Teachers Union Commissar Weingarten Attacks DeSantis

CLAY: We have been talking a lot about the fallout in Florida. And, Buck, this is one of… There are many different things about the midterm elections that to me are going to be interesting. But we’ve talked about the state of Florida becoming sort of the heartbeat of the Republican Party. And, ultimately, DeSantis’ election campaign as governor is going to be a referendum not only on whether he gets a second term — which I think he will — but also, I think, of the direction that many other governors may go based on how exactly he is run and what seems to me to be an overwhelming validation that he is likely to get from Florida voters.

BUCK: He’s not backing down because the momentum is with the governor, with the state GOP in Florida. They deserve a lot of credit on this one. Remember there was a whole campaign, the “don’t say gay” bill, the whole media was trying to get Florida — or the Florida government — to bend the knee.

Governor DeSantis decided that that just wasn’t gonna happen, not on his watch. And if you’re wondering, is our side overstating the stakes here of this issue of training children, indoctrinating children? Here is chief commissar of the teachers union Randi Weingarten telling everybody that, Clay, this is how wars start.

Randi Weingarten on Florida pushing back against the woke movement & standing for parents’ rights:

“This is the way in which wars start. This is the way in which hatred starts.” pic.twitter.com/MCuxXD2PFy

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) April 22, 2022

BUCK: Can I just…? If they’re gonna say… Obama is now making rounds as somebody who’s against disinformation, wondering if you can keep your doctor if you like your doctor still, Obama’s out there telling everybody that disinformation on the internet is a threat to democracy. So, free speech is now a threat to democracy.

I want everyone to understand, this is the actual position of the Democrat elite. But Randi Weingarten says that it’s lies, it’s disinformation. Okay. How? What is the disinformation? Are our children being taught transgender ideology in kindergarten that makes the vast majority of American parents highly uncomfortable?

The answer to that question is yes. What is she say…? The disinformation increasingly — and this goes to the Libs of TikTok issue too, Clay, seems to me when information gets out there that the left doesn’t like, it’s disinformation.

CLAY: Well, I don’t understand how Randi Weingarten still has a job. So, let’s take away this ridiculous idea of this is how wars start. If you want to argue that choices that are made define and end up causing wars, Randi Weingarten made the single worst decision of almost anybody out there in the larger universe when she kept kids out of school and when she argued that kids were in danger from covid.

Despite all the evidence to the contrary, when she tried to create the idea that remote learning was a real thing and wasn’t an oxymoron, she created such a travesty teaching justice that, if there were any equality or equity in the world, she would have lost her job. And, honestly, she deserves, I think, to suffer legal consequences.

I think the teachers unions deserve to be held accountable for keeping kids out of school and for all the lies and disinformation that they spread about covid that led to so many people out there, in particular moms, who had to suddenly be responsible not only for their kids during non-school hours, but they basically had to turn into schoolteachers as well. This woman, to me, is right up there with Fauci in indefensible positions.

BUCK: There may be tremendous justice here that is possible, and it’s ironic that this is how it would come about. Randi Weingarten — and this is a matter of fact, this is a matter of record — along with other teachers union commissars and apparatchiks worked with Fauci in the Biden White House to make determinations about schools reopening.

Full stop. What does she know about health? But the Democrat Party is residential on teachers unions for votes and for funding and for the indoctrination of children. So when you add all these things up, it is a very powerful tool — a power center — of the left. So that’s why they were able to do this. But the irony is by having more and more time at home, by parents being forced to have their children do Zoom instruction?

That third part of the evil triad, if you will, that third part of the equation of how they’re indoctrinating children was exposed to parents in a way that, let’s be honest, never would have happened. Parents are busy. You’re a parent, you, your wife, got three kids, got a lot of things going on.

CLAY: Yep.

BUCK: You’re never again sit at home for eight hours a day and hear during that whole period what the school instruction will be, right? Parents were gonna sit there until Zoom was possible. This was never going to learn, ’til Zoom instruction became the rule. So they learned what was going on here.

And this now may lead to a massive defeat for the Democrats and the left in the fall. So if you want justice for these stupid shutdowns and lockdowns of these schools the Democrats did, this is the opportunity for it, and it’s only possible because of the lockdowns.

CLAY: And we should say there are a lot of teachers and school administrators that listen to this program —

BUCK: Yeah, who are awesome.

CLAY: — that agree with us.

BUCK: Just like the nice airline attendants who aren’t throwing people off the plane for no reason. We’re not talking to the good people — or, rather, we’re talking to the good people. We’re not calling out the good people.

CLAY: I’ve got two kids here in public school in Tennessee. Our schools have been phenomenal, and my oldest went to public school until a couple of years ago. Loved the teachers, and many of them are as frustrated by Randi Weingarten and their profession being held hostage by these teachers unions as the rest of us are.