Tik Tok Flooded with Bin Laden Propaganda, Infrastructure Money Tied to Woke Initiatives, & Education Changing Country Forever the Week In Review

and around the world. We're going to dive into that and what this means with China trying to control the minds of young people all over the world. Up next, infrastructure. If you ask voters, it's something they're all in favor of better roads. But what happens when the roads turn into woke agenda items. Well, billions and billions of your tax dollars that were meant for infrastructure projects are now

tied to woke initiative and we'll expose that. And finally, education is changing in this country, and that education that has nothing to do with reading, writing, and arithmetic may be changing this nation forever. The center will break down that warning for you as well. It's the Week in Review and it starts right now. This goes into something else that I have to bring up, and it's something

that we've seen on TikTok. Now, if you don't know what TikTok is, we've talked about this before, quick recap. It's an app that a ton of people use, especially young people, especially young people, and China uses it to influence young people. Specifically, we saw an unbelievable uptick on TikTok. And there's data to back this up of pro Hamas videos, pro Hamas propaganda, anti Israel propaganda, pro Palestinian propaganda.

decades later has has gone viral only on TikTok. Go back to propaganda of China to influence young people to believe that somehow Osama bin Lauden was justified in his nine to eleven attack the same way that they're justifying Hamas's attack on Israel. And this is what Americans are saying about reading this letter for the first time on TikTok.

and deliberately pushing pro Hamas propaganda. We know that young people are moving dramatically in the direction of Hamas and to what extent is the CCP affirmatively doing that? And I'll tell you something again. I can't give you their answers, but I will tell you a data point, which is TikTok defends itself by saying it keeps us customer data here in the United States, not in China, although under its terms of service the CCP has a right to access them at any time. You know what it doesn't

keep here in the United States, it's recommendation algorithm. So the way TikTok operates, you're looking at TikTok, you watch a video, and then it suggests to you, hey, Ben, you would like this video.

that hurt American young people. So let's push to young girls and teenage girls body image problems and push anorexia and eating disorders, and let's push self harm, let's push cutting, let's push suicide, let's push drug use, let's push all sorts of things that will just hurt young people. And

they do that tragically every day. But they can also decide politically, Okay, we don't want the United States exploring for oil and gas, so let's push Green New Deal garbage to tell them, go stop fracking, go stop this, go stop this. Be dependent on Iran, be dependent on Russia, be dependent on Venezuela, be dependent on our enemies for oil and gas. They can push that message to young people, or if they just want to push pro hamas propaganda, they can. In this instance, you have young people.

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the proletariat overthrowing the oppressors. I describe in the book Unwoke how Marxist infiltrated the universities in the nineteen sixties and seventies, and then that doctrine mutated. It mutated to critical race theory, which has the same basic frame, the Marxist frame of a pressor and victim, but instead of socioeconomic it's race. So there are presser races and victim races. I describe how it mutated to be gender and gender identity and sexual orientation, same idea of a pressor and victim,

and the idea is violence revolution. Anything is justified if it is the victim overthrowing the oppressor. Now, this TikTok video, the text of the tweet he has says, under settler colonialism, any kind of resistance is branded as terrorism because the only acceptable violence is violenced by the occupier. That is straight up Marxism. And it is explaining why, as I told this left leaning tech executive, the reason the left

is celebrating Hamas. Is they have defined Jews as oppressors, they have defined Hamas as victims, and so they're in favor of violence by the victims against the impressors. And that includes mass murder. That includes targeting civilians. That includes murdering elderly people. That includes raping women and little girls

in the public streets, that includes slaughtering infants. That includes, as we discussed, literally putting a baby in an oven, yeah, and raping that baby's mother while the baby cooks to death and the mother is being raped and listening to her infant die in an oven, being cooked to death. Now, that is unmitigated evil. That is Nazi like. That is a level of grotesque evil that.

acceptable violence is violence by the occupier. The reason these young people are so susceptible to this TikTok propaganda is because cultural Marxism has been taught to them from the womb. Has been taught to them in kindergarten, first, second, third, fourth, fifth grade, all the way through school, has been taught to them in college, has been taught to them through

social media, has been taught to them through entertainment. They're told, once we say someone is the victim and someone is the oppressor, we cheer for violence, for any horrible evil against the oppressor, because that's the Marxist revolution we support.

