On today's show, we have a special guest, Alex Jones, who fills in for Mr. Crowder who was unable to make it to the show yesterday. We discuss the latest in the FBI's investigation into the Durham Report, as well as the new CEO of Twitter, Linda Iaccarino.
00:02:40.000My headphones are a little bit... Everything is adjusted to Alex volume, so it's just a little... Well, now you know why he's so amped up all the time.
00:02:45.000I sound a lot higher in my headphones than you do.
00:03:45.000And also, are we talking about Miller Lite today?
00:03:49.000Yeah, I think we have that in there as well.
00:03:50.000Miller Lite said, hey Bud Light, hold my beer, and they decided to do an ad condemning their entire consumer base, namely men, because why?
00:03:59.000Why would you drink Miller Lite beer, is what they want to know, and they don't want you drinking Miller Lite beer, and I think you should listen to them.
00:05:30.000Maybe you felt like, ah, you signed up, you weren't able to get a refund, and now, of course, we launched this completely independently in partnership with Rumble.
00:05:36.000What you can do is send proof of your purchase of any Right-leaning subscription service, right-leaning streaming service to freemugclub.com.
00:06:07.000So, speaking of double-dipping, former Vice President Michael Pence, he's going to be in New Hampshire today to give a speech in what many obviously view as a potential launch of his.
00:06:18.000He said that he's interested, right, this whole thing of exploratory committee and they set something up and, I don't know, I don't want it, I don't want it, all right, just another slice, that's what they do.
00:06:27.000So he's going to be running for president, Mike Pence, and that brings us to this week's Time to Close.
00:06:35.000Former Vice President Mike Pence is gearing up to announce for a potential 2024 presidential run.
00:06:40.000One person who was at the Capitol that day, as you know, was your Vice President, Mike Pence, who says that you endangered his life on that day.
00:06:49.000President Trump was wrong on January 6th.
00:08:25.000By the way, that moment the fly landed on his hair and he did nothing for, I guess, three minutes while the fly set up a community, was the time he lost.
00:09:21.000He's like, well, I think what Americans want is to focus on, you know, lowering the debt.
00:09:26.000Look, there's nothing wrong with that.
00:09:28.000But these people do not understand how to speak to the American public.
00:09:32.000Yeah, Mike Pence, he's just, he's a super douche.
00:09:34.000Well, but he's actually, he's getting ahead of the game a little bit, and so he actually announced his vice presidential candidate to make sure that there was more energy.
00:10:19.000Hit like if you agree, by the way, because the YouTube algorithm doesn't give a rat's ass about anything, so they don't give a rat's ass if you're subscribed, so you hit like, you share it, and by the way, if at any point today while you're watching on YouTube you see and hear this... That means head on over to Rumble, we're not going to self-censor.
00:10:34.000Speaking of people who should self-censor, did you watch this, Pops Cratter, the Miller Lite?
00:10:53.000So, Miller Lite told Bud Light to hold its beer.
00:10:56.000Now, this was actually something that was released in March, to be clear, but it's making the rounds now because they actually deleted it.
00:11:04.000They deleted it on Instagram, and so someone found it and it resurfaced, which tells you the kind of reaction that they got.
00:11:09.000And this is Miller Lite deciding to burn their customer base to the ground.
00:11:13.000And by the way, also entirely factually inaccurate, so we'll fact check it really quickly just so you can kind of have justification for the...
00:11:22.000Look, if you're watching this and you're a Christian, it's wrong to hate.
00:11:25.000Unless you hate the right things and Miller Lite qualifies.
00:13:46.000Tomorrow we actually will have our very own Mr. Miller, the sexist beer, to conduct an interview.
00:13:52.000Yeah, but it proved successful so successful.
00:13:54.000They had to delete it from their own social media immediate post haste The minute Dylan Mulvaney started gracing a Bud Light, they're like, oh god Oh gosh!
00:14:08.000They were watching the Dylan Mulvaney debacle unfurl, like, every single scientist who wasn't listened to before every disaster movie, like, watching the stage five, the level five hurricane, like, oh my gosh.
00:14:45.000Now, some women have been involved, to be certain, just like women are involved with a lot of things, but men throughout history have largely been the ones brewing beer.
00:14:53.000Now, if you mean that some woman at some point found something that happened to be fermented and, like, took a nibble and was like, eh, try it, and the guy was like, I have my own fermented wheat, and she was like, try mine!
