The Clovis Unified School District Is Becoming More Like Fresno

Episode Transcript

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There's a certain kind of piety thatparents and teachers within Clovis Unified maintain about
Clovis Unified as a school district.There's this constant sort of attitude of,
well, Clovis Unified, we're moreconservative, We're more conservative than President Unified.

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And it's this kind of I don'tknow, it's this narrative that I
think both parents and teachers sort oftell themselves that I don't think is always
true, and I think it's becomingless and less true, and I think
it ignores certain significant problems with ClovisUnified, with all public schools in California,

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and with the basic fact that Californiapublic schools are inexorably being drawn into
the maw law of hard left liberalism, and that any sort of mildly conservative
outpost like Clovis Unified will eventually fallinto this gaping law of liberalism. So

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this piece by Laura Diaz and theFresno b I think summarizes this perfectly.
It summarizes the way that media reportson this to help encourage and foster this
liberal outcome, the way that newteachers coming fresh out of Fresno State are

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changing the dynamics of the body ofteachers who work for Close Unified, the
way in which state law about whichthe author is not even fully one hundred
percent aware, the way in whichstate law is changing in order to have

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parents to be less aware and lessinformed. All of this is changing.
And this is I'm going to probablyI think I'm going to start covering this
over the next couple of years,because I've talked about it with other Close
Unified teas, with Close Unified teachers. This is the Fresno unifiedification of Clovis

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Unified. Over time, Clovis Unifiedis going to look a lot more like
Fresne Unified. I give you tenyears time, but in the next ten
years, Clovis Unified is going tohave a union like Fresne Unified. It's
going to be more and more culturallyidentical to Fresne Unified. And the only

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real difference that there's going to beis that Close Unified has a higher sort
of socioeconomic demographic of kids. ButI think the quality of its education is
going to suffer. I think itwill continue to come back to voters again
and again and again and again andagain for bond measures, and I think

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it might be more and more difficultover time as a still pretty conservative close
unified voting base wants to block it. And I think we're going to see
a more sectarian, divided close unifiedschool board. I think the shift that's
going to take place with elections forthe close unified school board going from at

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large elections where all the voters inclose unified vote on all of the close
unified school board members, to specificregional voting. You will be the Clovis
East representative on the close unified board. You will be the Close High representative
on the close unitied board. Youwill be the Clovis North representative. You
will be the Buchanan representative. Thatis also going to change the dnamics of

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the President Unified of the Clovis UnifiedBoard in a way that is not helpful,
in a way that starts to looklike the presne Unified board where it's
like, well, the Bullard representativewas always super conservative and the other representatives
for you know, for this highschool and that high school are less conservative.
And it gets into you know,people say, well, the Bullard

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rep only cares about Bullard. Oh, oh, the Clovis North Rep is
only going to care about Close North. It does won't give a credit about
Clovis East. So let's dig intothis story by Lord Diaz, which I
appreciate for its breadth and the rangeof subject matter that it's addressing. But
obviously all of the reporting from theFresno Bee is coming with a certain kind

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of raw, raw cheerleading. It'sa kind of raw, raw cheerleading that's
pro the modern day LGBTQ, whateveragenda. It's raw ra cheerleading that's pro
Clovis Unified, teachers unionizing, etcetera. She begins. The city of

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Clovis has grown and diversified and diversifiedover the past decade. This growth and
resulting changes in the community are reflectedin the school district's student body, as
Close Unified undergoes significant changes expansion andenrollment, and four board seats up for
election this November. It appears tobe more frequently at odds with or challenged

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by some in the community it serves. Based on some of the bees recent
coverage, Yes, the Bee highlightingall of these sort of liberal SOB stories.
Yes. Throughout the twenty twenty threeto twenty twenty four school year,
Close Unified seems to be trying tocatch up with the needs of its increasingly
diverse community. Increasingly diverse community.It's not increasingly diverse. It's the same

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amount of diverse it's always been.There's this I swear people in Fresno have
this sense of like, like peoplewhose lives and identities revolve around downtown Fresno
and the Tower districts think of closUnified as this solidified wall of white people

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that doesn't understand diversity. You know, who doesn't understand diversity? Although this
makes me think of the scene inAnchorman. What what the heck is diversity?
I believe diversity was an old woodenship used during the Civil War era.
You know, it doesn't understand diversity. Is like people in South Bend,

