“It’s to disrupt education…” — Transcript

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1. 0:00We're we're thrilled to have the uh CEO
2. 0:02of Moms for Liberty. Uh Tina Descovich
3. 0:05is joining us. Tina, thank you for
4. 0:07making time. This is such an important
5. 0:10topic. Uh I'm not a parent. I'm an uncle
6. 0:13like 19 times over and a great uncle
7. 0:15like 18 times over cuz they're all
8. 0:17having kids, too. Uh but what happens in
9. 0:20our schools is so important and it feels
10. 0:23like the other side understands that,
11. 0:25too. Tell me about what's happening on
12. 0:27May 1st.
13. 0:29They do understand that and they are
14. 0:31using our children and our students in
15. 0:33America and our schoolhouses to create
16. 0:36places of indoctrination instead of
17. 0:38places of learning for reading and math
18. 0:41and writing and, you know, English, all
19. 0:44of the things that you and I learned as
20. 0:46a child. So, on May 1st, uh driven by
21. 0:49the teachers' unions and their ilk, uh
22. 0:51they are doing a day of protest where
23. 0:55they are um identifying schools mostly
24. 0:58as places to hold these road to
25. 1:00protests, you know, right outside the
26. 1:01school limits or the school gates. And
27. 1:04then they're having a walk-in. And so,
28. 1:06instead of a walkout, because we
29. 1:07criticized them so heavily last time
30. 1:09when they did walkouts, now they're
31. 1:10doing a walk-in so that students can
32. 1:13protest outside and adults and then the
33. 1:15students and teachers can walk in still
34. 1:17in protest on a variety of issues and
35. 1:20nothing that has to do with the failing
36. 1:21education system, of course.
37. 1:24Did they think we really wouldn't figure
38. 1:25out that they're just changing the name
39. 1:27from a walkout to a walk-in?
40. 1:30So so silly to me. I I wish we could
41. 1:33have a day of reading and maybe a day of
42. 1:35math and maybe a day of history. I mean,
43. 1:38real history, not the history that
44. 1:40they're being taught. Uh this also seems
45. 1:42to be funded from outside of the
46. 1:45education system. This seems to be
47. 1:48coming from uh quite a radical end of uh
48. 1:52of the world. The the money that's
49. 1:54coming in to force or at least fund all
50. 1:57of these protests,
51. 1:59Um uh not exactly with America's
52. 2:02future in the the and America's values
53. 2:05in mind.
54. 2:06No, it's a really it's it's really well
55. 2:08coordinated. And so, you can follow
56. 2:10there's a numerous stories out there now
57. 2:12that people can go read about it, and
58. 2:13you can follow the money trail and see
59. 2:15what's happening. And you can see their
60. 2:16training. So, they're holding trainings
61. 2:18right now to prepare everyone for May
62. 2:201st, for May Day, for these protests and
63. 2:22walk-ins to schools. And it's it's to
64. 2:25disrupt it's to disrupt education. And
65. 2:28it's to get all eyes on them and to make
66. 2:29it look like they have a greater voice
67. 2:32than they really do. I mean, they
68. 2:34they've become experts, I would say,
69. 2:35over the last decade over the last
70. 2:37decade on how to hold these protests and
71. 2:40rallies to get media attention. They
72. 2:41know if they do it in front of a school,
73. 2:42they'll get even more attention. They
74. 2:44know if they include students that it'll
75. 2:45look that'll pull at people's
76. 2:47heartstrings. So, they they are winning
77. 2:48the PR war again when it's only a
78. 2:50fraction of America that really sides
79. 2:52and believes with already sides with
80. 2:54them and believes with what they
81. 2:55believe.
82. 2:56So, if they are winning the PR war,
83. 2:59Tina, how how do we fight it? What do we
84. 3:01do? What's the answer?
85. 3:04Uh you know, first of all, we do have to
86. 3:06fight back. I know I recently attended
87. 3:09uh a meeting in DC with a lot of
88. 3:10conservative leaders, and I'll be
89. 3:12honest, I was It's a closed-door
90. 3:14meeting, but I was shocked. Uh we were
91. 3:16having a discussion about press and uh
92. 3:18doing press interviews and how to handle
93. 3:20them and and how you're supposed to
94. 3:22respond. And I one after another, I saw
95. 3:25leaders of other organizations say, "I
96. 3:27don't talk to the press. I don't trust
97. 3:28the press, so I don't I don't talk to
98. 3:30them. I don't take interviews. I don't
99. 3:32even answer their calls." And I I just I
100. 3:34looked at the person next to me, and I
101. 3:35was like,
102. 3:37"How are we ever going to win hearts and
103. 3:39minds in the national conversations if
104. 3:41we are making decisions in fear, and we
105. 3:43are afraid to go out and do the hard
106. 3:45interviews and stand for what we believe
107. 3:47in?"