00:15:04.000But men have been brewing beer throughout history.
00:15:06.000So let's go to 1265, Bohemian King Odocar, hopefully I have that right, Odocar II, chartered a brewery in the town of Budweiser, originally, you know, that's the home of Budweiser, right?
00:15:20.000They had breweries on their own plantations.
00:15:23.000And women didn't actually do a lot of the brewing.
00:15:24.000Just to be clear, the widespread brewing of beer, it was present by, well, it was present in ancient Egypt, and it was presided over by men.
00:15:33.000And then before you had this sort of mechanization, right, this sort of industrial revolution, planting, harvesting, of course, was what a lot of the men did.
00:15:39.000So maybe what they mean to say is that sometimes the men would do all of the legwork, and then take it, and the woman would be like, yeah, you go out and do, you go out with the scythe in the sun before we have SPF anything, and you bring it, and I'll stir the pot of the wort every now and then, and then I'm the brewer!
00:17:34.000The Belgian Trappist monks, they brew beer to sustain themselves during fasting, which, by the way, makes fasting a whole lot easier if you can drink Belgian ales, to be clear.
00:18:25.000Also, worth noting while we're talking, without women there would be no beer.
00:18:30.000Okay, I don't know if you know this, but some of the inventions, some of the devices that have been used, that have been implemented to brew beer, mechanized harvesters, pasteurization, kegs, taps, all of those were invented by men.
00:18:44.000So, the men went out to the field, they took, and this is why women, just so you know, it's not to try, there are things that women do better than men.
00:18:52.000Working as a farmhand and brewing beer on modern inventions is not chief amongst them, just to be clear.
00:18:58.000This is why people get upset, it is about, and this is the issue too, we'll talk about this with the Twitter CEO.
00:19:05.000They aren't beholden to their user base.
00:19:07.000This is what happened right with Budweiser as the sales went down or Bud Light, right?
00:21:42.000Really, what they're offended by is beauty.
00:21:44.000Take Lizzo and put her in a bikini and it's beautiful and it's brave.
00:21:48.000Take an attractive woman and put her next to an American icon at a company and you go, oh, hold on a second, that's wrong, that's wrong, you're sexualizing women.
00:21:55.000Do you think that if you take an attractive woman and put her in a turtleneck that men still aren't thinking the same thing?
00:22:01.000You're just skipping the intermediate step.
00:22:04.000By the way, they also have no problem with a trans person in a thong performing before children.
00:22:51.000The special counsel, Durham, released finally the report on the FBI's 2016 Trump-Russia... Wait, I'm always surprised when this story comes back because I thought it was done.
00:23:00.000It just, it seems like it's confirming what we knew.
00:23:04.000And to be clear, they have admitted now, just so, just so you know, I'm front-loading this and we'll get into the fact-checking.
00:23:09.000They've attributed everything that was wrong, and by everything I do mean everything, that's not hyperbole, to missteps.
00:23:45.000The argument that John Durham is making here is an argument that he's made before, which is essentially that he doesn't believe the FBI had the proper predication, was fully justified in opening that counterintelligence investigation, codenamed Crossfire Hurricane, back in 2016 into the Trump campaign.
00:24:02.000He says that the FBI acted hastily and on uncorroborated, raw information.
00:24:07.000And he says that there was other information, for example, about the Hillary Clinton campaign involving a foreign government that wanted to try to influence them that the FBI didn't react to in similar ways.
00:24:18.000OK, so this is what the missteps, by the way, is using the FBI's Twitter response, saying You said it.
00:24:26.000Need a moratorium on the word of the day?
00:24:28.000been in place in 2016, the missteps identified in the report could have been prevented.
00:24:42.000And by the way, reforms mean any type of guidelines or standards whatsoever.
00:24:48.000And this, just to be clear, now it's irrefutable.
00:24:51.000We've known this for a long time, but now the FBI is completely admitting it.
00:24:55.000This constitutes an actual war on democracy.
00:24:58.000When you have your own intelligence institutions, and by the way this has happened in the past of course, when you have federal agents who are plotting to kidnap a governor and blame it on some glorified beer drinking club, when they decide to actively commit crimes on January 6th going into the Capitol in order to entrap other people, though it's not just entrapment because in entrapment you're not actually allowed to commit a crime as a federal agent.
00:26:39.000No, they've admitted that that's not the case.
00:26:40.000Gerald, let's go to your point, because then we have some then and now clips.
