Biden Responds to the College Protests

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• Biden responds to the college protests

Episode Transcript

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From Houston Way dot com. Thisis the Jimmy Barrett Show, brought to

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you by viewind dot com. Nowhere's Jimmy Barrett. All right, it
is Wednesday, Jimmy Barrett here onAM nine fifty kPr C. We're gonna
have a guest coming up later inthe show. Her name is Melissa Semmler.
Now, Melissa, I think thisis gonna be interesting. We're gonna
learn a lot together you and mebecause I I really have only had a

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chance to talk to her for acouple of seconds. She is a professor
I know at Lone Star Community College. She also, I believe is running
for Conroe ISD School Board. Butshe's also made a discovery in the library
system in Conroe ISOD that has herextremely concerned. I mean, when we
think of Conrod and Montgomery County,we think of a pretty conservative area,

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right Well, as it turns out, there's more than an ample share of
people on the left who are workingwithin Conroe, ISD. And there are
at least several library books well inparticular that she's concerned about it, and
we'll talk to her about that comingup a little bit later in the show.
Boy Scouts. Do you see this? Boy Scouts are no longer the
boy Scouts. They changed the name. Now it's just Scouting. That's it.

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They're just Scouts. There's no boyScout. I guess there's not gonna
be any girl Scouts either, andthey're all just gonna be Scouts. Now,
here's the thing. Am I concernedabout this? I'm like everybody else,
I don't really care very much forchange in most cases. But am
I concerned about it? Not?Really. I mean, you take a
look at how much Scouting has changedjust since, you know, around two

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thousand or so. I mean twentythirteen is when they ended the band on
gay adult leaders. Well, actuallyit's twenty fifteen when they did that.
Twenty thirteen is when they started allowinggay youth openly gay youth to be part
of Boy Scouting. And in thatpoint in time, you know, I
don't know if you want to talkabout the connection or not, but they
Scouting's big problem has been that theyhave had young boys and men molested,

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you know, from leaders. Theirproblem has been, you know, being
able to weed out people leading thesetroops that could harm kids. And it
is it's the same kind of problemI think you have in every other organization
that is geared towards a particular groupof people. In this case, it
was geared towards young men. Ofcourse, you may also recall twenty seventeen

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they announced that girls would be acceptedas Cub Scouts, and then in twenty
eighteen they added the Boy Scout PROGRAMMrenamed the Scouts BSA in twenty nineteen,
and there are about a thousand youngwomen who are Eagle Scouts as of twenty
twenty one. So I mean they'vealready made those changes, so it made
every other change. I think atthis point, what's the point about being

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concerned about the name change? Allright, Christy Nome, we've talked about
Christy the dog killer. We've talkedabout Christy Nome, and I want to
play a piece of audio for youand see if this has any bearing on
the case or not. You mayknow that Christy Nome, of course shot
and killed a fourteen month old dogthat she owned and it's because she said

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the dog was untrainable, and thedog was aggressive, and the dog chewed
up a bunch of her neighbor's chickens, and the dog bit people, and
therefore she made the tough determination thatthe dog needed to be terminated. And
she didn't think it was anybody else'sjob to do it but hers. That's
it in a nutshell. Her bookhas now come out, and the audio

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version of her book is out aswell. In it, she reads about
the variance of this particular dog,so we get a little bit more detail
here. Let's see if this changesthe story a little bit from what she
said. Cricket was a wire hairpointer, about fourteen months old, and
she had come to us from ahome that had struggled with her aggressive personality.
I was sure that she learned alot going out with our older dogs

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that day. I was wrong.Within an hour of walking the first field,
Cricket had blown past the group,gotten too far ahead. She'd flushed
up birds that were out of range. She was out of her mind with
excitement, chasing all those birds andhaving the time of her life. The

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only problem was was no there wasno hunters nearby to shoot the birds that
she was scaring out. I calledher back to no avail. I hit
her electronic collar to give her aquick tone to remind her to listen.
I then hit the button to giveher a warning vibration that told her to
come back to me. Now noresponse. The hunt was ruined, and

