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00:03:38.000So we're going to be talking today, not just about Twitter, we're going to be talking about the Ministry of Truth that this administration is incorporating right now, that they're putting into action, which is absolutely terrifying.
00:03:49.000And with Twitter, people have been talking about how they've been gaining followers, right, or I've been losing followers, but once you get past the sort of histrionics Um, ostentatious, just ahhh!
00:04:46.000Also, we're going to enter a recession.
00:04:48.000That's something that a lot of people aren't talking about because it's nerdy, it's tough to get into, but we're going to try and consolidate it so you can understand why historically the metrics that we are seeing have never resulted in anything other than a woeful recession.
00:05:02.000Before, while we're talking about the Ministry of Truth and we'll be talking about Twitter, my question of the day to you is, and we'll pin the comment, whoever answers best, which lie is the worst that we've had from this administration at this point?
00:06:45.000I watched this and I thought, well, this must be a parody.
00:06:48.000And that's how you know the left is beyond parody.
00:06:51.000When it took us about 30 minutes to do some research, that means looking through this guy's LinkedIn, looking through his Facebook, looking through his TikTok, going, is this an actual thing?
00:07:01.000Turns out it is, and he wants to apologize for the way white people look.
00:07:56.000On behalf of white folks, I want to apologize to everyone because we must be a deluded bunch because we done convinced ourselves a whole ass lie.
00:08:05.000He sounds like Zach Galifianakis doing the effeminate racist.
00:09:06.000And I love them both dearly, but you have a twin brother.
00:09:08.000So with one boy, one girl, I said, look, I am going to, there's always going to have to be some untraining, some sort of deconditioning, right, from society, especially if you understand the world we live in.
00:09:17.000And there needs to be balance for both of them.
00:09:20.000But with my daughter, I know that I'm going to have to correct the record that says, You are beautiful, you are perfect, just the way you are.
00:09:27.000No matter what it is. If she's anorexic skinny, you're beautiful, you're perfect. If she's
00:09:31.000overweight, blood type pudding, you're beautiful, you're perfect. If she works, you're
00:09:34.000beautiful, you're perfect. If she doesn't work, you're beautiful, you're perfect. That's what the
00:09:37.000message is. And I know that I'm going to have to decondition my son from being bombarded as a
00:09:43.000piece of shit for something he has no control over because he's a white male.
00:09:48.000No one is going to be telling my young white male boy that he's fantastic, you're great just the way you are.
00:09:55.000It's the only subgroup of people whom you actively tell they need to change something about themselves which is immutable.
00:10:01.000Now of course, I want my daughter to find her self-esteem and her values and her accomplishments, how she treats people.
00:10:08.000But no one is perfect, no one is beautiful and perfect the way they are, and no one's a piece of crap!
00:10:13.000Just because of how they were born, and it really is something that I think about a lot, and that guy just echoed it in a deeply disturbing way.
00:10:19.000Yeah, and if anybody's telling your white kid that they're beautiful and perfect, just be like, look, the stranger has candy and don't get in the van.
00:11:57.000On April 26th, so a couple of days ago, and we didn't have time to talk about it because we didn't ask Wednesday yesterday, Anthony Fauci, the science, Yes.
00:12:06.000Declared on air that America is officially out of the pandemic.
00:13:46.000Alright, so here's something else, by the way.
00:13:51.000People are calling it this, but this is something that I was talking about before we get to Twitter.
00:13:59.000I said this the other day, don't just look at the story.
00:14:02.000Look at the people who are telling the story, or the people who are defending the story, or the people on the opposing side of the political spectrum, you know, where you find yourself.
00:15:02.000So, and this just happens to be coinciding with Twitter being purchased by Elon Musk, which we'll get to in a second, and the changes therein.
00:15:09.000Mayorkas just announced the creation of the Official misinformation.
00:15:14.000This is the government, so I don't want to hear it's a private company anymore because this entity that is being created by your government, its sole purpose is designed to get its tentacles into private companies.
00:15:29.000Our Undersecretary for Policy, Rob Silvers, is co-chair with our Principal Deputy General Counsel, Jennifer Gaskell.
00:15:39.000In, um, leading a just recently constituted, uh, misinformation, disinformation governance board.
00:15:48.000So we're bringing, uh, the goal is to bring the resources of the department together to address this threat.
00:15:55.000I just read a very interesting study that underscores the importance of the, the point that you make, uh, the spread of myths and disinformation.
