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Welcome, welcome. Welcome, Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. You know, we’re hitting it’s Holy Week, a lot a lot of people are either traveling for work, excuse me for fun and family, or they’re winding down their work, which means to say not much is getting done at work or whatever. So welcome to the Pro America Report. We’re not winding it down. We’re not mailing It in we are here although. On Friday, we’ll we’ll play a replay of some of our our best of. Because we’ll be travelling but. Anyway, but today we’re not. And so here we are and it’s time to talk.
We’ll talk with John Schlafly in a few moments. We’ll get an update on his most his most recent, let me get the right word. His. Yeah, most recent. I guess that’s right. Column that runs over townhall.com, John Schlafly, the Schlafly Report and also we’ll talk today with Cynthia Hughes, of the Patriot Freedom Project. She is the aunt of a prisoner a J6 prisoner, Tim Hale. She’s also the founder of the Patriot Freedom Project and an extraordinary Leader at the center of a lot that’s going on so. We’ll talk with those two, alright.
But what you need to know today, it’s a little lighter. It’s a little lighter, but let me make a couple of comments. On things you know we have. I have watched. As there has been a lots of coverage and again let me point out during a week like this. Before Easter, when 98% of the media and and politicians and people working in policy are on vacation or mailing it in, you know not paying much attention, this story, The coverage is lazy. I told you earlier in the week you go to Politico and look and you say to yourself, huh, about half those stories could have been written two weeks ago. They were. They were, I mean. In other words. And it names you haven’t seen before are writing stories because they’ve got the the B or C team because the a team is on vacation. That’s OK, but you can feel it kind of winds down and and there’s not much to talk about. So happily for the media and big tech and everybody else, you had Trump to kick around. So there’s lots of coverage of him over in the week, but also you have to find these fake stories to cover.
And one of the fake stories was the final four of the women’s basketball NCAA Division One women’s basketball Final four championship games. So the final four was Virginia Tech versus LSU. LSU won, and then Iowa versus South Carolina and Iowa won. Now South Carolina I think they were undefeated the whole year. They had beaten everybody and they’ve beaten everybody handily. So Iowa beating South Carolina was kind of a big deal. And the star in that Iowa game was this shooting guard. I guess she’s pretty tall, but she’s a shooting guard. Just a scorer as Caitlin Clark. Something like that. And towards the end of the game, in the excitement of that, I think she made some gestures. Kind of taunting gestures, and so nobody said much about it. And then comes to the Final game and the final game is LSU versus Iowa and LSU upsets Iowa and LSU wins the national championship.
Now LSU’s coach is a coach who was at Baylor and won a couple of championships and she’s kind of a in your face flamboyant. Kind of a. Little bit annoying, lady, but she’s a winner. Kimberly Mulkey is her name. Interesting footnote. Her son. For a while was in the St. Louis Cardinals baseball organization. He was a great he is a great athlete, and a and a pretty good baseball player, and I don’t think he’s in the pros, but he might be. Sometimes anyway so. When, LSU wins, their star player Reese. Yes, Allison, Allison Reese? I forget her first name, taunts the Iowa player, just like the Iowa. Similar to what the Iowa player did. To South Carolina. And now the stories start and everybody’s got a story. It’s covered, it’s covered breathlessly by the media and and. And they’re now doing interviews. Got podcast with this woman, Reese this player. Who won the national championship, is a great player. Great. I guess I mean. I didn’t watch the game, but I mean, I’m told she’s one of the dominant players. And the Iowa young woman is a really good player, great shooter. So but this becomes a major story and it becomes about race. It becomes about sexism becomes about all this kind of stuff and.
Here’s what you need to know. There’s a point in this silliness where we’re really not doing a good job of honoring youth, which is to say young people say stupid stuff. Young people do stupid stuff. Young people who have played sports at the highest levels and you know the NCAA championship game in basketball, women or men, those are the best players in the land and then. In the country they they tend to be hyper competitive, hyper successful, all sorts of hyper, whatever word you wanna use. And so the idea that this young woman Reese, or the other woman would do something dumb, say something stupid is, you know what young people do. It shouldn’t be a major story. By the middle of the week. We have the LSU player Reese talking about. Oh, so this is what happened.