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I was livid. Some neighbors whorecently purchased a puppy from us, asked
me to stop and to check ontheir pop on the way home. Suddenly,
out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of Cricket
launching herself out of the back endof the pickup and racing across the yard.
All three of us chased Cricket aroundin circles, flailing after her while

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she systematically grabbed one chicken at atime, crunching it to death with one
bite, and then dropping it toattack another. She was like a trained
assassin. Eventually I got my handon her collar and she whipped around to
bite me. There were bloodied bodiesand feathers everywhere. When I got back

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into my truck, Cricket was sittingin the passenger seat, looking like she
had just won the lottery. Thepicture of pure joy. I hated that
dog. As I drove home,I realized that I had no choice.
Cricket was untrainable for trying to biteme, dangerous to anybody that she came
in contact with. A dog whobites is dangerous and unpredictable. Are you

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listening, Joe Biden? She wasless than worthless to us as a hunting
dog. At that moment, Irealized I had to put her down.
As I pulled into the driveway,I decided I had to deal with this
problem myself. This was my dogand it was my responsibility, and I
would not ask somebody else to cleanup my mess. I stopped the truck

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in the middle of the yard,I got out my gun, grabbed crickets
leash, and I let her outinto the pasture and down into the gravel
pit. It was not a pleasantjob, but it had to be done.
And that's the end of Cricket.So we got a little bit more
detail there, Right, did Cricketactually bite somebody? It sounded like,

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you know, Cricket maybe was goingto nip her, but it doesn't sound
like the dog was successful. SoI don't know if we can really qualify
that as a dog bite. Isthe dog fairly useless as a hunting dog?
Oh? Yeah, I agree,I agree, completely useless. But
I guess, you know, beinga dog lover myself, I guess the

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question I would ask is was thereanother alternative? I mean, should Cricket
have gone to yet another home withsomebody who doesn't expect the dog to be
a hunting dog and maybe doesn't havea lot of expectations of ever training it
to be a hunting dog, justwants it to be a family pet.
I mean, could Cricket have beena family pet for somebody or not?

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And I guess that's where we don'treally know the answer, do we.
You know, it sounds like there'san aggressive behavior problem. You don't want
to have an aggressive dog around smallchildren. But by the same token,
I really I realized that, youknow, farmers and ranchers and people who

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have dogs for the purposes of huntingand not as family pets. It's a
whole different relationship with the dog.But I would have liked to have thought
that maybe the dog deserved at leastone more opportunity in order to be able
to liveage life. Anyway, mythoughts, Hey, listen, we're gonna
take a quick break back with MorningMoment Jimmy Barrett show here a name,
nine to fifty KPRC. I knowwe've talked a lot here in the last

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few days, actually in the lastweek or so about the college protesting,
but you know, there's always anew, at least to me new,
and it's sort of interesting angle tolook at this as far as why this
is happening. First of all,how long has this been going on?
Now? At least what ten days, a week and a half, two
weeks something like that. Well,Biden finally decided he was going to speak

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out about it. Now. Nowgranted he was at a Holocaust memorial celebration,
a remembrance service, so he quitehonestly, quite frankly, probably that's
the only reason why he actually spokeout about it. But let's go ahead
and share with you what he said, which is something he should have said

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a couple of weeks ago. Here'sJoe Biden talking about the college protesting,
with some response on the other endfrom Fox's Jesse Waters. People are already
forgetting They're already forgetting it. That'sa moss unleashed, this terror. There
was a mass of brutal ees Israelison college campuses. Jewish students blocked,

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harass attacked while walking to class,anathemitism, aniseemitic posters, slogans calling for
the annihilation of Israel, the world'sonly Jewish state. It's absolutely despicable.
And now there's money coming from overseas, from radical Muslim mountfits. We've already

