June 19, 2025 • 65 mins
In the 50th episode, we're diving deep into the Department of Education. Has it truly benefitted America, fostering a brighter future for our children, or has it fallen short of its mission, leading to significant shortcomings in education? Join us as we explore these critical questions and dissect the impact of education on the next generation.
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all are doing good. It is time for the long
awaited some of y'all probably thought we were never going
to get here, the fiftieth episode of the Conservative Colonel Podcast,
and we will be tackling the topic that I've been
wanting to talk about for a while, and there's going
to be a couple episodes similar to this probably down
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the road. I want to talk about universities, how crap
they are. But today we're going to talk about the
overall Department of Education, why should we should get rid
of it? And just some facts for y'all, some hard facts.
This isn't a deep dive or anything, but it's something
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me and Graves have been wanting to do for a while.
This episode was one of the first episodes I thought
of when this show was started, almost closing in on
two years ago. So I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
How would you say, celebratory episode.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah, a big episode, celebratory episode. We'll be continuing the
celebrations next week. I think it might just be me own,
but I will have an episode out on next Thursday.
We'll be reviewing the Raging movie I think I don't
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know yet. Well, we're just gonna wing next week, but
it'll be a continuation of the celebrations. So yes, tonight
is our fiftieth episode. You're getting a bit later on Thursday,
but I'm just happy it's coming out on Thursday. But
before we jump into that, there was some news we
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just could not ignore that Graves brought to my attention
that I hadn't even heard about. So without any further ado,
I'm gonna hand the betond the Graves.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Well, it kind of surprised me too, you know, yesterday
I saw something by the New York Times, which is
a liberal newspaper for sure. And if you think anything
about the Democratic Party, you know they organize really well,
they pay better than Republicans, they are usually better at
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the ground game, minus last year. And something has just happened.
You see all the chaos, like we said in the
last episode in La with all that stuff going on,
there more protests in the cities. All they do is
protests and want free stuff, and the infighting within their
own party, firing some of their own leaders of the
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dnc CO chairs and things. But now they're broke. So
the New York Times. I couldn't believe that that it's
put out by them first. I would have thought it'd
be New York Posts, who's right wing or Fox or something.
An The New York Times said that they are now
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looking at borrowing money just to pay their bills for
the rest of the year. So that means you're broke.
I mean, you're just that billion dollar a year machine
they had got dismantled, and they don't know what to do.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I don't know what to do. How how do you
manage that? How come at some point over the past
year and a half, Because like, becoming broke ain't an
overnight thing for a political group. No, you don't just
look up like you're a business and you have lost,
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you know, a good bit of money. You have to
vote to spend this money.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
You have to sign checks, and you cannot look at
me straight in the face if you're a Democrat and
be like, I just snuck up on us.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, we had no idea we were out of money,
you know. They it said in that article they increased
the amount that they're spending across the country because they
know they just lost and they're trying to but they
don't have the money to do it. So they've they've
promised that they're gonna spend more money doing stuff, but
they right now can't do it at all.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I don't know if anything describes a Democrat more then
we're gonna spend money, but we're gonna borrow it.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I think about that Biden administration, that was.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
The whole Biden administration. If I don't know if it
sums up them any better. The only thing that could
have been that my be better is the fact that
democracy was in trouble. By the way, we're a constitutional republic.
To the uneducated, I don't blame you because our education
system's crap for not knowing that. But ye, to save democy,
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we're going to appoint our presidential nominee. We're not gonna
let y'all vote on them. We are going to let us,
the big wigs choose who is challenging Trump. That would
have been Vice President Harris are now former Vice President Harris,
Thank the good Lord. But this might be better. We're
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gonna increase spending, Chairman, we're broke, Well, we're just gonna
borrow it.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
And just that's the the Democrat Party right now, along
with everything else they're doing and being out of touch
of reality. They don't know how to stop spending money.
It's like, you know, when I got my first job
and I wasn't making very much and I thought I
was making a lot, it was gone within three days,
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you know.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
So we all have those moments when we're in our
twenties where we spend our whole paycheck on something stupid.
But the fact is the Democrats are in their sixties
and fifties doing this, So I don't know how I'm
supposed to trust them with your money.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Money.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, I paid I paid taxes for the first time
this year. I had been avoiding it, like the plague.
I didn't want to pay taxes, so I've been avoiding
it like the plague. And this year's the first year
I paid taxes, and it nearly crippled me. But it
made me sit back and think, exactly what is this
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being used for? The fact that I make so little
and the government had to take at least ten percent
of the last last six paychecks. I made nearly seven
ten of nearly seven of my paychecks for the past
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seven months, and I think to myself, what the heck
are y'all using it for? And then like I figure
out it's the mating of whales in Africa or ye
assessame Street for the Iran or whatever it was somewhere
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over there, somewhere over there, and I just have to
sit back and think, oh my gosh, yep, I'm I'm
proud of my government. But with them, the funniest story
of a news story I've had on the show, I.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Really could not. I never saw it coming, just because
how big of a machine they've been. But even the billionaires,
which they are the party of, are tired of them.
And they're so desperate that today the Dodgers came out
with the things saying that Ice tried to come in
and set up to arrest the legals in the parking lot.
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Ice just said, we were never there. So the Democrats
are so desperate, and their approval is at nineteen percent,
by the way, but they're so desperate that they are
now trying to stage things to make themselves sound better,
even when America doesn't even we don't want you to
stop them. They're so desperate they're trying to make stuff
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up and it still doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I just want to point out the last major political
party to go out of business. Now, the Democrats haven't
gone out of business. They probably won't. They'll probably get
some stupid person to give them billions of dollars. But
the fact that this has happened, and look, I'm not
a fan of the two party system. I think I've
made that clear. George Washington was against it. I'm against it.
(11:02):
It really doesn't give you a choice because you can
have what we have in the Republican Party, which a
rhinos people who aren't actually conservatives leading the party. But
you don't have anywhere else to go because that's it. Yeah,
But the last time a political party went out of
business and lost all this to money was eighteen fifty four.
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It was the Whig Party. That is the last time
a major and I have to stress a major. We've
had some smaller political parties that really either didn't gain
a lot of traction are was surrounded so much by
one person that when that one person left, it kind
of folded. But the last major party eighteen fifty four
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was that because.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
The Democrats were started in like what eighteen thirty two? Ish,
I think, So if it was eighteen fifty four, now
you're the historian here, was that the Whigs that turned
into Republicans or what was the So.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
The Republicans were made up mostly of former Whigs. Yes,
so if we if we want to go on a
miniature history lesson here, the Whigs were kind of a
it's weird. They were kind of the liberals of that day.
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And it's weird because they formed a conservative party.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Well, I mean, you know, ending slavery would have been
seen somewhat, yeah, as progressive it.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Would have been back then. Yeah, and then you know
the classic it was the party for the rich back then,
and uh, the reason it didn't want to lie lot
of things just because the farmers and the poor people
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of that day and I'm quoting directly from an old
website did not like him. But like Abraham Lincoln was big.
It's it's a crazy one. It was started during the
seventeen nineties. It was led by and we're going to
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talk about this man at some point, Alexander Hamilton.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I'm controversial when it comes to viewpoints.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
You know, he is very controversial, and if you know
anything about me as a Jeffersonian, you would automatically know
my viewpoint on Alexander Hamilton. I don't like him, but
America has a crazy political history, and we might talk
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about that one day. The party switch never really happened,
I know. That's what a lot of Democrats try to
say to stay.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I was actually going to say something about that too.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Well, it's a thing about the Democrats trying to say, well,
this is what happened. Know what happens is parties realign
themselves on other issues. And some of these issues could
be conservative, some of these could be liberal. And that's
really just kind of what happens in graves Me and
you both know this. In today's world, is there any
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time a politician actually does what he says he's going
to do.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
That's extremely rare, extremely rare. And so I mean like
Trump is one of the few. Even sometimes he still
can't get something done, you know.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Exactly. So with that being said, political parties ain't no better.
So a lot of the parties changed their goals over time.
I would never say there was an actual political switch.
A lot of conservatives try to say that to basically
sound like they are just the best people in life.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Well liberals also.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Liberals also handily push it because they don't want to
be associated with some of the bad stuff in our history.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Right which what I was going to say about that
is I cannot get behind the party switch theory for
these reasons. Right here, in eighteen sixties, they you know,
the Democrat Party and the Disiocrats, which really got even
more power. I don't know if they were actually a
thing then, but it was eighteen oh okay, But in
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the nineteen sixties definitely. But eighteen sixties they had slaves.
And I don't think that the war was necessarily about slavery.
But I'm talking about just the parties which itself, they
were the ones that had slaves, Republicans' freedom, the nineteen
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sixties rights Republicans, or the reason that got past the
longest filibuster until this year was the Democrat trying to
filibuster the Civil Rights Act. Democrats didn't elect a black
Senator until the nineteen nineties, and to this day they
are still obsessed with race and identity politics. So I
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do not believe in the switch.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I don't believe in the switch for some of the
same reasons. I think you have people that rise to
power and switch what a party is all about. One
of the rare times of party just doesn't switch is
the Democrat Republicans, which was the Jeffersonian Party, and it
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just would rather go out of business than do anything.
It of course started with Jefferson Davis or Jefferson Davis.
Now you got me thinking about eighteen sixties history, Thomas
Jefferson and James Madison in seventeen ninety two and kind
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of dissolved after what I call the golden age of
conservative thought in America, our conservative politics, which would be
eighteen twenty five. After that, it's weird. We have like
one or two good years and then we don't have
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another for like a decade. Welcome to being a conservative. Yeah,
you will win for a short period, and then it
seems like people just are like, it's so good, let's
switch ideas. But this nation was founded on conservative thought.
