florida as that governor

00:01:06.520 is really leading the barrage of insanity. And he's done it increment by increment by increment.

00:01:17.340 and I finally heard a list of it the other day. And the weight of all of these things together

00:01:27.300 is just devastatingly insane. That's what it is. It's devastatingly insane. And look,

00:01:37.200 as I'm talking to you right now, like I made this list and now I have to add one because I forgot, 0.90

00:01:43.760 But, like, I can't even remember all of the ridiculous things this individual and his Republican contingent has done in Florida.

00:01:59.140 So I'm going to try to take you through all of them. 0.82

00:02:01.500 Heaven help me.

00:02:02.660 And as we go through them, we're going to individually sort of dissect them and talk about their implications and talk about, and I think this is incredibly important, how we get around them.

00:02:13.360 where the light is. Because if I don't talk about the light in this situation, if I don't talk about

00:02:20.160 how we can combat and undermine and get around and eventually sort of liberate Floridians,

00:02:28.740 people in the United States, people all across the world, because this is a sort of a wave of 0.95

00:02:35.760 idiocy, then there's no point in me doing anything. I'm not just here to whine and complain and be 0.97

00:02:42.700 angry, even though unfortunately I'm going to start this with a lot of anger. All right. Ron

00:02:49.120 DeSantis, Florida. How long has he been in power? 37 years? 38? It's what it feels like, guys. It

00:02:54.500 really, really feels like that because he's accomplished from his perspective and to be

00:02:59.480 honest, for mine, one hell of a lot of disaster. So let's start with number one, shall we?

00:03:05.240 banning books banning books the the first and again all of this might not be chronological to

00:03:15.140 be honest because he kind of goes back and forth right it's like he does a little bit here a little

00:03:21.080 bit there but let's let's start with banning books because I think banning courses and books

00:03:28.940 and ideas is the first step towards everything else. I think vilifying intelligent, either pieces

00:03:39.040 of fiction or nonfiction that discuss and debate and sort of personify really important world

00:03:46.640 issues, that's where you're going to start to sort of control the narrative. And everything has been

00:03:56.360 done under this disaster of an individual. Everything has been done under the guise,

00:04:05.780 under the illusion, under the pretense of what? Protecting kids. That's their mantra,

00:04:15.040 right? That's on their poster. That's on their bumper sticker. We protect kids.

00:04:18.660 and the banning books was really under that guise. So you would start with books that maybe

00:04:28.160 in elementary and high school seemed a little outlandish, seemed a little like, you know,

00:04:33.460 oh my God, that's really talking about that in this grade, or oh my goodness, that seems,

00:04:38.300 and everybody's had that moment. I don't care where you sit on the political spectrum.

00:04:42.580 There is a book that is in one school in one county in Florida where you're like,

00:04:47.540 huh i don't know i don't know if i'm buying that that one seems weird now would i ban them no

00:04:56.020 because what desantis has apparently done in in his infinite ability to manipulate which is

00:05:04.320 significant let's not undermine that or undervalue that because when we undervalue these these kind

00:05:11.040 of monsters we really do give them a hell of a lot more power um you know when we start thinking

00:05:19.900 about those individual books and he what he's done is he somehow just held up that book that

00:05:25.120 one book and then the 15 000 other books as the problem as the issue as the as the crux of the

00:05:35.920 argument. When in actuality, if anybody is a parent to a child in this day and age, or is a

00:05:41.180 person in 2023, what they can get on the internet and what they can access on the internet is far

00:05:52.440 more problematic, destructive, scary. And the reason why it's scary isn't just about the content.

00:06:01.300 It's about the idea that they can do it without any adult or any person in their life knowing

00:06:08.100 they've done it.

00:06:09.360 Because what Ron DeSantis is doing in a very clear method is he's banning books and he's

00:06:19.960 making those subject matters increasingly taboo, and especially in households who think

00:06:28.620 that talking about being gay or pronouns or heaven forbid, talking about the history of slavery or

00:06:34.780 is actually a problem for their kids. So you understand everybody that's backing DeSantis

00:06:41.220 isn't having table room discussions about this stuff. They're saying, uh, uh, uh, we don't talk

00:06:47.040 about that in this house. And so what is it doing? Well, it's going to make every single kid

00:06:52.620 who has access to the internet in any single way look it up and look it up with no discussion

00:07:01.380 look it up under the the sort of weight of secrecy and this hidden shameful idea that they they now

00:07:11.580 are going to look up this content and they're not going to speak about it to adults they can't speak

00:07:15.960 about it in schools their teachers have been told they can't speak about it or they're going to get

00:07:19.320 fire. Their parents tell them they can't speak about it or, or, or whatever their punishment

00:07:24.160 happens to be for whatever word has uttered their mouth. So they're going to do it on their own,

00:07:30.000 guys. They're going to do it with no conversation. They're going to do it with no context.