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Indiana who've seen like five Mexicans intheir entire life. Okay, people
have liberals in Central California looking atlike conservatives who live in Clovis and think
that they're so intolerant and bigoted allthose white people in Clovis. First of
all, like a huge percentage ofpeople in Clovis are not white. And

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secondly, the idea that it's evenpossible to function in a city like Clovis
with racial bigotry against Mexican I mean, you'd be spending your entire life doing
so. Clovis Unified is so much, is so wildly more diverse then so
much of the rest of the country. You want to see a lat place

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that doesn't have a lot of diversity, go to Massachusetts, go to like
some of these Northeast enclaves. Goto Vermont. There are like three Mexicans
in the whole state. Okay,there's like two black people in the whole
state of Vermont. This notion thatClovis Unified is like this haven of like

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closeted clansmen, or that Clovis itselfis this this is so racially non diverse,
all these white people. You haveno idea what a racially non diverse
place looks like. Anyway, whatthey mean by more diverse is that the

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LGBT movement has grown and that CloseUnified is not as lightning quick to embrace
its most radical propositions, like downto the level of kids should be able
to have the district completely change thegender identity by which they refer to a
kid and not tell the kid's parents. That's what they mean, all right,

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here we go. Here's a review, Laura Diez writes in The frost
Note Bee of continuing challenges and potentiallycontroversial issues for closed schools this year and
the district's perspective on them, Diversity, equity and inclusion. I love how
the Bee is just talking about DEIdiversity, equity and inclusion, as if

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there isn't a very robust national conversationwhere at least forty percent of the country
think that the very concept of DEIis something that's gravely flawed. The whole
concept of equity, which means positivelydiscriminating in favor of certain historically or or

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are commonly by liberals recognized as oppressedgroups, positively discriminating in their favor.
The idea that there's nothing controversial aboutDEI whatsoever, that a neutral newspaper should
just report on it straight up.All right, Diversity, equity and inclusion.
We just accept these slogans. Inmultiple stories, the be highlighted several

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issues in the district related to religion, culture, and LGBTQ issues and the
district's positions, and it's always LGBTQplus. I guess that's the new ap
guideline maybe community concerns for LGBTQ plusstudent outing. The b reported about the
district's request for parental consent if astudent wants to change their name, pronouns,

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or general identity on their student recordon their record challenge LGBTQ plus advocates,
Does one get ordained to be anadvocate? How does that process work?
Is there a certificate you need toget? Say? This practice of

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asking parental consent of a student wantsto change their name, pronouns, or
general identity on their school record canpotentially out students to their parents and might
compromise their safety at home. Itmight, but it probably won't if you
take the default assumption that parents aren'tchild abusers. Other school districts in the

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state are facing similar issues, butno changes have been made to state or
federal law. This is such anignorant article. The Governor Knwsom literally just
signed this precise law that basically schoolstarting probably this upcoming school year, schools
will not be able to tell aparent that a child is changing their gender

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identity. Starting this fault. ThatGovernor knwsoon just signed a bill saying that
school if a child wants to goby the opposite gender. The school can
has to maintain that for their ownrecords, or respect that kid's choice and
not tell the kids parents if thekids don't want it. The unresolved issue,
Diaz writes, is likely to comeup again for the district. Well,

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yeah, because it's now resolved.The state has signed this law.
The state has signed this monstrous law. Let me add where basically we're we
take this default assumption that parental involvement. If the kid doesn't want the parents
involved, that parental involvement is harmful, which seems to me ludicrous. The

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district's perspective, Close Unified will continueto use the student site Plan, the
form that requires parental consent if astudent wants to change their gender identity at
school. District spokesperson Kelly Evans saidClovis schools will follow the laws as they
stand now, but if a studentwishes to change their identity presentation informally not
filling out a student site plan,they can verbally ask their friends and teachers

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to identify them by a different nameand or gender if they want to.
Since California law allows for students touse facilities based on their preferred gender identity.
So Kelly avants Is Clovis Unified ispointing out, look, if the
kid formally wants their records changed,we got to okay that with the parents,
because we're not going to lie tothe parents. We're not gonna have
some records. We're not gonna haverecords to the parents talking about how Johnny's

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doing in school, and then ourinternal records talking about how Joanne's doing in
school. If the kid informally wantsto ask kids to call him or her
by a different name, that's fine. If the kid wants to dress a
certain way, that's fine. Ifthe kid wants to use different facilities,
that's also fine because California law requiresthat kids can use whatever facilities they want.
But if they want us to changethe records, we got to tell