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So I just put that out there. But yeah, no, there,
I cannot rem like that is the last time a
political party went out of business, a major one lost
all its money and had to join another party or
help form another party, which is how the Republicans today
got here, actually stealing the name from the Democratic Republicans.
The Democrat Party is not the Democratic Republicans. I didn't
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want to stress that that was another party. Formed, and
could you imagine having two parties both called sometimes the Democrats.
It was confusing. But their spiritual successor is the Democratic Party,
but that was kind of started by Andrew Jackson and
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Martin Van Buren that are the founders of the today
Democratic Party. But it just blows my mind how they
could be out of money.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Put twenty million in debt after the election, that's what
somehow what she was running for one hundred and thirty
days and somehow went over a billion dollars and went
negative twenty million.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
That If that doesn't tell you how bad the crats
didn't want Trump in office, I don't know what will.
Because if I'm being honest, that's all this was so
in Mississippi, I have this saying, if you want to
make sure your opponent looks bad, spend a lot of
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money and tell everybody that he's throwing mud while you're
throwing mud. Worked for Delbert Hoseman very well. Yeah, and
money talks and people listen. But it has to tell
you something that the Democrats went into debt trying to
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tell the world that Trump was the devil, basically our hitler,
their most famous one, and yet they lost in like
record fashion.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, every single swing state, Like I mean, how.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Do you spend that much money and still lose.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I'm pretty sure they were funding the court cases against
him for philonies that he had to go through. You know,
Biden's Department of Justice was going after Trump as well,
raiding his house things like that. So you know, they
spent all their money trying to do all this stuff
and then campaigning, even going into debt, and they they
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haven't figured out that the American people just don't want
what they're trying to do. They won't come to terms
with reality. Even after they lost the election, they're still
doing the same stuff. And because of that, they're not
getting any funding and they'd spent everything, and they just
they're going to have to change otherwise Democrat Party might
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be dying.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
And this is going to be controversial, I think, but
I would actually one hundred percent four party closing simply
because we weren't supposed to have this monopoly of two
parties being able to run the country. It doesn't allow
the expression of free thought. Also, the reason Congress has
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so much power is the thought process. And the only
reason continued it's somewhat like this today is simply dumb
luck by us are actually horrible at considering how much
we spend. There were supposed to be so many avenues
of thought in Congress, and Congress had all this power
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that Congress would basically barely do anything unless it was
very much agreed upon, and that was supposed to save
us money time. If an idea was a good idea,
it would somehow make it out eventually. All these stupid
ideas that have made it past Congress, Department of Education
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being one of them, is because of the two party system.
Because these two parties, because there's no other parties, they
work together a lot. And as we all know, the
Republicans like a I'm not gonna say that comparison that
would get me definitely canceled, and I don't want to
be canceled again like I was in the twenty fifth episode.
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The Republicans are great at agreeing with Democrats and backing down,
bringing our country continuously more to the left. Yeah, because
they get money out of it too. These corporations, these
just billionaires fundle money through our politicians. That's why you
can go into Congress broker than I am and come
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out a dead gum millionaire.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yeah, like AOC dumb as a rock, not the country,
but you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Yes, a bartender is worth more than I am. That
hurts me. A crazy bartender at that. Could you imagine
her listening to your problems at a bar, Like we
all go to bars and you know, if you're having
a bad day, you're going to talk to the bartender.
Could you imagine her giving advice to people? No, Like,
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someone just comes in, Man, my girlfriend cheated on me,
and blah blah blah, and I just kind of want
to drink and talk about it. And she just looks
at him. She does you should take her back. Just
had a rough day, guaranteed that something had come out
of her mouth. I wish I could find men that
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went to that bar and probably the crappy advice.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
She gave them. There probably are some. It was New York, so.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I forgot I was in New York. They might have
came in as a man and walked out as a
cat or a dog or an attack helicopter or heck,
they probably came out saying that they were a woman,
because that's signed it thick, ain't it.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Well, that's that's what they believe in. That's why they
got a nineteen percent approve of rating and are broken.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Yeah, it's a it's a special power, ain't. Yeah, mental unstapability.
Let's turn that into one of our political stances and
let's die on that heel.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Actually, they just you know, the ninety issues or I
guess statistically eighty to twenty issues. They choose the twenty
percent side on everything just to oppose what Donald Trump
wants to do. That's necessarily a winning risk. It is like,
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I mean, liberals are supporting Iran right now.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Like, of all the sides you could have taken, you
could have just said, you don't want to go to war.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah, you don't have to take a side of that.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
You don't, Yeah, you don't. Like you could be like, hey, guys,
like for instance, with me, guys, I don't believe the
president has the power to do this. Only Congress, convict
could declare an act of war, and so only Congress
should be Congress should at least be in the loop
on bombings fools.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
But yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Honestly don't want to see myself are my kids have
to go off to war and die in another country.
We've had enough of that over the years. You're not
supporting either side, but they're gonna double down on Iran.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Mhm.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
That's that's a special type of stupid. Like again, I
could at least respect them being like, hey, guys, I
really just don't want us to go to another war.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Well that's how I am unless Iran bombs us. But
like I said, they want to be on the twenty
percent issue every time because it's against us.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Yeah. No, I'm one of those Americans that's like, Okay,
we've been the global police force for a while now,
I think we're gonna hand it off to Britain or somebody.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Just h.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I try to mute my mic before that, So sorry everybody,
But you know, I'm tired of us being a global
police force and coming in like a dad splitting up
two kids fighting. If it doesn't directly involve us, I'm good.
And someone pointed this out to me and it made
me laugh. You know, they've been like Iran's been having
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nearly having a Newler missile for twenty years now. I
think we need to pick something else. But you know,
either way, how you follow that, We're not getting into
that issue this episode. Maybe in a couple episodes we'll
talk about it. But again, of all the sides you
could have picked on that debate, we're going to just
stick up for Iran, anti women's rights, you know, against
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the Alphabet Committee. I like to call them the LGBTQ
plus you know hashtag community. They're against everything the Liberal
Party stands for. Literally, and then the Liberal Party back some.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Because they don't live in reality, and that is why
they have no money.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
I ain't got no money, all right, everybody. Uh, we're
actually not gonna take any commercial breaks this episode unless
me and Graves are.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Just dying, I should be okay. I don't think my
neighbor's dog is trying to attack us yet.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
That's good. That's good. So was there anything else I
could have wore? We said we're gonna talk about something else.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Uh, well me, no, I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Okay, Well we'll go ahead and jump into the big
topic of this episode, the Department of Education. The Department
of Education was started in October seventeenth, night teen forty nine,
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forty five years ago. So it's still seventy nine. I
mean seventy nine. What did I say, forty nine? Uh no,
seventy nine, My bad. It was it's about forty five
years old, so my my father's older than the Department
of Education since its founding. And Jimmy Carter ran on
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this thinking, I suppose as soon as a lot of
money in big government gets involved, isn't everything successful.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
That's what democrats think.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
That's what they think. But over a forty five year
we've only increased the budget. Every year the budget has increased.
And I have a little statistic here. Let me pull
it up. The budget since its founding has been raised
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over one hundred and eighty percent, and that is around
twenty ten statistics. Enrollment is up, you know, ninety percent.
I can give them some credit.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Well, that's still double the increase of enrollment, so that's
making it more expensive for us.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Yeah, and then let's see here. Oh wait, no, I've
read the wrong line. I'm sorry. That's employees. Oh, employees
is up in ninety percent, most of them getting nice,
cushy administrative jobs doing I'm sure things that are very
important for a school, don't you think, Graves.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Well I would. I'd say it was so important to
the people employed in the Department of Education that ninety
percent of them work from home.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Oh. I found the employment of the enrollment line. It's
up five percent since we created it. Wow, So yeah,
students are definitely getting all this money, by the way,
and then everything else. Reading scores have actually dipped, like
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not even non changed. The reading scores are down a
negative percentage point.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
I'm sure my mom would agree with that.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Math has had a roller coaster over time, but never
going above scores, predating the Department of Education. It's only
went down and went back up to zero percent. And
then my favorite is science, and if this will not
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become a shock to anybody, is about fifteen down by
the nineties and then it kind of went up for
a bit, and then I guarantee you it's probably went
down in recent years simply because of what the left
had pushed. So that's some statistics for you on how
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the Department of Education has been ran. And we have
just so many more of these, don't we, Grace.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Oh, there's a lot of stats about it, you know.
I mean the fact that we've spent three over three
trillion dollars total since nineteen seventy nine on it, and
like you said, none of the numbers have gone up,
and in fact, we've gone from number one in the
world to number twenty four.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Yeah, that's a special statistic. But also, did you know
that the Department of Education has four thy two hundred employees.
These aren't teachers. These are people that decide what should
be taught. It takes four thousand people to come up
with a crappy education system. I don't really know how
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to go into that anymore than is. We've increased the budget,
We've increased how many people go into the education field. Now,
for those who don't know, I am actually a future educated.
Graves asked me why I decided to be an educator.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Why is that?
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Because history is so poorly taught? It honestly makes me cry.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I can agree American College that you know, history class
at Ole Miss, where we both went.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Don't get me started on Old Miss. Old Miss is
gonna be a whole episode. I could do a whole
episode on the downfall of the history of subject.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
I'm ranked thirty seven and mass in the world right now.