00:07:37.720 They're going to talk amongst themselves. They're going to, you're going to have 10-year-olds

00:07:42.500 educating each other on what they found on the internet last night and what video they watched.

00:07:49.320 Are we insane? In this day and age, you start banning books. All you're doing is creating

00:07:58.280 caveats and dark, dangerous rooms for people to take advantage of the well-being and mental health

00:08:07.800 and protection of your kids. Let me go over a couple of books they banned in Florida.

00:08:14.680 This might be, you know, this list is hard because they banned them in different counties

00:08:18.420 and then they let them back and then they ban them again. So, you know, it's not like a statewide

00:08:22.980 thing. Let's talk about a couple, shall we? Anne Frank. Oh, Ron. Anne Frank. For those who don't

00:08:35.180 know what the book is about, it's the Diary of Anne Frank, a young girl who hid in an attic

00:08:41.600 from the Nazi persecution, from her death, and wrote journals about it? Are you insane? 0.98

00:08:49.320 This is what you're going to ban? Why are we banning this? And I always try to understand the 0.99

00:08:55.920 why, right? Why? So what would his argument be? His argument would be it's too big of an issue,

00:09:02.080 let's say, too much of an issue for, let's assume this was banned from elementary schools.

00:09:08.360 okay is it too big for a 10 year old who has a holocaust surviving grandparent is it too big for

00:09:20.060 them is it too big for a 14 year old that has gone to the holocaust museum in new york city

00:09:30.420 or that has studied it because their family came from a part of China where it wasn't necessarily

00:09:39.140 studied or brought up and now wants to educate themselves fully and knows that this book

00:09:45.080 is out there and they can't get it at the school? What message are you conveying?

00:09:52.580 Let's go on. Maya Angelou banned. The woman... If you've never read any Maya Angelou poetry,

00:10:00.420 why the cage bird sayings, please go, go check her out, go read it, go be impressed by it.

00:10:07.980 She talked about things like how ideals and, and moments of oppression don't get to define you

00:10:16.880 and how you can overcome and how love will prevail and how she's lived through what she's

00:10:22.080 lived through yet. She lives with passion and forgiveness and empathy and power. This,

00:10:28.420 this is what Ron wants to, you know, eradicate. The Handmaid's Tale, well, we know why they want

00:10:35.760 to ban that. It's a freaking, they watched The Handmaid, read The Handmaid's Tale and went,

00:10:40.860 oh, this is an excellent idea. How do we enforce this? How do we ensure this? Guys, 0.73

00:10:47.140 and I'm not being overly sarcastic or facetious. This is what's happening in the United States

00:10:54.700 right now tiny little steps towards this the ultimate controlling nationalizing um limiting

00:11:06.700 of women's body i'm not even going to pretend that we're they're not using this as a how-to

00:11:12.380 manual so of course they want to ban that i understand their motivations there but this

00:11:16.300 This book's been around since 1980, what, four?

00:11:20.640 Ruby Bridges. 0.70

00:11:25.040 You're going to ban the story of a six-year-old little girl

00:11:29.400 who had to walk into her school to learn how to read and write

00:11:36.400 and go through classes in a fully integrated school

00:11:42.020 surrounded by marshals protecting her from parents

00:11:45.900 who were threatening her life? She was six, Ron. How dare you keep that from other kids?

00:11:56.660 She had to endure it, but grade ones can't learn about it? Are you okay?