Jill Biden actually said, well, we should invite both teams to the White House because Iowa. Sure played hard. And the LSU team was like what? We just won. Why would we share the limelight and this Reese player who was getting criticized and she happens to be black. I don’t know if it matters, except that was a race. There was a race part, if you criticized her for being over the top. You were called racist. You weren’t just called someone who was being a little bit uptight, you were called racist. I don’t. I don’t care. On a basketball court, I don’t care. I, you know. I’m sorry, but I told you a couple days ago. I grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey. I played basketball in Jersey City, NJ. We played in gyms that when you went into the gym you weren’t. sure who was in charge. It looked like the players were in charge of security. I mean, you know, there were some rough places. And by the way, not just black, white, you know, Hispanic. Everything. It was just a. It was a rough and tumble and that was basketball. People talked smack all the time, so I don’t care. But Jill Biden does this invitation and now this poor kid from LSU is being quoted and and is now complaining about Joe Biden inviting her and and that may maybe she’ll go see Barack Obama and Michelle Obama sort of implying that since she’s black, that’s the place to go.
It all made me think. How terrible it is that we put our kids at the center of so many things that they just shouldn’t be. They just shouldn’t be, right? They shouldn’t be, they’re kids. We have to do some things to protect our children. We have to have some ethics and understanding. They you shouldn’t care what the kid says. Now it brings me to another point.
There has been this rush to make our children adults faster. We want them to vote younger, we want them to be able to do this and that younger, they can get on social media, which is addictive. Younger I would I would ban the social media for anybody under the age of 16. I would ban it. No, no permission period. It’ll never happen, but I would ban it. Well and and around the edges, especially of all these things that sound like ethics and social. Are these questions now of what they’re doing to these kids when the kids express a preference for what the left thinks is important, meaning abortion or gender transformation. Transgender stuff? If you’re a kid and you say I’m LGBTQ+, and I want to transition, you will be embraced. In fact, if you just say your LGBT, you’ll be embraced. And you’ll be embraced to the detriment of the parents. The parents will not have a say on whether you think it because. Let me say it differently. There is a lot of pressure to make it so that the kid is allowed to express him or herself for all time. This is who they are and that you shouldn’t stop them. When we all know that most kids are dumb. Two or three times a day. Often more, and you just need to grow up.
And over in Idaho, the governor there signed a law and I’m sure it’ll be challenged. Planned Parenthood is objecting. That said, if you were aiding, if you are an adult and you’re aiding a minor to get an abortion without parental consent, you are now trafficking, abortion trafficking, love the term. Abortion trafficking, just like we have sex trafficking, where adults take underage girls, mostly, and and and utilize them in the sex trades, well abortion trafficking. Again, we have to have some kind of relationship between the law and parents’ rights. You know it’s simpler on education. You’re hearing more and more parents say I have rights. I want to assert my rights over my kid’s education. It’s a little simpler cause it’s just just education. It’s everything education.
But when it comes to changing your body, surgery, hormone, drugs, abortion, how can it be that there is not complete consensus and agreement that other adults shouldn’t be outside of what the parental role is and remember. If the parent is abusive. If the parent is abusive, there are means under the law to to challenge their control over a young person. There is that, that does exist, but it’s being abused. It is, the assumption is if the child if the parent disagrees with the child that the child is right. And it can’t be that way.
So my point here is, as we skewer Reese and Reese becomes the Colin Kaepernick of women’s basketball, it’s to her detriment. And Colin Kaepernick made, Colin Kaepernick Colin Kaepernick made a decision at the height of his career to do what he wanted to do, and that was a I didn’t agree with him, but it was a decision he made as an adult. This kid is a kid and I know she’s gonna say. Well, she’s over 18. I think she might be. 19 might be 20. But she’s a kid doing dumb things. We ought to be counseling her not to do dumb things not to be, not to let herself be the center of it all. It’s just not helpful for her and.
We ought to lead the charge. Lead the charge, like Idaho did on parental rights and asserting parental rights over especially abortion, especially transgender, especially surgeries, things that are. You, you. You. We’re not talking about going to a concert. We’re not talking about a, you know, having a a preference in what you read. Or or even where you go. Oh, we’re talking about transformative stuff. That changes you physically and emotionally, everything else dramatically. Kids need to be loved, and one of the things about love is knowing how to express the limits of what people can do and how they can do it. So it’s disappointing to watch and we’ve got to be part of a movement to take back our kids and and to love them instead of pushing them to grow up in a way that’s not good for them.
All right, We’ll take a break. We’ll be back. John Schlafly. Cynthia Hughes and a Lot more it’s Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. Back in a moment.
