Where to begin with this caller to my SiriusXM program this week?
Jason from California seemed nice enough at first, calling in to say he is a “Reagan conservative” and remembers a time when we didn’t have the “name-calling” while having political discussions. He said he listens to my SiriusXM show to get to hear the “other side.”
But when he said Trump, for whom he voted, is responsible for “a lot” of the name-calling—the understatement of the year—I knew this was going to be more delusion. It was also a way to make me seem like the unreasonable one once I responded forcefully to his distortions. They always try this one, but I tend to believe that it doesn’t work—not when they’re pushing defamation. (You’ll be the judge of that.)
The discussion on the program had been about the Oklahoma School’s Superintendent, Ryan Walters, who’s been purchasing “Trump bibles”—with plans to spend millions of taxpayer dollars—to be put in all school classrooms in the state. Several of the largest school districts said no to a video he also wanted all districts to play in class—a prayer for Trump—and the state’s attorney general said the districts had a right to reject this insane demand.
You can watch a CNN interview with the extreme Christian nationalist Walters right here:
But Jason from California thought it was fine to put the bibles in the classrooms—including the bible sold by Trump, who makes money off of it—because every Oklahoma county is "red,” and it offsets that we’re supposedly teaching the “homosexual lifestyle” in many schools.
Huh?
You can only imagine where the conversation went from there, as my blood started boiling. The idea that these people are lecturing us about anything with regard to sexuality—and no school is teaching any lower grades about sex acts—while they support a man who is a rapist and bragged on tape about grabbing women by their vaginas is beyond galling.
By the end of the discussion, Jason said he’d “absolutely” leave his daughter alone with Trump, to which I could only respond that he is a bad father. (If you think I was a little too angry—or got too crass—you are welcome to offer that constructive criticism.)