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figured it out. It's the Rockefellers, it's Soros, it's the Pritzkers in
Chicago. And what happens is thesekids are loaded up with CRT in high
school, so they're all tuned upwhen they go in freshman year, and
then you get these radical faculty members. They tell them that the world consists
of victims and victimizers, so they'reall ready and then an event happens,

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like a George Floyd or an invasionor anything, and then all of a
sudden, this money pours into theseleft wing outfits, and there's actual revolutionaries
that then descend onto the campus andtrain these kids how to fight cops and
train them on riot tactics. Andthis is where we are right now.
It's very similar to the way Muslimsare radicalized in the Mid East. You

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get them young, disenchanted, upsetwith the status quo, so single,
and then all of a sudden youjust blow their brains open with propaganda,
and then what do you know,they reached. I used to live near
that monument, the World War Oneone on the Upper East Side. I
used to sit and look at itand read about it. It's just sad.
We had a senior from Columbia andher dad on the show last night.

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She said, after October seventh oncampus, before Israel even struck back.
Yeah, the students were all like, yeah, Hamas, and tell
you Israel hadn't even responded, andthey were pro Hamas. She said she
saw isis flags, Nazi flags.The stuff she heard was crazy. And
she's a straight A student. Shehad an academic award, and she's so

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discouraged because she feels like when shehands an employ her resume and it says
Colombia, they're going to discriminate againsther. They probably will. I mean,
we're already heard, right, federaljudges, something like thirteen or more
federal judges have already said, yeah, I'm gonna I'm not gonna be hiring
on any Columbia grants. I'm notinterested. So yeah, there will be

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discrimination against law students from Columbia Universityas a result of this. Certainly not
all of the law students at Columbiafeel about this issue the way these protesters
do, not even close. Butyou know, they will be painted with
the same broad brush and they willbe discriminated against. I mean, I'm
glad Biden finally, you know,talked about it. But again, the

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only reason why he did is he'shad a Holocaust, rememberance, That's it.
Otherwise he would have kept as quietas Akain. These people are afraid,
These Democrats are afraid of the Muslimthe hottest squadlike fringe members of their
party. They are scared to deathof these people. And one of the
main reasons is Michigan. If Bidenloses Michigan, he probably doesn't win the

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election. And he might not winMichigan unless he can carry the vast majority
of the Muslim vote, and thereare a lot of Muslim voters is we've
talked about many times in the greaterDetroit area, just outside of Detroit and
Dearborn, Michigan. All Right,so there you go. There's one thought
here on the protesting. We're gonnaget into the motivation thing a little bit

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too, and I think I think, you know, Jesse kind of touched
on that a little bit there.What is missing? Here's the question,
what is missing? Do you thinkfrom these students' lives that they think joining
in with this kind of protesting isa good thing to do? I mean,

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are they Are they devoid of youknow? Do they have parental problems?
Do they have parents that are involvedin their lives? Do they have
parents who feel the same way theydo? I mean, what's going?
Do they not feel like they belong? What's the story here? Here's a
thought or two from Senator Lindsey Grahamon the college protesters. Well, I
think the Department of Justice needs toinvestigate where the money is coming from.

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There's two classes of people here.Anti Semites. If you say we are
her mass and you mean it,then you are a religious Nazi. If
you say we are her Moss andyou don't know what a moss is all
about, your dumb ass. Sothere's dumbasses and there's terrorist sympathizers. And
how do you fix this when inNovember? Here's what I can promise you.

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If Donald Trump were president of theUnited States, his Attorney general would
be all over this. These collegepresidents would be under the gun to stop
this crap. So Fetterman gets it. But Schumer's quiet and Hillary's quiet,
She's a professor at Columbia. BarackObama, who went to Columbia senator has
instead a thing about what's going on? Why are these Democrats so silent?