I just looked that up. Thirty seven.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
That's impressive, the downfall of our education system. And I
do want to point out and we'll talk about some
Trump victories in education in a second. And I'm sure
Graves has that statistic ready, because we talked about a
bit beforehand. But Trump can't get rid of the Department
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of Education without our help. It was made with an
Act of Congress, and as people who study government knows,
the only people that can out overrule Congress is Congress.
We need to put pressure on all our senators and
representatives because we need one hundred percent of the Republicans
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in there, and we need even a small percentage of
Democrats to agree with us. And I think we can
get it, but we have to start putting pressure on
our representatives because the other side that's putting pressure to
keep it, and we'll talk about them soon. They're getting
paid a lot to make sure that they don't want
to lose this job, right, But so only lack of
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Congress can destroy this. So hopefully by the end of
this episode, you agree with me in Graves in thinking
that the Department of Education is useless and the power
should be overturned to the states. By the way, the
federal government doesn't have the power to touch education technically,
there is.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
In the Constitution.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
And what is one of my favorite things about the Constitution.
It is this simple sentence right here, the powers delegated
to the federal government are in the Constitution, and the
powers not delegated to the federal government in this Constitution
are hereby delegated to the states. Yep, if California wants
to have a crappy education system, that's fine by California.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Yes, if you want to teach trands, they're sure. But
like the Biden administration, their Department of Education was pushing
those like trans books and sexual stuff in books that
were fine, you know to them and being a fourth
grader's library, so you know, we don't need that type
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of stuff, But that's what our taxes have been funding
m And I don't think they try to say it's
like Nazi Germany when they were burning books. No, we
just don't want you teaching our kids about that. You
should be teaching them how to do maths, so we're
not thirty sevenths of the world and how to you know,
(36:44):
I don't know actual biology, so they don't think that
they can change genders and be that at My dog
just screamed. But there are so many things that getting
rid of the Department of Education, not beteralizing it, states
getting the money and being able to choose what you
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want to.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Teach, which you could. I could, and I'm going to
because I'm a little pissed at my Department of Education
right now. You can put pressure on your state department
of education like you can't put like if I called
the National Department of Education and told them I don't
like how they're teaching American history. I think they're butchering it, Graves,
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What do you think they're going to tell me?
Speaker 2 (37:32):
They won't respond.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
They won't respond that I can go up to my
state Department of Education headquarters and bang on their door.
I live two hours from it. Even if you live
three or four hours, that's better than ten to twelve
hours MM and hoping that you can get somewhere on
the phone that will take you seriously. But you know,
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we talked about this. Readings down, math is down, science
is down. History is obviously down because you have people
that don't know who wrote the Declaration of Independence, can't
say the constitution, can't say the Declaration of Independence does
we were founded? Don't know what you were founded, don't
know that we're a constitutional republic. Heck, the majority of
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our politicians don't know where a constitutional republic.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Yeah, they all say democracy.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
They all say we're a democracy or Trump is a
danger to democracy. Well, what is a democracy? Democracy is mob.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Rule, which is literally what they want.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
Yeah, because they know they can control the mob. They've
become pretty efficient at it. Just look at the riots.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
But that's all they want is they want control and power.
But again, that's part of our history that's not taught.
People don't know who Thomas Jefferson was or George Washington was.
Really they're told that they're just bad, evil people that should.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Burn in hell slaves their party.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Yeah, yeah, they're gonna ignore the hell out of that fact.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
And well even before their party, you know what I mean,
because it was just a thing and then it was
only Democrats.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
Yeah, I mean, they don't want to teach real history.
I know they don't. They don't want to teach real math,
They don't want to teach real life skills. These students
could use, like here's how you pay your taxes, because
I might be against the majority of taxes, but we're
gonna have to pay taxes at some point.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
For sometimes in the Department of Education, they you know,
put into place like what you can teach and like
my mom would say, you could have kids that just
you know, they just don't get it. You know, you
gotta kind of change the way you teach. You got
to have more time with those. But the Department of
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Education was saying, no, you got to teach them all
the same. You know, they all take the same tests,
they all get taught the same way. It's it doesn't
work like that. Not everyone is the same.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
Exactly, and that's what makes me mad about it. There's
so many things we could be teaching at school. How
to balance a book, a checkbook, how to study a
eyeble if you're in the pine belt here in Mississippi,
how to do this, how to do that. Even if
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you don't agree with that stuff being there, well, okay,
go talk to your city, go talk to your state.
Don't make it a thing there. But the fact of
the matter is the Department of Education federalizing education when
they didn't have the power to do so, which shacker.
Our government doesn't have a power to do a lot
of things that it does has made it worse off.
(40:54):
You can't show me a single statistic that shows that
education is actually improved over the past forty five years.
It's a decline. How many times, graves have you heard
from a parent. I just don't understand what they're teaching
the kids these days. Yeah, like we have got more
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advanced than some things too, like mathematics. For instance. My
niece and nephew, God bless them, they're already on algebra
and they have TRIG and all this stuff left. And
I was like, oh, we didn't even have TRIG in
my high school. Really, but again, yeah, yeah, no, but.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
I took TRIGG in tenth grade.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
I took algebra.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Job.
Speaker 3 (41:47):
I'm gonna forget the words now, it's been so long.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
Well, my senior year, I was able to take either
a Calculus one or I took and I did Algebra three.
And then I went to college and how to do
Calculus one and two and.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
I hate I hate calculus.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
And I had a good teacher though, so therefore I
ended up with a B in it both times. You know,
that's the thing, Like, you get a good teacher, A
good teacher is like the best thing in the world.
But the way the Department of Education was trying to
get everyone to do things, you're pretty lucky to find
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some and then not have one that maybe you know,
is all caught up on their own opinions like there
are these days.
Speaker 3 (42:36):
But yeah, and like again we talked about it. Yes
we have advanced, but nothing has improved, and so that
that's kind of a hedgecrat train at grant. Grant. Great,
you got me thinking about the war now, and all
I'm thinking about is Confederate generals and Union generals. Now,
(42:58):
look what you've done. Sorry, but isn't that a head scratcher.
We've somehow improved how much information these kids are being taught,
but they're not retaining it as well. They're not learning
as well, they're not able to apply it as well.
They're not able to do anything as well. Again, we've
(43:21):
talked about it. People don't remember their history. English has depleted,
Literature has depleted, Reading and writing skills have depleted. All
these things that were are essential to being a good citizen,
being a productive member of society. Even things that we
are supposed to be teaching, is on a constant decline.
(43:44):
Since taking away the power of the states and the parents.
Mind you, parents should have a lot more saying what
their kids are being taught. Education has been on a
constant decline. As Grave said, we went from number one
in the world before the Department of Education to twenty
fourth and that is out of sixty four countries.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
And thirty seventh the mass that's the worst one. But
it's just like wow. But I just can't help but
think about the fact that all that money we spent,
it came out of our taxes three trillion, and the
states have hardly had any say. And now we are.
Speaker 3 (44:29):
Where we are. Yeah, I mean, and we're going to
talk about where the money has went. All the things
that the DoD that the Department of Education has done
and does, now, Graves, do you think that the Department
of Education, all the jobs it does, was started by them?
Speaker 2 (44:56):
No?
Speaker 3 (44:57):
No, all the things that the Department of educ provides
to education was done before them, with either smaller departments
or groups on city and state levels that had specialties
in that department. So say, you know math, how are
(45:18):
we gonna teach math? Well, how about we have these
group of mathematics you tell us, how are we going
to organize school? Well, let's have this guy that ran
this you know company, tell us, uh, And that's another topic.
How should we do this? How should we do that? Well,
(45:40):
these people have a history of doing that. Now it's
all under one big umbrella. So people think that, for example,
public schools would shut down without the Department of Education.
No public schools were around before the Department of Education. Lunches.
Kids won't have lunches anymore, braves, they'll starve to death.
Uh No, No, before that, the kids still got three
(46:02):
good meals a day. They packed the lunch or the
school even provided it in a lot of cases without
the federal government being involved. The department closing the Department
of Education will not change a thing. It will go
back to it. No, not the stuff that matters. It
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will get rid of the corruption that we've been talking about.
Speaking of corruption, let's talk about the teacher unions. The
teachers unions are some of the most powerful unions in
the United States of America. The American Federation of Teachers
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is the second largest teachers labors union in America, one
of the largest unions in America and is only dwarfed
by the National Education Association. It has roughly one point
seven million members, and the Nashal Education Association has nearly
(47:18):
two point eight million members.
Speaker 2 (47:24):
It's a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (47:25):
It's a lot of people, and it's a lot of
powerful people. You know, Unions can direct so much. But
notice I since reading about them, I noticed that they
more about protecting teachers than they are the students. Teachers
getting tenure, teachers getting pay raises, teachers getting this type
(47:48):
of ability, that type of ability, the pushing of political
ideas has come in through the teachers' unions and they
have made sure to influence the Department of Education. And
people in these unions get paid a crap ton of money.
(48:09):
By the way, I wonder where that money comes from, Grace,
what do you think.
Speaker 2 (48:14):
I'm gonna take a guess, and it's youing me.
Speaker 3 (48:17):
Yep. We pay these teachers to control the overall education
and the Department of Education. That's the funny thing. The
Department of Education pays the student unions, but the student
union tells the Department of Education how to run.
Speaker 2 (48:38):
The teachers union tells them how to run the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (48:43):
Not the whole thing. But they're heavily influential, influential, let's say, uh, political.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
Ideas, transgender boats and stuff.
Speaker 3 (48:59):
The student unions the ones that push that. The student
unions are the ones that have protected the Department of Education.
The student unions are the people that are asking for
more and more money. Why are they doing that? They
ask for more administration roles in school, they ask for
more of this more that Why. It's simple money. And
(49:23):
there's been multiple documentaries proving that the student unions hurt
students overall because they only care about the teachers. Yeah,
that's weird to say, but I'm a future teacher, Graves.
