I'm sure that absolutely none of you will be surprised to know that supposed centrist commentator Tim Poole is once again defending and justifying the violent actions of far-right fascists who yesterday Decided to attack LGBTQ plus supporters outside of a committee meeting at a school in Glendale, California Now we're gonna talk about Tim Poole But for a moment I want to take some time to discuss the event in question because I think that the context in this story is Absolutely crucial. So as John Keely of common dreams explains far-right fascist groups and homophobic parents instigated violent clashes Outside a local school committee meeting in the town of Glendale, California on Tuesday evening Which resulted in defenders of the district recognizing June as pride month being punched Kicked pepper sprayed and thrown about as police failed to maintain a peaceful situation Local reporters estimated that 500 people which included local parents opposed to recognizing the dignity of LGBTQ students as well As others identified as traveling fascists We'll come back to that in a moment and outside agitators without students in the district like the far-right proud boys and other Fascist groups had gathered outside the meeting now Unfortunately, I can't play a lot of the footage that we're going to be talking about here because it shows physical altercations Which I believe would violate YouTube's terms of service, but I will link you to all of these videos down below But what I do want to do so you have the context is go over a couple of screenshots here because these details are important First of all, this entire scene is chaotic But focus on the man in the white shirt it reads leave our kids alone So that man he hits the person with long brown hair near the person with a purple coat and the cop behind him Presumably sees him committing this assault Approaches him and then pushes him out of the way while not restraining him Now the man then goes on to run to a different area and starts punching someone else now The person in the purple jacket presumably tries to pull away the person who's getting attacked police yank them away and Subsequently swarmed that person who appeared to be defending someone who was getting physically assaulted But back to the dog pile because after that person who was getting punched got up well police restrained them Meanwhile the fascist who ran over to punch them is just standing there Nobody's trying to restrain him at least in this video and again when we're just kind of seeing Snapshots of the kerfuffle here. It's really difficult to get the context here. So we're kind of seeing just Flashes of what happened. It was very chaotic and it was violence And again, I'm gonna link you to the videos down below so you can watch them and judge for yourself But it's very clear that there were a lot of Fascist anti-LGBTQ plus people here who were not just instigating violence But outright physically assaulting people now, let's go over some additional footage briefly So at 6 39 p.m. Journalist John Pelts reported that police were telling the pro LGBTQ plus side That they have to leave the property and the Glendale police department confirmed with him that the other side Was allowed to remain Yeah, so it's obvious who police were siding with here eight minutes later when the fascist started to dwindle in numbers Well, then police started to prepare to clear them out Fascists were also filmed pushing past police to attack LGBTQ supporters before that they were antagonizing them yelling That they take their masks off calling them the sick people and pedophiles and a clergyman Who was there in support of LGBTQ plus people was even pepper sprayed by a far-right protester They even swarmed status coup journalist Tina Desiree and if you didn't know any better This just looks like an anti LGBTQ plus group of parents concerned parents Who were probably drunk on right-wing propaganda mistakenly thinking that this school wants to indoctrinate kids and groom them into the LGBTQ plus lifestyle by declaring June as pride now Again, there were parents who were there who were against this declaration But this narrative of concerned parents is a bit disingenuous But it was being pushed by far-right propagandists like Andy No, for example who was portraying this as families just angry about pride events the daily wire also tried to portray this as a clash between Antifa and Armenian and Hispanic parents now this account claims that the parents in the Armenian community They just don't want their kids sexually groomed at school and I guess by declaring June as pride month kids are Literally being sexually groomed because of course that makes sense now There's a lot to say about this first and foremost Obviously Declaring June pride month is not tantamount to sexually grooming children if you think that you are delusional It's absurd now the school has declared June pride month for four or five consecutive years in a row But only this year. It's an issue only all of a sudden After the LGBTQ community becomes the targets of right-wing propagandists and Republican politicians This becomes an issue now parents are concerned that Their kids are being sexually groomed. Well, we're not concerned in 2021 2019 But all of a sudden parents are so outraged that they are engaging in physical violence Listen, it is not out of the question again to think that parents are suddenly concerned because of all of the right-wing propaganda and To be clear many of them did show up to speak specifically at that committee hearing But a lot if not most and again We don't have the ability to quantify this because the scene was chaotic But a lot of this was astroturfed by traveling fascists as John Keely pointed out in that Common Dreams article So back to the traveling fascists because journalist John Pelts wrote for the people thinking the anti-LGBTQ plus side is quote Concerned parents is chock full of Trump supporters. I overheard two people talking on that side about having brass knuckles And there have been groups of anti-LGBTQ plus protesters circling cops to start Confrontations and this wasn't the only protest that some of these organized fascists Attended this week because this journalist Sergio almost reports. Well, this wasn't the first protest for some of these individuals they also protested on Friday evening at an elementary school in North Hollywood and They literally brought a truck pulling a trailer that says leave our kids alone But I'm sure that this is just you know concerned parents who decided to do this now one of the anti-LGBTQ Plus antagonists who was arrested claims that he was running for Congress Definitely a concerned parent here and not some Republican politician trying to get his name out there So we are talking about organized fascists multiple groups most likely, but not just organized fascists the most organized traveling fascists because and this was hinted at in the Common Dreams article But as the Washington Post reports Some of the people opposing LGBTQ rights were identified on social