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They're afraid of the harmas wing ofthe Democratic Party and John Fetterman's nine.
These people are not protesting to havea better life for the Palestinians. They're
protesting to make sure we kill allthe Jews. Guess what, Israel's not
going to go down without a fight. Here's what I want people to understand.
If Biden has in fact restricted weapons, put a hold on weapons to

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Israel to defend itself or withheld ammunition, that is a strategic mistake for the
Ages. It makes Terris more likelyto keep fighting. It puts Israel at
a very big disadvantage. They're undersiege. So if the Biden administration,
after giving this speech, if JoeBiden has in fact withheld ammunition and weapons

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to the Jewish State to defend itselffrom religious Nazis trying to destroy all the
Jews in Israel. That is alow point in an administration where you think
there is no bottom. Interesting,all right, I want to get one
more on this topic and then we'llmove on. But this is actually,
I think kind of insightful the factRamaswami might be onto something with this.

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I think he believes that at leasta portion of this is caused by disaffected
young people who really don't belong toanything, really want to They got a
hole in their lives that they're tryingto fill. Now in this case,
they're filling it with crap, butthey're trying to fill a hole in their
lives. Let's listen to what thevek Rama Swami has to say about some

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psychological insights into some of these protesters. I think the reality is most people
on the college campuses do not agreewith the use of these disruptive tactics to
destroy their universities. So I personallythink this actually presents a not to take
it to the reman politics for asecond, but a political opportunity for Republicans

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if they just have the courage toshow up this year on college campuses this
fall. I mean, you lookat swing states, most of them have
great college football teams. People aregoing to be tinged by what ended up
happening this spring. There's an openingto say, you know what, you
might not have thought of yourself asa patriotic pro American conservative or whatever,
but many people on those college campusesare hungry for the alternative to what they're
seeing set up in these artificially setup encampments and artificially constructed building takeovers on

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their campuses. And so I thinkthat's the first learning is this is not
just supposedly a tyranny of the majority, that these people are standing up against
chanting intifada, when in fact,if you listen to the audio, many
of them are chanting infitata. Theydon't even know the word they're supposed to
be chanting. Even that fringe minorityis really just hungering for purpose and meaning

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and identity, and they are lookingfor it any place they can find it.
It's like the equivalent of, youknow, you have these commercial parades
in Manhattan. In one week you'llhave the Dominican Republic Parade, and the
other week you'll have the Puerto RicoParade, and the next week it'll be
the India Day parade, and whenI used to live in Manhattan, when
I was in my early twenties,one of the things you would notice is
it was the same people in eachof the parades. They were just paid

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people who were doing the same musicand backflips. And that's fine, there's
nothing wrong with that in that context. But that's what it reminds me of
here, where the same people whoare marching for one cause in the aftermath
of George Floyd's death are the samepeople setting up encampments and quasi violent riots
in a different context. They arestarving, just as other peop people are
doing it for money in the contextof commercial parades. In this case,

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they're doing it in a perpetual searchfor satisfying their own hunger for purpose and
meaning. Got no purpose, gotno meaning, so they latch onto something
that might give them that. Iguess that's what he's saying. Now.
That may be true of some ofthe students, but that is in no
ways true of the organizers of this. They're died in the wool Marxist but

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they've got young people who are desperatefor something in their lives that they can
mold into whatever it is they wantthem to be, and they've been fully
indoctrinated since high school, so they'regood to go. Hey, a quick
thought on the police chief situation herein Houston though, before we take a
break. Troy Finner resigned last night. Probably was asked to. He is

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the fall guy. He's the lastman standing art Oscevedo. This whole thing
began during the tenure of Art Oscevedo'spolice chief in the City of Houston and
Mayor Sylvester Tix. They are notaround anymore. They're not around anymore.
John Whipper is in charge now andJohn Whipper has to be the person responsible
for trying to make changes to makethe police department accountable. So Troy Fenner

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is the last man standing. Heturns out he knew several years before.
He had admitted to knowing that caseswere not being investigated. There are thousands
of cases that were not being investigateddue to a lack of manpower, lack
of ability to do so. Wehad Doug Griffith on our morning show today
on KTRH from the Houston Police OfficersUnion. He's probably still continuing. It

