Chaya Raichik, Libs of Tik tok, Issues Call for Kids to Spy

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MAGA Influencer Caught in NEW SPYING Scheme
by Ken Harbaugh
MeidasTouch
Aug 30, 2024

Right-wing provocateur Chaya Raichik, who founded the site “Libs of TikTok,” has issued a call to recruit children in Ohio to spy on each other. Ohio State Representative Casey Weinstein discusses why bullying has become such a dominant feature of Republican politics, and how we should respond.



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to start trying to recruit parents to I
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guess have their kids spy on other kids
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in school that is some chilling
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man it's Ken Harbaugh with the meidastouch
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Network and our new show the Ken
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Harbaugh show is off to an amazing start
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thank you all so much for making it
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happen today I want to highlight a story
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that at first glance might seem a bit
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parochial on its surface it's about Ohio
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and a right-wing agitator who has put a
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call out for Maga parents to get kids to
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spy on each other that person is CH
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raichik the co-founder of an online
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bullying platform I don't know how else
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to describe it called Libs of Tik Tok
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and she wants kids to become informance
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reporting back on so-called wokeness in
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their communities this story centers on
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Ohio but as you'll see it has Nationwide
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implications the right-wing provocateur
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behind Libs of Tik tock s in the fact
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that her actions hurt people when she
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puts a children's hospital or a school
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district in her crosshairs threats of
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real violence often follow and yet here
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she is posing with a headline about just
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that and she's grinning like it's all
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some kind of joke I spoke with Ohio
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State Representative Casey Weinstein
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about this and about what happens when
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groups like Libs of Tik Tok Target
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kids Casey Weinstein rep from Ohio great
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to have you on the show you've been on
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against all enemies many times so not
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your first rodeo here on the meidastouch
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network but your first time on the
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brand new Ken Harbaugh show on the
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midest touch Network welcome I'm very
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very honored and thankful to be here my
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friend um and thank you for being a
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voice uh a growing voice for sanity and
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um normaly uh and in our in our country
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we need it we need it for what reason
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Ohio is once again in the crosshairs
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every few weeks or months it seems it
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becomes Ground Zero in the so-called
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culture wars and I wanted to talk to you
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about this um I don't know what to call
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it it's a social media post but it's a
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it's an appeal from a right-wing
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ideologue troll provocateur chaia Ric uh
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I'll go ahead and read the post in a
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minute but it is
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really very ominous and it's targeting
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your constituents here's what she wrote
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I'm looking for parents anywhere in Ohio
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who have kids in public schools to be
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eyes and ears on the ground does that
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sound like KGB stasi or what I
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don't know your identity will remain
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anonymous and protected please DM me if
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you fit this criteria talk to us about
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Libs of Tik Tock and their MO
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for uh for going after after school
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districts who are just trying to take
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care of kids especially the most
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vulnerable kids in their uh in their
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districts she is a um and the page she
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operates uh is a bigoted bullying page
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and I mean that with every sense and
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being of the word meaning of the word um
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they target vulnerable populations um or
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they target beloved
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institutions um they target children uh
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you may have heard of Libs of Tik Tok
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because they fueled um bomb threats and
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uh and personal threats uh toward
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children's hospitals that they claimed
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were performing wild procedures on kids
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which were actually not happening um and
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I mean put these institutions and these
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hospitals uh at significant risk you
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know these hospitals that are supporting
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kids some in NICU you know with at at
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huge huge risk um both the the physical
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building and the people who work there
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so they uh for many years have have gone
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after um anything they perceive um uh it
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it's like a q andon fueled Obsession
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they have uh that there's a a group of
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people grooming you know their
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pedophiles I'm I'm apparently one of
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them because I responded to her post um
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you know strongly as she was trying to
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recruit I guess kids in my district to
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spy on other kids like I don't know but
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hero is to find uh find vulnerable
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populations and to steer to steer anger
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and hatred and threats at them to try to
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intimidate them and this is all done via
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Tik Tok or most of it obviously there's
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a ton of money behind it this is not
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some overnight accidental uh social
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media phenomenon this is nominally a Tik
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Tok page but that has a ton of support
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and amplification in the right-wing
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media ecosystem that tries to highlight
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what it sees as extreme examples of of
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of liberalism showcases them on Libs of
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Tik Tok in in a way that is designed to
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generate anger and hopefully in their
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eyes revulsion and disgust and direct
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that anger towards these populations
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trans kids being the prime target yeah
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um the important thing to note about
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their amplification is before Elon Musk
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bought Twitter they were either banned
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or you know not able to to use that
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platform and now not only are they back
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they're Amplified and sometimes Often by
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him um so you know it is an absolute
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Hate Machine um and it is a you're
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you're right they're they and and they
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go after trans kids but in this case Ken
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I don't know they seem to be broadening
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the aperture here I I don't know what
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they're doing but to to start trying to
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recruit parents to I guess have their
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kids spy on other kids in school that is
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some chilling man
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like that is um deeply deeply
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distressing and disturbing and weird uh
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and it's something that we um cannot
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take lightly because or ignore uh
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because her actions have resulted in
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real threats and potential harm to
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people this is real hatred that you said
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she is using this algorithm and this
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platform to stir up against people this
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is all part of the so-called anti-woke
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agenda this Crusade
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uh manifested in in these darkest
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corners of uh of the the right-wing
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conspiracy world to to take out the the
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woke power centers be they in Academia
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or or government or in our in our
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schools uh but I I think what's very
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telling is that there really isn't an
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intellectual basis for any of this just
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trying to hear chich Define woke is a
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painful cringe inducing experience here
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she is uh having had years to come up
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with a definition of woke failing on the
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spot roll the
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clip I mean like you can't do anything
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in peace without this wokeness being
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shoved down your throat wherever you
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go so do
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you I
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do uh how do you define wokeness
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wokeness is the
