Dave and Crowder are joined by Gerald Tuckanoan and Tim Tocanowan to discuss George Washington without the teeth, Clarence Thomas, and a call between President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. They also discuss the term Latinx and whether or not they prefer it.
00:04:37.000Yes, not right now on YouTube because you can't because you are degenerates for the most part, but the people that are on the Blaze can chat and we'll answer those later on.
00:05:27.000I guess I shouldn't read the part that says don't read.
00:05:31.000So anyway, Biden is expected to issue six orders supposedly aimed at reducing gun violence by requiring background checks for ghost guns and red flag laws.
00:06:46.000Which makes you wonder who's running the show here, since during the Democratic debates, Joe insisted on following the Constitution when it came to gun laws.
00:06:55.000I mean, I would just say, hey, Joe, it's sad to say, you know, we can't let's say yes, we can.
00:07:01.000Let's be constitutional. We got to. Yes, we can. No, Kamala.
00:11:39.000Everything that we were taught came within the last hundred years and it all came from straight white men.
00:11:45.000This notion that any masculine presence in a space changes the grammar of the language.
00:11:53.000Assigning importance to gender in a way that communicates to girls and women that their experience is necessarily changed by the presence of masculinity.
00:12:05.000And when I think about that linguistically, and I think about the implications on a culture whose language has that kind of hidden inequality with regards to binary genders.
00:12:18.000Despite what the media, Twitter, and my Netflix queue has told me, look, I am not convinced that Latinx is a thing, that it's ever been a thing, outside of rich, white women's circles.
00:12:29.000And so I decided to check it out for myself with people who actually speak the Romance languages.
00:12:34.000Nowadays they're talking about, like, language that's offensive.
00:12:37.000Do you refer to yourself as Latino, Latina, or Latinx?
00:12:40.000Because now they're saying Latinx is the term.
00:17:24.000So there you go, out of everyone we asked, only one person preferred the term Latinx, was younger, woke, more Americanized.
00:17:32.000The Pew Research Center has just published its first study on the use of the gender-neutral term Latinx.
00:17:39.000It found that most Latinx adults in the United States haven't heard of the word, and only about 3% use it to identify themselves as an individual.
00:21:02.000If it's possible to pull the politics out of it, I'm left with tremendous sympathy for a family that has been ripped and wounded by this.
00:21:09.000I mean, no matter how good a parent you are or how bad a parent you are, this can happen to your family and we're seeing it play out in a very public detail.
00:22:42.000I think what we're poking a little bit of fun at here is that it seems like there's a lot of weird stuff going on in the Biden household as well.
00:24:21.000In 2014, the younger Biden took a job on the board of a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma Holdings, at a time when his father, who was then vice president, had an active role in US policy toward Ukraine.
00:24:59.000Looking back, did you make a mistake taking a spot on that board?
00:25:03.000No, I don't think I made a mistake in taking a spot on the board.
00:25:06.000In October 2020, a New York Post article said that emails purportedly showing shady dealings in Ukraine by Hunter Biden were found on a laptop computer that he supposedly left in a Delaware repair shop in 2019.
00:25:23.000And last month, a declassified intelligence report said that before the election, the Russians had launched a smear campaign against Joe Biden and his family.
00:25:33.000It does not specifically talk about your laptop.
00:27:30.000Do you guys remember when this happened, right?
00:27:32.000So they banned them, they said, we fixed it within 24 hours, but what they did is they actually came back and said, no, you can't have your account unlocked again until you fix the tweet by deleting it.
00:27:43.000And so this is the New York Post, what was the top five circulated newspaper in the country.
00:27:47.000This was on the heels of, I think, New York Times leaking Trump's tax returns, apparently, and Twitter having no problem with putting that story out there.
00:27:55.000And then he said, yeah, we were wrong for taking you down, but you still have to delete the tweet because when we took you down, we weren't wrong yet.
00:28:01.000We hadn't realized that moment in time.
00:28:03.000So this is just some weird wormhole we all kind of fell into for this, right?
00:28:07.000It took actually two weeks for Twitter to get them back up and running.
00:30:59.000They tried to slander Tony Bublinski's eyewitness accounts of Hunter's Ukraine dealings as Russian disinformation.
00:31:08.000Joe Biden at a public debate referencing Russian disinformation, when he knows he sat face-to-face with me, that I traveled around the world with his son and his brother, to say that and associate that with my name is absolutely disgusting to me.
00:31:23.000I've heard Joe Biden say that he's never discussed business with Hunter.