00:26:43.000This is them really trying to couch it.
00:26:45.000We have some clips from CNN actually acknowledging that this was a sham, but you add a point.
00:26:49.000Here's the low-level investigation that it should have been, and they said that this should have been a preliminary, low-level, happens all the time, nobody finds out about it.
00:26:57.000No, that doesn't make any sense at all.
00:26:59.000That should have been the low-level investigation.
00:27:00.000No, it would not have blown up into a full-scale investigation.
00:27:03.000The problem that we have is that you guys want to act like a handful of people on January 6th was overthrowing democracy because they got out of control.
00:27:10.000Not the rest of the protesters that weren't getting out of control, but the people, the handful, maybe a few hundred people that ended up getting crazy out of a crowd of literally tens and tens and tens of thousands of people.
00:27:20.000Maybe hundreds of thousands of people there, right?
00:27:22.000This is the government actively going after the sitting President of the United States for three years.
00:27:31.000And by the way, saying that the election was not legitimate, just to be clear.
00:27:34.000Yes, claiming the election was not legitimate, that Russians were absolutely influencing the President of the United States, dogging him at every single turn.
00:27:55.000You know, my favorite comedian of all time, Norm Macdonald, we've talked about, he would take a punchline, he would take a joke, and he would distill it down to as few words as possible.
00:28:01.000That's what the preliminary investigation should have been.
00:28:03.000It should have been, hey, hey, the dossier here is paid for by Hillary Clinton, you know.
00:28:26.000That's exactly what it should have been.
00:28:28.000This should scare the hell out of everybody because this is not somebody just not following practices like the FBI's tweet said, oh we've got new things in place.
00:29:47.000They failed at trying to remove a sitting president by, what?
00:29:51.000Sowing mistrust in the legitimacy of the election.
00:29:55.000There was an entire board council, Elizabeth Warren was on there, Amy Klobuchar saying, we need to strengthen our elections because Russia interfered with the 2016 election.
00:30:41.000They said that there was ample evidence, so much evidence they could just kind of skip the preliminary, well yeah, yeah, to open what was referred to, if you have forgotten, it was referred to as Crossfire Hurricane, that was the investigation.
00:30:52.000But on Capitol Hill today, lawmakers were busy pouring over the election we just had.
00:30:59.000I'm honored to be here representing the people of the FBI.
00:31:01.000Members of the House Intelligence Committee convening a blockbuster hearing.
00:31:06.000I would like to welcome our witnesses, Director of the FBI, Jim Comey, and Director of the National Security Agency, Admiral Rogers.
00:31:14.000The nation's top cop, and one of the nation's most senior spymasters, there to testify about allegations that Russia tried to influence the outcome.
00:31:24.000I have been authorized by the Department of Justice to confirm that the FBI, as part of
00:31:29.000our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the Russian government's efforts to interfere
00:32:12.000Based on the evidence gathered in the multiple, exhaustive, and costly federal investigations, neither U.S.
00:32:18.000law enforcement nor the intelligence community appears to have possessed Any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
00:32:29.000And just when you're saying no credible evidence, you're saying, well hold on a second, what's the standard?
00:32:32.000Well, Durham noted that the FBI did not, for example, interview any pertinent witnesses.
00:32:39.000They didn't review their own intelligence, and they didn't use any standard analytical tools that would be used in an investigation like this.
00:32:56.000By the way, if they had just looked at kind of the top sheet for the binder and it said Hillary Clinton campaign strategy, that probably would have tipped them off just a little bit.
00:33:04.000Also, the timing in October for the October surprise, I think that was... Well, no one reads the top sheet anymore.
00:33:09.000Well, they need to read the top sheet!
00:33:10.000So listen, this is James Comey, right?
00:33:12.000The guy who tried to rehab, I think it was on HBO or one of those places, tried to rehab his image by doing this documentary, releasing a book He's the guy who found that Hillary Clinton had all of the information that we thought she had on her private emails, you know, all the email stuff that was classified, on her private servers at home and deleted them and destroyed the information so that we couldn't even go into it, right?
00:33:34.000Use BleachBit or whatever it was to kind of get rid of it and said, ah, that's, that's not good, but I don't think we should charge her.
00:33:41.000Hey, if they weren't spending, again, according to the report here, the exhaustive and costly, if they weren't spending those resources, maybe we could have found out all the people who were sex-trafficked to Epstein's pedophile island.