00:12:03.620 You're obviously not okay, and it's quite embarrassing. You want to deny every single

00:12:08.580 aspect of your history, you want to go back and whitewash the slates. The reality is, good luck. 1.00

00:12:21.820 I mean, don't get me wrong, it's terrifying. But there's no way, it's not 1933. And I use that

00:12:32.080 that year purposefully. It's not 1933. So if you want to put a pile of books on a pyre and set it

00:12:39.620 ablaze while all of the uneducated, unaware, bigoted compatriots cheer you on,

00:12:51.380 it's not going to work. Because all of those people, although they're going to be clearly

00:12:57.500 on your side, the rest of the world, the rest of the country, the rest of your state,

00:13:01.700 this new generation who has so little tolerance for your disgusting bigotry well they're just 0.92

00:13:09.460 going to go to the internet and order it off amazon ron you set everything on fire it's like 0.96

00:13:15.560 the guys pouring out bud light go ahead buy all the bluest eye from tony morrison which by the

00:13:20.380 way is an amazing read he also wants to ban things like harvey milk of course how dare they have a 0.97

00:13:30.660 gay mayor. It's ridiculous. What are we banning there? Well, we all know what he's banning there. 1.00

00:13:37.780 He wants to ban the existence. He wants to eradicate the notoriety, the awareness,

00:13:46.000 the fundamental rights of the entire LGBTQ plus community. There's no question about it. 0.99

00:13:53.180 You know, there's not even a conversation there. Of course he wants to. So we have to start with

00:13:57.740 history the indian removal act there was this amazing book talking about the trail of tears

00:14:03.040 banned it's just history you're you're just going to now section it off banned we're not talking

00:14:10.980 about it not a part of the curriculum like that's him banning history and i'm going to talk about

00:14:19.400 particularly uh another issue surrounding rosa parks in a second but him banning history is

00:14:24.700 perhaps the clearest methodology he has here of of how he's going to create a new narrative

00:14:32.620 um v for vendetta

00:14:39.340 first of all it's now a graphic novel but second of all it's this movie it's about revolution

00:14:45.900 it's about guy fawkes day in england it's about freedom it's about all of these things of course

00:14:51.020 he was to ban that i'm surprised like the french revolution isn't off like he should start banning

00:14:57.260 that the american revolution to be honest ron you should consider not teaching that anymore

00:15:04.140 because it's going to give your students the illusion that the state of florida supports 0.96

00:15:09.980 the idea of independence freedom liberty and justice for all are you insane you can't support

00:15:17.660 that you're going to have to get rid of that because what you're doing in this state doesn't

00:15:22.700 correlate in the least with the principles of that particular freedom movement by the way one of the

00:15:32.100 big issues that all those people left was because of religion but go ahead keep trying to enforce

00:15:38.220 yours um i want to tell a little story about or something i found out about um rosa parks so in

00:15:45.880 the grade one curriculum in Florida. Initially, when they taught about Rosa Parks, they would

00:15:50.360 teach about segregation and Jim Crow laws in the United States. They would teach about what that

00:15:55.920 segregation was, white and black segregation, where white people could go and black people

00:16:02.420 could go, where they would sit on the bus. And then they would tell the story about Rosa Parks

00:16:05.840 and how it led to sort of this birth of an aspect of the revolution. Okay, I'm with you so far.

00:16:12.440 Ah, but then they changed it. They thought, no, we don't really want to teach it that way anymore. Here's what we're going to do. We're going to ignore the segregation part. We're not going to teach them that the United States for years after, let's be honest, what was it?

00:16:26.520 Ooh, a hundred years or so after slavery was gone, we're going to not teach those kids that they implemented this horrific system of segregation, social, economic, educational, physical segregation of the black and white community in Florida. 0.80

00:16:50.380 we're gonna we don't want to teach them that we teach them that and all of a sudden they 0.66

00:16:54.020 they unfortunately know the real history of the united states so they changed it

00:16:58.180 and they changed it to we're not going to talk about segregation but what we're going to talk

00:17:04.300 about is ruby bridges an african-american woman sat in the wrong part of the bus she was asked

00:17:08.440 to leave she didn't it was a protest movement and it led to civil rights okay i don't know what you

00:17:14.740 would have a civil rights movement against if you didn't first explain segregation and the horrific

00:17:21.600 treatment of African Americans. But listen, maybe grade one doesn't, who, I have a bit of a problem

00:17:28.020 with that, obviously, but the third one is my favorite. This is the current one, by the way.