00:31:29.000I was introduced to Joe Biden by Jim Biden and Hunter Biden.
00:31:34.000At my approximately hour-long meeting with Joe that night, we discussed the Biden's history, the Biden's family business plans with the Chinese, with which he was plainly familiar, at least at a high level.
00:31:48.000On May 13th, 2017, I received an email concerning allocation of equity, which says 10% held by H for the big guy.
00:31:58.000In that email, there's no question that H stands for Hunter, big guy for his father, Joe Biden.
00:35:26.000Yeah, I mean, granted, I wouldn't acknowledge him either.
00:35:28.000If he came to my door, I'd be like... DNA says they're 99.9% Joe's grandkids.
00:35:33.000I'm just saying, if you showed up on my door and you're like, I have proof you're my daddy, I'd be like, hang on, I gotta go get a shotgun.
00:35:40.000You fired into the air to scare them to run away.
00:38:39.000You know, I am in recovery and an addict, so I do really feel for Hunter here, and I was actually surprised to learn there are a lot of addicts... Wait, do you guys...
00:40:17.000So it was basically over him blocking a couple of people on Twitter and saying that that's a violation of the First Amendment.
00:40:24.000But it was basically saying it was moot and should be dismissed.
00:40:28.000But in his concurring opinion, Clarence Thomas suggested a few ways in which digital media may be held responsible for removal of certain content.
00:40:35.000So I'll read just kind of a quick quote here.
00:40:37.000If the aim is to ensure that speech is not smothered... Oh, Dave, you went too fast on the quote.
00:40:48.000The more glaring concern must, perforce, which we need to look that word up, be the dominant digital platforms themselves.
00:40:55.000As Twitter made clear, The right to cut off speech lies most powerfully in the hands of private digital platforms.
00:41:01.000The extent to which that power matters for purposes of the First Amendment and the context to which that power could lawfully be modified raise interesting and important questions.
00:41:13.000Yeah, I don't know what moot or concurring means.
00:41:16.000So here to explain is half-Asian lawyer Bill Richmond.
00:41:24.000Well Dave, moot and concurring opinion are important.
00:41:34.000When talking about this case, it's actually changed names.
00:41:36.000Some of y'all may not remember what the actual case was about because it originally started as Knight versus Trump.
00:41:43.000Back in the early parts of the Trump presidency, when President Trump was controlling his Twitter account, he decided to block a few people and they complained.
00:41:51.000Well now, since that's all been under the water, under the bridge at this point, the
00:41:55.000case was continuing to go on despite President Biden taking office and now having control
00:42:00.000or a sensible control of that account.
00:42:02.000Ultimately, the Supreme Court ruled that the case was moot.
00:42:04.000It really, there's no controversy anymore because the person at issue, Donald Trump,
00:42:22.000And what's really interesting about it is that it crystallizes a number of different
00:42:26.000theories about how big tech can be held responsible for the size and growth and control of the
00:42:31.000market and what they really do when they're making their enforcement decisions.
00:42:35.000To break it down, there's a couple of very basic legal theories, all of which I'm sure you're familiar with even if you don't know the name.
00:42:42.000One of those is the idea of the common carrier.
00:42:44.000You have buses, trains, Lodging, like hotels.
00:42:48.000Each of those over a certain amount of time went through the same thing.
00:42:51.000They're a private business, should they be regulated.
00:42:53.000And for the common good, the government decided, and amongst the support of the people, that you should have free access and much less ability to restrict users that are people who get on buses, people that get on toll bridges, for example, or even hotels.
00:43:10.000They're subject to more regulation on what they can actually do to exclude because of the essential nature of that particular mode of either lodging
00:43:18.000or transportation. In a very similar analogy, Justice Thomas talks about how social
00:43:23.000media, given their large scale, has become a common carrier. They're drawn
00:43:28.000analogies between those examples and how the need to communicate, to advertise,
00:43:33.000even the sheer fact of the number of officials that are communicating on platforms and
00:43:38.000publishing media units like Twitter and YouTube and Facebook have just increased
00:43:43.000exponentially over the years, have made these companies more akin to common
00:43:47.000carriers and the method of communications that they provide.
00:43:51.000Now the second consideration is one of public accommodation.
00:43:54.000There's long been a theory of law that when you have a certain thing, such as entertainment that is generally available to the public, it should be exactly that, generally available to the public, with more restrictions on what they can do to actually exclude people who are participating.
00:44:09.000Well, there's a couple of different, more legal arguments about which circuit is saying that you can do it with physical spaces or not.