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probably is going to continue. They'regonna have to be more transparent about it,
but it's probably going to continue untilthey hire more officers, will hire
more help, which they seem tohave been unsuccessful at doing and probably can't
afford it this point anyway. AllRight, quick little break back with Moore
in a moment Jimmy Barrett Show hereon AM nine to fifty KPRC. All

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right, we're back here in anine fifty KPRC Jimmy Barrett Show. We're
going to talk to a young womanwho is an instructor at Lone Star College.
She also has kids in the ConroeISD Which I think is probably the
main reason why she's found out aboutthis is she's involved in her kids' life.
She's, hey, this just inMom and dad. Pay attention to

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what's going on in your kids' school, right. You learn a lot of
things. Sometimes you'll learn a fewthings you don't want to learn, but
it's good to be informed. MelssaSemler, Welcome to M nine to fifty
KPRC. First, before before weget into the book that you're concerned about,
how did you find out about thisstory? Well, I was preaking
dinner in my kitchen one night andwe have my daughter's computer in the Kicken

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because we want to monitor her Internetuse and stuff like that. But we
had put as a state a staatelike fite as our Connor I s c
portal. And she went and shewas in the Connor I s portal.
She went into Sora and she wasreading this dirty book out loud while I
was poking dinner. My son camerunning in. He fied he thought she

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was going to read them a story, so he caught some of it,
and I was so stunned. Itjust took me a second to shut it
down and figure out what was goingon where she was getting this information from.
So hang on, we're not talkingabout a book in the library.
We're talking about a book available online. Yes, they have an app called
Sora and it gives them a lotof books online as well. Wow,

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what is the name of this book? The name of one of the books
was Queerfully and Wonderfully Made. Butthere were several and what was in the
book that she was read read thatyou found so offensive? Well, the
book was actually recommending that children visitgay sex shops if they think that they

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might be gay, so that theycan find a community that supports them.
Okay, did it do anything else? Did it describe anything of a sexual
nature? Yes, quite a fewthings. Okay. It actually encouraged children
to try having sex with lots ofpartners. And then at the end of
that chapter it said, but wedon't recommend doing this if you're under eighteen.

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But then when you look at theage group for the book, it
says four ages twelve to eighteen.Okay, So first of all, you
don't is your daughter? How oldis your daughter? She twelve or older?
Yes, she's thirteen. Okay,so I'm guessing you have to be
of a certain age too in orderto access this portal or not? Do
you Is there any sort of ascreening that goes on as far as accessing

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this conroeos D portal or can anybodywho's the computer literate enough in order to
do it be able to access it? Well, anybody that has a conor
IIC portal can access it. SoI think that they must have a group
of books for the younger kids andthe older kids, because my friends with
younger kids couldn't pull these books.But starting at seventh grade, they have

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access to everything. Okay, allright, so you could be a seventh
grader and I have access to abook like this. Did you contact Conroewist
at all and ask them about thisbook and why this book was available on
their portal? I haven't asked themabout this book, but we've asked them
about quite a few others, andthere was a lot of pushback and talk

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about trying not to push our viewson them, and a lot of talk
about not pushing these kind of viewson other people's children, basically by taking
the books out of the library.Okay, So in other words, in
other words, we get it,you're conservative, you don't like it,
but not everybody is concernative like youare, so tough exactly, Okay,
all right, how far up thechain if you will. Did you go

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in con Risty Did you talk tothis superintendent or an assistant superintendent. Well,
the last book that we looked atwas discussed in the Connor I S
School Board meeting. It was reallyin Duncan and there were links in the
back of the book that children couldgo to you that would take them to

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gender affirming therapist who would recommend onlinechat rooms where kids to meet real lives,
tender people. Obviously, Melissa,you're an instructor. You work at
lone Star. You're you're used toteaching kids, probably have taught younger kids
than the ones you are teaching rightnow. How is it? Do you

