Ted Cruz's name left the lips of Sen. Ted Cruz at a Senate hearing, and we'll be playing bad movie lines. But first, my half-Asian lawyer Bill Richman is here, and so is Dave Landau from Compound Media's The Anthony Cumia Show.
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00:03:03.000I just want to make sure, yeah, right in the center of my head.
00:05:54.000Senator Ted Cruz in a Senate hearing mentioned when they were talking about sort of online censorship, and this is a really pivotal issue going into the election because people want to talk about Russian interference.
00:06:40.000Let's talk about YouTube for a second and our time is wrapping up here.
00:06:43.000Some time ago I visited with the YouTube CEO who reports to Google.
00:06:50.000And she described to me with respect to Steven Crowder, another conservative slash libertarian comedian talk show host, who Google demonetized.
00:07:01.000She described how the left was pushing YouTube to ban him altogether and she sat in my office and argued that we should be happy.
00:07:12.000That YouTube didn't ban him, they simply demonetized him.
00:07:16.000They simply took away his ability to earn money and she thought that was a middle ground.
00:07:21.000Even though she conceded that he'd done nothing to violate YouTube's terms of service.
00:09:17.000And this comes after the Biden stream, by the way, was removed on YouTube!
00:09:21.000This just happened, and thank you so much to the people who joined at lighterwithcredit.com.
00:09:25.000We did the whole stream there, so it also was a little bit more wild and wooly because we were not having to be beholden to the YouTube standards.
00:09:32.000It's not that different, but you know, I may have made some jokes about those of the homosexual persuasionals.
00:09:40.000And YouTube claim, this is at the exact same time, listen, Half-Asian Bill, I don't think I'm speaking out of turn when I say that people know we have been communicating directly with YouTube, the Vox Apocalypse was because of us, and they reached out, and now Ted Cruz has been talking with Susan Wojcicki, he says, that could be a long time ago, we were just recently re-monetized, so, cats out of the bag, there have been direct conversations, and you would think that being the biggest conservative YouTube channel ever, that, you know, we'd have a direct line of communication when a false copyright strike, this happening... You'd think so.
00:10:07.000On Biden's stream, and YouTube said, they responded with, when we receive a valid DMCA takedown notice about content that allegedly violates the copyright of a rights holder, we're required by law to remove the content.
00:10:18.000We allow creators to file a counter notification.
00:10:45.000The DMCA does say that if you get a valid complaint that is signed under penalty of perjury, all of that, and they represent who they are, then you have to take this material down.
00:10:54.000However, This person is a known quantity.
00:10:57.000The email that was used to send this particular request was already flagged in 2019 and 2018 publicly as someone who had falsely represented they were part of various media companies.
00:11:09.000So is it... And that's aside the fact that this was not even a copyright violation at all.
00:11:13.000Right, well it wasn't a copyright violation.
00:11:15.000It wasn't someone who had the authority, right, to issue a copyright violation.
00:11:18.000And we've had several other false violations, right, flagged in this.
00:11:21.000Has there ever been a single one that we haven't fought and won?
00:11:28.000When you're doing a stream and it's getting more viewers than CNN and it's climbing 70,000, 80,000, however many people are watching it, you don't get it back.
00:11:34.000And then afterwards, just so we don't get back the revenue for the year, right?
00:11:37.000This is the unfair, selective application of the law.
00:11:41.000I want to be clear, and I think Dave, you and I agree with it, it's not about censorship.
00:11:44.000If YouTube says, hey, we don't want conservatives and we want Joe Biden to be elected, fine.
00:11:48.000Now, I think their stock price would take a nosedive, but they keep claiming the opposite.
00:11:52.000And in this case, we have someone who's a known bad-faith actor who's been doing this repeatedly.
00:11:57.000We didn't actually violate any copyright.
00:12:00.000And every single time precedent has been set before precedence, either could apply here, I guess.
00:12:18.000So all I'm saying is, at what point do you acknowledge, hey, we maybe should have an open line and give the benefit of the doubt to the creators who have actually been... We follow the rules.