Speaker 2 (49:38):
Well, they all they want to do is get more raises.
But they'll also go on strike for you know, taking
the sexual books out of children's libraries and public school
and they'll say they're not going.
Speaker 3 (49:53):
To work exactly. The student unions are some of the
most of what's the world, the influential unions in America.
All the money they get they push back into making
sure what gets past helps them. Here's another statistic. Let's
(50:19):
see here the Yeah, the moneies go to the unions
and administration, not students. It goes to making new administration positions.
It goes to unions to help to help teachers. By
the way, to give the states. We talked about that, Graves.
(50:40):
I don't think me and you both agree that the
states get much of anything until Trump got into office.
Speaker 2 (50:48):
No, now, hopefully we can get Congress to actually finalize
that Yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (50:56):
Again, the teacher unions are so powerful that they have
a grip hold, a monopoly, if you will, on all
of education. They control the Department of Education. The Department
of Education almost like a figurehead someone that says, Okay, well,
(51:17):
I'm running this, but the teacher unions are so extremely
influential that I don't think the Department of Education would
dare go against this teachers union.
Speaker 2 (51:30):
They probably probably wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (51:33):
Jink Joe Minnesota and one of the last things I
found out, and then me and Graves are just gonna
shoot the crap on the education. This is kind of
the last thing I play. Actually, I have a couple
more things I could talk about. Let me pull that up.
Let's see here. I am gonna say, I got this
(51:58):
source from the Brett Cooper Show, and she is quoting
someone talking about the Department of Education. That money, in
other words, hasn't been effectively used to educate our youth.
It has disappeared into the maw of the Department of
(52:18):
Education with no accountability for failure. The departments not related
to education activities are also well known. Federal bureaucrats, for example,
spent three years seeking to replace sex in federal education amendments,
those bureaucats of the student union. By the way, in
(52:40):
federal education amendments to the Civil Rights Act with sexual
oritation and gender identity, they have interfered with the teacher's
ability to remove disruptive and dangerous students from the classroom.
I can confirm that one of my friends, who much
like me, is going into education. He had a fight
(53:02):
breakout in his classroom at least once a day, and
the school told him that the Department of Education tells
him just to sit there and call the office. Don't
break it up, don't try to stop it. Let the
kid keep beating the crap out of them. And guess what, grace,
you can't even suspend them. Well, and they have to
(53:23):
promote a seamlessly endless stream of woke politics at the
expense of are cohesive, a cohesiveness, and to undermine the
pride in being an American. Again, we've talked about this
with history. They hate America. They're going to teach you
to hate America. A critical race theory was taught in
(53:46):
schools well basically told everybody who was white that they suck.
The resulted they are turning out generations of children who
can't read or do math, but believe America is evil.
And if that doesn't sum up education, and I don't
know what will.
Speaker 2 (54:04):
Well. I mean you said something about they won't they're
not allowed to be suspended. And one time there was
a kid in my mom's class. She taught at public
school at South Panola in bates School, and this kid
fourth grade, took her phone and took it back to
his house, got on her Facebook and stuff because he
(54:25):
changed the passwords somehow. And I was out playing golf.
I got a text message from my mom saying I'm
going to kill you. I was like, what you know?
I go back to my mom's house. She's like, I
don't know where my phone is. And so we did
all this stuff, go to found my phone, and we
(54:49):
drive like thirty minutes out of Batesville to where this
phone is pinging to the kid's house and the phone
gets found. The school still doesn't spend them or give
them detention or anything. But he also takes in another
teacher there along with me that he was going to
kill them. They still didn't do anything about it.
Speaker 3 (55:12):
Yep, because it's more important to have more students because
you know what happens if schools have more students' graves
get more money, more money, and greed is definitely one
of the most powerful sins. It will make people do
crazy things. So every time the student unions or the
Department of Education say what about the children, they're meaning
(55:33):
what about my money? Because it's obvious they don't care
about this. Yeah, and I mean we even talked about
this a bit before the show.
Speaker 2 (55:45):
Graves.
Speaker 3 (55:45):
Do you think all the money goes to teachers or administratives,
are education or students or do you think they maybe
use some of their money too, I don't know, secretly
funded legal immigrants.
Speaker 2 (56:00):
Well, it seems they did that part they did.
Speaker 3 (56:04):
And I get this lovely information from Project Vertas, who
did an interview undercover with Travis Combe's branch chief of
the Department of Education, where he says that the Department
of Education is hiding segarets from DOGE and Congress on
(56:26):
encrypted apps to keep themselves out of trouble, and that
they are providing rogue sanctuary programs for illegal immigrants with
their funding. I believe it that is from and I'll
post this on our Facebook page from Project Veritas from
(56:51):
the deputy or the chief of the branch. Chief of
the Department of Education, Travis Combs in an interview where
I don't know if he knew he was being interviewed.
If he did, he probably thought it was the New
York Times the Washington Post who is going to give
him the most gloring review. But that's a story that
(57:13):
broke back in February. I haven't heard a lot.
Speaker 2 (57:15):
About there's a lot of corruption in that and all
that money too. I think it's funny that, like we said,
nothing goes up, but teacher salaries have increased, which I'm
not totally against, except for the fact that none of
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it's not increasing anything with our kids.
Speaker 3 (57:41):
Yeah, Like, look, trust me, I would love for salaries
to go up. I'm about to be a teacher. I
would rather not be poor. But if I'm not performing well,
if my students are not learning, the question has to
be stated, am I doing my job as a teacher right?
And the answer would be no. And this also asks
(58:04):
a very interesting thing Graves with this, Travis Combs fellow,
if they're spending money on this and this has just
been discovered that they've illegally used our taxpayer dollars they've
illegally used that. Let's see what they got this last
year for their budget, two one hundred and thirty eight
(58:29):
billion dollars for just one year's budget. They used some
of that money to give illegal immigrants a place to
stay graves. Do you think this is the first time
they've done that?
Speaker 2 (58:46):
I would probably say no. And I also want people
to realize that is that amount of money per year
is one fourth of what we spend on our military
per year. Who with no results, with no results, well,
(59:08):
actually stuff going in the negative.
Speaker 3 (59:11):
Not only has there not been any change, but stuff
has progressively gotten worse. We've talked about this. I think
the discipline of history is crumbling. And I can thank
universities and high schools for that. And so that begs
the question, if this is what we've caught them doing,
(59:34):
what else have they used that money for that we
don't know about? Right Like, that's a very serious question
that we need to all ask as Americans, as parents,
as teachers, as students, as citizens of this country, if
we figured out they were using illegal money for their
(59:55):
political beliefs, once there's a good chance they're doing they've
done it in the past, the past forty five years
that money could have been used for something. Yeah, and
now we've also learned that they're using encrypted mobile apps
to hide things from DOGE and Congress secret conversations. Are
(01:00:20):
they planning on using more money illegally? Are they planning
on who knows what? What are they hiding? Why can
they use their official modes of communication? Why are they
scared of what Doge in Congress is going to find?
Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
Oh? Because if you wouldn't be scared if you didn't
have anything to hide, but they do.
Speaker 3 (01:00:45):
And that's exactly the question I'm going to be asking
our listeners everywhere. What are they hiding at the Department
of Education.
Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
And what what have they done that would make you
support keeping.
Speaker 3 (01:01:03):
Yeah, we have a lot of useless departments, but I
don't know if one has been criminally promoted budget increases. Again,
I believe we have a lot of stupid departments, but
the Department of Education might be the worst. I would
(01:01:23):
go on records saying it probably is the worst most
corrupt department we have, and trust me, there's a lot
out there. The federal government didn't have the constitutional right
to do this back when it was founded in nineteen
seventy nine, and it has just made us worse as
(01:01:45):
a country. There's no if ans or butts on that.
Speaker 2 (01:01:53):
That's why you see the crazines sec out on the
streets today. I mean, everybody's been indoctrinated. M hmm, especially
in college, but even at the lower levels.
Speaker 3 (01:02:05):
Well, I mean you gotta think Graves me and you
grew up in a mostly conservative area. So if we
could say that high school was a bit indoctrinated and
our universities were a bit are very much indoctrinating us.
What about liberal cities? What about liberal areas? What about
California and New York, Chicago, Richmond, Virginia, heck, Miami, Florida,
(01:02:32):
all these major democratic liberal strongholds. What are their schools
teaching them? What is the Department of Education teaching them?
That is a very interesting question, And I honestly don't know.
If you don't think the Department of Education should be
shut down after this, I really don't know what to
(01:02:53):
tell you. I've really have no idea. I would ask
that everybody please share this episode out. Let's get this moving,
Let's get a movement start today. Everybody who watches the show,
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share this out, send it out. If you want us
to do a more in depth episode on the Department
of Education, let us know. Me and Graves will do
the research. Yeah, this is just what we found lightly
researching this topic.
Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
We hadn't even gone in to look at everything that
because you can go find what the Department of Education,
what they spend their money on. Now you can find
every single thing. Yep, most of it was not good
(01:03:55):
for us, I'll say.
Speaker 3 (01:03:57):
That, no, not at all. And so again, if this
is something that's happening now on this line of research,
could you imagine how much worse it is. So again,
please share this episode out. Let's let's have the biggest
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we get a lot of people asking for a sequel
to this, we'll do it and we'll tear it down.