00:17:33.320 In the third iteration, in invention of history, they talk about Rosa Parks sitting in the wrong

00:17:41.280 part of the bus, and it started the idea of her rights and liberty, and they don't speak to her

00:17:47.460 color at all. Her skin color isn't a part of the story anymore. Are you joking? When you say

00:17:58.000 rewriting history, I don't understand how every single American doesn't stand up against this

00:18:07.080 disgusting sort of negation of what's happened. You know, they're going to say, well,

00:18:16.840 they're too young to learn. Were they too young to live it? And by the way, they're not too young

00:18:25.760 to learn. I don't think you've ever really even spoken to how incredibly impressive those young

00:18:31.800 kids are. But you know what I get by a lot of young kids when I teach anything surrounding

00:18:36.060 discrimination they look at me and this is the part that is a very hard thing to teach

00:18:43.580 they look at me and with genuine confusion and hurt in their eyes they say why would anybody do

00:18:53.340 that why would anybody treat the indigenous people that way why would they steal their children 0.90

00:19:00.140 why would they ever treat and segregate black people that way why would they beat and abuse 0.56

00:19:07.740 and imprison how could they ever do that how could they look at another per because that's what youth

00:19:14.540 does right they look at things very very clearly and then as adults we are left to explain 0.57

00:19:21.260 this disgusting side of our histories. And that's a hard thing to explain. I'm not saying it's easy

00:19:31.820 and I'm not even saying I know the perfect way to do it, but I'll be damned if I'm going to lie

00:19:36.260 about it. What a disaster that would be. So he starts with banning books. Then we move on to

00:19:45.400 the don't say gay bill. Now I've had some fun in TikTok and like making fun of this whole don't 1.00

00:19:50.740 say gay bill, because I can figure out a walk around. I'll tell you my walk around

00:19:54.080 in a second about how I would handle it if I were a teacher in Florida, and I can keep my job for

00:19:59.640 more than 37 seconds in even order to do it, because I think my tattoos alone and my haircut

00:20:03.840 would get me fired. But nonetheless, initially, the argument was this. Kids from K to three and

00:20:13.780 then K to 8, because he extended it pretty quickly, we can't, teachers cannot discuss

00:20:20.780 issues of, here we go, predominantly, sexuality and gender. And what he was speaking to,

00:20:28.680 obviously, covertly, not so covertly, unless you're an absolute moron, is he was saying, 1.00

00:20:34.700 listen, whatever the mainstream sexual identity is, i.e. heterosexuality, whatever the common 1.00

00:20:41.960 pronouns are he, her, him, she, as they were born. Those are the things and those are the only 0.66

00:20:50.240 ideologies we are going to perpetrate. We are going to perpetuate. Sorry. That might have been

00:20:56.360 a Freudian slip that was actually right. And make no mistakes. Those are ideologies. The creation

00:21:03.060 of pronoun is linguistic. It is linguistic in order to very clearly distinguish. And the point

00:21:10.760 of distinguishing is to put expectations and a clear set of characteristics on people who are

00:21:18.680 born boys and people who are born girls so you can make a very quick assessment a stereotypical one

00:21:25.240 a prejudicial one at best of who you are talking to it's the only reason we really need to know

00:21:31.560 that so don't when everybody ever says like it's it's it's an ideology ideological it's always

00:21:36.920 ideological beliefs there are always ideas that underpin our social organization our political

00:21:42.360 our economic everything starts with an idea and then he's extended it to don't say gay all the

00:21:50.840 way to grade 12. these are 18 year olds some 18 year old kids who can't talk about this yet

00:21:58.840 by the way i would love to know how the hell if they do sex education how do you do health class

00:22:05.240 down there without talking about sexuality well let me let me tell you my walk around

00:22:12.840 i'd follow it to the letter ron and all my floridian teachers out here i don't necessarily

00:22:21.000 advocate this because and i can't make a joke about it because i don't know to the length of

00:22:26.600 violence you will face forget losing your job okay that's problem one i don't know to the level of

00:22:34.040 violence you will face in a state that has dehumanized a group of people to such a point

00:22:40.040 where standing up for basic civil rights and human rights could constitute, could invoke

00:22:46.360 horrific violence against you. But we do know if we studied history, and by the way, this is why

00:22:52.880 they take out the history. If we studied history, we would know it does get violent. We would know

00:22:59.260 the freedom riders when they got on that bus with white and african-american civil rights leaders 0.76

00:23:05.820 and the white people got out first they would face the beating of their life coming from white 0.86

00:23:15.020 bigoted racist people who thought they didn't want their ideology challenged not in my town 0.96

00:23:22.380 so before i say this i just want to preface by i want everybody in every place they're in to

00:23:30.100 recognize their their safety is first here's what i would do no sexuality okay wrong so

00:23:40.480 in every book in every in every piece of literature in every poem in every conversation

00:23:49.640 in the hallways, you would no longer be allowed to talk about your mom and dad, read a book with

00:23:57.800 a man and a woman in it who have a romantic relationship. We would have to ban any sort of

00:24:03.680 conversations in the hallways by kids talking about having boyfriends and girlfriends.