00:12:26.000The leftists, who by the way these laws favor because they always want a silent speech, how many times have we gone around with a false copyright claim to get content or points of view that we don't like taken down?
00:12:37.000I don't think anyone in this room has ever even thought of it!
00:12:42.000If they're so bad, people can point at them and go, yeah, that's a really bad idea.
00:12:44.000Right, they don't stand up to scrutiny.
00:12:45.000By the way, after all of these false copyright strikes that we've gotten through, wouldn't you think they'd take five minutes, like, tune to the show, take a look, and be like, hmm, nope, they're not breaking any rules.
00:12:55.000Maybe this is something they should act on.
00:12:57.000They'd have to have someone at Alphabet tune into the show and have an entire therapy wing.
00:13:01.000Yeah, if they get one email from WarnerBro at gmail.com.
00:13:55.000And this also comes at a point, this is what's so scary about this, is there's really no place to go at this point.
00:14:00.000We've been talking about this, they need to decide if they are a public platform or if they are a publisher.
00:14:04.000And you see recently there was a story with Spotify and Joe Rogan where they've been putting pressure on him and they want direct editorial oversight over the podcast because people who work at Spotify are upset.
00:15:03.000Yeah, that's as they bring in Cardi B. I do not think that you should have Joe Rogan on your show because I cut my asshole when I was cleaning with my pinky nail.
00:17:31.000What, are you going to have the laser slowly creep up my girlfriend, the love of my life's crotch area until it... No, I've already shot her in the head.
00:19:57.000Yeah, the reason that dog, if you guys can see, look, you'll see the dog at one point.
00:20:04.000Yeah, the only reason the dog didn't maul them was because they had it.
00:20:07.000I want to be really clear, and half-Asian people might not like me saying this, but if you reach in my car, Betty and Joe Louis will cause permanent harm to you and be rewarded with every cheese I can find.
00:24:25.000With our good homeowner reward program, you can place this spotter in your house that lets us know if you have not responded in protecting your own property.
00:24:32.000We suggest putting up a BLM flag as if it's the Bible.
00:25:31.000So let's go, over the weekend there were some very specific threats.
00:25:33.000University of Waterloo, the political science professor, Emmett McFarlane, that's not doxing because he tweeted this publicly, burned Congress down before letting Trump try to appoint a new SCOTUS.
00:25:42.000Then we have Reza Aslan, who I believe was a CNN contributor and a personal favorite of the Young Turks for a while.
00:25:48.000And he also ate human brains on TV, so I don't think he has that much of a problem with the raccoon deal.
00:25:52.000He said, if they even try to replace RBG, we burn the entire effing thing down.
00:25:59.000It's one of those deals where they say, hey, your silence is violence.
00:26:03.000Your silence and not speaking out and holding up your fist and saying Black Lives Matter is violence.
00:26:07.000Do you mean because you're going to punch me in the face even though I'm 65 in my own Prius?
00:26:11.000Afterward, it's I guess technically a form of inviting violence.
00:26:14.000These people invite violence by actually inviting violence, actually encouraging violence, and then people act out on the violence.
00:26:21.000And I do want to note, listen, not every protester is violent.
00:27:54.000So this is where we are right now with this violence.
00:27:56.000They have yet to condemn it entirely on the left.
00:27:59.000Calling out Antifa and Black Lives Matter.
00:28:02.000But I do think, listen, I've talked about you forfeit your right to live if you play the knockout game, if you break someone's car with a rock, if you aim a rifle into a car.
00:28:11.000That's different from deserving to die crimes worthy of capital punishment.
00:28:15.000Raping five kids, for me, you deserve to die.
00:28:17.000Doesn't mean that Kyle Rittenhouse had the authority to execute that person.
00:28:21.000But if we are going to act like these people and by these people, again, this Rosenbaum guy, why So let's not try and hang you on that, though he did use the N-word repeatedly.
00:28:29.000We're going to act like not every single one of these people is a multiple serial time felon.
00:28:34.000The kind of felonies that, not just, okay, he knocked over a liquor store.
00:28:38.000The kind of crimes that make you sick to your stomach.