But we need y'all's help. Trump cannot take down this
department alone. It's going to take Congress, and in order
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all are doing good. It is time for the long
awaited some of y'all probably thought we were never going
to get here, the fiftieth episode of the Conservative Colonel Podcast,
and we will be tackling the topic that I've been
wanting to talk about for a while, and there's going
to be a couple episodes similar to this probably down
(02:34):
the road. I want to talk about universities, how crap
they are. But today we're going to talk about the
overall Department of Education, why should we should get rid
of it? And just some facts for y'all, some hard facts.
This isn't a deep dive or anything, but it's something
(02:55):
me and Graves have been wanting to do for a while.
This episode was one of the first episodes I thought
of when this show was started, almost closing in on
two years ago. So I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
How would you say, celebratory episode.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah, a big episode, celebratory episode. We'll be continuing the
celebrations next week. I think it might just be me own,
but I will have an episode out on next Thursday.
We'll be reviewing the Raging movie I think I don't
(03:37):
know yet. Well, we're just gonna wing next week, but
it'll be a continuation of the celebrations. So yes, tonight
is our fiftieth episode. You're getting a bit later on Thursday,
but I'm just happy it's coming out on Thursday. But
before we jump into that, there was some news we
(03:57):
just could not ignore that Graves brought to my attention
that I hadn't even heard about. So without any further ado,
I'm gonna hand the betond the Graves.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Well, it kind of surprised me too, you know, yesterday
I saw something by the New York Times, which is
a liberal newspaper for sure. And if you think anything
about the Democratic Party, you know they organize really well,
they pay better than Republicans, they are usually better at
(04:29):
the ground game, minus last year. And something has just happened.
You see all the chaos, like we said in the
last episode in La with all that stuff going on,
there more protests in the cities. All they do is
protests and want free stuff, and the infighting within their
own party, firing some of their own leaders of the
(04:51):
dnc CO chairs and things. But now they're broke. So
the New York Times. I couldn't believe that that it's
put out by them first. I would have thought it'd
be New York Posts, who's right wing or Fox or something.
An The New York Times said that they are now
(05:12):
looking at borrowing money just to pay their bills for
the rest of the year. So that means you're broke.
I mean, you're just that billion dollar a year machine
they had got dismantled, and they don't know what to do.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I don't know what to do. How how do you
manage that? How come at some point over the past
year and a half, Because like, becoming broke ain't an
overnight thing for a political group. No, you don't just
look up like you're a business and you have lost,
(05:53):
you know, a good bit of money. You have to
vote to spend this money.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
You have to sign checks, and you cannot look at
me straight in the face if you're a Democrat and
be like, I just snuck up on us.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, we had no idea we were out of money,
you know. They it said in that article they increased
the amount that they're spending across the country because they
know they just lost and they're trying to but they
don't have the money to do it. So they've they've
promised that they're gonna spend more money doing stuff, but
they right now can't do it at all.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I don't know if anything describes a Democrat more then
we're gonna spend money, but we're gonna borrow it.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I think about that Biden administration, that was.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
The whole Biden administration. If I don't know if it
sums up them any better. The only thing that could
have been that my be better is the fact that
democracy was in trouble. By the way, we're a constitutional republic.
To the uneducated, I don't blame you because our education
system's crap for not knowing that. But ye, to save democy,
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we're going to appoint our presidential nominee. We're not gonna
let y'all vote on them. We are going to let us,
the big wigs choose who is challenging Trump. That would
have been Vice President Harris are now former Vice President Harris,
Thank the good Lord. But this might be better. We're
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gonna increase spending, Chairman, we're broke, Well, we're just gonna
borrow it.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
And just that's the the Democrat Party right now, along
with everything else they're doing and being out of touch
of reality. They don't know how to stop spending money.
It's like, you know, when I got my first job
and I wasn't making very much and I thought I
was making a lot, it was gone within three days,
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you know.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
So we all have those moments when we're in our
twenties where we spend our whole paycheck on something stupid.
But the fact is the Democrats are in their sixties
and fifties doing this, So I don't know how I'm
supposed to trust them with your money.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Money.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, I paid I paid taxes for the first time
this year. I had been avoiding it, like the plague.
I didn't want to pay taxes, so I've been avoiding
it like the plague. And this year's the first year
I paid taxes, and it nearly crippled me. But it
made me sit back and think, exactly what is this
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being used for? The fact that I make so little
and the government had to take at least ten percent
of the last last six paychecks. I made nearly seven
ten of nearly seven of my paychecks for the past
(09:10):
seven months, and I think to myself, what the heck
are y'all using it for? And then like I figure
out it's the mating of whales in Africa or ye
assessame Street for the Iran or whatever it was somewhere
(09:30):
over there, somewhere over there, and I just have to
sit back and think, oh my gosh, yep, I'm I'm
proud of my government. But with them, the funniest story
of a news story I've had on the show, I.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Really could not. I never saw it coming, just because
how big of a machine they've been. But even the billionaires,
which they are the party of, are tired of them.
And they're so desperate that today the Dodgers came out
with the things saying that Ice tried to come in
and set up to arrest the legals in the parking lot.
(10:12):
Ice just said, we were never there. So the Democrats
are so desperate, and their approval is at nineteen percent,
by the way, but they're so desperate that they are
now trying to stage things to make themselves sound better,
even when America doesn't even we don't want you to
stop them. They're so desperate they're trying to make stuff
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up and it still doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I just want to point out the last major political
party to go out of business. Now, the Democrats haven't
gone out of business. They probably won't. They'll probably get
some stupid person to give them billions of dollars. But
the fact that this has happened, and look, I'm not
a fan of the two party system. I think I've
made that clear. George Washington was against it. I'm against it.
(11:02):
It really doesn't give you a choice because you can
have what we have in the Republican Party, which a
rhinos people who aren't actually conservatives leading the party. But
you don't have anywhere else to go because that's it. Yeah,
But the last time a political party went out of
business and lost all this to money was eighteen fifty four.
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It was the Whig Party. That is the last time
a major and I have to stress a major. We've
had some smaller political parties that really either didn't gain
a lot of traction are was surrounded so much by
one person that when that one person left, it kind
of folded. But the last major party eighteen fifty four
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was that because.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
The Democrats were started in like what eighteen thirty two? Ish,
I think, So if it was eighteen fifty four, now
you're the historian here, was that the Whigs that turned
into Republicans or what was the So.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
The Republicans were made up mostly of former Whigs. Yes,
so if we if we want to go on a
miniature history lesson here, the Whigs were kind of a
it's weird. They were kind of the liberals of that day.
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And it's weird because they formed a conservative party.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Well, I mean, you know, ending slavery would have been
seen somewhat, yeah, as progressive it.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Would have been back then. Yeah, and then you know
the classic it was the party for the rich back then,
and uh, the reason it didn't want to lie lot
of things just because the farmers and the poor people
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of that day and I'm quoting directly from an old
website did not like him. But like Abraham Lincoln was big.
It's it's a crazy one. It was started during the
seventeen nineties. It was led by and we're going to
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talk about this man at some point, Alexander Hamilton.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I'm controversial when it comes to viewpoints.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
You know, he is very controversial, and if you know
anything about me as a Jeffersonian, you would automatically know
my viewpoint on Alexander Hamilton. I don't like him, but
America has a crazy political history, and we might talk
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about that one day. The party switch never really happened,
I know. That's what a lot of Democrats try to
say to stay.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I was actually going to say something about that too.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Well, it's a thing about the Democrats trying to say, well,
this is what happened. Know what happens is parties realign
themselves on other issues. And some of these issues could
be conservative, some of these could be liberal. And that's
really just kind of what happens in graves Me and
you both know this. In today's world, is there any
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time a politician actually does what he says he's going
to do.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
That's extremely rare, extremely rare. And so I mean like
Trump is one of the few. Even sometimes he still
can't get something done, you know.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Exactly. So with that being said, political parties ain't no better.
So a lot of the parties changed their goals over time.
I would never say there was an actual political switch.
A lot of conservatives try to say that to basically
sound like they are just the best people in life.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Well liberals also.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Liberals also handily push it because they don't want to
be associated with some of the bad stuff in our history.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Right which what I was going to say about that
is I cannot get behind the party switch theory for
these reasons. Right here, in eighteen sixties, they you know,
the Democrat Party and the Disiocrats, which really got even
more power. I don't know if they were actually a
thing then, but it was eighteen oh okay, But in
(15:38):
the nineteen sixties definitely. But eighteen sixties they had slaves.
And I don't think that the war was necessarily about slavery.
But I'm talking about just the parties which itself, they
were the ones that had slaves, Republicans' freedom, the nineteen
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sixties rights Republicans, or the reason that got past the
longest filibuster until this year was the Democrat trying to
filibuster the Civil Rights Act. Democrats didn't elect a black
Senator until the nineteen nineties, and to this day they
are still obsessed with race and identity politics. So I
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do not believe in the switch.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I don't believe in the switch for some of the
same reasons. I think you have people that rise to
power and switch what a party is all about. One
of the rare times of party just doesn't switch is
the Democrat Republicans, which was the Jeffersonian Party, and it
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just would rather go out of business than do anything.
It of course started with Jefferson Davis or Jefferson Davis.
Now you got me thinking about eighteen sixties history, Thomas
Jefferson and James Madison in seventeen ninety two and kind
(17:09):
of dissolved after what I call the golden age of
conservative thought in America, our conservative politics, which would be
eighteen twenty five. After that, it's weird. We have like
one or two good years and then we don't have
(17:30):
another for like a decade. Welcome to being a conservative. Yeah,
you will win for a short period, and then it
seems like people just are like, it's so good, let's
switch ideas. But this nation was founded on conservative thought.
