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Speaker 1 (00:00):
More money per pupil than any country, and the Sun
even close. We ranked near the bottom of the list
in terms of success. Those are two stats. You don't
want the most money spent per pupil and you're at
the bottom of the list. And that's when we are
like it.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
We're not. You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Good Friday morning.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Ben Ferguson with you, and it's so nice to have
you on the forty seven Morning Update. And here are
the big three stories we're talking about today. Donald Trump
signs the executive order dismantling the Department of Education. So
what does this mean for you in the state that
you live in. It's going to have a big impact,
and I'll break it down for you. Also, Hollywood going
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all in against Elon, even accusing him of quote killing
people as they organize to terrorize Tesla owners and dealerships
and finally attempted murder. Fifteen plus conservatives have been targeted
by swatting attacks in a one week period.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Who's behind it? I'll explain that as well.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
It's a forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Story number one.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
It is official the Department of Education has been significantly dismantled.
In a new Donald Trump executive order, the White House
says the initiative seeks to turnover education do families instead
of bureaucracies.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
The President explaining it this way, Today.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
We take a very historic action that was forty five
years in the making. In a few moments, I will
sign an executive order to begin eliminating the federal Department
of Education once and for all. And it sounds strange,
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doesn't it. Department of Education. We're going to eliminate it.
And everybody knows it's right. And the Democrats know it's right,
and I hope they're going to be voting for it
because ultimately it may come before them, but everybody knows
it's right. Then we have to get our children educated.
We're not doing well with the world of education in
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this country, and we haven't for a long time.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
We haven't for a long time.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
The President said on the campaign trail that it was
time to return education of parents and communities, and he
also said in this executive order that it directs the
Secretary of Education to quote, take all necessary steps to
facilitate the closure of the Department of Education. Return education
authority to each state while continuing to ensure the effectiveness
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and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which
Americans rely. In translation, he knows the fear mongering the
left is going to do, claiming that a school will
close and your kid will not be educated during this
time of change, President making it clear in the executive
action that is not an option. The order also directs
that programs or activities receiving any remaining Department of Education
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funds will not advance DEI or gender ideology. Dismantling bureaucracy
and empowering families is what this order is all about.
Federal government control of education has failed students, parents, and teachers.
The President saying this about the history of the Department
of Education.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
President Carter created the Federal Education Department in nineteen seventy nine.
It was opposed by members of his own cabinet, as
well as the American Federation of Teachers, the New York
Times editorial board, and the famed Democrat Senator Daniel Patrick moynihan.
History has proven them right, absolutely right. After forty five years,
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the United States spends more money on education by far
than any other country. And spends likewise by far more
money per pupil than any country, and it's not even close.
But yet we ranked near the bottom of the list
in terms of success. It's an amazing stat Those are
two stats you don't want spent for pupil, and you're
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at the bottom of the list. And that's where we are,
like it or not, and we've been there for a
long time.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Just how bad is it? Well?
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Since nineteen seventy nine, the Department of Education, which does
not directly educate students, has spent over three trillion dollars
without improving student achievements as measured by Standardized National Assessment
of Educational Progress scores. The federal taxpayers have spent around
two in dred billion in additional education funding during COVID nineteen, which,
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given the substantial learning laws that resulted, typifies the ineffectiveness
of the current federally driven model. Mathematics and reading scores
are down in public schools as well, despite per pupil
spending having increased by more than two one hundred and
seventy five percent since nineteen seventies, indicating that more spending
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does not mean a better education for our kids in
public schools.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
How bad is it?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Thirteen year old's mathematics scores are the lowest they've been
in decades. Thirteen year old's reading scores are the lowest
since testing began over thirty years ago. Right now, and
low performing students are following further behind.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
In twenty twenty three, thirteen Baltimore.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Maryland high schools had zero students who tested proficient in mathematics.
The Department of Education burden schools with regulations and paperwork.
The President said as well, saying it's time now to
allow the states and ultimately the parents to do what
is best for their kids. To put in perspective, Biden's
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Department of Education added rules that imposed nearly three point
nine billion in costs and four million, two hundred and
thirty nine thousand, five hundred and thirty paper work hours.
If you want to know what's killing our education system,
it's clearly the bureaucracy of the federal government.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Now, story number two, there is a.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
War happening right now against every Tesla owner in the
country and every dealership and every employee Tesla, and it's
being organized by the left. You may have noticed a
trend that every time the left doesn't get what they want.
There is money that comes in to organize quote activists
to go after whatever it is they want to get
rid of. You may remember the summer violence. We're even
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on TV as police stations were being burned to the
ground behind reporters. They were calling the protest quote mostly
peaceful protests. Well, now their new target is Tesla because
of Elon Musk, a man that is totally saving the
American people hundreds of billions of dollars finding waste, fraud
and abuse. So what's the best way to get him
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to stop doing that work? Try to bankrupt his companies.