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the parents. The Fresno Bee thinksthat this is quote putting students at risk,
but guess what, this law waschanged by Governor Newsom. Club is
Unified won't even be able to dothis anymore. The Fresno Unified fication begins,

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or rather it continues facility use byoutside groups and religious meetings at schools.
The Bee reported that rather than allowa parent who leads an LGBTQ plus
group to host an inclusive reading hourat the elementary school their child attended.
The district canceled access to facilities forall outside groups before and after school hours

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challenge before canceling all reservations for thetwenty twenty three twenty twenty four school year.
The district had alread approved the reservationsfor two religious groups. Some months
later after reservations were canceled, theb also investigated how some parents believed a
religious group on campus appeared to beluring students into recruitment meetings using free pizza
at lunch. The district's perspective sofar, the board can still decide if

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they'll either approve or deny facility reservationrequests by group for outside groups before or
after school hours for the twenty twentyfour to twenty twenty five school year.
During their future meetings, the districtpoints out that the Fellowship of Christian Athletes,
which offer the free pizza in exchangefor listening to a pitch about Christianity,
was President Schools because it has affiliatedstudent clubs established by students across the
district. That's the same as otherculture and identity clubs such as Latino Pride

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and hobby oriented student groups. Sobasically they're mad that Clovis Unified cut off
club use of facilities during school hoursor during during the week days, I
think, and they thought it wasin response to LGBT groups. But guess
what, guys, inexorably, themore public pressure that's put on this,

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they're going to have to allow moreand more LGBTQ reading groups, et cetera,
et cetera, et cetera. NowI can go on and on and
on, but I think two ofthe things that are really going to change
Close Unified very fundamentally are going tobe unions and changes to Close Unified elections.

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And we'll talk about that next.This is the Johnts' already show on
Power Talk Fresno Unified. Afication ofClose Unified continues to pay a pace.
A big long story in the Fresnobe written by Laura Diaz is talking about
all of the liberal complaints. Basically, it's laying out in one article all
the complaints that liberals have about CloseUnified. And what I'm here to tell

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you is that in every circumstance,all of these things are going to inexorably
bend to the will of liberals.Close to any kind of conservative distinctives that
you like, You, the CloseUnified parent, you, the Close Unified
employee, any of the conservative distinctivesthat you like about this school district will

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all go away. They will allinexorably fall to the sword of liberalism,
piece by piece by peace. Everythingthat makes Close Unified different and distinct and
in many parents' eyes better, thefact that teachers aren't unionized, the fact

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that maybe maybe some sense that it'sculturally a little bit more conservative at Close
Unified, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. All of that will
fall. And two of the waysit's going to fall is with the changes
in Close Unified Board UH Board ofTrustees elections and union unionizing. All right,

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so let's let's begin with how CloseUnify School Board seats are elected.
Up to now, people who aremembers of the Close Unified School Board are
elected via at large voting, Soeveryone who lives within the region of Close

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Unified School District gets to vote onall of the Close Unified School Board seats.
A Close Unified School Board member thereforeis obligated to represent what is in
the best interest of the whole schooldistrict. No one school board member is

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sort of locked in to representing theinterests of one school within the school district.
That that latter approach is how presidentUnified works. So this person is
the Fresno High Rep. This personis the Hoover High Rep. This person

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is the Bullard High Rep, etcetera. They represent certain regions within Fresne
Unified School district. The Bullard Representative, for example, does not represent the
interests of is not accountable to thevoters of the region around Fresno High School.

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He or she is just accountable tothe voters who live near Bullard High
and that has led to real complaintswith Fresno Unified where there have been For
example, I think this has beena complaint because well, it's usually been
a complaint against whoever represents Bullard Highbecause generally Bullard High has been one of

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the more conservative seats on the fresnentUnified School boards. Near Old fig parents
there are more conservative that the BullardHigh Rep. Doesn't care about anything that
goes on for the Fresno High kidsor for the Hoover High kids, or
blah. Blah blah blah blah blahblah. And I think that is problematic,

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or it certainly can be now theway it was constantly phrased with Clovis
Unified, and legal changes came aboutto sort of force Close Unified's hand here
from the state level, obviously pushedby I'm sure kind of the Dolores Wertas
of the world, who are lookingat every kind of voting and redistricting system