(17:51):
So I just put that out there. But yeah, no, there,
I cannot rem like that is the last time a
political party went out of business, a major one lost
all its money and had to join another party or
help form another party, which is how the Republicans today
got here, actually stealing the name from the Democratic Republicans.
The Democrat Party is not the Democratic Republicans. I didn't
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want to stress that that was another party. Formed, and
could you imagine having two parties both called sometimes the Democrats.
It was confusing. But their spiritual successor is the Democratic Party,
but that was kind of started by Andrew Jackson and
(18:37):
Martin Van Buren that are the founders of the today
Democratic Party. But it just blows my mind how they
could be out of money.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Put twenty million in debt after the election, that's what
somehow what she was running for one hundred and thirty
days and somehow went over a billion dollars and went
negative twenty million.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
That If that doesn't tell you how bad the crats
didn't want Trump in office, I don't know what will.
Because if I'm being honest, that's all this was so
in Mississippi, I have this saying, if you want to
make sure your opponent looks bad, spend a lot of
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money and tell everybody that he's throwing mud while you're
throwing mud. Worked for Delbert Hoseman very well. Yeah, and
money talks and people listen. But it has to tell
you something that the Democrats went into debt trying to
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tell the world that Trump was the devil, basically our hitler,
their most famous one, and yet they lost in like
record fashion.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, every single swing state, Like I mean, how.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Do you spend that much money and still lose.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I'm pretty sure they were funding the court cases against
him for philonies that he had to go through. You know,
Biden's Department of Justice was going after Trump as well,
raiding his house things like that. So you know, they
spent all their money trying to do all this stuff
and then campaigning, even going into debt, and they they
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haven't figured out that the American people just don't want
what they're trying to do. They won't come to terms
with reality. Even after they lost the election, they're still
doing the same stuff. And because of that, they're not
getting any funding and they'd spent everything, and they just
they're going to have to change otherwise Democrat Party might
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be dying.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
And this is going to be controversial, I think, but
I would actually one hundred percent four party closing simply
because we weren't supposed to have this monopoly of two
parties being able to run the country. It doesn't allow
the expression of free thought. Also, the reason Congress has
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so much power is the thought process. And the only
reason continued it's somewhat like this today is simply dumb
luck by us are actually horrible at considering how much
we spend. There were supposed to be so many avenues
of thought in Congress, and Congress had all this power
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that Congress would basically barely do anything unless it was
very much agreed upon, and that was supposed to save
us money time. If an idea was a good idea,
it would somehow make it out eventually. All these stupid
ideas that have made it past Congress, Department of Education
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being one of them, is because of the two party system.
Because these two parties, because there's no other parties, they
work together a lot. And as we all know, the
Republicans like a I'm not gonna say that comparison that
would get me definitely canceled, and I don't want to
be canceled again like I was in the twenty fifth episode.
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The Republicans are great at agreeing with Democrats and backing down,
bringing our country continuously more to the left. Yeah, because
they get money out of it too. These corporations, these
just billionaires fundle money through our politicians. That's why you
can go into Congress broker than I am and come
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out a dead gum millionaire.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yeah, like AOC dumb as a rock, not the country,
but you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Yes, a bartender is worth more than I am. That
hurts me. A crazy bartender at that. Could you imagine
her listening to your problems at a bar, Like we
all go to bars and you know, if you're having
a bad day, you're going to talk to the bartender.
Could you imagine her giving advice to people? No, Like,
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someone just comes in, Man, my girlfriend cheated on me,
and blah blah blah, and I just kind of want
to drink and talk about it. And she just looks
at him. She does you should take her back. Just
had a rough day, guaranteed that something had come out
of her mouth. I wish I could find men that
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went to that bar and probably the crappy advice.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
She gave them. There probably are some. It was New York, so.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I forgot I was in New York. They might have
came in as a man and walked out as a
cat or a dog or an attack helicopter or heck,
they probably came out saying that they were a woman,
because that's signed it thick, ain't it.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Well, that's that's what they believe in. That's why they
got a nineteen percent approve of rating and are broken.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Yeah, it's a it's a special power, ain't. Yeah, mental unstapability.
Let's turn that into one of our political stances and
let's die on that heel.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Actually, they just you know, the ninety issues or I
guess statistically eighty to twenty issues. They choose the twenty
percent side on everything just to oppose what Donald Trump
wants to do. That's necessarily a winning risk. It is like,
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I mean, liberals are supporting Iran right now.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Like, of all the sides you could have taken, you
could have just said, you don't want to go to war.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah, you don't have to take a side of that.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
You don't, Yeah, you don't. Like you could be like, hey, guys,
like for instance, with me, guys, I don't believe the
president has the power to do this. Only Congress, convict
could declare an act of war, and so only Congress
should be Congress should at least be in the loop
on bombings fools.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
But yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Honestly don't want to see myself are my kids have
to go off to war and die in another country.
We've had enough of that over the years. You're not
supporting either side, but they're gonna double down on Iran.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Mhm.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
That's that's a special type of stupid. Like again, I
could at least respect them being like, hey, guys, I
really just don't want us to go to another war.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Well that's how I am unless Iran bombs us. But
like I said, they want to be on the twenty
percent issue every time because it's against us.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Yeah. No, I'm one of those Americans that's like, Okay,
we've been the global police force for a while now,
I think we're gonna hand it off to Britain or somebody.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Just h.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I try to mute my mic before that, So sorry everybody,
But you know, I'm tired of us being a global
police force and coming in like a dad splitting up
two kids fighting. If it doesn't directly involve us, I'm good.
And someone pointed this out to me and it made
me laugh. You know, they've been like Iran's been having
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nearly having a Newler missile for twenty years now. I
think we need to pick something else. But you know,
either way, how you follow that, We're not getting into
that issue this episode. Maybe in a couple episodes we'll
talk about it. But again, of all the sides you
could have picked on that debate, we're going to just
stick up for Iran, anti women's rights, you know, against
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the Alphabet Committee. I like to call them the LGBTQ
plus you know hashtag community. They're against everything the Liberal
Party stands for. Literally, and then the Liberal Party back some.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Because they don't live in reality, and that is why
they have no money.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
I ain't got no money, all right, everybody. Uh, we're
actually not gonna take any commercial breaks this episode unless
me and Graves are.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Just dying, I should be okay. I don't think my
neighbor's dog is trying to attack us yet.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
That's good. That's good. So was there anything else I
could have wore? We said we're gonna talk about something else.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Uh, well me, no, I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Okay, Well we'll go ahead and jump into the big
topic of this episode, the Department of Education. The Department
of Education was started in October seventeenth, night teen forty nine,
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forty five years ago. So it's still seventy nine. I
mean seventy nine. What did I say, forty nine? Uh no,
seventy nine, My bad. It was it's about forty five
years old, so my my father's older than the Department
of Education since its founding. And Jimmy Carter ran on
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this thinking, I suppose as soon as a lot of
money in big government gets involved, isn't everything successful.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
That's what democrats think.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
That's what they think. But over a forty five year
we've only increased the budget. Every year the budget has increased.
And I have a little statistic here. Let me pull
it up. The budget since its founding has been raised
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over one hundred and eighty percent, and that is around
twenty ten statistics. Enrollment is up, you know, ninety percent.
I can give them some credit.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Well, that's still double the increase of enrollment, so that's
making it more expensive for us.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Yeah, and then let's see here. Oh wait, no, I've
read the wrong line. I'm sorry. That's employees. Oh, employees
is up in ninety percent, most of them getting nice,
cushy administrative jobs doing I'm sure things that are very
important for a school, don't you think, Graves.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Well I would. I'd say it was so important to
the people employed in the Department of Education that ninety
percent of them work from home.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Oh. I found the employment of the enrollment line. It's
up five percent since we created it. Wow, So yeah,
students are definitely getting all this money, by the way,
and then everything else. Reading scores have actually dipped, like
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not even non changed. The reading scores are down a
negative percentage point.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
I'm sure my mom would agree with that.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Math has had a roller coaster over time, but never
going above scores, predating the Department of Education. It's only
went down and went back up to zero percent. And
then my favorite is science, and if this will not
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become a shock to anybody, is about fifteen down by
the nineties and then it kind of went up for
a bit, and then I guarantee you it's probably went
down in recent years simply because of what the left
had pushed. So that's some statistics for you on how
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the Department of Education has been ran. And we have
just so many more of these, don't we, Grace.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Oh, there's a lot of stats about it, you know.
I mean the fact that we've spent three over three
trillion dollars total since nineteen seventy nine on it, and
like you said, none of the numbers have gone up,
and in fact, we've gone from number one in the
world to number twenty four.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Yeah, that's a special statistic. But also, did you know
that the Department of Education has four thy two hundred employees.
These aren't teachers. These are people that decide what should
be taught. It takes four thousand people to come up
with a crappy education system. I don't really know how
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to go into that anymore than is. We've increased the budget,
We've increased how many people go into the education field. Now,
for those who don't know, I am actually a future educated.
Graves asked me why I decided to be an educator.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Why is that?
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Because history is so poorly taught? It honestly makes me cry.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I can agree American College that you know, history class
at Ole Miss, where we both went.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Don't get me started on Old Miss. Old Miss is
gonna be a whole episode. I could do a whole
episode on the downfall of the history of subject.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
I'm ranked thirty seven and mass in the world right now.
I just looked that up. Thirty seven.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
That's impressive, the downfall of our education system. And I
do want to point out and we'll talk about some
Trump victories in education in a second. And I'm sure
Graves has that statistic ready, because we talked about a
bit beforehand. But Trump can't get rid of the Department
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of Education without our help. It was made with an
Act of Congress, and as people who study government knows,
the only people that can out overrule Congress is Congress.