John Cusack, for example, the famous actor, appeared on what
they're now calling a Tesla takedown. They even have graphics
and in essence of TV channel where they talk bad
about Elon Musk and make people want to burn Tesla's
or shoot them up, which is exactly what's happening all
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over the country. What did John Cusack actually say? He
said that Elon Musk is quote literally killing people. Why
would he say that to justify the extreme violence coming
from those that have been activated. Here's what he had
to say on acts about Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
He said, you know, Musk is kind of this arch
villain of late stage capitalism, and he seems like this
clown and this buffoon. Like Alex said, you know, this
is a man who made a sighile Nazi salute not
only in public, but at a presidential victory party. It's
good to remember that these are unprecedented times of mass
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criminality going on in the United States right now, and that,
like Trump, Musk is a pathological liar. He's a criminal,
he's a sociopath and a ghoul. And I mean those
terms very precisely because who else would use his own
child as a sympathy prop while literally taking starving aid
away from people all over the world. He's literally killing people.
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People are going to die because of this madness. He's
a man who threw eighty thousand people from the VA
out of work indiscriminately. And as far as the plunder,
I would urge everybody to really follow Bernie Sanders Fighting
Oligarchy tour and listen to what he has to say,
because the list of abuses is too big to even
tackle within five or ten minutes. But I think it's
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important to know that not only are they trying to
steal everything that isn't bolted down to the floor. But
as they get into these systems and plunder, they're also
He's also interested in the metadata. So when he gets
into the treasury, the metadata is all the connections between
all of us who are talking right now. Everything we've
ever looked at online, every car we've ever tried to buy,
or time, any movie we watched, anything we've done. All
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that stuff is metadata. Is like the new oil for
these people.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Isn't it amazing that this is John Cusack literally accusing
Elon Musk of doing exactly what the Democratic Party was
doing to conservatives while on social media, and now saying
it because of these accusations, which are absolutely bogus and insane,
that now you are justified to go out and attack
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Tesla owners and the dealerships. Even the Daily Show in
other news outlets getting in on the action. This is
the host, and you can hear the audience cheering the violence, Jim.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
They're taking to the streets or the parking lots.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Should I be FBI and ATF now investigating multiple cases
of possible arsen targeting Tesla's and cyber trucks.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
The dramatic video shows multiple cars and flames.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Police say the attacker used molotov cocktails.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
It's the latest in more than a dozen instances of
arson and vandalism targeting Tesla.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
The same suspects shot more Teslas with a gun. Tesla
cyber trucks were set on fire in Kansas City, and
earlier this month, shots fired in a Tesla dealership in Oregon.
Cyber trucks on fire in Seattle.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Wow, you guys like petniacs of domestic terrorism, Jim.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
You can hear the audience. They're so excited about this
type of violence.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Thank goodness.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
The Attorney General, Pam Bondi has stepped in announcing charges
for Tesla attacks and warning against domestic terrorism, saying quote,
if you join this wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties,
the Department of Justice will put you behind bars.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Thank goodness, law and.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Order is back at the Department of Justice and at
the FBI.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
And finally, story number three.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
If there's anything that's become clear in the last two months,
is that the left has become completely unhinged. Now you
can add attempted murder plus fifteen conservatives have been targeted
by swatting attacks in a single week. A series of
swatting incidents targeting conservative commentators and journalists have transpired nearly
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every evening since March the eleventh. This according to the victims,
who are sharing video, surveillance footage and photos of the events,
sparking questions as to who is engaging in what Representative
Andy Ogles described as domestic terrorism and attempted murder. THEI
Director Cashptel, and the Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary
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of Homeland Security Christinomes have also reacted to the wave
of dangerous crimes. In terms, swatting refers to an anonymous
attacker targeting someone for making a false call to emergency services,
using anonymous tools like Google Voice or VPNs to make
it appear the call is coming from a certain location
and telling authorities a murder or hostage event is transpiring
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at a particular address. Swatting is designed to prompt swat
teams to arrive at the targeted home and descend on
the unsuspecting victims, which in the past have led to
deadly encounters and murder charges for the offender. At the
time of this story breaking, there has been at least
fifteen figures already in conservative politics and media that have
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reported being swatted within the course of the last week.
The string of swatting ensigns seemingly began on the evening
of March eleven, with info Wars reporter revealing in an
early morning ex post that six to eight police officers
used a pacism to call me by name and order
me to walk out of my house. I was handcuffed
in the middle of the street, presumably at gunpoint, though
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I couldn't tell because the lights being shined in my face.
I was then led into the house, where my wife
was woken up, and we were informed that they received
a call from someone pretending to be me threatening to
kill my family. Then after that many others received the
exact same treatment. Another reporter was swatted not once, but
twice in a single day, and many other journalists are
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now saying it's very clear they were all targeted in
a coordinated attack. Federal government now saying very clearly they
are gonna hunt down those who are making these calls
and putting conservative commentators lives at risk.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
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