00:33:55.000Probably so, and it wouldn't cost you much.
00:34:26.000Back then, they were claiming that the Steele dossier, and you remember, Steele dossier, fused in GPS, was paid for partially by the Hillary Clinton campaign.
00:34:33.000They were saying back then that the Steele dossier was completely legitimate.
00:34:39.000investigators say that they have corroborated some of the communications detailed in a 35-page dossier compiled by a former British intelligence agent.
00:34:49.000CNN was first to report last month that then-President-elect Donald Trump and President Barack Obama He's been in office two, three weeks at that point?
00:35:38.000So, we're trying to paint a picture so you can hold the media, not just the media, but of course the DNC, but I repeat myself, hold them accountable.
00:35:45.000That's what they were saying back then.
00:35:46.000Though they haven't been corroborated, now they're saying that they have.
00:36:09.000The guy basically just, at CNN, fire everyone by the way.
00:36:12.000All of your advisors, all of the multiple intelligence agency people plus former intelligence officials that said this.
00:36:19.000What was it at a time there was like 60 some odd people that they kept, like some number that they kept quoting?
00:36:24.000I actually think that this is one of those issues where, as a matter of national security, this entire investigation should be unsealed.
00:36:39.000We should know how they interviewed people.
00:36:41.000We should know how they tried to corroborate their sources.
00:36:42.000We should know how they investigated these.
00:36:44.000In other words, how do you spend this much time and these many resources?
00:36:48.000I understand that sometimes in the interest of national security, for example, if you're trying to track down some jihadi in the middle of, you know, what you're soon to turn into Kel-El's bachelor pad, then yeah, okay, you need to keep that hidden.
00:37:01.000In this case, we now know that it was a sham.
00:37:02.000We want to know, hold on a second, why did it take you this long and what leads were you tracking down?
00:39:15.000email and other allegations that this whole thing about Trump campaigning in Russia is a witch hunt.
00:39:21.000Is that a fair description of what we're all dealing with in America?
00:39:26.000Well, Senator, I can't speak to the basis for those comments.
00:39:28.000I can tell you that my experience with Director Mueller... I'm asking you, as the future FBI director, do you consider this endeavor a witch hunt?
00:39:36.000I do not consider Director Mueller to be on a witch hunt.
00:39:57.000Unlike the FBI's opening of a full investigation of unknown members of the Trump campaign based on raw, uncorroborated information in this separate matter involving a purported Hillary Clinton campaign plan, the FBI never opened any type of inquiry.
00:40:13.000That's several steps removed from an entirely conduct investigation.
00:40:17.000We didn't even have a preliminary investigation.
00:40:18.000We spent federal resources on the investigation, not even an inquiry with Hillary Clinton, even though she said, yeah, I did that shit.
00:40:29.000If you look at some of the reports in this dossier, this kind of the Durham report, if you look at this, and maybe our research team can pull this up, they actually briefed, I think Brennan briefed the President about this, and about this being something from the Hillary Clinton campaign, kind of as the origination of the source.
00:40:46.000I believe that that was known at the time.
00:43:28.000This is not that this was an allegation.
00:43:30.000This is not that this was some kind of thing we're saying.
00:43:32.000July 26th of 2016, a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.
00:43:54.000This was a plot cooked up by Hillary Clinton, Mr. President, and we want you to know about it so everybody's on the same page when we go out in public and make sure that everybody hears about Donald Trump.
00:44:04.000Nah, nah, nah, nah, don't get all wee-weed up.
00:44:07.000Remember when he tried to make that a term?
00:44:27.000No charges right now from this report.
00:44:28.000I think we pulled up in the past maybe Hillary Clinton's lawyer one time was charged for something and was acquitted.
00:44:34.000There may have been one person that actually was convicted of something but they're looking at this right now and saying oh but at least you know there's no breaking of the law but hey remember nobody's above the law so Donald Trump you know I know you're being you know in New York right now you're being indicted and actually a trial is coming up about something where you didn't actually pay somebody because they said you didn't pay them for this.
00:44:52.000But your lawyer is lying about this right now because he spent some time in jail.
00:44:57.000This is the biggest sedition case in the history of this country, arguably, maybe there's one more I'm forgetting about, that should be tried.
00:45:05.000And if the Congress does not take up hearings immediately on this, they are not doing their job.
00:45:10.000And by the way, this is the information equivalent of disarming you as a populist.