108. 3:48Yeah, the uh the idea of not talking to
109. 3:51press to me is a surrender. If you're
110. 3:53not willing to engage the press, then
111. 3:55you're saying, "Uh You guys just say
112. 3:58what you want about us. That we'll deal
113. 4:00with it afterwards." And that means
114. 4:02we've ceded that turf. And I know there
115. 4:04are only a handful of of outlets in the
116. 4:08conservative world that will support a a
117. 4:11discussion from both sides. The left is
118. 4:14only going to give you one side of it.
119. 4:15So, the the answer is really to speak
120. 4:18up. Now, about 6 7 years ago, it seems
121. 4:22like school board meetings were a place
122. 4:25that we saw the seeds of change and
123. 4:28control in the in the country happen.
124. 4:30And I know Moms for Liberty was a big
125. 4:32part of that. And I watched it happen
126. 4:34not far from me in Bucks County in
127. 4:37Pennsylvania. And I've seen it in some
128. 4:39other areas around the country.
129. 4:41Uh
130. 4:42is it that we have to go back into
131. 4:44school boards again and push and push
132. 4:47and push again to try and take back that
133. 4:50control cuz I I I feel like they
134. 4:53they came running back in while we
135. 4:55weren't looking.
136. 4:57They
137. 4:58They absolutely are. This is uh you're
138. 5:01talking issues that are very near and
139. 5:02dear to my heart. So, I served on a
140. 5:04school board from 2016 to 2020. And I
141. 5:06saw firsthand Red for Ed coming in
142. 5:09sometimes up to a thousand of them
143. 5:11chanting for whatever issue they were uh
144. 5:14advocating. Moms Demand Action again,
145. 5:16red shirts came in advocating after the
146. 5:18Parkland massacre to keep SROs and
147. 5:21others out of our schools. So, I saw how
148. 5:23effective they are at school board
149. 5:25meetings, which is one of the reasons
150. 5:26Moms for Liberty has blue shirts.
151. 5:29And we we're following the same playbook
152. 5:31in a lot of ways. And you know, we
153. 5:32launched in 2021. I do believe we have
154. 5:35to um
155. 5:37not just not just defend that ground,
156. 5:38but take that ground. And we can't give
157. 5:41up. And what I'm seeing, you know, after
158. 5:43schools were reopened and masks were off
159. 5:45kids,
160. 5:46uh parents are like, "Oh, everything's
161. 5:48fine now." And I'm like, "No, no, no,
162. 5:49no. Remember all of the things that were
163. 5:50streamed into your living room in 2020
164. 5:53and 2021?" They're still being taught.
165. 5:55They're actually getting worse, and some
166. 5:56of the policies are worse. So, we keep,
167. 5:58you know, waving the flag. We are
168. 6:00shouting from the rooftops. We're trying
169. 6:02to do it in a joyful way, but there are
170. 6:04still very concerning things going on
171. 6:06our schools, and you can just tell with
172. 6:07this May Day event, uh you know, how how
173. 6:10they're not giving up and not seeding
174. 6:11any ground.
175. 6:13Well, is there any way to to infiltrate,
176. 6:16I know that's a that's a war term. Is
177. 6:18there any way to stage competing events?
178. 6:21I played a clip earlier where
179. 6:23Al Sharpton is not going to celebrate
180. 6:26the 250th
181. 6:27anniversary of America's birth. He wants
182. 6:30to stage his own event to compete with
183. 6:32it, and I I think his is all about a
184. 6:34money grab, but is there any way to
185. 6:36counter protest the May Day
186. 6:39uh walkout walk-in activity to create
187. 6:42something to compete with it, or is it
188. 6:44that we just have to be uh there to
189. 6:47counter it with information?
190. 6:49So, I would not advise against counter
191. 6:52protest all across the country. Then, we
192. 6:54are no better than them doing them at
193. 6:55the schoolhouse doors and and
194. 6:57influencing and and honestly, we saw
195. 6:59what's happened with the ICE protests
196. 7:00that were near schools. They were
197. 7:02dangerous. I mean, there's videos all
198. 7:04over X and other places where moms in
199. 7:06tears scared for their children and what
200. 7:08was happening out in front of schools.
201. 7:09We don't want to be part of that. Also,
202. 7:12we don't have the funds equivalent to
203. 7:14what they have to train and coordinate
204. 7:16weeks and months in advance to uh
205. 7:19disseminate across the country. We have
206. 7:20to work a much smarter on a much leaner
207. 7:23budget, and we can absolutely do it, but
208. 7:25we have to be smart. We have to be uh
209. 7:27coordinated, and we have to work
210. 7:28together uh with other conservative
211. 7:30organizations, which also is sometimes
212. 7:32challenging. It's really challenging. I
213. 7:35know I was there in the early days of
214. 7:36the Tea Party and the 9/11 groups, and
215. 7:39everybody wants their turf. So, it is
216. 7:40tough. And unless you have a charismatic
217. 7:43leader at the front, it's hard to herd
218. 7:46all of these liberty-loving minds
219. 7:48together cuz they are like cats. They're
220. 7:51going to go at various They're going to
221. 7:52go to wherever the the pointer catches
222. 7:55their eye. But, you brought up a really
223. 7:57important issue, and that's money.
