Episode 95: Campus Protests Planned For Months...What Comes Next?

She writes in and says my husband and I both voted for Mark , and literally everyone in my family that lives in New Mexico Indoctrination is real , and I think it started much sooner than we know . Praying for our country and for you , mark , your sweet wife and girls , thank you for all of your efforts . Well , thank you , cindy .

So no surprise , I guess that this is starting to really come alive on our college campuses . But thank you for writing in . Ken Whiffey said great show . I'm glad to see that there is a show that understands how crazy and evil the Hamas supporters are . There is a reason that protesters are in school it's because they don't know anything .

Real evil is that the professors are teaching the students to hate Jewish people . It seems that the professors in our most prestigious colleges fully embrace secular humanism and its godless philosophy .

Even if you're not someone of faith , you realize that if you run the country in a way that we had run the country for so many years , there's a certain benefit to everybody . And in this thought process , this secular humanism thought process , just blows up all of that and it's complete chaos . And you see a lot of the people on these college campuses .

The only thing they really support is complete and total chaos . That's what they want . And we'll have some stories in here throughout the hour here talking about how this was planned four months in advance , and really one of the big goals here is to tear down the country . It's just , it's that simple .

And so when you see those two in contrast , it gives complete lie to what you know that secular humanism is , and so we will talk about it . It could really be a turning point in this country in the respect that it could definitely turn us back in the right direction . At least I hope so .

Just take that out , because there's a lot of people that don't believe in the Bible and that's fine . You look at this and you go , okay , we've got a country that is inclusive and takes care of people , takes care of their own against terrorist organizations that will put their own people , these Palestinians , in the way of fire . They don't care .

They want them to be sacrificed . So then they can go out and talk about how sacrifice , how Israel , you know , killed all these Palestinians . I said , if you just look at it from that perspective alone , remove anything you know that you come at in the Bible and look at this as a humanitarian issue .

You simply do that and you can see there is a massive difference between those that are in favor of going after pro-Hamas versus not . So again , just pointing that out .

It's one thing to advocate for a solution for Palestinians , and then there's another level where you advocate for Hamas and you forgive everything they've done without even looking at it , because you look at it through oppressor versus oppressed lenses , so they can do whatever they want .

And that's the one that I think when you jump the shark and people say , oh my gosh , what are we doing here ? And so I think that's the point where we're at now . More and more of this is just straight pro-Hamas , anti-israel , anti-semitic .

So we absolutely support that as well . So , as we've always said , we definitely stand by our men in blue for sure , and our women and our state patrol officers as well so yes , okay .

You know there were prayer stands for leaders that I think a lot of times you get this thought process in the political world where you end up going back and forth and battling over politics and thinking that you shouldn't be praying for people that may disagree with you on things and you should , you absolutely should , and so that was one of the things that

happened . But you can see the crowd here . It was a great crowd , it was a big crowd and it was a lot of fun .

You know , Vince got up there and talked really specifically about getting involved in government operations and also remembering that , you know , Jesus wasn't a Republican or a Democrat and just kind of reminding everybody that you know , our country and our love of country and our love of God really can unite us if we allow it to not divide us .

Basically , and I thought he was really compelling . I thought it was really great and I love to see youth praying for people that sometimes we are up against policy-wise . So , anyway , really it was a really good turnout , so I'm glad that we got to participate in that .

We're going to talk about the wider implications of all of this and that this is having , and is likely to have , a significant impact this summer and probably leading into the election . This is a great example , what we're seeing right now , with the protests on college campuses , israel , hamas , everything happening in the Middle East .

When you set up to run for office , you have no idea what stories , what issues are going to end up swallowing all the oxygen in the race . You have no clue . So when you think you plan and you think you have an idea of what you're going to be walking into , invariably you don't , and some of these issues can break for you as you view it politically .

Some of these issues can break against you . And one of the things we've said from the very beginning Joe Biden may well not be the nominee for his party , and I think this issue could be the reason why he is walking a devastating tight rope and he's having a very difficult time doing it . So we'll talk about how that fits here in just a second .

But let's get to the UNM protests and I know you noticed what was going on there .