media as members of the Proud Boys a Far-right group with a history of violence a Glendale police spokesperson told the post that authorities have not yet identified specific groups or individuals Representing particular groups related to the protest quote We have seen the online posts and we'll look in to identify the agitators from both sides Police told the post. Well, thank goodness I'm sure that people in Glendale feel so relieved knowing that the local police there are at least pretending to still both sides This after they were seen on video siding with the fascists in many instances but When you have the Proud Boys and presumably other organized fascistic groups there being openly antagonistic Trying to instigate violence and clashes. It is very disingenuous to chalk this up to Concerned parents when this is fascist violence and again That's not to say that concerned parents can't also engage in this But I mean the concerned parents who actually have kids at this school were probably inside speaking at this committee meeting Peacefully vocalizing their disagreement. I mean it's possible that some were part of the overflow crowd. I'm not sure But I think we all know it's happening, right this pride declaration, which was not an issue before is Suddenly a problem because fascist propagandists have worked overtime to portray all LGBTQ plus people as child sexual predators and on that note Let's get back to Tim pool because I don't think that people truly understand the power of propaganda because so many people have been working Overtime to demonize queer people and it has effectively worked just regular people into a frenzy thinking that LGBTQ plus people are Grooming children and sexualizing children and people online are becoming increasingly vocal about the fact that They want violence against queer people. They want executions against queer people Here's a couple of examples shared on Twitter by Alejandro Crabio and these are not isolated incidents But here's what she shares here. So libs of tiktok. They tweeted out a picture of teachers in rainbow gear asking Imagine walking into your kids elementary school, and this is what greets you. What do you do? And this individual responded by saying what is a mass shooting for $500 pat? I mean, I don't know if they are stating their intent to do violence here But at a minimum they are calling for violence or saying that violence should be done because these teachers are literally just wearing Rainbow gear Ian Miles Chung asked what should be done about teachers doctors and psychiatrists who promote enable or perform Gender-affirming care and this person responded saying kill them another person responded saying helicopter woodchipper Compost in that order and in response to the violence in Glendale Tim Poole tweeted out dads are starting to rise up against the leftist pedophiles and This person responded saying I don't care how it looks or sounds. I salivate at this Groomers deserve violence and that's exactly what they're getting and to be clear. These are just a few examples I've seen a plethora of examples myself But this thirst for blood among fascists is being carefully cultivated by people with very large Platforms who know what they're doing.  I mean think about it if you Thought that somebody was abusing children. Would you not be outraged?   He knows what kind of rhetoric he's engaging in He knows the effect of these lies and it's not the first time that he's done this after the November mass shooting At a drag show hosted by Club Q in Colorado, Tim Poole responded saying it seems that around 10 p.m Club Q posted they were having an all-ages drag show the next day about two hours later The shooter came in people keep calling for woodchippers and this is what happens now on top of that He tweeted out we shouldn't tolerate pedophiles grooming kids now Nobody would disagree with this statement, but then you go one step further and you see who he's talking about here Club Q had a grooming event. He's referring to the drag show mind you How do you prevent the violence and stop the grooming?  Do you not remember working at mom's coffee house in Boys Town in Chicago when we were teenagers?  This is affecting every single one of us.  So do you understand here? I am minding my own business Posting about a completely unrelated issue and this person comes into my mentions calling me a groomer And I'm assuming it's because he either knows about the show and knows that I'm openly gay or saw the Pride flags in my Twitter handle either way simply because I'm gay this person literally thinks that I am a groomer No, I'm not a groomer. I think that actual groomers Should be punished.  I don't know what this book is I don't know what age this book is targeted to but I clicked on the image and This person is outraged about a literal map. We're talking about a geographical map, right? We're not talking about a minor attracted person. We're talking about an actual map But because there's a map in a gay book, he's assuming that it is a pedodog whistle So we are now literally reaching QAnon levels of conspiracies when it comes to LGBTQ plus issues I mean remember when QAnon thought that an Adam Sandler movie that had a scene with the pillow that had Q Embroidered on it was some sort of a Q dog whistle. So that's where we're at with regard to LGBTQ plus discourse in this country That's how far we've fallen after making so much progress these past 10 years This is tiring. I am tired. I mean by their logic Everyone's a pedophile. Have you ever worn a shirt that had too many colors or a rainbow around kids pedo?   Have you have you shown them a map so they can learn about geography? Well pedodog whistle That is not what grooming is We know this we all know this and It is despicable to see so many conservatives weaponize Righteous anger over child abuse for political gain by conflating any and every LGBTQ plus related thing as grooming It minimizes actual grooming that goes on by actual child predators who need to be caught Actual predators who sexually exploit children like I don't know maybe priests in the catholic church They're probably very relieved to see this discourse taking place But it's just sickening because to say that queer people are inherently dangerous to kids isn't just cruel And defamatory it is a dangerous sly that is literally inciting harassment and violence against innocent people And individuals like Tim pool who continue to do this even if they know it's wrong I hope that the money is worth it. I hope that they can live with themselves because what they're doing is despicable But honestly, I don't think that he cares. He's being purposefully antagonistic. He's deceitful Knowingly so but that's what he's doing at most we can call him out But this man has a much larger platform than myself and a lot of other people who are calling him out But this is dangerous and if he actually cares About innocent people not getting hurt. He would stop Trans rights are human rights it is necessary to push trans on the kids Get it get it get it get it pride