00:28:41.000Listen, you cannot separate the two at this point when the people who you paint the murals for are all awful human beings who you, not only would you not let alone in a room with your daughter, you wouldn't let them look at your daughter.
00:28:54.000You wouldn't let them within the vicinity of your daughter!
00:28:57.000Yeah, but if all you watched was CNN, you would have no idea that cities are burning across America when these riots are happening, and of course there are... It's mostly peaceful.
00:29:04.000Look, we've said this before, if you want to compare what a peaceful protest is, in a time where we thought things needed to change, You can look back to the Tea Party group, right?
00:29:13.000They came into places, they protested, they were very vocal about what they believed, and then they left and cleaned stuff up as they left, right?
00:29:21.000If you want to have a litmus test, a bar to hit, that's it.
00:29:55.000So this violence now is because they're thinking about replacing RBG and they're saying this would set a crazy historical precedent.
00:30:02.000This is a violation of all norms and they're trying to point to Republicans for being hypocrites right now or conservatives and I don't know what you think.
00:30:10.000Let me make, what were you about to say?
00:30:46.000So now they're saying this is historically unprecedented.
00:30:49.000And this is actually another quote from Joe Biden, which I wouldn't say I love, but let's show it anyway.
00:30:56.000Her granddaughter said yesterday and said publicly, RBG's granddaughter, that her dying words were, quote, my most fervent wish is that I not be replaced Until a new president is installed.
00:31:51.000And she knows that as well as anybody.
00:31:53.000Are we supposed to just honor everyone's... What if Donald Trump were to die tomorrow and he just said, and my last wish is no other presidents.
00:32:35.000She's also somebody who called Colin Kaepernick, you know, disrespectful for kneeling.
00:32:41.000And now all of a sudden you see those exact same people just going crazy online.
00:32:44.000It's like, it's gotta suck to find out your hero died the same day you realized that was your hero.
00:32:50.000And she also, by the way, said that she didn't want to pack the Supreme Court with more justices.
00:32:54.000She did say that she didn't think it was necessarily super effective, the nine justices, but when you look at Joe Biden, these other people who do want to add to the Supreme Court.
00:33:00.000Now, I know people are making the argument, and I want to really quickly clarify this, and then I'll use some historical precedent.
00:33:06.000The difference between Barack Obama and Merrick Garland, that's what people are pointing to, right?
00:33:09.000His last year of the presidency, he wanted to appoint a justice, and the Senate blocked it.
00:33:16.000The difference here between the Scalia death and Merrick Garland and RBG is Barack Obama was a Democratic president and you had a Republican Senate.
00:33:26.000So before we even get into decorum and history, listen, it's as simple as Barack Obama used his absolute authority as president to select a Supreme Court justice to nominate and then the
00:33:36.000Senate use their absolute authority to reject it. In this case, the exact same scenario, Donald
00:33:41.000Trump has the authority to nominate a Supreme Court justice and the Senate has the
00:33:45.000right to confirm it. Period. That's really what it comes down to and that's why they were saying it
00:33:49.000was historically unprecedented specifically for a divided government.
00:33:53.000Let's be really, really clear on that.
00:33:55.000It's not inconsistent at all with what's happening now.
00:33:58.000And something that people need to take into consideration, that also was effectively a vote of no confidence, when they have a Democratic president and then they elect a Republican Senate.
00:34:06.000They've not only elected a Republican president at this point, but they've added seats to the Republican Senate in 2010, 2014, But she wishes, though.
00:34:14.000recent midterms consistently I think it was six seven and two or nine seven and
00:34:20.000two so there hasn't been a single midterm where they haven't added Senate
00:34:24.000seats the people have spoken Donald Trump is a president it's a Republican
00:34:28.000Senate they have the right to nominate a Supreme Court justice and that's what
00:34:31.000they should do now this does go wishes though she has wishes did
00:35:33.000So here's the thing, and this is the point you're getting to, which is what are the powers and what does the Constitution and the applicable laws say?
00:35:39.000And they say, if you get through the appointment process and you get through the confirmation process, you're in.