No , they're tired , Mark , they're tired , they're tired . They're tired of like sitting on the grass and maybe just like walking around . So now they've put out this little info thing that they would like .

So what are we ?

So this is what's a little like lovely is how they say this is if you are a CIS white , show up for an hour to take a back seat and lead a hand . These people have been working fiercely for a long time . Use your privileged body for good . Let's offend people and then ask them for help .

So get down here and get on our side versus what you're starting to see more and more across campuses across the country , which is people saying enough of this . We love the country we live in , we want to stand for the country we live in and it matters to us to stand up for that country and to be the kind of citizens who make this a better country .

This isn't a better country Now . This is unbelievable .

You know , they're against things , that they're against the country that's been built here , first and foremost , and then that they're against the country that's been built here , first and foremost , and then they're against the only democracy in the middle east and they're anti-semitic , wrapping that in and throwing in with terrorists .

So it's just wild to watch , and but it isn't an accident . So in the wall street journal , an article comes out , uh , yesterday , talking about all the planning that went into this . So if you think these activist groups started all this up out of just some organic upwelling of emotion , they didn't . And this is an interesting article .

It says the recent wave of pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses came on suddenly and shocked people across the nation . But the political tactics underlying some of the demonstrations were the result of months of training , planning and encouragement by longtime activists and left-wing groups . They want to upend what is happening in this country .

They want to destroy the country . There's no doubt that's the goal here , and the quicker you realize it , the more we can look at this for exactly what it is , which is complete and total annihilation of the country that we currently live in . And what would you replace it with Totalitarianism , right ?

I mean , that's what they're advocating for , because that's what you get with Hamas .

They may be here on a visa or a student visa or something of that . I just don't think they're naturally pro-Americans to start with .

The administration twice barred the event .

Now , during the session , which lasted nearly two hours , simidoun coordinator Charlotte Cates encouraged students to build an international popular cradle of resistance . According to a recording posted on YouTube , there's nothing wrong with being a member of Hamas , she said . Being a leader of Hamas , being a fighter in Hamas .

Now , don't forget , hamas slaughtered women and children on October 7th at a frightening rate in the most vicious way possible . So to sit there and jump in with this , just clearly saying we're all in , is disgusting .

You're talking about a war that that people on both sides can understand where they're coming from . That's not what this is . This is backing vicious terrorists . There's no other way to explain it . And one of the things they've said is you know , they're going to get in the way of commencements .

One of the things that they're training them to do is try to stop down commencements . Well , guess what ? Michigan On Saturday , commencement ceremony , and here we go , Students jumping in . Let's turn up the volume on this , Abe , You'll hear this .

I wanted to to touch on something too a little bit of the media coverage Now , if you remember back to last show Ava , let's roll the video here and if you remember , this is what it looked like . It parts of UCLA here and

what we've got here . I don't know if you remember this anti-Semitic Napoleon dynamite here in the yellow hat .

Okay , they let this get out of control and eventually , if you're going to knock down Israeli students for this long or you're going to take pro-Israel forces and tell them that you've lost your school , right , this is what you get . And so this is squarely on the administration , on Newsom and on the city of Los Angeles .

I can see this frustration Plus it's just hate , it's just filled with so much hate .

I can't not believe this is happening on American soil . There's one thing that's called freedom of speech . This is not it . This is an absolute riot , racism , riot and chaos against Jewish American students , and I just think this has got . I don't know why we don't have national guard in there . I don't know why we're not taking care of this .

I I have no idea how we're allowing this to take place on American soil .

There's a great example as to why you literally had people standing at the edge of UCLA telling Israeli and Jewish students you can't go to class because of your religion or because of your background , and then that's the message that the New York Times takes out of it . It's horrendous .

I mean , I just this blows my mind that this is the day and age that we're living in and that we're allowing this to happen , and I my my thinking here clearly is I believe if we had a stronger president in place , this would not be happening .

University of Florida has been crystal clear on how this is going to go and you have to remember a little bit of background . The president of the university of Florida has been SAS . He's a former United States Senator from Nebraska and I I'm a huge fan of his Um . There are a lot of , you know .