00:24:08.660 We would have to eliminate any and all conversations from teachers, especially

00:24:16.080 talking about men and women i don't know how we do sex ed i'm assuming that course has to just 0.57

00:24:23.120 you know become well just not be on the books anymore no sexuality ban it all great that's a

00:24:31.740 lot of black marker going into books in fact i don't even know if you can read a book anymore

00:24:35.440 same is true for pronouns you don't want pronouns okay you don't want us to teach pronouns

00:24:43.500 Okay, Ron.

00:24:45.540 No more he and she in a book.

00:24:47.340 Him and her, all gone. 0.97

00:24:48.900 Black eraser, black eraser, black eraser.

00:24:52.020 You can use the person's name again and again and again and again.

00:24:55.780 And by the way, he and him aren't the only pronouns, right?

00:24:58.320 We all understand the list of pronouns.

00:25:00.520 There's a bunch of them.

00:25:02.400 We're going to have to get rid of them.

00:25:04.180 Basically, what he's talking about is a complete eradication and manipulation and overhaul of the English language.

00:25:12.660 I think it's a great idea, Ron. Kids would not be able to call themselves, would not be able to identify themselves as he or she. Their clothing style could no longer reflect gender norms. Because if you're telling me, I can't have an eight-year-old kid come into my classroom who happens to be a guy and wants to wear a dress and that's not acceptable, well, then nobody can.

00:25:36.440 right because you didn't just say because you have to be careful with your bill language you

00:25:42.320 didn't just say unorthodox pronouns uncommon pronouns you you weren't clear enough because

00:25:51.600 if you were clear it would have been struck down like a freaking lightning bolt from every major

00:25:58.560 level of uh of courts and if it wasn't it would be so embarrassingly theocratic i don't even know 0.65

00:26:04.560 to do about it but you can't come out and say that simply so in my classroom would be eradicated

00:26:13.280 they'd call me miss nope can't do that we're gonna have to think you can call me joanna johnson

00:26:21.680 that's it because if we're getting rid of pronouns and you have a problem with pronouns

00:26:26.800 ron they no longer have a place in school it's a lot of textbooks you're gonna have to rewrite but

00:26:32.720 But, you know, this list is lofty.

00:26:37.400 Number three, the six-week abortion ban.

00:26:39.080 Of course he did. 0.86

00:26:40.500 Heartbeat bill law. 1.00

00:26:44.700 Of course, he is going to limit and control women's bodies. 0.95

00:26:49.240 Of course, as soon as that law was overturned at a constitutional level, as soon as Roe v. Wade was overturned, 100% he was going to pass whatever he could possibly pass in order to ban that.

00:27:01.600 this is the first step in a long step of things that are going to happen in this state, I can

00:27:05.660 assure you. And whether or not you agree with abortion, you don't agree with abortion, that's

00:27:11.120 your personal choice. What I promise you is that it will go down the way of nobody under any

00:27:22.640 circumstances, under any situations. You have states now prosecuting 10-year-old little girls

00:27:29.980 who have been sexually assaulted by family members who've gotten pregnant and you have now 0.72

00:27:39.020 forced them in some states to carry that baby to term. The level of disgust. I mean,

00:27:47.980 it's on a level of epic I can't even begin to talk about. And I promise you if Ron DeSantis

00:27:54.040 could get pregnant, you could get one at every convenience store right beside your Bud Light 0.99

00:27:58.120 brand. Number four, right now there are travel advisories to Florida. Can you imagine? As somebody

00:28:08.480 who's obviously gay, the places that I go in this world, I have to be very aware of what their laws

00:28:13.380 are, what the travel advisories are. I honest to God never thought that that traveling advisory

00:28:18.360 could pertain to a state just south of my southern border. Why? Well, because DeSantis

00:28:29.580 and his policies and his ideology, by the way, that's what he's presenting here. That's what

00:28:35.180 he's created. That's what he's professing and instilling and indoctrinating.