It's a best seller. You can get on Amazon or wherever you get your books, unless you're at a bookstore in California apparently they don't like it very much out there in California in the bookstores, but you can grab it wherever you get your books. I love this part of censorship. By the way, center, there are quite a few bookstores. I've actually talked to friends who have gone

into bookstores. Your book's a bestseller, and if you're on the wrong part of the country, in a more liberal, woke part of the country, there's a very good chance you cannot find a hard copy of your book in a bookstore, which is maddening to me, especially since it is a bestseller.

And they had to actually drive the Long Beach, which they did to get several copies of the books, because it was only the Barnes and Noble in Long Beach that had the copies, and throughout LA they weren't there. Sadly,

we're hearing we're hearing reports of that. There was also a letter to the editor this past week in the Dallas Morning News complaining that the big box stores, which have lots and lots of books of other books that you can't find Unwoke, even though, as you noted, is it is a best seller, was at the top of the best seller list, and yet the major bricks and mortar retail outlets are very reluctant to carry it. And when they do carry it, they certainly don't put it

out on the table in front. They put it off in the back. The good news is you can order it online, so I would encourage you go online and

order it. And you mentioned what came out this past week, and what came out this past week also is is racist roads and woke infrastructure, which may sound absurd, but it's something I discuss at considerable length in the book Unwoke, and in June, Transportation Secretary Pete Bootage edge announced that the Department of Transportation it started accepting applications for the National Infrastructure Project Assistance, Infrastructure for Rebuilding America, and the

Rural Surface Transportation Grant programs. These three programs together received five point six billion dollars under the so called Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and the Department of Transportation.

Quote projects that have not sufficiently considered climate change and environmental justice in their planning as determined by the Department, will be required to do so before receiving funds for construction. Now, mind you, what they're saying is if you're actually building roads, if you're actually building freeways, then that is not sufficient. And in fact, Pete buddhage Edge made news in twenty twenty one when he said, quote there is racism physically

built into some of our highways. Now, now that is idiotic. And I would note that the DOT grants also additionally target so DOT policies frame road building. Here's what they call roadbuilding, quote increasing automobile dependence. And so they condemn highway expansion projects that don't involve electric vehicle charging stations or bike lane. So it is Remember there was a lot of hooplaw over all the money to be spent on infrastructure and roads and bridges.

a vote in the Senate. Now Biden can veto that vote, but in the Senate, we're going to see if all the people who trumpeted the infrastructure programs support blocking them from going to roads and bridges on us they are sufficiently woke and fighting racist roads, whatever the hell that is.

Is this just the part of now where we are in politics where they look at you, they'll say this is for infrastructure, straight up lie to you, and then waste billions of your dollars on woke agenda items like this.

roads and bridges. Those sound really good, and they write into law funding for roads and bridges. Now, the left wing Democrats they're negotiating with know fully well, they're pulling the football away and Charlie Brown is landing on his ass.

means the radicals who have taken over our government. And we have too many Republicans in Congress who are fundamentally naive, and they just keep running and trying to kick that football, and the problem getting worse and worse as before.

asked what that meant. For the next few minutes, I heard about the crimes of Christopher Columbus in minute detail. Every murdered Native American, transmitted disease, and stolen acre of lamb seemed to be accounted for. I heard that Columbus, who claimed the land for himself because his straight white privilege or something like that, had not actually discovered anything at all, but rather had landed on the shores of what would come to be known as America by accident.

This quote unquote revolution, familiar to most adults in the United States, is something that American children encounter sooner or later in a textbook. Believing that they've accessed some secret, hidden knowledge that the grown ups don't want them to have. That moment, for me is the moment that terrifies me for our kids in this my kids generation, is that we have handed our children over to this school systems.