00:16:05.000Now again, the government saying we're going to create a board, and you can go and check the references, whose purpose is primarily designed to pressure social media companies into doing their bidding.
00:16:23.000For example, things like not allowing information out there, you know, like the Wuhan lab leak theory, or the Hunter Biden story, Or the CDC death rates for which we were suspended on YouTube, right?
00:16:34.000The CDC actual death rates, just flu versus COVID for children, right?
00:16:48.000Again, this wouldn't be as concerning.
00:16:50.000If they weren't wrong all the time and even have admitted to, okay, we got that one wrong.
00:16:55.000It's still pretty concerning because anytime the government says, we're going to determine what information is permissible or impermissible, you've now given up your freedom of speech across all platforms.
00:17:06.000You can't say it's a private company anymore if the government gets to tell private companies what is considered permissible under the guise of misinformation.
00:17:15.000And by the way, the person that he names who's heading this up, Nina Jankowicz, she's a global fellow at the non-partisan Wilson Center.
00:18:01.000This person who is now going to determine what shows up, or at least they're going to attempt to, I think Elon Musk is probably going to put up some walls, said it was just a campaign product for Donald Trump.
00:18:14.000That is proactively trying to subvert democracy.
00:18:17.000What the left accuses you of doing, they do themselves.
00:18:58.000So, this is a Democrat activist, now, who is at the head of this board, and just to give you some examples, the Misinformation Governance Board, if only we would have some historical precedent.
00:19:34.000Now you can do your own digging like us.
00:19:35.000And so they have to make sure they create a government board to shut it down because we can't have you being the press.
00:19:40.000But once upon a time, we did have these kinds of boards that existed to specifically send marching orders to the press.
00:19:46.000We had the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.
00:19:49.000If they do it, my general rule is go another direction, but that's just one way.
00:19:55.000There's the Publicity Department at the Central Committee for the Communist Chinese Party, there's North Korea's Propaganda and Agitation Department, and of course, there's the fictional 1984 Orwell's Ministry of Truth, which again, does this exact thing.
00:20:11.000There's no self-awareness for them to just say, hey, you know what, hold on a second, if we're doing something that Orwell Fictitiously described as a dystopian future.
00:21:58.000Sharing, we're now seeing, is the most important if you share it on YouTube.
00:22:02.000And I hate to be that guy who asks you to do those things, but I want to be able to get through this information on Twitter without having to kind of break it apart.
00:23:31.000And then I want to get to some numbers that not only are surprising, But there are direct impact, and there are studies on this, as to how it could affect the outcome of elections.
00:23:41.000We're not even talking about the freest and fairest election as far as the actual mail-in votes, or if voter fraud has ever occurred, ever.
00:23:47.000You could type voter fraud in at lodworthcrowder.com for all those references, but we would never discuss it here.
00:23:52.000Of course, we'll do it on Mug Club later, where we do chat Thursday, but all right.
00:24:00.000But I wanted to focus on Republican and Democrats today because I wanted to focus on elected officials, and then give you some personal examples.
00:24:05.000So, Republican Twitter accounts, right, they've seen a massive surge in followers, while Democrat accounts have been shrinking.
00:24:14.000Here's the thing, again, keep in mind, Marley was dead to begin with, Elon Musk isn't doing anything there right now, it's just the fear that he might at some point.
00:24:25.000Let me give you the follower differences between the 27th and the 30th that we see.
00:24:33.000Republican followers gained, let's go through Jim Jordan, 160,000.
00:24:35.000Marjorie Taylor Greene saw 150,000 gained.
00:25:21.000Okay, when conservatives were being removed from Twitter, They go to Facebook, they would go to Instagram, they would go on YouTube, right?
00:25:27.000They would go to Parler, they would go to Rumble, and let you know, hey, I've been suspended.
00:25:31.000You always knew if someone was removed from Twitter, if it was an actual person.
00:25:35.000Are you seeing anyone on the left right now?
00:25:37.000Are you seeing any actual people telling you, my account was suspended, I was removed?
00:26:09.000They're either purging bots non-existent accounts and with conservatives either banned accounts are being unbanned falsely banned accounts or Uh, we all know this because you just saw a gain in like 10,000.
00:26:35.000And this is the thing with the algorithms.
00:26:36.000Sure, someone can follow you, but if someone follows you and unless they bookmark your page and check back every day, you might as well not exist.
00:26:42.000Which, by the way, is the reason we always tell you Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m.