00:28:41.160 That heightened level of anger, that heightened level of dehumanization, that heightened level

00:28:47.500 of um disgust and and as ron will so quickly sort of connect he will connect protection of your kids 0.62

00:28:57.540 and then the gay population the things two things that don't go together but nonetheless

00:29:01.980 he's going to do that in order to increase rage and then because that leads into number five 0.79

00:29:07.820 he has just passed a no permit conceal and carry

00:29:11.000 my dad used to live in florida and i remember him telling me joanna there are places in florida

00:29:17.000 you're just not going to drive through. That was his rule. You can borrow the car. You can go to

00:29:22.680 Disney World. You can go to the beach. You can do whatever you want. But here's the areas. This is

00:29:26.700 your driving. And I remember looking at him one time going, why am I driving an extra 15 minutes

00:29:32.520 seemingly to get a route, like to go somewhere? I go, why can't I just drive through here?

00:29:36.640 He goes, because if you drive through here, there is too much uncertainty, too much poverty,

00:29:41.800 too much crime too much too much he goes take the extra 15 minutes and he said also

00:29:48.880 if somebody cuts you off if somebody yells at you if somebody you do not get in an altercation

00:29:55.920 you apologize you go on with your day because you have no idea what they could possibly have

00:30:01.680 in the glove compartment of the car and that just that is somebody who lived there and that is just

00:30:08.340 exempt like it's just gotten bigger and bigger and bigger considering this

00:30:11.800 because now anybody no permit conceal and carry

00:30:16.660 it creates a powder keg of potential violence here's a pretty horrible horrible one well

00:30:27.080 the disney versus desantis thing again part of me laughs you know desantis you're gonna go up

00:30:34.060 against the mouse good luck with that in fact i think it might be the mouse that destroys him

00:30:38.040 in the end, which gives me great hope because Disney is not backing down. DeSantis does

00:30:44.480 something stupid. Disney's already thought 10 steps ahead. There's that whole little chess 1.00

00:30:48.160 game about him creating a board of governors in order to control Disney. But Disney already

00:30:52.200 signed a pre-existing contract that supersedes the board of governors sort of a month before

00:30:58.300 he did so that lasts for generations to come. It makes me giggle to my soul. But the problem

00:31:04.580 is with the kind of a narcissist, ideologically fervent individual like DeSantis, he just one

00:31:10.520 ups. He goes up and up and up. So now, you know, he talks about putting a prison on right next to

00:31:17.580 the happiest place on earth where all these children go. Is that how he protects kids?

00:31:24.680 The jail next to the Disney world? And all of this is what? Because Disney had an African-American

00:31:31.780 young beautiful girl play the little mermaid does ron know they're fictional is he confused

00:31:38.120 is this because in that buzz lightyear movie there was two moms who kissed on the cheek

00:31:44.800 this is it this is the policy that you think is destroying florida this is this is the i'm not

00:31:52.920 even going to say the word because the word that four-letter word has been used to obstinate and

00:31:57.980 and confuse, and destroy the actual movement itself. 0.82

00:32:05.940 You know how many kids have gay parents, Ron? 0.80

00:32:11.460 This next one is a proposed bill, which this is where it gets.

00:32:16.700 This is where people's lives are on the line.

00:32:19.820 So there's a proposed bill that we all know he's going to sign,

00:32:22.560 where doctors, medical professionals, and insurance providers can withhold service for

00:32:29.260 moral, ethical, or religious reasons. And according to this bill, they will be protected

00:32:35.840 in court if any litigious individual wants to challenge them in a court of law. 0.91

00:32:43.440 So you can have a doctor look at somebody and say, you're gay, I'm not taking care of you. 0.96

00:32:50.840 you're a single mother i'm not servicing you you're um have an interracial marriage no thank 0.99

00:33:01.040 you because make no mistake his intent here is to demean is to demoralize is to target a hundred 0.88

00:33:12.120 percent the gay particularly let's also be honest the trans community right this is his way that 0.87

00:33:20.160 he's going to block this. But make no mistake, guys. It's going to open the door for all sorts 0.96

00:33:29.460 of bigotry. It's going to open the door for all sorts of disgusting. And that's really what Trump 0.97

00:33:37.040 did, right? Trump opened the door. He didn't create it. It was there festering underneath.