00:45:15.000In other words, if you don't have the ability to defend yourself, if you don't have a firearm, And only the government has firearms.
00:45:20.000Well, it's no longer a fair fight, right?
00:45:21.000You might as well just submit to their will.
00:45:23.000If the government is not beholden to the law, in other words if you can be charged, if you can be convicted for the exact same crimes for which they will be entirely absolved at every turn, You no longer have a free society.
00:45:37.000The intelligence agencies are supposed to exist to serve and protect you.
00:46:07.000Three years in collusion with Democrats, in collusion with, before Donald Trump came to office, then sitting president, and the person who they thought was going to have a coronation, Hillary Clinton, to try and prevent, and then unseat the president you elected.
00:46:53.000If this is allowed to continue, don't think for a second that the FBI and the CIA won't be weaponized potentially the other way, or just potentially against everyday citizens.
00:47:03.000I don't know, like the IRS has been in the past.
00:47:06.000You remember when that happened, when all the conservatives started getting audited for no reason whatsoever by the IRS, and they started coming and closing down businesses?
00:47:12.000Don't think for a second that this can be allowed to stay.
00:47:14.000Let's go through the Donald Trump indictments, right?
00:47:16.000When you say go to jail, because that's important, it's pretty severe.
00:47:20.000Do you think Donald Trump should go to jail for calling a porn star a lying whore?
00:47:24.000Do you think that's a jailable offense when she admitted that it never happened, then said it did happen, then said it didn't happen, then said that it did happen?
00:47:30.000By the way, she lost to the point where she has to pay his legal fees.
00:48:20.000Now, should it be a jailable offense to clear classified information from your computer and collude, by the way, with the media, with intelligence agencies, to try and overthrow a democratic election?
00:48:33.000And it's elected leader, Donald Trump.
00:49:05.000And then we need to start going after these guys hard.
00:49:07.000I mean, legally, not the way they fight, but we need to start, you know, when we get the power back, we need to start taking their guys down.
00:49:14.000Until someone taps, it's got to be hard.
00:49:16.000If Ron DeSantis doesn't come out and say, defund the FBI completely—remember I asked Kerry Lake, I said, that is my—if the candidate for our—I should say in the primaries—I won't vote for anyone who does not espouse the belief of defunding the FBI and the CIA and building something else in its place.
00:49:31.000They want you to think that you're an extremist.
00:52:26.000They're appointing a new CEO for a few different reasons.
00:52:28.000Tesla stock has been sort of waning a little bit.
00:52:30.000It requires more attention from Elon Musk.
00:52:32.000Part of me thinks this was a billionaire's toy train set, and he sort of got bored of it.
00:52:36.000Now, the revenue at Twitter, and this is the difference between the revenue versus people using Twitter, the revenue at Twitter fell about 50%.
00:52:43.000Because of a massive decline in ad revenue, just to be clear.
00:52:46.000Now that is because a lot of woke companies have said, we're not going to advertise on Twitter.
00:52:51.000Now that doesn't necessarily correlate with the success of Twitter as a platform, which was its original intent, right, to be a place where people could communicate, because Musk has actually talked about this.
00:53:01.000New Twitter signups have been at an all-time high.
00:53:14.000Now, we don't have the full numbers on the interactions, the daily traffic, but the point is, the 50% decline in advertising.
00:53:21.000Does not match the intent of Twitter, which is to be an open form.
00:53:26.000So if advertisers are saying, yeah, hold on a second, we don't want to advertise in a place that's an open form of ideas that doesn't censor people and encourages freedom of speech.
00:53:33.000Well, now you have a decision to make.
00:53:35.000Tell the advertisers to go screw themselves, kind of like us with Google, with YouTube.
00:53:40.000The only time you ever see random ads if you're watching on YouTube is because someone else has claimed our content, right?
00:53:44.000The Google AdSense, we don't make a dollar.
00:53:47.000We decided that we would not be beholden to YouTube, Alphabet, Facebook.
00:54:02.000Is it you, the user who has determined its direction, and I would say in a largely positive way, or is it the corporations who've decided to cut bait and run?
00:54:11.000And by the way, some of those ad dollars will come back because a lot of people right now have been talking about how effective advertising is, especially conservatives that we've talked to have said, Hey, advertising is actually pretty effective right now on Twitter.
00:54:22.000They're actually doing a good job of making some of those corrections, but this is, I think, a misstep by Elon.