There was a lot of back and forth with him when he was in the Senate . He had some run-ins with president Trump , but he is a smart guy and a strong leader . I don't think there's any doubt about that , and he wrote an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal and the headline of that is the adults are still in charge at the University of Florida .

And the quote from this is really good and what he had to say about it .

In Gainesville , that means a three-year probation from campus . That's serious . We said it , we meant it , we enforced it . We wish we didn't have to , but the students weighed the costs , made their decisions and will own the consequences as adults . We're a university , not a daycare . We don't coddle emotions , we wrestle with ideas . Brilliant .

If you do that , you will be rewarded , you know . And now , when you let it go crazy like they did at UCLA .

But you know putting up the barricades saying that you can't come in my , in our area , that's not a protest anymore . Yeah , that it's a riot and that's a mob riot . That's a totally different dynamic than a protest of the sixties or the fifties or whatever whatever you want to put .

And it's turning into a nightmare for many Democrats who don't necessarily share the views of those people that are protesting , and so they're looking at this now through the lens of an election year , because that's where we are , and what a nightmare this is going to be .

Axios had a story that came out on Saturday talking about the concerns that a lot of Democrats have as the Gaza protests spin out of control . So a couple of quick poll quotes from this story , and they're interesting .

Now , first of all , house and Senate Democrats' anxiety is spiking over the pro-Palestinian protests in college campuses across the country , and this is one interesting quote in this . The longer they continue and the worse they get , the worse it's going to be for the election overall .

One House Democrat told Axios the demonstrations , the lawmakers warned , are bringing out the public's most conservative side . People don't like chaos . It's scary to them . And when you combine the two , not only the cause that they're advocating for , which is horrendous and dark , but beyond that , the thought process that we're losing control of campuses .

We're losing control of being able to speak to each other about these issues . It turns into a nightmare , and I think a lot of these politicians realize this now . In the last 24 hours , protests on college campuses from New York to California have escalated , excuse me , severely . So here's what a couple other people are saying , and it's interesting too .

One other quote here . It's complicated enough for us with the range of opinions and the height of emotions we have , without weighing in on what colleges should be doing . Okay , that's from Annie Kuster . She's a Democrat from New Hampshire . What she's really saying there is , the Democratic Party is split on this .

You have , you have part of the Democratic Party that is very much wanting to see these protests explode . Then you have another portion of the party , which I would argue is a bigger portion of the party and why ?

Biden is crazy to cater to the smaller portion but a bigger portion of the party saying this this is not good and this is the kind of thing we cannot be seen to be in bed with .

We need to know who is in these groups and in these encampments .

My prayer , my hope , is , when you're pulling these kids off of Columbia and you're dragging them in and you're detaining them , I don't think they've actually been arrested . I'm not sure about that . I see mixed leading reports between 2000 arrests nationwide so far and then some just detainees . I don't know what the difference there is .

My hope is if you're committing a felon , you're breaking these buildings , you're doing burglary , you're getting arrested . Find out who these people are , find out who their leaders are and find out if they're Americans or if they're even supposed to be here . That's one on one . No , I hope that's happening ?

And I think it would actually help him in huge ways . Yeah , we'll get to in a second , but here's part of the problem . He's running into story Sunday morning in Politico , so this is not a right wing . No publication here talking about this , but here's what they're talking about . Pro-palestinian protesters are backed by a surprising source .

I would argue it's not a surprising source , but Biden's biggest donors are the people that are underwriting a lot of these various protests . In fact , the quote from the story says donors include some of the biggest names in democratic circles Bill and Melinda Gates , george Soros , the Rockefellers and the Pritzkers .

According to the Politico analysis Now listen to this Two of the main organizers behind the protests at Columbia University and other campuses are Jewish Voices for Peace and , if Not Now , both are supported by the Tides Foundation , which is seeded by Democratic mega-donor George Soros , as well as Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , and it in turn supports numerous small

nonprofits that work for social change . Another notable Democratic donor whose philanthropy has been helping with this is David Rockefeller . And so another quote on this , and this is what's interesting here . This is the next part of this where you start to see the connection .