224. 7:59How is it being allowed that the
225. 8:00teachers unions, the largest teachers
226. 8:04union in the country, is allowed to put
227. 8:05so much money into funding this protest?
228. 8:12Funding the protest, but look at their
229. 8:13political donations, especially the NEA
230. 8:15and the national teachers unions. I
231. 8:17think it's like 98% of their donations
232. 8:20go to Democrats over Republicans. They
233. 8:23are a political radical political
234. 8:26ideology organization, and they have
235. 8:28complete access to your children all day
236. 8:30long in the schoolhouse. Um it's time
237. 8:33for parents to really wake up. It's time
238. 8:34for Congress to revoke the NEA charter.
239. 8:37You know, that should have been done
240. 8:39decades ago. They have the oldest
241. 8:41charter and the only union charter in
242. 8:43our country. Um they are not part of the
243. 8:45American fabric. They are trying to
244. 8:47destroy the American fabric.
245. 8:49Has anyone Any member of Congress made
246. 8:52that proposal? Is there any Anybody
247. 8:54who's an ally for us?
248. 8:56Yeah, so last year we got Congressman
249. 8:58Mark Harris in North Carolina to sponsor
250. 9:01the bill. We went up to the Capitol. We
251. 9:02held a a rally, you know, a press
252. 9:05conference with him
253. 9:06and several other Congress like
254. 9:08Congresswoman Mary Miller and some
255. 9:10others got it. It did I don't think it's
256. 9:12made any progress, though.
257. 9:15That's a shame. I know we have a lot
258. 9:17We've trying to get the government fully
259. 9:18open again, too. So, there's a lot of
260. 9:20things that are on the table.
261. 9:22>> They're just trying to get back to work
262. 9:23cuz, you know, it's such a hard job for
263. 9:25them. We have to have some sympathy that
264. 9:27they are accomplishing absolutely
265. 9:28nothing right now. I'm sensing a little
266. 9:31bit of sarcasm in your voice, young
267. 9:34lady.
268. 9:36Tina Descovich is right.
269. 9:37>> How much do you travel? Like you have
270. 9:39you waited how long have your lines been
271. 9:41in TSA? So it's it's not good out there.
272. 9:44Well, well, they don't have to
273. 9:45standardize. They're escorted to the
274. 9:47front of the line.
275. 9:50Well, I don't either anymore. I had to I
276. 9:51had to give up my retina so that I could
277. 9:53use clear so that I could actually make
278. 9:55it on a plane and get to where I need to
279. 9:57go. So yeah, I have a little animosity.
280. 10:00I I can tell. I can tell it's leaking
281. 10:02through. I I want to make one last pitch
282. 10:04for anybody who's listening, anybody
283. 10:06who's watching. Uh the school board
284. 10:08issue and the the the the
285. 10:11axiom is all politics are local and the
286. 10:15school board issue is so important to
287. 10:17me. There's so many people who think you
288. 10:18have to be a parent in a school district
289. 10:21in order to run for school board. That's
290. 10:23typically not the case. Anybody who's
291. 10:26interested, anybody who may be retired
292. 10:28or semi-retired has an interest in
293. 10:30pushing a more conservative uh agenda, a
294. 10:33liberty-loving agenda can run for school
295. 10:36boards in most areas. Yes, no?
296. 10:40Oh, absolutely. And Moms for
297. 10:41Liberty.org, we have one of the only
298. 10:44school board training toolkits for free.
299. 10:46You can download download. You can ask
300. 10:48for us to come to your community and
301. 10:49hold a winning workshop where we train
302. 10:51you how to run for school board. I think
303. 10:52we've trained 120 candidates so far this
304. 10:54year. Uh we have at least 20 more of
305. 10:56these that we have already on the
306. 10:58calendar. We're willing to come to you.
307. 10:59So
308. 11:00uh use us in this area. Let us help um
309. 11:03you with the knowledge and experience
310. 11:05that we have to prepare you to serve on
311. 11:06your school board. See, this is the the
312. 11:09the critical thing and I I'm I'm calling
313. 11:11out to some of my brothers and sisters
314. 11:13who are not full-time anymore, might be
315. 11:16crossing the finish line of regular
316. 11:18employment, but want to make sure you
317. 11:20plant a tree of liberty today and that
318. 11:23starts at the school boards and you can
319. 11:25get involved. MomsforLiberty.org
320. 11:29will help train you. If you're
321. 11:30interested, you should go there. Tina,
322. 11:32thanks to you and everybody who's out
323. 11:34there fighting to make sure that the
324. 11:36schools are actually teaching reading,
325. 11:38writing, arithmetic, history, all that
326. 11:40stuff. Maybe even civics. Wouldn't that
327. 11:42be great? We appreciate you.
328. 11:45Thank you.