00:54:28.000So we'll get into some of the details why, but you'll see very quickly how this can go off the rails.
00:54:32.000Well, they'll come back because of the growing subscriber base.
00:56:22.000So Casey Forgotten, the World Economic Forum, they're the ones responsible for this.
00:56:27.000What they viewed as a positive, I guess, sort of, I don't know if it's an advertisement, but they put this out there, this is their dystopian vision for for the future.
00:58:35.000What about the two Popes that were competing or the Popes that were purchased?
00:58:39.000Look, and by the way, I know that a lot of Catholics out there obviously don't like the current Pope, just to be clear.
00:58:44.000But at a certain point, you have to say, when the Pope is wrong about almost everything else, and I know what you're going to say, this is a media hitch-up.
00:58:50.000He's been wrong about nearly everything else.
00:58:53.000Why would he be right on solely issues of spirituality when speaking ex cathedra?
00:58:58.000If you don't trust him on anything else, if you don't trust him on international recommendations, you don't trust him on tax policy, you don't trust him on issues as it relates to cultural Marxism, you don't trust him on issues as it relates to vaccines, okay, so we're supposed to believe that he can't even get something right accidentally?
00:59:15.000Outside of speaking on issues of spiritual, kind of the most important issues, and only when speaking in this limited capacity?
00:59:20.000I'm sorry, look, I, I, again, we have a lot of, we have a lot of Catholics who work here, but we also have Catholics who work here, like, Kevin's basically, uh, an Eastern, Square Bearer's basically Eastern Orthodox, only he still has to claim that he's Catholic, because he does not like this Pope.
00:59:31.000I'm like, well, you can't just say the Pope is full of it!
00:59:36.000It's got to be a tough, so my heart goes out to you, it's got to be a tough place to be right now when this guy is the Pope.
01:00:34.000But I'm sorry, I don't know that I give people a whole lot of a pass here, because at the end of 2020, we were starting to go, eh, this is really widespread, opening should be happening again.
01:01:03.000I go, then why are you wearing a mask?
01:01:05.000Now there is science to show that if you are sick, that wearing a mask can probably help because again, it's right up against your filthy grill to help prevent the spread of droplets.
01:01:14.000Yes, there is some science there, but again, not if it's being reused and not if it's not properly fitted, but it does not help you at all.
01:01:58.000And then I'll get to her censorship stances to push for the, you know, we use the term DEI, it's diversity, equity, inclusion agendas.
01:02:04.000Now listen to the numbers at the end of this clip, and they just aren't even feasible.
01:02:10.000Under the leadership of Brian Roberts and Jeff Schell, Comcast set up a fund to the value of $100 million to fight social justice and equality, and obviously supporting many, many important groups.
01:02:27.000So then we had to make sure we were taking the right steps to direct funds towards the right organizations, to make a public statement of accountability, like Cesar Conde, our new chairman of news, who made a public statement That was confronting editorial bias and saying, my division, our news division, the biggest news division in the country is going to be 50% women and 50% people of color.
01:02:54.000Yeah, also 50% women, was she talking about brewing?
01:03:11.00012% of the population, if we're talking about the United States, are going to make up 50% of people in a very—a hyperly specialized field of work in the news division?
01:03:19.000And by the way, that won't even be representative of the American populace at large.
01:04:59.000She'll develop some worldview that'll be comfortable for her there.
01:05:01.000I mean, unbelievable how she's... Although she does seem to have a worldview, which this is very disconcerting, on the idea of freedom of speech.
01:05:07.000And this goes to the point that we made earlier.
01:05:10.000Do you understand there's a huge gap and a difference between the advertisers, the woke corporations with the ESG scores, and you, the viewer, the user.
01:05:22.000By the way, some people were reaching out going like, oh, if Twitter's going to do streaming, is that bad for Rumble?
01:05:27.000No, I want to see, for example, let's say Tucker Carlson is streaming on Twitter.
01:05:31.000He may or may not end up streaming on Rumble.
01:05:33.000I want him to do well, and I want Twitter to do well, and I want Rumble to do well.
01:05:36.000I want everyone to do well, not named YouTube, Facebook, TikTok.
01:05:41.000Just to be clear, there need to be viable alternatives.
01:05:43.000We lived through the dark ages where everyone said, well, you just have to go to YouTube and now the vast majority of you watch on Rumble or on Mug Club.