We need to put pressure on all our senators and
representatives because we need one hundred percent of the Republicans
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in there, and we need even a small percentage of
Democrats to agree with us. And I think we can
get it, but we have to start putting pressure on
our representatives because the other side that's putting pressure to
keep it, and we'll talk about them soon. They're getting
paid a lot to make sure that they don't want
to lose this job, right, But so only lack of
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Congress can destroy this. So hopefully by the end of
this episode, you agree with me in Graves in thinking
that the Department of Education is useless and the power
should be overturned to the states. By the way, the
federal government doesn't have the power to touch education technically,
there is.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
In the Constitution.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
And what is one of my favorite things about the Constitution.
It is this simple sentence right here, the powers delegated
to the federal government are in the Constitution, and the
powers not delegated to the federal government in this Constitution
are hereby delegated to the states. Yep, if California wants
to have a crappy education system, that's fine by California.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Yes, if you want to teach trands, they're sure. But
like the Biden administration, their Department of Education was pushing
those like trans books and sexual stuff in books that
were fine, you know to them and being a fourth
grader's library, so you know, we don't need that type
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of stuff, But that's what our taxes have been funding
m And I don't think they try to say it's
like Nazi Germany when they were burning books. No, we
just don't want you teaching our kids about that. You
should be teaching them how to do maths, so we're
not thirty sevenths of the world and how to you know,
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I don't know actual biology, so they don't think that
they can change genders and be that at My dog
just screamed. But there are so many things that getting
rid of the Department of Education, not beteralizing it, states
getting the money and being able to choose what you
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want to.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Teach, which you could. I could, and I'm going to
because I'm a little pissed at my Department of Education
right now. You can put pressure on your state department
of education like you can't put like if I called
the National Department of Education and told them I don't
like how they're teaching American history. I think they're butchering it, Graves,
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What do you think they're going to tell me?
Speaker 2 (37:32):
They won't respond.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
They won't respond that I can go up to my
state Department of Education headquarters and bang on their door.
I live two hours from it. Even if you live
three or four hours, that's better than ten to twelve
hours MM and hoping that you can get somewhere on
the phone that will take you seriously. But you know,
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we talked about this. Readings down, math is down, science
is down. History is obviously down because you have people
that don't know who wrote the Declaration of Independence, can't
say the constitution, can't say the Declaration of Independence does
we were founded? Don't know what you were founded, don't
know that we're a constitutional republic. Heck, the majority of
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our politicians don't know where a constitutional republic.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Yeah, they all say democracy.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
They all say we're a democracy or Trump is a
danger to democracy. Well, what is a democracy? Democracy is mob.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Rule, which is literally what they want.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
Yeah, because they know they can control the mob. They've
become pretty efficient at it. Just look at the riots.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
But that's all they want is they want control and power.
But again, that's part of our history that's not taught.
People don't know who Thomas Jefferson was or George Washington was.
Really they're told that they're just bad, evil people that should.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Burn in hell slaves their party.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Yeah, yeah, they're gonna ignore the hell out of that fact.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
And well even before their party, you know what I mean,
because it was just a thing and then it was
only Democrats.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
Yeah, I mean, they don't want to teach real history.
I know they don't. They don't want to teach real math,
They don't want to teach real life skills. These students
could use, like here's how you pay your taxes, because
I might be against the majority of taxes, but we're
gonna have to pay taxes at some point.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
For sometimes in the Department of Education, they you know,
put into place like what you can teach and like
my mom would say, you could have kids that just
you know, they just don't get it. You know, you
gotta kind of change the way you teach. You got
to have more time with those. But the Department of
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Education was saying, no, you got to teach them all
the same. You know, they all take the same tests,
they all get taught the same way. It's it doesn't
work like that. Not everyone is the same.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
Exactly, and that's what makes me mad about it. There's
so many things we could be teaching at school. How
to balance a book, a checkbook, how to study a
eyeble if you're in the pine belt here in Mississippi,
how to do this, how to do that. Even if
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you don't agree with that stuff being there, well, okay,
go talk to your city, go talk to your state.
Don't make it a thing there. But the fact of
the matter is the Department of Education federalizing education when
they didn't have the power to do so, which shacker.
Our government doesn't have a power to do a lot
of things that it does has made it worse off.
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You can't show me a single statistic that shows that
education is actually improved over the past forty five years.
It's a decline. How many times, graves have you heard
from a parent. I just don't understand what they're teaching
the kids these days. Yeah, like we have got more
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advanced than some things too, like mathematics. For instance. My
niece and nephew, God bless them, they're already on algebra
and they have TRIG and all this stuff left. And
I was like, oh, we didn't even have TRIG in
my high school. Really, but again, yeah, yeah, no, but.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
I took TRIGG in tenth grade.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
I took algebra.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Job.
Speaker 3 (41:47):
I'm gonna forget the words now, it's been so long.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
Well, my senior year, I was able to take either
a Calculus one or I took and I did Algebra three.
And then I went to college and how to do
Calculus one and two and.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
I hate I hate calculus.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
And I had a good teacher though, so therefore I
ended up with a B in it both times. You know,
that's the thing, Like, you get a good teacher, A
good teacher is like the best thing in the world.
But the way the Department of Education was trying to
get everyone to do things, you're pretty lucky to find
(42:29):
some and then not have one that maybe you know,
is all caught up on their own opinions like there
are these days.
Speaker 3 (42:36):
But yeah, and like again we talked about it. Yes
we have advanced, but nothing has improved, and so that
that's kind of a hedgecrat train at grant. Grant. Great,
you got me thinking about the war now, and all
I'm thinking about is Confederate generals and Union generals. Now,
(42:58):
look what you've done. Sorry, but isn't that a head scratcher.
We've somehow improved how much information these kids are being taught,
but they're not retaining it as well. They're not learning
as well, they're not able to apply it as well.
They're not able to do anything as well. Again, we've
(43:21):
talked about it. People don't remember their history. English has depleted,
Literature has depleted, Reading and writing skills have depleted. All
these things that were are essential to being a good citizen,
being a productive member of society. Even things that we
are supposed to be teaching, is on a constant decline.
(43:44):
Since taking away the power of the states and the parents.
Mind you, parents should have a lot more saying what
their kids are being taught. Education has been on a
constant decline. As Grave said, we went from number one
in the world before the Department of Education to twenty
fourth and that is out of sixty four countries.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
And thirty seventh the mass that's the worst one. But
it's just like wow. But I just can't help but
think about the fact that all that money we spent,
it came out of our taxes three trillion, and the
states have hardly had any say. And now we are.
Speaker 3 (44:29):
Where we are. Yeah, I mean, and we're going to
talk about where the money has went. All the things
that the DoD that the Department of Education has done
and does, now, Graves, do you think that the Department
of Education, all the jobs it does, was started by them?
Speaker 2 (44:56):
No?
Speaker 3 (44:57):
No, all the things that the Department of educ provides
to education was done before them, with either smaller departments
or groups on city and state levels that had specialties
in that department. So say, you know math, how are
(45:18):
we gonna teach math? Well, how about we have these
group of mathematics you tell us, how are we going
to organize school? Well, let's have this guy that ran
this you know company, tell us, uh, And that's another topic.
How should we do this? How should we do that? Well,
(45:40):
these people have a history of doing that. Now it's
all under one big umbrella. So people think that, for example,
public schools would shut down without the Department of Education.
No public schools were around before the Department of Education. Lunches.
Kids won't have lunches anymore, braves, they'll starve to death.
Uh No, No, before that, the kids still got three
(46:02):
good meals a day. They packed the lunch or the
school even provided it in a lot of cases without
the federal government being involved. The department closing the Department
of Education will not change a thing. It will go
back to it. No, not the stuff that matters. It
(46:26):
will get rid of the corruption that we've been talking about.
Speaking of corruption, let's talk about the teacher unions. The
teachers unions are some of the most powerful unions in
the United States of America. The American Federation of Teachers
(46:51):
is the second largest teachers labors union in America, one
of the largest unions in America and is only dwarfed
by the National Education Association. It has roughly one point
seven million members, and the Nashal Education Association has nearly
(47:18):
two point eight million members.
Speaker 2 (47:24):
It's a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (47:25):
It's a lot of people, and it's a lot of
powerful people. You know, Unions can direct so much. But
notice I since reading about them, I noticed that they
more about protecting teachers than they are the students. Teachers
getting tenure, teachers getting pay raises, teachers getting this type
(47:48):
of ability, that type of ability, the pushing of political
ideas has come in through the teachers' unions and they
have made sure to influence the Department of Education. And
people in these unions get paid a crap ton of money.
(48:09):
By the way, I wonder where that money comes from, Grace,
what do you think.
Speaker 2 (48:14):
I'm gonna take a guess, and it's youing me.
Speaker 3 (48:17):
Yep. We pay these teachers to control the overall education
and the Department of Education. That's the funny thing. The
Department of Education pays the student unions, but the student
union tells the Department of Education how to run.
Speaker 2 (48:38):
The teachers union tells them how to run the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (48:43):
Not the whole thing. But they're heavily influential, influential, let's say, uh, political.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
Ideas, transgender boats and stuff.
Speaker 3 (48:59):
The student unions the ones that push that. The student
unions are the ones that have protected the Department of Education.
The student unions are the people that are asking for
more and more money. Why are they doing that? They
ask for more administration roles in school, they ask for
more of this more that Why. It's simple money. And
(49:23):
there's been multiple documentaries proving that the student unions hurt
students overall because they only care about the teachers. Yeah,
that's weird to say, but I'm a future teacher, Graves.