And it's not just public schools now, it's private schools as well, who are indoctrinating them in this idea that America somehow was started on evil, bad motives and that you should not love this country, but you should be ashamed of this country. And you had to deal with this with your own daughter.

book is all about how we fight back. But you know, as she was saying that Columbus was evil and racist and genocidal and terrible, and she hated Christopher Columbus, you know, I just just sat down in her bedroom and I tried to have a conversation with her, and I said, look, I'm not deeply vested in making the argument that Christopher Columbus was some incredible hero. But I said, you know what,

we do have a federal holiday named after him. Do we typically name federal holidays after evil, racist, genocidal maniacs? Like might there be another side of the story? Is there anything admirable about them? And she was not really

able to see much that was admirble. I said, well, what do you think about getting in three rook rickety wooden ships and leaving Europe and heading heading west when you think you're falling off the edge of the world to explore and discover I mean, I mean, is that spirit,

that intrepid spirit? Is that anything to be admired? And and And I said, secondly, look, it is true that Columbus and and and the man who traveled with him, that that that they carried some some germs that that that were that were new to to the to the western hemisphere, and that when they got here some of the some of the Native Americans died from those germs. Now, it's also true it was the fifteenth century. They didn't know what a germ was, so they didn't know they

were carrying it. And and when you accuse him of mass murder, does culpability matter? Does the fact that they didn't know what a germ was, They had no idea they were doing it. Is that at all relevant if you're going to call him this evil, terrible murder. And when I talk about in the book is not long thereafter Thanksgiving of that year, we were talking about Thanksgiving, and she and a friend of hers from school and this is when they were in grade school, said said, likewise,

oh Thanksgiving is is is terrible. It's when the pilgrims were oppressing that the Native Americans. And and you know again I I made the argument, I think even more vigorously this time, and I said, listen, it is certainly right that the settlers that came to America, that they settled America, and they ultimately conquered America, and they they committed some terrible acts to Native Americans. But if you look at the history of humanity in every continent, every

nation was acquired by conquest. And every time there's conquest, you have one group of people who are conquering another group of people. By the way, in the United States, before we were the United States, the Native Americans, one tribe conquered another conquered another conquered another. And you look at Europe, you look at Asia. That's the history of humanity, one group of people conquering another. And anytime you have conquest,

there are horrible things that happen. They're terrible things that are done. But I said, look in any war, there were atrocities on both sides. And you know, I asked, I asked my daughter. I said, you know, from whence do you think think the verb to scalp was derived? The Native Americans did some horrible things to the settlers who came here also, And the connection that I made for her, and that I make in the book is

those two discussions are interlinked and intertwined. Which is for all of the teachers and all of the professors and all of the people advocating that Columbus was evil and advocating that Thanksgiving is evil because the Pilgrims were stealing from the Native Americans, it comes down to one antecedent question. Was the settlement of the New World a good thing or a bad thing? Was the formation of the United States of America good or bad? And I'm not neutral

or ambivalent on that question. I think the United States of America has been the greatest force for good of any nation in the history of the world, that we had produced more prosperity, more abundance. We have liberated more prisoners and captives. We have shed our blood and treasure and tears fighting tyranny more than any nation in the history of the world. Do we have our flaws, yes, of course. Do we have our problems, yes, of course. But America, I believe, like Reagan said, is a shining

city on a hill. And I want to make a special request of our Verdict listeners. You guys are incredible, You guys are patriots. You guys give me hope and optimism in America. I want to ask every one.

sitting here at eleven o three? Because we care about this. We want we want our incredible listeners to be armed with information and know how to fight to save this country. And this book is exactly in the same spirit. The book is I think, interesting and fun. It's not some abstract academic treatise, but it's designed. When you read it, you'll enjoy it. And by the way, I encourage you. Look, if I can be immodest for a second, don't buy just one. You know Christmas is coming up very soon.

Buy a copy for your mom, buy a copy for your brother, buy a copy for your next door neighbor, your best friend. Because the reason that I spend the time to write these books, the reason that you and I do this podcast, it is we either persuade and win hearts and minds, or we lose America. That's what the stakes are, and that's what this book is about. It's the exact same thing the podcast is about.