 Just another weekend in Weimar on Saturday a nightclub in Dallas held an event called Drag your kids to pride at the event little kids dance with drag queens and tip them with dollar bills This is grotesque sexualizing children always is so there were a small number of brave protesters outside One of them was our friend Alex Stein. He tried to get into the event because it was a public event And so he was assaulted watch Take your mask off good for Alex Stein if more people acted like that we'd have less sexualizing children Notice the last thing they want you to do is see it That's why they attack you when you do Jason Rans is a radio host in Seattle. He joins us Jason Thanks so much for coming on. This is so crazy. It's hard not to think. I don't know what to think of this What are we watching? I mean I'm old enough to remember when drag queen story hours were the things that we were outraged at because that's so clearly Inappropriate in this case you've got a neon pink sign as a backdrop declaring It's not gonna lick itself as adult drag performers are dancing and lip-syncing and even Collecting dollar bills from young kids as their parents were sipping on their drinks having a good time It took place at Mr. Mr. Which is a gay nightclub and bar that was far-right Propagandist Tucker Coulson literally cheering on a self-described Christian Fascists as they harassed people attending a family-friendly event now as they pointed out Yes, there was a neon sign there that said it's not gonna look itself now if you don't have the context I don't think it's unreadable to assume that that is indeed sexual in Uendo if I took my child to this event And they asked about that sign. I'd simply tell them it's referring to ice cream Now if I told my child that I would actually be correct because that sign quite literally is referring to ice cream It's not gonna lick itself is the catchphrase of an ice cream company in Dallas And this company has been around for a very long time and that has always been their catchphrase cauldron ice cream has four different locations in Texas including a store in Dallas and Dallas is where the Mr. Mr. Drag show took place and they catered the event, you know Children love ice cream. This was gonna be an event for families age-appropriate So they thought let's get ice cream and we're gonna have their you know iconic neon sign there and people took that as oh my god They're trying to sexualize children now They also referenced dollar bills and I don't necessarily know specifically what he's referring to but there's an image online That has gone viral. It's been spread by libs of tiktok And it's an image of a small child Allegedly stuffing dollar bills into a half-naked drag Queens bikini now The problem with this claim is that that wasn't a drag Queen That's a cis woman and this didn't even take place at Mr. Mr. The drag bar that hosted the family-friendly event that Tucker Carlson was clutching his pearls over Yes, it is true that at the Mr. Mr. Family-friendly drag show the drag your family to drag event children were handing drag Queens dollar bills But they were putting them in their hands and the drag Queens were fully clothed Also at this event they played musical chairs They walked up and down the runway in fun costumes and silly wigs And it was completely harmless, but yet that didn't stop the right from spreading rumors about this particular event libs of tiktok did this as well And it's no surprise that Christian fascists people who describe themselves as Christian fascists By the way something that Tucker Carlson didn't tell you showed up to this event and harass them Now in case you missed what he said there that was Christian fascist leader John Doyle Saying that the police should go in there and put bullets in all of their heads Now that's not the only call for violence from this particular group Cade McGuffin drove 50 miles to harass these families during pride and he reportedly asked police Why they weren't going inside and cracking skulls like they did in the old days. Yeah So this is the group of people who Tucker Carlson is cheering on Now, let's go back to the very beginning of that Tucker Carlson segment Just another weekend in Weimar. Now, what exactly did he mean by that? Well, as Alejandro points out when introducing the segment on fascists attacking a dalish drag event Tucker Carlson opened with the line just another weekend in Weimar This is a talking point among fascist neo nazis who justify nazi persecution of gays in nazi Germany I'm gonna repeat that last sentence again. This is a talking point among fascist neo nazis who justify Nazi persecution of gays in nazi germany He opened the segment that way and then went on to condone harassment from self-identified christian fascists of queer people Now look You might think well, maybe it's not necessarily just about queer people Maybe Tucker Carlson is just really concerned with the sexualization of children Okay, well, uh, when was the last time he's condemned this? How about this? Has he spoken out against this at all lately anything Tucker? See he only cares about the supposed sexualization of children If it involves queer people Because in his bigoted worldview queer people are inherently Evil and promiscuous and they're