00:33:43.720 What Trump did is he highlighted it and he said, go ahead, pour out your Bud Light, make your opinions known, you morons. 1.00

00:33:54.520 He did that. 0.99

00:33:55.640 And as he did that, other Republicans who claim to hate Trump or not like Trump or run against Trump are then utilizing that hate, that division.

00:34:05.460 because the easiest way for somebody to gain power is to have a scapegoat to point to

00:34:11.860 and to target all of their anger, all of their lost hopes, lost dreams, lost jobs, lost family

00:34:19.840 towards them. And if they can point it towards them, that's where the anger gets pointed towards

00:34:25.660 and I have a governor who's going to punish them. Cool. Remember last time when that happened?

00:34:31.360 right started around 1923 he took power in 33 killed 11 million people as scapegoats

00:34:44.760 that's what happened last time and don't you dare tell me not to compare

00:34:50.800 him to desantis because the comparisons are disgustingly similar

00:34:56.380 now my walk around for this would be great so can i ask how people vote

00:35:03.900 oh you voted for desantis cool you're not welcome here

00:35:07.340 because for all the doctors he thinks are going to be on his side

00:35:12.760 i bet you there's a bunch more doctors that would love to travel to florida

00:35:18.060 just to prove the opposite

00:35:19.980 it. But in this case, guys, and again, I'm getting petty, bitter. All that's going to lead to are

00:35:30.380 people dying? Are people not getting medical care? Are people not getting insurance that they can

00:35:35.820 afford and they can pay for, but they're going to be refused service because of who they are?

00:35:41.260 are we kidding all right number seven proposed bill 999 this is one of my favorites this is

00:35:50.760 for college so if you think if you think the control of education stops in elementary and

00:35:57.440 high school because they're impressionable minors protect the kids hope he gets that

00:36:04.380 tattooed on his face when he goes to jail it's not because in college they are

00:36:12.840 adults by 18 years old you can go to war you can vote you can sign contracts but

00:36:20.580 Ron is telling them they can't think for themselves so proposed bill 999 will

00:36:27.120 eliminate all diversity equity and inclusion curriculums in including wait

00:36:32.280 for this unproven theoretical or exploratory educational information did

00:36:39.480 he just criminalize learning new things is that's what he just did he just

00:36:48.000 stipulated that universities cannot be a place where you explore new theories and

00:36:54.780 ideas who's gonna tell Sheldon Cooper he can't do theoretical physics anymore 0.80

00:37:02.280 obviously CRT off the table women's studies off the table gender studies off

00:37:07.840 the table but anything theoretical because that's what that means any new

00:37:13.800 ideas and by the way any new ideas are off the table but we've already eradicated

00:37:18.920 and cut out all history what the hell are we studying in college Ron baseball 0.79

00:37:26.600 like you did 0.53

00:37:29.280 and i know people are gonna be like joanne he went to harvard you know what that proves to me 0.96

00:37:35.280 harvard has shit rotten standards if i were harvard i'd be looking at taking away his degree 0.96

00:37:41.080 to be perfectly honest all right obviously banning drag queens is number eight 0.99

00:37:48.760 banning drag queen story time heaven forbid kids like watching a theatrical interpretation 0.96

00:37:58.280 of a kid's story by an amazing actress and give me a break. And I'm not even going to talk about 0.95

00:38:06.860 all the things we should ban, because if we're going to start banning this kind of stuff because 1.00

00:38:10.220 of the sexualized nature, okay, so, and again, this is actually the height of stupidity. We've 0.99

00:38:16.800 got to shut down all those Hooters. Nobody under 21 is going into Hooters. We've got to shut down

00:38:22.260 halftime show football games basketball games we got to shut down heaven help us any beauty pageant 0.93

00:38:31.780 especially anybody under 18 participating in a beauty pageant that's a lot of indoctrination

00:38:38.180 and ideological conformity there right are we shutting it all down ron because if if your

00:38:45.460 argument is clear if it's about sexualization then then all of that needs to go

00:38:56.020 right so the way i would handle ron and this last one gets really disgusting but the way i

00:39:03.780 would handle ron instead of trying to go up against those particular things i just extend them the nfl

00:39:10.900 the nba i would then start saying these individuals according to state florida

00:39:21.280 policy can no longer have those things in florida watch the businesses leave in droves

00:39:27.500 and as soon as you start challenging and costing people and this is the unfortunate reality

00:39:34.600 because nobody cares until it knocks at your door and then all of a sudden you're like oh my god

00:39:40.680 this is horrible make no mistake why he's going after the trans population why he can still go

00:39:47.320 after the lgbtq plus population he's going after them because they are a significantly small minority 1.00

00:39:57.560 they're the problem they're the issue we're going to go after them and all your problems will be 1.00

00:40:02.280 solved he's going to be long gone out of that office before that can be proven

00:40:05.720 and obviously disproven.