00:27:36.000To the tune of millions, if you were to add them all up.
00:27:38.000Now, Princeton University, there's research on this.
00:27:41.000They found that for every, this is a quote, for every 10% increase of Twitter users in a given county, right, that lowered the vote share of Donald Trump by 0.2 percentage points.
00:28:08.000Well, now let's just say Abbott gains the followers just based on the natural algorithm and all of a sudden Beto loses hundreds of thousands.
00:28:17.000Do you think that changes the election?
00:28:36.000Sort of like you pay a certain amount to a PR firm, you get a New York Times bestseller.
00:28:40.000By the way, no one really knows what constitutes a New York Times bestseller, but you give us a quarter million dollars, we guarantee it, don't ask questions.
00:28:47.000So I'm sure that there are a lot of Democrat PR firms that have been buying up fake accounts.
00:28:52.000There are a lot of reasons that this has been taking place.
00:28:57.000And again, people, if you could comment below, send me examples.
00:29:00.000Are there any prominent Democrats I haven't seen them saying, hey, I've been removed.
00:29:05.000I know they're threatening to leave, and then they come back like Sean King, but I haven't seen any stories of Democrats en masse saying, I've been removed from Twitter, this is what's happening.
00:29:13.000I see them bitching about it, where we saw conservatives all the time get removed, simply for points of view.
00:29:18.000So I gained myself- You know what, Sean King went dark for a day.
00:30:56.000Went down to 10, 20,000 new subscribers a month.
00:30:59.000You're talking about a differential of hundreds of thousands in a month!
00:31:03.000And if you do those estimates, if you look at the algorithms, for which there's been no explanation, no answer, we'd probably be at about 9 to 11 million subscribers a month on YouTube.
00:31:11.000Not to mention the things like notifications working, subscriptions working.
00:31:16.000We have to tell you to bookmark the page and come back 10 a.m.
00:31:19.000Eastern every day and also let you know about Rumble and about Mug Club!
00:31:24.000In case we're not on YouTube because we get removed for a reason that is not described.
00:32:01.000Meanwhile, we see the difference of millions.
00:32:03.000Millions of people being barred from following their supported elected officials and having others thrust before them.
00:32:10.000If you're concerned about the state of democracy, if you think there's some, you know, we want trust in our institutions, then you should absolutely be pushing for transparency.
00:32:18.000This can affect the state of the country, in addition to the Hunter Biden story, which we know would have changed the election.
00:32:24.000Hey, speaking of Sean King, he might be breaking some news.
00:32:30.000He tweeted, I'm told this morning that Apple and Google will remove Twitter from the App Store if it does not moderate and remove hate speech under Elon Musk.
00:32:37.000This isn't a new policy, but a commitment already made.
00:32:39.000Amazon Web Services has the same commitment, so there's that.
00:32:42.000And then he replied to someone who probably was trying to call BS, and he said, spoke to staff at Google and Apple, who referred me to the following policies.
00:32:49.000Yeah, well, by the way, first off, there are a couple things that are troubling in there.
00:32:52.000He spoke to officials at Google and Apple.
00:33:48.000Is Jeff Bezos number two or is he number three?
00:33:50.000I guess it depends on... Well, does anyone see a problem with the number two richest guy now implementing a policy that would hurt the number one richest guy?
00:34:15.000For example, I say to you very often, I understand that there are actual racist message boards or hate places on the dark web that end up being the bathroom wall of society, and most people don't want to spend time there.
00:34:42.000Here's the real value that conservatives, that I hope, if nothing else, if nothing else beyond the entertainment, if nothing else I've helped you do, is to understand the way the other side thinks.
00:35:35.000You just can't yell fire because it's a call to action if it's a lie that harms people.
00:35:40.000You can tell someone that you hate them, you just can't actually physically hurt them or call someone else to an action to harm them, because the crime is the action, not the speech.
00:36:06.000So you can't give us an answer but you're going to ban one of the top three social media platforms in the world without even defining what hate speech is?
00:36:15.000Must be so nice to have no accountability and to have supporters sycophants like Sean King.
00:36:25.000You look at places, here's the problem, is you go to a place where there is actually the dark web, or even places like Reddit that can get real dark or anything, they're not controlled, because they're not big enough to where they can actually sway anything.
00:36:36.000The reason why they're so upset about this is because it does take away their ability to sway everyone and everything, and to call people out publicly, and to actually throw out misinformation, do things so insane, like prevent the President of the United States from talking to their people.