Speaker 2 (49:38):
Well, they all they want to do is get more raises.
But they'll also go on strike for you know, taking
the sexual books out of children's libraries and public school
and they'll say they're not going.
Speaker 3 (49:53):
To work exactly. The student unions are some of the
most of what's the world, the influential unions in America.
All the money they get they push back into making
sure what gets past helps them. Here's another statistic. Let's
(50:19):
see here the Yeah, the moneies go to the unions
and administration, not students. It goes to making new administration positions.
It goes to unions to help to help teachers. By
the way, to give the states. We talked about that, Graves.
(50:40):
I don't think me and you both agree that the
states get much of anything until Trump got into office.
Speaker 2 (50:48):
No, now, hopefully we can get Congress to actually finalize
that Yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (50:56):
Again, the teacher unions are so powerful that they have
a grip hold, a monopoly, if you will, on all
of education. They control the Department of Education. The Department
of Education almost like a figurehead someone that says, Okay, well,
(51:17):
I'm running this, but the teacher unions are so extremely
influential that I don't think the Department of Education would
dare go against this teachers union.
Speaker 2 (51:30):
They probably probably wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (51:33):
Jink Joe Minnesota and one of the last things I
found out, and then me and Graves are just gonna
shoot the crap on the education. This is kind of
the last thing I play. Actually, I have a couple
more things I could talk about. Let me pull that up.
Let's see here. I am gonna say, I got this
(51:58):
source from the Brett Cooper Show, and she is quoting
someone talking about the Department of Education. That money, in
other words, hasn't been effectively used to educate our youth.
It has disappeared into the maw of the Department of
(52:18):
Education with no accountability for failure. The departments not related
to education activities are also well known. Federal bureaucrats, for example,
spent three years seeking to replace sex in federal education amendments,
those bureaucats of the student union. By the way, in
(52:40):
federal education amendments to the Civil Rights Act with sexual
oritation and gender identity, they have interfered with the teacher's
ability to remove disruptive and dangerous students from the classroom.
I can confirm that one of my friends, who much
like me, is going into education. He had a fight
(53:02):
breakout in his classroom at least once a day, and
the school told him that the Department of Education tells
him just to sit there and call the office. Don't
break it up, don't try to stop it. Let the
kid keep beating the crap out of them. And guess what, grace,
you can't even suspend them. Well, and they have to
(53:23):
promote a seamlessly endless stream of woke politics at the
expense of are cohesive, a cohesiveness, and to undermine the
pride in being an American. Again, we've talked about this
with history. They hate America. They're going to teach you
to hate America. A critical race theory was taught in
(53:46):
schools well basically told everybody who was white that they suck.
The resulted they are turning out generations of children who
can't read or do math, but believe America is evil.
And if that doesn't sum up education, and I don't
know what will.
Speaker 2 (54:04):
Well. I mean you said something about they won't they're
not allowed to be suspended. And one time there was
a kid in my mom's class. She taught at public
school at South Panola in bates School, and this kid
fourth grade, took her phone and took it back to
his house, got on her Facebook and stuff because he
(54:25):
changed the passwords somehow. And I was out playing golf.
I got a text message from my mom saying I'm
going to kill you. I was like, what you know?
I go back to my mom's house. She's like, I
don't know where my phone is. And so we did
all this stuff, go to found my phone, and we
(54:49):
drive like thirty minutes out of Batesville to where this
phone is pinging to the kid's house and the phone
gets found. The school still doesn't spend them or give
them detention or anything. But he also takes in another
teacher there along with me that he was going to
kill them. They still didn't do anything about it.
Speaker 3 (55:12):
Yep, because it's more important to have more students because
you know what happens if schools have more students' graves
get more money, more money, and greed is definitely one
of the most powerful sins. It will make people do
crazy things. So every time the student unions or the
Department of Education say what about the children, they're meaning
(55:33):
what about my money? Because it's obvious they don't care
about this. Yeah, and I mean we even talked about
this a bit before the show.
Speaker 2 (55:45):
Graves.
Speaker 3 (55:45):
Do you think all the money goes to teachers or administratives,
are education or students or do you think they maybe
use some of their money too, I don't know, secretly
funded legal immigrants.
Speaker 2 (56:00):
Well, it seems they did that part they did.
Speaker 3 (56:04):
And I get this lovely information from Project Vertas, who
did an interview undercover with Travis Combe's branch chief of
the Department of Education, where he says that the Department
of Education is hiding segarets from DOGE and Congress on
(56:26):
encrypted apps to keep themselves out of trouble, and that
they are providing rogue sanctuary programs for illegal immigrants with
their funding. I believe it that is from and I'll
post this on our Facebook page from Project Veritas from
(56:51):
the deputy or the chief of the branch. Chief of
the Department of Education, Travis Combs in an interview where
I don't know if he knew he was being interviewed.
If he did, he probably thought it was the New
York Times the Washington Post who is going to give
him the most gloring review. But that's a story that
(57:13):
broke back in February. I haven't heard a lot.
Speaker 2 (57:15):
About there's a lot of corruption in that and all
that money too. I think it's funny that, like we said,
nothing goes up, but teacher salaries have increased, which I'm
not totally against, except for the fact that none of
(57:37):
it's not increasing anything with our kids.
Speaker 3 (57:41):
Yeah, Like, look, trust me, I would love for salaries
to go up. I'm about to be a teacher. I
would rather not be poor. But if I'm not performing well,
if my students are not learning, the question has to
be stated, am I doing my job as a teacher right?
And the answer would be no. And this also asks
(58:04):
a very interesting thing Graves with this, Travis Combs fellow,
if they're spending money on this and this has just
been discovered that they've illegally used our taxpayer dollars they've
illegally used that. Let's see what they got this last
year for their budget, two one hundred and thirty eight
(58:29):
billion dollars for just one year's budget. They used some
of that money to give illegal immigrants a place to
stay graves. Do you think this is the first time
they've done that?
Speaker 2 (58:46):
I would probably say no. And I also want people
to realize that is that amount of money per year
is one fourth of what we spend on our military
per year. Who with no results, with no results, well,
(59:08):
actually stuff going in the negative.
Speaker 3 (59:11):
Not only has there not been any change, but stuff
has progressively gotten worse. We've talked about this. I think
the discipline of history is crumbling. And I can thank
universities and high schools for that. And so that begs
the question, if this is what we've caught them doing,
(59:34):
what else have they used that money for that we
don't know about? Right Like, that's a very serious question
that we need to all ask as Americans, as parents,
as teachers, as students, as citizens of this country, if
we figured out they were using illegal money for their
(59:55):
political beliefs, once there's a good chance they're doing they've
done it in the past, the past forty five years
that money could have been used for something. Yeah, and
now we've also learned that they're using encrypted mobile apps
to hide things from DOGE and Congress secret conversations. Are
(01:00:20):
they planning on using more money illegally? Are they planning
on who knows what? What are they hiding? Why can
they use their official modes of communication? Why are they
scared of what Doge in Congress is going to find?
Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
Oh? Because if you wouldn't be scared if you didn't
have anything to hide, but they do.
Speaker 3 (01:00:45):
And that's exactly the question I'm going to be asking
our listeners everywhere. What are they hiding at the Department
of Education.
Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
And what what have they done that would make you
support keeping.
Speaker 3 (01:01:03):
Yeah, we have a lot of useless departments, but I
don't know if one has been criminally promoted budget increases. Again,
I believe we have a lot of stupid departments, but
the Department of Education might be the worst. I would
(01:01:23):
go on records saying it probably is the worst most
corrupt department we have, and trust me, there's a lot
out there. The federal government didn't have the constitutional right
to do this back when it was founded in nineteen
seventy nine, and it has just made us worse as
(01:01:45):
a country. There's no if ans or butts on that.
Speaker 2 (01:01:53):
That's why you see the crazines sec out on the
streets today. I mean, everybody's been indoctrinated. M hmm, especially
in college, but even at the lower levels.
Speaker 3 (01:02:05):
Well, I mean you gotta think Graves me and you
grew up in a mostly conservative area. So if we
could say that high school was a bit indoctrinated and
our universities were a bit are very much indoctrinating us.
What about liberal cities? What about liberal areas? What about
California and New York, Chicago, Richmond, Virginia, heck, Miami, Florida,
(01:02:32):
all these major democratic liberal strongholds. What are their schools
teaching them? What is the Department of Education teaching them?
That is a very interesting question, And I honestly don't know.
If you don't think the Department of Education should be
shut down after this, I really don't know what to
(01:02:53):
tell you. I've really have no idea. I would ask
that everybody please share this episode out. Let's get this moving,
Let's get a movement start today. Everybody who watches the show,
(01:03:17):
share this out, send it out. If you want us
to do a more in depth episode on the Department
of Education, let us know. Me and Graves will do
the research. Yeah, this is just what we found lightly
researching this topic.
Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
We hadn't even gone in to look at everything that
because you can go find what the Department of Education,
what they spend their money on. Now you can find
every single thing. Yep, most of it was not good
(01:03:55):
for us, I'll say.
Speaker 3 (01:03:57):
That, no, not at all. And so again, if this
is something that's happening now on this line of research,
could you imagine how much worse it is. So again,
please share this episode out. Let's let's have the biggest
numbers we've ever had for a Conservative Colonel podcast episode.
(01:04:19):
Let us let everybody know what we're thinking. And if
we get a lot of people asking for a sequel
to this, we'll do it and we'll tear it down.
But we need y'all's help. Trump cannot take down this
department alone. It's going to take Congress, and in order
(01:04:40):
to get Congress, we have to get the people. So
share this out as much as you can, everybody. Thank
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