00:40:09.720 But it needs to be a small population.

00:40:12.540 He needs to think and he needs to manufacture ideas

00:40:15.920 so they do not stand, allies do not stand with them.

00:40:22.740 And the final one I just learned about.

00:40:26.780 I don't even know what to do about this one,

00:40:28.460 but the state, there's a proposed law that says

00:40:31.560 the state can take effectively protective custody, emergency protective custody over

00:40:38.120 children if any family member within their family believes that their parent, one or

00:40:45.480 both, are thinking about getting their child, even their 17-year-old, gender-affirming care.

00:40:54.460 And it doesn't specify gender-affirming care, by the way.

00:40:56.740 So we could be talking about social gender-affirming care, changing their pronouns, letting them grow their hair, letting them wear what they want. He doesn't distinguish to medical gender-affirming care. So for all of those out there who are going to come at me with hormone blockers and chemical castration, all the Matt Walsh people, sit down. We're not even talking about that. Yes, I'll come for you later.

00:41:20.700 Even worse than that, if they're giving it in any way, shape, or form, they can be taken away, and not just that kid, but all the siblings within that family.

00:41:33.000 so

00:41:38.560 they're basically going to step in your house take away your kids because they believe that

00:41:46.580 what you're doing is harming irrevocably harming your kids with your ideology

00:41:51.860 cool can we do that for people that vote for DeSantis too is this the insanity

00:41:57.900 you the state of florida hasn't properly adequately ever funded child protective

00:42:06.440 services and and you're just going to pile more stuff on them to do what

00:42:11.080 you're so concerned about kids why have you not tripled quadrupled the funding to protect kids

00:42:20.840 Why have you not addressed the real horrific reality about the dangers and the violence that kids face actually come from inside the house?

00:42:34.240 Your side loves to talk about the word grooming as though they understand what it's all about.

00:42:38.740 When in actuality, 90% of all of it, all of that damage, all of that trauma, all of that shame comes from inside the house.

00:42:50.840 why are we not tackling that Ron let it a little too close to friends but is

00:42:59.360 that is that your own right when you put it when you put an AK-15 in a six-year

00:43:03.620 old's hand that kid doesn't get taken away from their parent if we're gonna

00:43:08.120 open the door Ron we're gonna open it wide

00:43:14.860 Um, so as I go through all of these things, and I mean, I know that's not a definitive

00:43:22.920 list, heaven help me, but what I want us to understand is twofold.

00:43:29.620 Number one, that happened piece by piece, moment by moment.

00:43:34.940 It didn't happen all at once.

00:43:37.180 It happened under the guise of protecting kids, the illusion, the lie, the pretense. 0.51

00:43:44.860 He tells you everything in your life, in your world is going to get better if we focus and target and eliminate, eradicate, and that word has been used, this particular population.

00:43:59.820 And when we do so, everything's going to get better.

00:44:03.260 I'm going to change history.

00:44:05.380 I'm going to eliminate what we can talk about and how we can talk about it and who gets to talk about it.

00:44:11.180 I am going to sever the education of these kids. I am going to eliminate academic discovery and influence and investigation. If you can, honestly, if you can, or if you refuse to honestly be able to compare him to 1933 Germany,

00:44:36.120 then obviously i'm going to have to send you one of the banned books so you can

00:44:41.880 understand history and understand what you're up against because i promise you that's who he is

00:44:48.920 all right guys thanks for listening i know this was a heavy topic i appreciate you i'd appreciate

00:44:56.300 all the comments in the underneath the the video and if you're in florida

00:45:03.340 I wish I could send you all of my strength

00:45:07.260 And whatever it is I can do

00:45:09.360 I will do it from here

00:45:10.740 I will see you guys next Tuesday

00:45:13.080 Same bad time, same bad station

00:45:15.700 Dismissed

Unlearn16: Class is in Session - April 25, 2023

The One Where I Side With The Mouse and Destroy Desantis

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