00:36:55.000I don't ever think that Joe Biden should be thrown off Twitter.
00:37:03.000That's what they're pissed off about is they can't get, they're no longer, not even at this point yet, they're afraid that they'll no longer be in charge of the message.
00:38:36.000There's been Donald Trump peeing on prostitutes.
00:38:37.000There's been him basically, you know, shaking hands and having midnight orgies with Putin, for all you know, with these articles coming out from the New York Times and Washington Post.
00:38:47.000False story after false story after false story.
00:38:57.000And then they all... You think it's chance?
00:38:59.000Why do you think Apple and Amazon You think he's just chancing?
00:39:04.000If Sean King is right, and by the way, I don't necessarily, I tend to think it's a 50-50 shot that he's just making stuff up, but... The fake, yeah, the fake guy who made a bunch of money off BLM.
00:39:28.000But if it's true, you think it's just by happenstance that Apple and Amazon, the other richest guys out there who are powerful, happen to come together to try and take down the one rich guy?
00:39:37.000It doesn't require any inconsistency for me to say, all right, Elon Musk wants to take over Twitter.
00:39:48.000I think there should be Section 230 reforms.
00:39:51.000But for them to say, hold on a second, we need antitrust, that's what Jen Psaki just said the other day, which by the way has nothing to do with 230.
00:40:50.000But you're angry at him, but you're not angry at the government who's printing out trillions of dollars while taking your trillions of dollars and mismanaging them.
00:41:22.000Jeff Bezos, Washington Post, one of the most powerful men in the world, had a reporter who was walking around with daddy's checkbook, daddy in this instance is Jeff Bezos just to be clear, doxing an anonymous independent content creator with libs of TikTok.
00:41:36.000And you guys say you're for the little guy?
00:42:58.000I don't think they'll be mad at me saying this.
00:42:59.000It was the one time someone bought me like this ultra uber expensive dry whatever ribeye that I've made at home.
00:43:06.000That was the only time, and it could just be subjective, that I would say that was the best steak I've ever had, but the prices at Good Ranchers are better than you often get in the grocery stores.
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00:43:21.000No, I like it more than the burger, but they have individually wrapped burgers, easy to cook, you can put them in tacos, meatballs, I don't know.
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00:45:00.000Okay, according to the Consumer Price Index, and I want to fill you in on this because a lot of people sort of, again, talked about the economy.
00:45:06.000Let me consolidate it so you understand why.
00:45:09.000We have never been in this kind of a scenario, ever, in the history of America, and it not resulted in a bad recession.
00:45:15.000This isn't me doing a Jim Cramer, saying, Bye!
00:45:47.000That's because these numbers are actually the result of, again, tweaking the methods of measuring inflation so it seems much lower than how we've measured it historically.
00:46:32.000And the reason why is because if we're using that same sort of 1980 model, if it was the same model being used today, inflation would actually be closer to 17%.
00:46:38.000So he's like, we're almost there at the 11 or 14.
00:46:43.000It's like, no, no, no, look behind you.
00:49:29.000Look, I'll tell you this, the cost of just, because we have to get the mugs, unfortunately, overseas, but we have Americans who paint and etch these mugs.
00:50:21.000Some people out there, and this is not because you're ignorant, but a lot of you aren't economists, it basically means the rate at which commercial banks borrow and lend, right, from the reserves.
00:50:29.000This is what we're talking about with the Federal Reserve, okay?
00:50:31.000Because some people will say, well, if they raise interest rates, that's not my rate.
00:50:33.000Well, no, we're not talking about your rate, necessarily, with the bank.
00:51:51.000They've never done that, again, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, without causing a recession.
00:51:56.000Now, rapidly increasing interest rates, that is horrible for economic growth.
00:52:01.000Take it from someone who isn't conservative, and not me.
00:52:05.000What you have is enough tightening by the Federal Reserve to deal with inflation adequately.
00:52:13.000There's too much tightening for the markets and the economy.
00:52:19.000So the Fed is going to be in a very difficult place a year from now as inflation still remains high and it starts to pinch on both the markets and the economy.
00:53:06.000So, uh, they want a soft landing, they want to try and curb demand, and they want there to be no layoffs, and they want to try and decrease inflation, and they want to avoid a recession.
00:53:14.000Trying to make all of those things work by raising the interest rates, it's an incredibly unlikely scenario, and by unlikely I mean it's never happened before.