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think that schools have gotten so involvedin these social issues? What is driving
this? Entirely? Sure? What'sdriving it? I know that there's a
lot of library groups that advocates songsto be in the library. They make
it an issue of inclusivity, andfrom what I can see, if there

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is somebody that's considered like a marginalizedvoice, no matter what is in that
book, they're going to push itjust to push the marginalized voice. Okay,
so they're doing it. In theireyes, they're trying to protect a
marginalized class of individuals, which isgetting to me, seems like a more

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difficult argument. When when you aremore concerned about protecting seven or eight percent
of the population than you are concernedabout protecting the other ninety two percent of
the population, that strikes me asbeing a little off. Doesn't it seem
a little off to you? It'svery off to me. And it's not
only that, but I don't knowif they're really protecting small percentage of the

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population, because that percentage of thepopulation doesn't need to be exposed to over
sexualized materials either. No, Iwouldn't think so. I mean, there
are other venues for kids who aregender confused or have other legitimate issues.
There's plenty of avenues for them togo down that don't involve the public school
system. You know, we've gottenso far away from treating, you know,

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teaching the basics, you know,to kids about education. It seems
like it's more now about social programsand ideology than has anything to do with
the real education. Yes, yeah, I've definitely noticed that as well.
So as a parent, what areyou going to or what can you do
about it? You've obviously been infront of the school board and haven't gotten

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anywhere with that. You've talked toconro isd and their officials and haven't really
gotten anywhere with that. What's next? What can you do now? I'm
not sure. I'm just going tostart going through this app and looking for
the book that are in there andtrying to figure out what's safe for my
child because I don't think anybody's writingthese books. Well, it sounds like

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you definitely makes me wonder what elseshe's being exposed to. It it sounds
like if nothing else, I thinkyou're you're teaching a valuable lesson to other
parents that you can assume that becauseit's on a school portal, that it's
necessarily something safe for your child.You really have to monitor what it is
your kids are being exposed to.Does it also make you work? Does
it make you worry Melissa about what'shappening in the classroom? Very because I'm

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not there, so I have noidea what's going on at school, what
she's being exposed to in the classroom. I do love her teachers, they're
amazing people. But they can't seewhat's on her computer screen. So if
there's something being pushed on the computerhere the conor I s portal, the
teachers aren't even going to have anyidea. And I think the thing that

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they have the lesson to learn fromthis is I mean, let's say this,
Montgomery County is one of the mostconservative places in the metro Houston area.
I live in North Harris County.You know, we have a lot
of listeners also live in Fort benCounty. These are not conservative places anymore.
Montgomery County is where a lot ofHoustonians have moved to because it is
a more conservative area. But evenin Montgomery County you have schools that are

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not necessarily as conservative as you wouldlike to think they are. Oh yeah,
that's definitely true. So I guessas a parent you're left with what
two choices here? Either carefully monitorand try to advocate for change in Conroe,
or what homeschool your kids. Ithink a lot of people have been

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born their kids to homeschool them.I know a lot of people in the
area are homeschooling their takes right now. They're so worried about what their kids
are being exposed to. And alot of people are worried about speaking up
and then being attacked for speaking upwell, and of course when when you

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do that, then you're looking atpossible, you know, retaliation at some
point in time, And there's allkinds of ways that you could be retaliated
against, including you know, yourkids being unfairly treated in the classroom.
Have you thought about I heard Ithink Steve Toast told me that you are
considering a run for school board.Is that right? Yes, I'm running
for Connor I C. School Boardin the November election. Okay, And

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what's your what's your platform going tobe Melissa, Well, first of all,
I want to know that we're safein school. I want to be
able to retain our great teachers,and I just want to make sure that
our kids are getting a really strongeducation, that they're not being indoctrinated with