The trail of donations shows a series of blurred lines when it comes to liberal causes and democratic politics . Often , those missions are aligned , but they also sometimes have different and , particularly when it comes to Gaza conflicting agendas and tactics , and a small group of wealthy heavyweights often play an outside role in funding many of them .

When people say that especially people in our own party , say it Drives me crazy . Anyway , I go off the rails there . But when you water down Soros and you say that he's funding every Republican that you don't agree with and he's funding every Democrat and da-da-da-da , you start to water him down a little bit .

The truth of the matter is he's very powerful and he is putting in a ton of money in organizations that are really hateful , as you can see here , Like they are really well organized , they're well funded and that is the stuff that he is going after he's . I promise you he's not giving money to some Republicans out there .

Like that's not what his game is , and I wish people would grow up , in our party especially , and start realizing George Soros is powerful , but what he's doing is much more organized , it's larger and it's scary . It's scarier to me and the fact that you tie in Gates and his foundation into this .

story . But as protester tactics have grown more intense , like taking over university buildings and shouting anti-Semitic remarks , the groups behind them are now attracting criticism from prominent donors on the left . Why is the Rockefeller Fund , giving significant grants to Jewish Voice for Peace , blamed the horrific October 7th attacks on Israel ? Remember ?

They blamed it on Israel , so they didn't even acknowledge that Hamas had anything to do with it . So don't be fooled by the name Jewish Voices for Peace .

So this is someone , and Elie Wiesel is a legendary figure in that world , and so you know you start to see her say , wait a minute , like she's a Democrat . So this is what I mean there is a cleave in the party . That is a very real issue right now , and so how does Biden deal with it ? Well , he's trying to walk both sides of this .

They know they have to do this , but they're also having to signal to their own side that they're down for the whole battle here , and so one of the stories that came out Sunday morning was the fact that the US is now putting on hold shipments of arms to Israel , a horrendous idea that will only prolong this fight and will only make it more bloody , not less .

You know , he's just not making it . He's not taking a strong stance for longer than about 60 days , and then he's not taking a strong stance for longer than about 60 days , and then he's getting wishy-washy on things on all kinds of things .

The administration in February asked Israel to provide assurances to the US that their US-made weapons were being used by Israel , were part of effectively fell into line with international law Right , and of course , israel does do that , and they provided that information .

Tony Blinken went over and told Netanyahu during their meeting that a major military operation in Rafah would lead to the US publicly opposing it and would negatively impact US-Israel relations . But listen to the way that's worded publicly opposing it .

All the help that is expected of the US in this particular case to get this to a point where you can bring this to an end , but this approach is going to stretch it out and make it far , far more dangerous and deadly for everybody involved . This is so bad and it's so wrong .

The fact is that Hamas is going after and saying , please , no , don't bring humanitarian aid to our people , because again , we need to be victims here , we need to look bad , we need to look like victims . So the so the Americans will back off their support . Heaven forbid . Don't , please , please , don't bring us any more aid .

Please do not bring us food and water and all the things that we need .

It's not even their own people , it's just people that they're sitting around and using as targets , hiding behind like a bunch of cowards , and then and then calling Wolf and saying we're the victims here , we're the victims here .

She just writes really well and you can hear her voice . If you've ever heard Peggy Noonan , you can hear her voice through her writing . It really is , she's a tremendous writer . And so she went to Columbia and just sat down and kind of got a feel for what was going on . She was there as the building was being taken over and kind of sitting there .

It's an interesting article . If you get a chance to read the Wall Street Journal , she talks a little bit about it , but she brings up something interesting which I think is worth kind of taking note over . She says however , a characteristic of these demonstrators was also a primary tactic the covering of their faces , the hiding of their identities .

This struck me as sinister . They see themselves as replicating the 1968 anti-war protests , but those protesters didn't hide who they were . They didn't wear masks . Okay , and this is . It's amazing . She goes on to say those students don't believe the terrorist organization Hamas was unjustified and its actions on October 7th .