00:44:16.000In the end, we know that these big tech companies have, of their own admission, wanted to grow to become ubiquitous within our society.
00:44:24.000But their own growth has come with consequences.
00:44:27.000They've gotten to the level of being public accommodations.
00:44:29.000They've gotten to the level of being So big and so pervasive within our society is a mode of communication both privately and in official capacities that they now must essentially pay the consequences for that growth.
00:44:43.000In the end though, Justice Thomas admits that there really is not that kind of case before the court at that very moment.
00:44:50.000The case about Biden's control now of the Trump Twitter account when Trump was president really isn't the dispute there.
00:44:56.000But what every one of us is thinking intuitively is what Justice Thomas put down very eloquently, that these companies have become so big that their ability to control the flow of information, their ability to close the doors of the marketplace of ideas, or even worse, secretly decide to keep certain ideas out of the marketplace and off the shelves for consumers to consider as they go about their public lives, That's why we have a lawyer.
00:45:22.000big concern and without a doubt there will be more cases that come up that
00:45:25.000deal with this issue on all sides of the spectrum. That's why we have a lawyer.
00:45:45.000But he made a few good points, and we've heard people talk to us before about this and say, look, it's a free market economy.
00:45:52.000You guys should not have restrictions on what companies can do.
00:45:55.000And for the most part, that's accurate until you reach a level where you become the new digital public square.
00:46:01.000So right now, if we wanted to go out and make a point about something that's controversial, And, you know, something that would never ever happen, right guys?
00:46:08.000YouTube would ban us, Twitter would ban us, and also Facebook would ban us, all in the same period of time.
00:46:14.000On something that was kind of topical that we were trying to talk about, that would keep us from having a voice, right?
00:46:20.000So we could go and speak somewhere, right, publicly, and speak in a public space, but you've basically taken away our ability to do it in the way that the founders intended.
00:46:28.000So what they were talking about is, look, People go over here, you can go to the public square, you can say whatever you want, and you can reach as many people as you want by doing that.
00:46:37.000They have become the new digital public square, and I think it's really important that these cases make their way there, but I think it's coming through the states.
00:46:43.000I think once the states enact those laws, like you've seen in Florida, I think we're going to see it in Texas as well soon.
00:46:50.000You're going to start to see some people challenge it and then it will start making its way through the courts and it needs to happen because speech needs to be free.
00:46:56.000If the Ayatollah Khomeini can say death to all Jews and still have a Twitter account, then I think that Donald Trump saying something a little mean or a little bit rude probably isn't grounds... Or fight like hell.
00:47:07.000Right, isn't grounds for kicking him off of Twitter completely.
00:47:10.000So I think it's an interesting point and I'm glad Senator Thomas weighed in on that.
00:48:28.000Well, if you guys don't know, he's been I guess I... I'm trying to put this in words that won't get me in trouble.
00:48:38.000He enjoyed going to massage parlors, from what I understand, which, who cares?
00:48:43.000But the problem is that the women at the massage parlors claim that he... I guess he went to like normal massage parlors and was like, hey, I want you to Do things.
00:49:49.000But his sponsors, he's got some really big sponsors, Reliant Energy, Beats by Dre, and Nike, and they've all cut ties with him over this because that's obviously what everybody's going to do right now.
00:49:58.000It's not like a few women have come out, it's 22 women who have come out and filed lawsuits against him.
00:51:33.000He said that the allegations were meritless and part of a blackmail scheme, which I will give him.
00:51:39.000It does seem like a very convenient time for all these women to kind of come out of the woodwork or essentially committing crimes and say that this happened.
00:53:40.000And then the lawyer for a lot of these women basically just released these claims with no supporting evidence at all initially into the media for about a week, week and a half.
00:53:51.000So, I hope it's not true, but I have no idea.
00:53:54.000It just seems a little suspect to me right now.
01:00:52.000CNN was probably too traumatized to cover this, but we here at Louder with Crowder have actually obtained exclusive audio from a leaked phone call between former VP Joe Biden and President Trump.
01:01:05.000President Harris' office, this is Joe.
01:01:09.000Yes, can I please speak to a Mr. Puppet?
01:03:00.000I'm going to be in Port Charlotte, Florida next week, Las Vegas, Nevada.
01:03:04.000I'm also going to have dates at the Addison Improv and the Houston Improv in June that are going to go up, and it's going to be during the week.
01:03:11.000So if people happen to be in Texas, they can come hang out.