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things, but they're learning the basicsthat they need to learn well. And
I would add one more to yourlist if you did. I mean,
I'm not the candidate, nor amI your campaign manager, but I would.
I would also advocate more transparency,and I think that would be good
in all of our public schools becauseif even a relatively conservative district like Conroe
does keep things away from parents thatthey don't want parents to know about because

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they don't want they don't want thehassle. They don't yeah, they don't
want to have to deal with parentsand lesslie absolutely have to. So I
would say that if you can somehowfind a way to make things more transparent,
that would be good as well.I would love transparency. I know
that that word's been used a lotin different school board meetings than in the

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district, but I don't see ithappening right now, and I would really
really like to see more transparency.Well, Melissa, we wish you all
the best best in the November election. Thanks for bringing your story to us.
It's good to talk to you.Appreciate it. Okay, thanks so
much. Yep, you take careof that. Is Melissa similar joining us
here on AM nine fifty KHPRC andthe Jimmy Baird Show back with more in
just a moment. All right,final segment coming up for today here in

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AM nine fifty KPRC. A coupleof thoughts here on our last guest here,
Melissa Semmler. First of all,remember the name. If you live
in Montgomery County and you vote forschool board and if you're looking for somebody
who's going to represent some conservative interestin the public school system, I think
that would be a good thing todo, would be put somebody like her
in office. I'm sure she woulddo a very very good job of that.

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I'm not giving a political endorsement.She doesn't need my political endorsement by
any straight to the imagination, Butagain, I think it's a great lesson.
You know, we think of certainareas as being conservative versus liberal,
and the fact of the matter isthat there are plenty of people in public
education at a variety of different levelswho are very liberal people. And I'm

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not saying that Conroe ISD is liberalor that everybody working in is liberal.
My wife works in god roic IsSD, and I can assure you she
is no liberal. There's plenty ofconservative people. In fact, I think
the vast majority of people are moderateto conservative people and really do care about
providing a great education for kids.But you know, there's always going to

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be somebody there who you're going tohave to be wary of or be you
know, be concerned about. Soagain, being vigilant, I guess is
the only real answer. And thething that's sad about that is you can
try to be vigilant, but atthe end of the day, you know,
there's not a lot of transparency inany public school. I don't care
who you're talking about. They readthey really you know, I haven't figured

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out yet if they aren't transparent becausethey don't want to deal with parents,
or if they if that's what theproblem is. Are they afraid of having
a problem with a parent? Arethey? I know that all public schools
are very adverse to bad publicity.They don't when they have fights or those

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kinds of problems. They don't wantthe general public to know about that stuff.
It happens every day, especially thistime of the year. I don't
care where the school is that anypublic school, just about especially high school,
has fights this time of the year. It's you know, it's coming
up on summertime. Kids are gettingout of school. Here in a couple
of weeks. There's just something thathappens. You know. It drives final

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exams. I don't know what itis, but you know it just they
get crazy. They get crazy andthey do crazy things. And that's true
if any public school system, nomatter how good they are, all right,
here is somebody who really does needan education. And I play this
for you. I would play thisif it was a Republican saying it,

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but I particularly enjoy playing it becauseit's a Democrat saying it. And I
think it shows one of two thingshere. Either either what she is saying
is incredibly ignorant, and it probablyis, or she is full of hyperbole

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and she's trying to exaggerate something inorder to try to gain support for it.
I don't but why she's decided todo this plays into it. I
think a stereotype I'm talking about NewYork Governor Kathy Hochel, who was trying
to make a point about providing moreeducation dollars for disadvantaged young people trying to

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learn in the Bronx. Now youand I are not that familiar with the
Bronx New York. It is whereYankee Stadium is, right, It's where
the Astros are playing tonight. Butthe Bronx is predominantly black, or majority
black, let's put it that way. It is a majority black. It
is not It's certainly not Manhattan.It's not the nicest part of New York