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destruction of
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normality and
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and Casey that is part of the problem
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the right has their entire movement is
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fueled on anger without any rational
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underpinnings without an intellectual
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basis at least when it comes to this
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anti-woke
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agenda how how do you parse
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that they believe that anger and hatred
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will drive turnout um and it's a it's an
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election strategy for them um it is it
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is fear and intimidation and um that's
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what they believe will bring them into
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Power um so they'll have actual real
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control over people's lives um you know
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on the other hand what we saw from the
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Democratic party last week was Joy um
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hope happiness family you know men um
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being real men like Tim Walls um with
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empathy but uh you know it's it's the
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contrast couldn't be clearer but but
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they are using this this tool of fear
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and intimidation to try to win an
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election and it keeps their people angry
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and it allows them to avoid policy
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discussions because when we talk policy
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we talk project 2025 which is their
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blueprint that they're running on and
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it's massively unpopular they don't want
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to talk about that they want to keep you
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angry at at at lies that are made up
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that you know this perceived uh woke
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agenda that they can't Define um but
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that they can stir up a lot of hatred
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and anger um towards so it is a tool to
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drive votes without policy because they
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know their positions are incredibly
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unpopular but they know they can whip up
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hatred and intimidation against people
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and the problem for me is that these are
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the people I serve these are my
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constituents um I will not ignore it um
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and I have always and will continue to
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stand strong against these you know
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bullies and call them out and just I I
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won't you know not on my watch it's what
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I say it's no accident that this appeal
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for parents to recruit their kids to spy
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on other kids is coming in late August
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of an election year uh and we can we can
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just guess what this is going to lead to
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it's going to lead to sensationalized
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stories about you know horrible things
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happening happening in Ohio classrooms
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all of which is going to be made up or
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or exaggerated and it's an electoral
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strategy it has nothing to do with
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protecting kids or helping schools well
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Ken inflation's down crime is down the
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economy is doing pretty well um
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immigration you know has the The
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Crossings at the border are down and and
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they've kind of run out of fuel on on
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those lies and so they're looking for
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that thing like what's going to be that
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thing you know in past elections we've
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seen them try to whip up fear against um
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Islamic people it terrorism uh
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immigration is a constant theme except
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the facts are are really pushing back on
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that so this this nebulous thing this uh
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wokeism that they again can't Define but
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allows them to avoid policy and and whip
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up turnout um is is the lane I guess
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they're going to choose to go down um
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and we have to we have to stand strong
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we cannot allow them to go on offense on
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this we have to stay on offense and call
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them what they are which are bigots
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bullies um and we're not going to we're
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not going to stand for it we will stand
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up for our our most vulnerable neighbors
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and
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constituents bullying seems to be a
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default these days even though I think
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electorally it tends to backfire it
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almost always backfires because
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Americans don't like bullies Americans
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know that the way to beat a bully is to
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stand up to a bully but this is
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reminiscent to me of what they tried to
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do to Governor Tim Wall's son Gus when
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he stood up and said that's my dad after
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after Governor wall said to his family
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you are everything to me and what did
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they do to Gus Waltz they called they
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called him I'll put the Tweet up a
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blubbering boy The Bullying was
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I mean we we should have expected it
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right but it it hurt even not being part
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of that family I can't imagine how it
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felt being part of that family to be on
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the receiving end of that but I think
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it's going to backfire because people
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see it as bullying not fighting wokeness
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or standing up for for manly values or
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whatever the case may be do you have
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that sense as well that the American
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people are are fed up with the The
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Bullying that has become such a dominant
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strain in in the strategy of Republican
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politics these days yeah it's a good
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question Ken and I am heartened by the
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response to the inevitable inevitable
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bullying that we knew because magas
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can't help themselves um they were shut
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the heck down um and in some cases I
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think in in almost all cases that I saw
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these folks who really went after him
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backtracked deleted tweets and culture
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deleted her tweet um you know I was
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heartened by even on the cess pool that
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is X Twitter that there were enough
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people um who have basic decency to see
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that this is garbage Behavior I have
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three kids young children the number one
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thing we tell them is don't be a bully
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this is some basic stuff man um and most
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people see right through their behavior
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but they're so trained in Maga to to
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generate out outrage and hatred of
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whoever they see as the other they can't
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help themselves yeah well I I hope that
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our response our rallying around Gus
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walls can be a case study in how you
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handle this because goodness knows
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there's going to be much more of it
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coming we know it's coming to Ohio
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because of this uh I don't even know
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what to call it uh this appeal what
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what's the word for for a a Prov oor
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like CH R Chi parachuting into your
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hometown and saying you know bring me
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the worst you have and I'm GNA set them
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loose on your community that's what
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she's done so we need to get ready we
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need to be prepared and respond the way
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we responded when they came after Gus
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walls you know I the word bigot I don't
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use it lightly um but I use it with her
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because there is just there's there's
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nothing but hatred um in in her Mission
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and what she's doing um and I think that
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um yes she's a charlatan she's a liar
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she is a provocateur she's a snake oil
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salesman she's you know probably you
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know fueled by uh rage and outrage um
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but it's it's it's bigotry is what it it
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comes down to um yeah and using lies to
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to put people in danger and that's what
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she seems to uh it seems to be her
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mission for sure well I love your advice
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admonition to stay on offense uh we're
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going to keep doing that here Casey
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thanks for joining us thanks
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again