They are totally on board with the neo-Marxist , oppressor , oppressed ideology . They don't have compassion for Gaza and its people , any more than they had compassion for Ukraine . They are driven by an anti-Israel animus that is also inextricably anti-American animus . So this is one of the people she talked to about this . It just is . It's terrifying .

Right , so they're part of this right now because it's the right now thing to do and they want to be part of this movement . They've taken so many classes on , you know , obviously this training on how to protest and how to be all up in arms over whatever you can be .

I think some of these people are getting paid , but largely most of these people are saying well , this is something I'm doing for right now , but I need to get a job later , I need to get hired by Wall Street or wherever I'm going to go next , and heaven forbid . You see my face and I get my picture taken and it shows up in something .

These guys are cowards . They're not even remotely . They don't even know what they're doing . They're foolish and they're ridiculously cowardly . The fact that they're covering up their faces , it's just and , like I said , megyn Kelly thinks it's because they're all unattractive .

But you know , which is actually really funny when you actually listen to it that way , but I just think they're cowards .

He's not out there giving a speech every day , right . So there's been an incredible kind of weird twist in all of this , and I think it's helping trump , because he's sitting in a courtroom all day . He's not attracting media attention , he's just going through his court stuff and and then , right as the court day ends , he'll go do a little event , maybe .

Maybe sometimes it's set up for him , other times it is just . You know , it just pops up because it happens . But as we finished some of the court proceedings on I believe it was Thursday Trump gets out of court .

Trump walking out of a trial where he can't campaign and especially Alvin Bragg thinking he's going to sink his campaign by charging him with this is actually doing him a favor , because he's keeping him off the campaign trail , out of the limelight . Allowing him to step out . Do small , quick events say this is terrible .

What's happening in the country , on these college campuses ? It has to stop . And then he hands a pizza to some firefighters , everybody shakes their hands and then they walk away . Right , that's a good look for Trump . That goes very well . And so this whole thing is shifting back , I think , in his direction .

And he then took the campus craziness and on true social . Over the past few hours he's got a new video out on that . So remember Trump has a clear message no more chaos . America first , watch out for this country . It's just an easier message . Joe Biden's walking two different sides .

It talks about basically the frat bros stepping up and trying to take campuses back , and this is what the Trump campaign put out on True Social .

So even if you're not a Republican or you're not even a conservative , you know conservative leaning , independent you're widening this out . It's an easy , easy , low hanging fruit type of situation versus what Biden is trying to do .

At least most of us love this country right , the vast majority . So when you're on that side and you look at the other side and you go , are you crazy ? It is a solid place to be politically and you go , are you crazy ? It's a it is a solid place to be politically in which you start to see now and again you and I have said this for months .

I'm just going to be the nominee , and I think it's because of this issue , all right , and the border , well , absolutely , the border's a huge , a huge part of this too , but the Washington post decided that they were going to start to point out some of the issues Joe is having with telling the truth .

So when you start seeing things like this , you start to see it . You know this chipping away at him that will continue to accelerate as we get toward the convention , cause I think the convention's the tipping point . I think that's where it all goes down Right , cause I think you could see massive protests and you could see Biden be encouraged to step aside .

Okay , so let me just show you what the lies are that they talk about . They talk about lies that that Biden tells , that that the Washington post went out and said you know , look , you got to stop doing this .

He appeared on the list of 10 most eligible bachelors uh , three times in recent weeks April 16th campaign event in Scranton , pennsylvania , to supporters in New York on the 25th and to Howard Stern Uh , biden said he was on the list of 10 most eligible bachelors after his first wife was killed in a car accident . Holy cow , give me a break .

Yeah , biden has made this claim at least twice , before saying in 2023 that he was on the list for five years . Well , he married Jill Biden in 1977 . It's not true . First in his family to go to college . Yeah , turns out , that's not true . No , state runner up in scoring and football . That's not really even how it happens .

There's not like a scoring in football , like there is not . That's not like a scoring in football , like there is not . That's not even . That's not even a correct way to refer to that . But anyway , that's not true either . And as you keep going here , there's a couple other ones , of course , and we didn't even get in to Uncle Bozy .

So we'll see what ends up happening .