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possible within California in order to maximizeliberal influence even in more conservative parts of
the state, more conservative regions ofthe state. That basically, if you
have at large voting within Close Unified, then more liberal pockets of the district
won't get a more liberal representative.And they always frame it in terms of

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racial justice. Oh, that Latinosare shoved out of the vote Clovis Unified,
which is preposterous, it's all.I think. It's frankly preposterous and
a little insulting to Latinos who livein the San Joaquin Valley. Like many,
many, many, many, manymillion, hundreds of thousands of Latinos

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live in the San Joaquin Valley havelived here for generations, and the idea
that their voting interests are so distinctfrom that of their white or Asian neighbors
is almost insulting. The idea thinkingof Latino voters in the San Juquin Valley
as a monolith, I think isfrankly ridiculous. Well, Clovis Unified school

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board elections are now going to beregional, So the Clovis East Rep.
Might not give a damn what theBuchanan High Rep. Cares about. The
Clovis North Rep. Might not givea damn about what happens to Clovis South.
The other big thing is unionizing.So the state of California forced Close

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Unified's hand to disband the Faculty Senate, which was kind of the non union
body for addressing teacher concerns that CloseUnified had always sort of propped up.
Unionization is going to happen, soover time, well, I mean,
I'm not breaking any news here,but over time, I think unionization is

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inexorable. And one of the thingsI hear from CLOSE teachers is that all
the new teachers coming in fresh outof Fresno State, they all have this
Fresno State, liberal California teacher attitudethat we got to unionize. We got
a union. Unionization is the onlyfair thing we got to fight fight for.
You know, we got to getmore money, more money, more
money, more jobs, more money, more jobs, more pay, less

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work, because that's a union's job. It's not to educate kids. The
job of a union, the jobof any union is to get more pay
for its membership, more job,yes, better hours, fewer hours.
Namely, that's the point of aunion. The point of a union is
not to educate kids better. Itis about jobs for adults. That's the

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point. And we can see withinPresident Unified how the focus of the union
on again jobs for adults rather thaneducating kids. It was not helpful at
all during the COVID pandemic. Itresults in President Unified having worse scores even

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for kids with a higher socioeconomic background. So I guess I'm just you know,
it's not like Close Unified teachers arepaid a pittance. Close Unified teachers.
If you stay in, you getpaid pretty well over time. It
awesome benefits. But just know,Close Unified is going to look more like

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President Unified over the next ten years. It's not gonna look it's not going
to continue to keep its distinct characteristicswhen we return my thoughts on JD.
Vance, the changing Republican platform andmore. That is next on the John
Girardi Show. About a month ago, if you had told me that Trump

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was going to pick JD. Vanceto be his running mate, I would
have been ecstatic. He was mytop choice. I think he would represent
something really positive for the Republican Partyas a whole. I think he would
represent a move away from the corporatewelfare bending and scraping the knee before libertarian

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economic conservatism that I think is reallya helpful and positive change on the Republican
Party. And this shift in theRepublican Party that you can see in things
like the head of the Teamsters istalking at the Republican Convention. That's a
big deal. Republicans should want toget laions on board with their party,

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and people seem to forget that.How did Ronald Reagan get huge electoral majorities?
Well, he got him in partbecause he had labor union voters voting
for him. How did Nixon gethis majority? He got normal blue collar
labor union guys to vote for him. This is an unabashedly good thing having

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a candidate like Mitt Romney that nolabor Union voter ever wants to vote for
is not good. So I wouldhave said, I think Vance is a
great thing. And part of mycontention that Vance is a good thing was
his sort of impeccable pro life qualifications. Then a week plus ago, after

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Trump mentioned it during his debate,Vance goes on a side show and says
that he supports quote access to MEPhIpristone. MEPhI pristone is the abortion pill
miph a pristone is a drug thatis used to bring about abortions up to
ten weeks into a pregnancy. Now, it does have some off label uses

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as part of miscarriage care, andfrom what I'm seeing of the medical literature,
seems like it's more it is beingused more often for miscarriage care,
or at least as of a fewyears ago, it was one of its
off label uses was for miscarriage care. And need to kind of check into
this to see if it's being usedtoday. But basically, when I heard

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him say I support access to MEPhIpristone, and this follows up with Donald
Trump saying, you know, Ihave the Supreme Court got it right that
we shouldn't ban MEPhI pristal. Youknow, that really angers me because and
just to reiterate this, I don'twant to turn this too much into right
to life radio. If we're talkingabout the abortion issue, there is a

