A public library in Alabama has put a children's book on a watch list for potential removal from libraries all because no one bothered to open the book. Instead, hard right Republicans in the state might ban the book simply because the author's last name is "Gay." The book is an illustrated children's book about siblings who build a dog house, and it contains no mentions of any of the alleged "woke" ideas that are getting books banned today. The only squabble is over the author's name, proving this is only about erasing the LGBTQ community from existence. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this. Link - https://www.rawstory.com/alabama-book-ban-2665830230/ Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. A public library in the state of Alabama has put a children's book, an illustrated children's book, about two siblings who build a doghouse for their pet. They've put it on a watch list, you know, to make sure it's not woke. A watch list that could lead to the book being banned because the author's last name is gay. G a y is the author's last name. The author of course is Mary, uh, Marie Louise Gay. The book is called, read Me a Story, Stella. And again, it's an illustrated book about two kids who build a doghouse. There are no mentions of sexuality, there's no mention of genders there, there, there's no adult themes to this. There's no sexually explicit content. It's, it's two kids building a doghouse. But because the author's last name is gay, it was flagged by these hard right morons in Alabama and now it's been put on a watch list. Now the, uh, executive director of the Huntsville Madison County Public Library said, uh, it should not have been placed on the list and said that it only got swept up because the key word gay was strongly triggered by the author's last name. Obviously, we're not going to touch that book for any reason. They say, why is it still on the watch list then? And are you telling me that y'all just have an automated system where if the word gay pops up, the book is just pulled? Doesn't matter where it is, doesn't matter how it's used. If the word gay appears in any book, even as an author's last name, you just pull it. 'cause it's not about sexually explicit content, it's about the erasure of the entire L G B T Q community. That's what this is. And here is what the publicist of the book had to say, although it is obviously laughable that our picture book shows up on, on their list of censored books. Simply because the author's last name is gay. The ridiculousness of that fact should not detract from the seriousness of the situation they're using. An automated system, like I said, the word gay popped up. So the book was flagged, put on the list, the list of like, Hey, this probably needs to be removed. And if it hadn't become a story, it probably would've been because they're not going through, they're not actually looking, they're making it easy on themselves by saying, oh, the word gaze in there, get it outta there. And again, this is not a school library, this is a public library. So their whole thing about we gotta protect the children in the schools, that's bss. This is erasure, that is what Republicans want. And that is the point that I'm going to continue hammering as long as we have to talk about these issues. Because it's not because they don't want children to see sexualized material. If they did, they would be writing letters to every single TV network on the planet telling them to cease immediately, all production, because children are exposed to sexualized content every single day on tv, on social media, it's everywhere. But they're targeting these books because they know one, that's the easiest place they can go. And two, because it's not about the sexual content at all. It's about trying to erase the entire L G B T Q community from existence. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj-n0mSY--w

If you want so see what the indoctrination of children actually looks like, all you need to do is find the nearest Republican event and watch. Outside of Donald Trump's event in Eerie, Pennsylvania on Saturday, Christina Bobb - a former Trump lawyer - was walking around with a microphone and stopped to talk to a group of children holding a Trump banner. The children started chanting "we love Trump" before going into a "Let's Go Brandon" chant, then Bobb told the children's mother that they were being raised right. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this cultish behavior. Link - https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1685349038936207360 Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. So Donald Trump held a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania this past Saturday. And of course, during the rally, he referred to President Biden as a dumb ss o b, but it wasn't just his attack on President Biden that people should have been paying attention to. Now, the real interesting part of it actually happened to be four. The rally even took place, the right side broadcasting network. Uh, Christina Bob, who I guess was reporting for them, uh, she went out and about to some of the people waiting outside for Donald Trump's, you know, hate rally. And she stumbled upon a group of children. I mean, I'm talking young children, not quite in diapers, but just a few years ago. They definitely were, we're talking elementary school children. And this is what those children who were put on television had to say about being present outside that Trump rally. Take a look. We love Trump. We love Trump. We go, Brandon, let's go. Let's, let's go, Brandon. Let's, let's go. Let's go. Brandon, let's go. Let's go Brandon. Let's go. Let's, all right. Raising your kids, right? Thank you guys. So they start the chant with the, we love Trump and the, we love Trump automatically goes into, let's go Brandon, which as we all know, is the conservative code for F Joe Biden. So that is the equivalent of these young children standing out there, uh, chanting F Joe Biden grade school children chanting that. And yeah, they may not have said the word, but everybody knows what that means. And I guarantee you those children knew what it meant. And the proud MAGA mom standing there, look at on so happy for her little cult members and Christina Bob saying, you're raising, I'm right. No, she's not. She's indoctrinating the children. The very thing that, by the way, aren't Republicans like crapping their pants because they're accusing liberals of, of indoctrinating children And hear these, A-holes are out there doing the exact same thing that they think liberals are doing. They're literally indoctrinating those children. That is cult behavior. What those children were doing is not normal. Now listen to me. I do this for a living. I read political news. I talk about politics every day, every, every, every day. I do not ever talk about it with my children who are all in grade school. I don't talk to them about my political beliefs. I don't sit there and trash other politicians. It means sometimes they can hear me do videos. Sure. But I actually try to make sure that they don't, because I don't wanna indoctrinate them. I want them to come to their own conclusions. So even though I do this every day, I do not by any stretch of the imagination force this upon my children. I don't even like talking about it with my children. And yet we get accused as people on the left every day of being the ones indoctrinating children. And then we see clips like that, and we see the real indoctrinated. Could you imagine how Republicans would respond if a drag queen was out there directing a choir of children to say, F Donald Trump? I, they, they'd pull guns out, is what conservatives would do if they saw that. But here we are. This is the reality. Little cult members being groomed by their MAGA mom, Christina Bob, former Trump lawyer, cheering them on outside of a political rally for a man that is now under, what is it? Uh, 80 or 75, 74 counts worth of indictments. Yeah. If that's not indoctrination, then I don't know what is. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON6THATy9y8