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by any stretch of the imagination.There's a lot of you know, poverty
level people who live in the Bronx. And you know, certainly when it
comes to education, I'm guessing thattheir test scores aren't as high as other
parts of New York City are.I'm guessing that they have, you know,
school buildings that probably need technology updatesand all kinds of things. But

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in order to try to attract attentionto the problem, how about just stating
what the problem is. We don'tneed to make outrageous statements. Kathy Hochel
basically made a statement about black childrenliving in the Bronx, not knowing what
a computer is. What how youdon't think they've ever been exposed to a

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computer? Do you think they havea cell phone? Anyway, I shouldn't
go into it too far. Here'sKathy Hochel, the governor of New York.
She's she since rescinded these comments,by the way, but here she
is trying to make a point aboutblack kids and computers, and we get
some response on the other end fromI think Greg Guttfield is the one the

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responds on this one. Bring upin the Bronx, who don't even know
what the word a computer is.They don't know, they don't know these
things. Well, clearly she's notvery bright. She was obviously elected because
of her looks. But you knowwhat, I agree with Dana, she's
being hoisted on her own petard.Not sure what that means, never looked
it up. But Republicans have alwaysbeen targeted for their hyperbole. And like

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every Democrat and liberal can read yourmind about the things you say. When
Trump says they're not sending their bestthe lips they're always talking about all Mexicans,
or when he says China virus alwaystalking about Chinese people and not the
government or not the criminals that arebeing sent here from other countries. So
they always always take hyperbole literally.We're generally better people. I say generally,

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not uniformly, but generally, soI can say, like you,
clearly she was using hyperbole, soI would grant her the allowance, even
though she the partisan dim with thatshe is would never do the same for
you or me. If any ofus said what she had said, it
would be a NonStop news cycle featuringthese sputtering, teary eyed lefties, And
of course Jesse would apologize. Idon't think any of us need to apologize

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for her, but I think he'sright about that. I mean, if
a conservative were to say something likethat, you know, black gets don't
know what a computer is, what, they'd be making all sorts of squawking
about that, you know, aboutbeing racist, a racist comment or whatever.
The governor of New York says thatin an attempt to try to you

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know, you know, beat peopleinto you know, spending more money on
education in the system than I takethat back, I didn't mean that,
and that's the end of it.It's overnumbered because she's a Democrat, therefore
she doesn't have a racist bone inher body. And you, sir,
are a Republicans, so you are, so I get where he's coming from.

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That. All right, here's onemore for you. Here's little health
update. And I know we didthis on the Morning show for forgive me.
The lines blur between the Morning Showand the Afternoon Show on two different
radio stations. I have a tendencyto forget sometimes what I've talked about on
one versus what I talk about onthe other, although a lot of times
I talk about the same things inboth. I'm pretty sure I did an
update on this for you, andI certainly did on the Morning show.

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Astrazenica, Thank goodness, most ofus didn't get that the Oxford Astrazenica COVID
vaccine that was manufactured in England.They found that it had or could lead
to rare and dangerous side effects bloodclots in this particular case, and there
were numerous deaths associated with it dueto blood clots. They have finally withdrawn

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the vaccine. There's no more OxfordAstrosenica COVID vaccine has been withdrawn worldwide,
according to the company, and theyhave admitted in court documents that it can
lead to a rare, dangerous sideeffect. The application to withdraw the vaccine,
which means they can no longer beused in the European Union, was
made on March fifth and came intoeffect yesterday, So that's now in effect,

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that vaccine no longer exists. Now. What happens going forward hard to
say, because in a lot ofcases, you know, these drug companies
were given immunity from anything that theydid, and the repercussions of those things.
I think we're going to find outas time goes on, and I

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think we already have to a certainextent that none of these vaccines were worth
a lick. They didn't none ofthem worked as far as actually preventing you
from getting COVID or spreading COVID,And all they did was cause a potential
health problem down the road, andthat will become more apparentness time goes on.

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All right, listen, y'all havea great day. See tomorrow morning,
bright nearly at five am, we'llrun news radio seven forty KTRH with
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