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lot of focus on stuff that Idon't think is very important or likely to
happen, and not enough focus onstuff that is one hundred percent within the
control of the presidency. Namely,we are very focused right now on well,
is abortion abortions should be decided bythe states. That's what you know.
That's what overturning role means. Itmeans the states can can can ban

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abortion. I don't know that thefederal government should vote to ban abortion.
And the focus is on laws toimpose like a gestational ban on abortion.
And what I'm here to tell youis that that's not actually the most important
thing right now with regulating abortion.The most important thing right now with regulating

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abortion is the legal status of theabortion pill. Why a lot of people
don't realize this, but sixty threepercent of abortions today are not done via
surgical abortions. They're done via theabortion pill. So basically this drug called
mifa pristone. But this is notthe morning after pill. This is the

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abortion pill. The morning after pillis called levon or gestrel. The abortion
pill is called mifa pristone. Mifapristone can be taken up to ten weeks
into a pregnancy in conjuncture with thisother drug called missaprostyl to artificially bring about

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a miscarriage. That's the idea.Up to ten weeks into a pregnancy,
you take a drug that, basicallyMiFi pristone, alters the lining of the
uterus so that the baby and theplacenta detached from the uterine wall. Baby
is cut off from food supply,baby dies. You then take miss aprostyl
to induce labor basically in you,and the child's body is evacuated from the

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woman, is expelled from the woman. That's what the abortion pill is.
And sixty three percent of abortions aredone via the abortion pill. This is
a radical change. I think mostpeople when you say abortion, they think
of a surgical procedure done by adoctor. Sixty three percent of the time
in America, that's not the caseanymore. It's done by this drug.

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And the reason why it's sixty threepercent of the time is because of two
events Barack Obama in twenty sixteen,his FDA altered the regulations around the abortion
pill. They allowed it to beprescribed in the first ten weeks of pregnancy,
rather than before when it could onlybe prescribed in the first seven weeks

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of pregnancy, and they lessened alot of the other health and safety regulations
around it. You don't need apre appointment and a post appointment for the
abortion pill anymore. Then in twentytwenty one, Joe Biden further loosened the
restriction, saying you didn't need anyin person appointment, that you could have

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the abortion pill prescribed via Tella medicine. So you don't get an ultrasound,
you don't have a doctor confirming thegestational age of your baby. You don't
have a doctor checking to see maybeyou're having an ectopic pregnancy rather than a
normal pregnancy, where the baby's growingin your philopian tube rather than your uterus,
and the abortion pill won't do anything. The baby will keep growing in

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your filopian tube and maybe kill you. And there's no post there's no follow
up care. So if you havean incomplete abortion and you're suffering horrible infection,
your post op care you're after thefat care is going to the er.
If you're suffering horrible hemorrhaging, whichthousands and thousands of thousands of women

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do, after the abortion pill,you go to the er. So Barack
Obama and Joe Biden massively loosened therestrictions around abortion and guess around the abortion
pill. And guess what between twothousand and twenty, Between twenty twenty and
twenty twenty four, the number ofabortions in America have skyrocketed by about one

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hundred thousand, and the number ofpill abortions in America have increased by about
one hundred thousand. Joe Biden's deregulationof the abortion pill is resulting in enormous
increases in the number of abortions thathappen in this country. And it's because
of how the FDA regulates the abortionpill. So if we're going to elect

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a you know, quote the mostpro life president in history, end quote.
If we're going to elect a presidentwho's not going to do anything about
the FDA regulations on the abortion pill, then what are we doing. FDA
regulations on the abortion pill are thesingle most important abortion issue. Not passing

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a federal or even a state gestationalage I mean, passing a federal gestational
age limit is likely just not goingto happen because you need six Steve votes
in the Senate, and it's unlikelyRepublicans will get that. It's more likely
that gestational age limits will be passedat the state level. If that's all
that Donald Trump and JD. Vancewant to do, that's fine. But

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regulating the abortion pill is critically important, and both Trump and Vance have said
stuff saying that they don't necessarily They'vebeen very mealy mouthed about it. Let
me just put it that way.So for those reasons, I haven't been
super thrilled with Vance, but letme let me moderate myself. Vance has

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been impeccably pro life. Outside ofthat one comment on a Sunday show about
quote access to the abortion pill,Vance has been impeccably pro life, and
I guess if anyone deserves some kindof benefit of the doubt, it would