00:53:21.000Listen to someone say it again, and then I'll explain why.
00:53:24.000So is the soft landing just pie-in-the-sky stuff?
00:53:56.000For people who don't know what stagflation means, it's basically a scenario where you have high inflation in a shrinking economy, high unemployment.
00:54:42.000They don't want you to really know... If they just say, well, we're talking about a scenario with high inflation and a shrinking economy, high unemployment, you'd be like, that sucks.
00:54:53.000They want you to not be able to understand this so that you have to trust an authority figure like the Ministry of Truth as it relates to disinformation online.
00:55:02.000My goal is to try and make this as simple as possible.
00:56:14.000This is not the only time in history that they've been behind, but they are strikingly behind.
00:56:20.000Now, there are a few things that are going to make this even harder and worse, because you're saying, well, maybe this will be the first time where they'll get it right.
00:56:26.000Because it's not like there's a litany of confounding outside factors right now that would take this entire stew or gumbo of fuck-up-edness and make it worse.
00:56:37.000Like Russia's invasion of the Ukraine, which reduced the oil supply worldwide, leading to higher oil prices, right?
00:56:58.000That's compounded by the fact that we have an administration who's made it very clear that they don't want us to be energy independent because they want to move us to what?
00:59:10.000Also something to take into account, keep in mind, you gave people money during a pandemic, you locked it down, and you gave them money for products that didn't exist because the shelves were empty, so they're sitting there with money.
00:59:34.000The Shanghai lockdowns right now, they're not getting any better, of course, because, uh, right now in Shanghai, you may not know this because... So there's still just people starving to death.
00:59:42.000Well, they're literally being fenced in in Shanghai right now.
01:00:54.000Yeah, John Cena's going to be out of a job.
01:00:56.000Yeah, I mean, how many times can you pretend the countries don't exist?
01:00:59.000I don't know, I mean, it's like, I mean, you can make it your thing, you know, like Senior Wen says, like, so right, there's no Taiwan, so right, no Taiwan!
01:01:06.000Hey, do it like we rehearsed, these are good people.
01:02:36.000You think COVID is this pandemic and you hate it.
01:02:38.000Look, do you really think that this government actually believes, when you look at what we know about COVID, that it was more harmful to humanity at large?
01:03:50.000You can either just believe Joe Biden who says, hey, businesses, lower your costs, or understand that companies that need workers have to increase wages.
01:03:59.000Remember when they used to fight for 15?
01:05:40.000Well, if you make two of something and you have it, you've lowered the value of one.
01:05:43.000Yeah, I know that when I, you know, when I cook a whole tray of the Nestle Toll House cookies, I should appreciate, I should savor each bite, but at that point I don't because I know I have another one.
01:07:05.000I think it's the most likely place we're going to be.
01:07:09.000If stagflation means rising unemployment and still high inflation, I think that's the preponderant probability as to what we're going to get over the next couple of years.
01:07:24.000As I've said before on your show, David, the painful fact that needs to inform our view is that we've never had a moment when unemployment was below four, inflation was above four, and we avoided recession for the subsequent two years.
01:08:46.000People are paid to stay home and not work.
01:08:48.000Businesses, now that have, if they're lucky enough to still be open, Have to pay more for the same product and pass that cost on to consumers.
01:08:57.000Then we borrow more money than ever in the history of the United States and print more money than ever in the history of the United States, which we know leads to more inflation.
01:09:03.000And now in this case, what we just want to do to solve it is spend more money and raise interest rates, which again have caused more inflation.
01:09:12.000But the good news is they're spending more time on ensuring that your six-year-old can transition from Chet to Sparkle.
01:09:20.000So they have their priorities straight.
01:09:22.000They're also making sure that misinformation online isn't getting out there.
01:09:27.000They're making sure that they communicate with the folks at Spotify and Apple and Amazon to ensure that Elon Musk, the guy whose cars they just told you to buy due to their skyrocketing energy prices and the all-time high gas prices, by the way, to make sure that their guys now hurt their competition and Elon Musk on Twitter because, God forbid, you actually have access to free information.
01:10:16.000We have never had a similar scenario, taken these same steps, and ended up with anything other than the American taxpayer, and that's all American taxpayers, Not just the poor, not just the middle class, not just the rich.
01:10:33.000We're going to take some chat and there's also an inter-office fight here over a wheelchair which is going to get heated and we can't talk about on YouTube.