01:05:50.000That, to me, and by the way, we were willing to take a 50% haircut on viewership in migrating everyone over from YouTube.
01:06:00.000That shows how ready you were for an exodus.
01:06:03.000So I want all these places to do well.
01:06:05.000Little concern to the direction of Twitter, though, because here is this woman discussing her views on free speech, and again, she talks about not the user, not what you, the people, want, what the giant advertising corporations want.
01:06:21.000If I were to say, yes, you can influence me, that would be wrong.
01:06:27.000Because that would be a diminishment of freedom of speech.
01:06:29.000But I want to be specific about influencing.
01:06:32.000It's more of an open feedback loop for the advertising experts in this room to help develop
01:06:42.000Twitter into a place where they will be excited about investing more money.
01:06:47.000Product development, ad safety, content moderation.
01:06:51.000Yeah, because that's how you're going to create the best platform, is with a group of advertising executives deciding to sanitize it and shape it in the image of what they would like to see.
01:07:04.000A bunch of multi-millionaires in a room at a board meeting.
01:07:07.000That's what's going to make Twitter the cool place that kids want to go?
01:08:23.000When you have let's say five companies five companies basically are in charge of all media, right?
01:08:27.000You have NBC Universal you have ABC Disney you have Comcast Viacom
01:08:33.000News Corp, let's call it five six seven companies Okay, and then they are trying to get into your news feed
01:08:39.000into your whatever your algorithmic feed now It's not even a news feed on Facebook on YouTube. Guess
01:08:44.000what? They spend the advertising dollars So now you have a platform that is beholden to five or six
01:08:49.000companies who by the way have regular meetings in a room with each other.
01:08:53.000It doesn't require a crazy conspiracy theory to say, hold on a second, it seems like these companies may be in cahoots if they all removed Alex Jones the same day.
01:09:02.000So then these people dictate the advertising.
01:09:04.000Remember, we had a conversation with CEOs.
01:09:06.000I should say, sorry, executives at YouTube.
01:09:10.000And they said, well, you know, there's no community guidelines, but strikes.
01:09:16.000And we would say, oh, you're not advertiser friendly, but we're creating this new rule, borderline content.
01:09:20.000I said, hold on a second, you are talking to an advertiser on YouTube.
01:09:51.000How about you create a solution where you pair my channel with companies who would actually pay a premium to advertise in that 18 to 45 demo and recognize that these people are more conservative?
01:10:01.000We've ended up doing that with sponsors who, by the way, never leave.
01:10:10.000It means the advertising is algorithmic and it is determined by a handful of companies, all of whom are beholden to places like the WEF and international conglomerates and the ESG score and woke bullshit.
01:10:22.000They're not interested in actually pairing advertisers with the right users.
01:10:27.000They want to manipulate and engineer the behavior of the users.
01:10:31.000And that's why I have a problem when conservatives say, well, If you can't beat them, join them.
01:14:10.000You can't kowtow to these other governments.
01:14:11.000And I understand what some of you are going to say, like, well, hold on a second, Russia today is partially funded by the Kremlin, Russia propaganda.
01:14:57.000If you don't finish your dinner, you don't get your snow cone.
01:14:59.000Okay, Turkish government, you don't allow freedom for everyone, then you get no Twitter.
01:15:03.000That needs to happen enough where these governments then understand, hold on a second, we can't just keep, we can't just keep calling the shots.
01:15:09.000Do you have any idea how many tweets that I have, or did for a long time, that are not available in Germany because it's in violation of German speech laws?
01:15:29.000If you take a stand in Turkey and say, no, we're not self-censoring, either the government backs down and you win, free speech wins, or you get banned and the people see it in broad daylight that their government is banning speech and maybe that leads to change in the government.
01:15:46.000Not the appeasement strategy that you just put in play.
01:15:50.000And I think that combined with the fact that this woman is very clearly more interested in creating Twitter and social media platforms and the new world, because let's be honest, that's where people often live.
01:15:58.000That's where people exchange information.
01:16:16.000Half the stuff that you see here was pitched at some point when I was at Fox News, or at any of the networks, and now that's never going to work.
01:16:24.000You have decided to make it work because you are true north.
01:16:26.000And I think that's why this show is very different, and that's why we're really happy to be in a partnership with Rumble, and I hope that Twitter gets their shit together, and I hope that there's healthy competition.
01:16:33.000But right now, as it relates to Yakarino, I'm not seeing it.
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