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be him. And I will sayfor other kinds of social issues, his
presence within the Trump administration does giveme enormous comfort because I think he's got
his head screwed on right on allof these social issues. Now, how

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much influence will he have? Howmuch influence does any vice president have?
Frankly, I don't think much.I think the vice presidency is kind of
massively overrated. Mike Pence I don'tthink. I think Mike Pence was kind
of active, sort of the firstyear or two of the Trump administration,
but you never heard from him frombasically twenty eighteen onward. Kamala Harris has

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been a total joke as a vicepresident. Joe Biden was a total joke
and useless as a vice president forObama, So maybe any vice presidential pick
is useless. I will say though, that I think Vance comforts me in
certain respects with Trump. It makeshim more socially conservative or more social conservative,

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appeasing, and I guess my hopewhat I want to see is some
kind of commitment by the Trump Vanceteam to something about what they're going to
do with abortion questions. I wantanother list of who their perspective Supreme Court
picks are going to be. Ithink having Vance with Trump enormously comforts me

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for the kinds of Supreme Court justicesthey're going to pick. Vance actually would
have real cogent opinions about the subjectcould actually help the White House in that
process. He's a Yale lawyer,He's no dummy. As opposed to I
don't think Pence would have been ableto advise in quite the same way.

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I think he was just like,Yeah, whatever the Federalist Societ he wants
to do. I think Vance isgoing to be a bit more of an
independent, interesting thinker. So I'mI am made more hopeful by the Vance
pick. When we return, theexcuses from the Secret Service get more and

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more implausible next on the John GirardiShow, the more I hear people try
to kind of defend the Secret Serviceafter President Trump got shot in the air,
the less convincing it all seems.So we now got stories yesterday that

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the building that the shooter was perchedon top of, which is like it's
one hundred and fifty yards away,it's an elevated spot. Other people I've
heard, I don't know. Listeninga bit to Glenn back this morning,
he had somebody on saying, yeah, that's like the thing to avoid elevated
purchase about one hundred fifty yards away. That's like the perfect place for a

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sniper. The more I read likeapparently the Secret Service were inside that building
that the guy was on top of. They had heard about him like a
half hour before. Now I'm gettingthis thing saying, well, why didn't

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you have a Secret Service sniper onthat building? And I said, well,
it was a sloped roof, Like, well, deal with it.
You're the Secret Service. You're abunch of big, tough, strong guys.
You can be on a sloped roof. And by the way I saw
the video, it wasn't that sloped. I went on the roof of my
house to chase a neighbor's cat offof it who was trapped. My house

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was way more slope than that.Here I am risking life and limbs so
that my neighbor, my stupid neighbors, who my neighbors aren't stupid, I'm
being made I don't like their catthough, so the stupid cat can get
off the roof. You know,here I am risking life and limb for
a cat. These people are supposedto protect a former president of the United

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States, the current front runner forthe presidency. They can't get on the
roof, by the way, theywere on another roof that was also equally
sloped. And this is the thingabout this This just feels like such an
a Biden administration thing. Something disastrouslystupid and bad happens. You learn more

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that the people at on top ofwhatever that group is is some kind of
left wing loser who is very concernedabout a bunch of dei stuff and not
as concerned about doing their actual job, like General Millie from the Joint chiefs
of Staff, for example, Bigtime lib we have the whole Afghanistan withdrawal.

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It goes disastrously. What do weget. We got a bunch of
leaked stories about how, oh itwasn't their fault, it was all Biden's
fault. No one gets fired,no one gets in trouble. Everyone we
have complete confidence in everybody. Noone did anything wrong. And as I
said yesterday, this feels like aRezipsa Locwitter kind of situation. The idea

(37:15):
that you know, if a pianofalls on you as you're walking down the
street, there's no way a pianofalls on you without someone not doing their
job right, without someone being negligent. A president of the United States doesn't
get shot in the ear without theSecret Service having maybe screwed something up.

(37:38):
And to the point of like,oh, the sniper had the guy in
his sights, but he couldn't shootuntil after the shooters shot. What do
you mean if you saw a guy, why not? Why didn't you shoot?
If you saw that he was ona rooftop? Did they not see
that he was holding a gun?I just the more I think about,

(38:02):
I don't want to go into conspiracytheory land, but boy, I'm getting
tempted to go into conspiracy theory land. That'll do it for John Girardi Show.
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