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Ross: Los Angeles School Superintendent Abolished High School Math
“Milken Institute sent me an interview they had done with the head of the school system in Los Angeles, and the reason they did an interview with them is he had abolished, prohibited the teaching of mathematics in high school.”
Lonsdale: Majority of Young Adults Dislike Jews for Their Success
“And now in 19 to 25 year olds, majority of them don't like Jews because we're successful.”
Verdon: Centralized bioweapon defense research accidentally created a damaging virus
“There was centralized research on Bio, you know, bioweapon defense. Right. And we were worried about a potential virus that could do a lot of damage. And then it was actually accidentally created through that research.”
Lonsdale: Russia funded European green parties to halt fracking and eliminate competition
“They funded the green parties, they funded the protests, and they turned off fracking in Europe because it's so good for the environment. They tricked everyone because obviously they don't want competition.”
Sandler: Milken pleaded to offenses never criminally prosecuted before or since
“None of which, and this is why I go in great detail in the book so people understand how in many ways ridiculous it is, none of which had ever been the subject of a criminal prosecution before or since.”
Loeffler: Biden Administration Tried to Forgive $200B in Pandemic Loans
“The Biden administration tried to forgive those loans, sweep it under the rug to the tune of about two hundred billion dollars.”
Liemandt: Paying students directly is the most effective educational incentive
“Yeah. No, paying the kids is by far the most effective way to do it. And you can get, you know, big effect size on, on doing this. It really works.”
Lonsdale claims Biden's HUD forced facilities to allow drug use
“For a while, HUD, the national government was actually coming in under the Biden administration, and it was forcing people to allow people to use drugs in their treatment areas”
Hilton: I was the first TV host to link COVID to Fauci
“I was the first on TV to lay out all the evidence showing that it was Fauci's experiments that were the origin of the pandemic.”
Cotton: TikTok algorithms suppress content on Hong Kong, Tibet, and Tiananmen Square
“And of course, why you can't see anything on TikTok related to say Hong Kong or Tibet or to Tiananmen Square or the Falun Gong. This is a tool of Chinese communist propaganda.”
Bookman: 1% of Oracle public sector clients sue and over half dissatisfied
“Some of the stats, Oracle, apparently, one percent of its public sector customers end up in lawsuits. And more than half end up, quote, fully dissatisfied.”
Johnston: Cuba has better average health outcomes than the US
“Even Cuba has better health outcomes than we do.”
Stitt claims there is no evidence needle exchanges curb drug use
“We don't see any evidence that that's gonna curb drug use by, you know, giving them more, more needles.”
Lonsdale claims over 48 district attorneys funded the Wren Collective
“More than 48 DAs were caught specifically funding the Wren collective around this.”
Schmitt: 18 to 24 Year Olds Vote Republican More Than Past Generations
“And I also think you'd look at younger voters right now, especially, you know, 18 to 24 year olds who live through these dark, crazy times. They're, I mean, they're the most conservative, or they vote Republican more than any generation previous to them, becau…”
Ross: University Survey Found Plurality of Youth Believed US Invented Slavery
“There's a university, I think it's University of Wisconsin, surveys people, 18 to 25 each year, with a bunch of macro questions. And the two most interesting ones on the last survey I saw, the first one was, where was slavery invented? You know what the most p…”