. I'm making us do this one because obviously we have two teenage daughters and mental health , it's mental health awareness . It's Mental Health Awareness Month . May is , and one of those things that you know has been linked directly to mental health , not only for teenagers but for , you know , just adults as well is how much screen time do you use ?

How many times are you scrolling on social media ? How much are you watching your iPad versus engaging with your family or your friends ? We've even joked around about how kids will get together with their phones and they're side by side and they're not interacting with each other . But they're side by side and they're not interacting with each other .

They're playing something at the same time and so , anyway . So it's a resurgence now of the dumb phone , and I saw this come out and basically it's what you think it is . It's the basic phone from the 1990s , basically the flip phone . They're making a resurgence and they're coming back in .

Their sales are going up and basically they're seeing that these companies I mean Nokia , t-mobile have service plans now for just the basic flip phone that will allow kids to text and make phone calls . Some adults even are now purchasing these just to make sure that they're not so sucked into everything else that these phones add up .

And basically what I pulled out of this I thought was really interesting is that right now , only 1% of people between 18 and 29 years old reported owning a non-smart phone which is pretty scary when you really think about that and it's been very documented . Now we have the social dilemma .

That's on Netflix , a documentary that talks about the direct correlation here between too much social media time , too much time on a screen , versus your mental health and just even your ability to process emotion and to stay focused in school to fate . You know all this ADHD that's on this major rise . How much is it ? Because your kid can't concentrate anymore ?

And so there's a new book that's out . I liked the book , I liked looking at it , but he basically gave this is the name of the book . I'll pull it up . It's by a guy named Jonathan Haidt . It's called the Anxious Generation and basically the big takeaways from this book was that it matters .

It matters that we start paying attention to our kids and paying attention to what they're looking at . His four tips are no smartphones for kids before high school Okay . Tips or no smartphones for kids before high school Okay . He said only flip phones in middle school and then that's what they get to use until they're 18 .

No social media before the age of 16 . I have to say that was that would be . That was a fight we had here at our house . It was a . It's a very hard fight to have because kids will say this is how we find out about things , this is how we're included in things , this is how we connect with kids .

It's very hard for parents to draw that line and as a parent , I completely understand that . But I also understand that too much social media even for an adult like I could be I'll be scrolling Instagram and I can get bummed out after a while . You see all these trips people have planned and all their perfect lives and you're like ah , how do you rack up ?

Right , so with kids ? It says . He also says make schools phone free . I think a lot of schools are trying to do that . I don't know where that is . And then he's like kids need more free play and independence , something we've all known . Right , like , we've all known this , but I think it will be interesting to see . Will we see an actual resurgence ?

Like will it really start to climb where we say goodbye to the smartphone or at least put the smartphone away and use a flip phone more ? Day-to-day , more practical things , and you don't think it's going to work . No , you think we're too far gone .

I mean it's , it's crazy , all the different avenues that people have into their lives now because of these phones but at the same time we've restricted their ability to go out and live . I mean , it's just , we don't let them live .

We play helicopter parent and we decide we're going to give you this phone , access to the whole world that could climb in and worm its way into your brain . But , by the way , if you want to drive a car 15 miles to your friend's house , we can't let that happen . We're not sure you're safe enough to do it Right .

You should have less information on that phone going into a kid's head and then when your kid wants to go somewhere and they're a good driver and they can handle it , then you let them go do it and it may be scary , but you got to let them go and let them experience things in life , because if you don't , they're going to be crippled when it's time for

them to go to college or time to go get their own job .

I'm like let's see what she does , let's just see how it goes , like I wouldn't do that either . But but I do think if there's a safe situation and your child demonstrates responsibility , you gotta let them out of the nest .

You can make all the judgment calls when it comes to these kids driving , because I can't do it . I make all the other decisions for them . I'll help them with other decisions that you don't want anything to do with .

This thing is massive and they're just standing there and they're just standing there and there's nowhere they can go If this guy decides he's going to take them out like it's over . Where is this ? I think it's British Columbia , but I'm not 100% sure .

Well , I just think that there I'd be laying on the ground , but at that point .

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