predatory and they want to pran your children therefore At a drag event that's inherently sexual If you put on, you know, a halloween costume and a wig and sing karaoke at home It's fine. But if you do it around queer people, um, that's sexualization according to Tucker Carlson Now all of this hysteria online Has led to mass harassment Across the state of texas as journalist steve monacelli reported Terroristic threats were reported by bar owners in cedar springs neighborhood Just hours after the christian fascists openly fantasized about taking away lgbt rights and police shooting lgbt people Now on top of that lives of tiktok. They continue till this day to highlight family friendly pride events Share out their locations and incite even more harassment against queer people And yet twitter refuses to take action against this account as they literally do targeted harassment and direct They're more than one million followers to harass These pride events that are family friendly Do you think that if you show up to one of these events and harass the families there that that's somehow Less traumatizing to children than witnessing the existence of gay people I mean these people they have demented minds demented minds Now, um, I want to explain the broader context with which all of this is taking place So this is all happening in the state of texas now the state of texas Is terrorizing families who dare to seek out gender for men care for their trans children They're being investigated as child abusers and because of that the state of texas is being sued for mass discrimination Against these parents now. Here's the effect that this has had on one family Who's now a party to this lawsuit according to the lawsuit a 16 year old transgender boy Try to kill himself the same day that abbot issue the child abuse directive He said that the political environment including abbot's letter and being misgendered at school Led him to take these actions the lawsuit said he survived the attempt and was admitted to an outpatient psychiatric facility Where staff learned he was undergoing hormone therapy a week after he was discharged an investigator from dfps Visited the family's home and according to the lawsuit said that the psychiatric facility had reported the family for child abuse The family remains under investigation, but these republicans care deeply about children deeply Now you need to understand that them attacking trans children And lgbtq plus youth is just the beginning It's essentially a trojan horse because once they hook you with that and you bind to the premise that demonizing lgbtq plus people Is protecting children? Well, then they're going to go after what they really want which is lgbtq plus Adults and try to eradicate them from existence But don't take my word for it take the word of self-described theocratic fascist matt walsh Who admitted that he wants to restrict even adults from transitioning and he also produced a blatantly anti trans propaganda piece That is now being promoted by supposedly left-leaning people like matt taiyipi and all this hate these laws is going to lead to the deaths of queer people across the country, but mostly in texas Where trans youth are completely unsafe But that's the point. It's not an unintended consequence There's a reason why when you explain to transphobes that gender affirming care is medically necessary and it reduces suicidality They don't seem to care. It's because they want to wipe trans people out of existence take trans children away from their loving parents if they seek out gender affirming care Band trans adults from transitioning all together. I mean, we're talking about freedom of speech here Freedom of expression gender expression And they're now openly saying it one of the most visible trans propagandists anti trans propagandists in the country matt walsh is saying Yeah, I don't think adults should transition to and then you have leftists like matt taiyipi piece of shit that he is promoting this propaganda And then the most popular news show in america is quoting nazis and condoning and celebrating harassment of queer people Do you understand how much worse it's going to get? Queer people are not safe in certain states trans people are absolutely unsafe in texas And we have no opposition party fighting for us democrats aren't doing anything to counter the hundreds literally hundreds of anti lgbtq Plus laws introduced and passed this year nothing at the federal level they control the white house the senate The house And we don't even really hear them talking about how this is bad the fascists have taken over and We've let them take it take over we've let them win And people are going to literally die because of this hate crimes will be committed Suicides will be committed And this is just going to keep happening and we'll get much much worse until people take this seriously So when you hear tucker crawlsson Quote nazis and condone violence against queer people when you see individuals online Jinnah patriot and direct their followers to harass these queer spaces You have a responsibility as an ally To condemn this and not go along with it don't feed into their narratives forcefully condemn it Because we are in a situation where it is quite literally life or death You