00:35:44.000I agree that there were some stupid comments made back in 2016 by some Republicans that are now coming back to haunt them, literally by word, but literally the system itself is still there.
00:35:55.000The nomination can occur, and on top of that the confirmation can occur.
00:36:00.000It's not unprecedented to be able to do it.
00:36:02.000But what is unprecedented is how the leading two candidates, both of whom are women, are being excoriated by the left about all of their policies.
00:36:11.000Get this, one of them is a Latina woman out of Florida, so apparently now it's just like, oh I can't believe you would nominate the second Latina woman because she's conservative right of course and then the other one oh we really don't like her because she's a woman and you know what she's too Catholic way to win the Latino vote Dems.
00:36:30.000There's some Latino lady letting a candle burn.
00:36:48.000So, you know, that's what we definitely don't want.
00:36:50.000We don't want anyone on the Supreme Court whose family knows the danger of communism.
00:36:53.000Who wants someone who's actually experienced the dangers of socialism as opposed to Barack Obama taking a photo op in front of Che, who also was gay.
00:37:00.000What were we about to say there, Dave?
00:37:02.000I was just saying how much I enjoyed Shea's gayness.
00:37:06.000That's why he executed too many of them.
00:37:13.000This election year argument, would you boil down the presidency to essentially two years?
00:37:20.000Rager Against the Machine left that out of their t-shirt.
00:37:24.000It's his face like this, zoom out, and it's just a butt.
00:37:31.000I mean, you're going to vote on the Senate every two years, right?
00:37:37.000You're going to have people being voted on in the Senate, and you have a presidential election every four years, right?
00:37:41.000So really, we don't get to govern at all.
00:37:43.000The presidency really is, well, you get your first hundred days, and then after that, we don't want to hear from you again, and then you get your next hundred days after that Senate stuff has happened, and then we don't want to hear from you again.
00:37:51.000Because presidents are voted in for three and a half years, I think, and not actually four, you know?
00:37:57.000Bitches need to watch some Schoolhouse Rock, and I don't mean conjunction, because you already know their function, but there's a bill sitting on the Capitol steps who would like to speak with you.
00:38:05.000Let me be clear about what Lindsey Graham said, because I understand there were some Republicans who followed suit and didn't actually take the context, the full context of what Lindsey Graham said.
00:38:13.000Because now they're trying to use his words against him.
00:38:15.000And let me be clear, it would be like me when I've talked about it on this show.
00:38:18.000Listen, YouTube can do whatever they want.
00:38:19.000It's not censorship because it's not the government.
00:38:21.000But what is corporate censorship is when a company says or claims that they have certain
00:38:25.000rules and they apply them selectively and with different standards.
00:38:29.000You can probably find an interview down the line where I would say, well, listen, people are tired of the censorship occurring on social media because not every single time do I have the seconds available to go through the pieces.
00:38:43.000In his argument that he made, he said, well, Merrick Garland was a different situation.
00:38:46.000You had the president of one party nominating and you had the Senate in the hands of the other party, a situation where you've got them both Would.
00:40:34.000I don't want our argument to rest on that And perhaps, most cruelly of all, if Donald Trump has his way, the complications from COVID-19, which are well beyond what they should be, it's estimated that 200 million people have died probably by the time I finish this talk.
00:42:17.000Let me be really clear about this because I do believe that conservatives need to be consistent.
00:42:19.000I've tried to talk about this in the past.
00:42:22.000However, let's talk about sort of the decorum precedent that's been set.
00:42:27.000When you knowingly slander a man to be a gang rapist, as you did with Kavanaugh in front of his wife, in front of his family, in front of the entire world, knowing verifiably that it's false, or at the very least completely baseless, guess what?
00:42:47.000You're going to say it's unprecedented when 29 times in American history a situation like this has happened, 10 times a situation like this has happened exactly, with 9 of these justices actually being confirmed when you had the same presidential party and senate, and you want to tell us it's a violation of decorum.
00:43:45.000Well, and the Chuck Todd's of the world were carrying their water this weekend, just going ballistic on Republicans saying that they can't believe they would do something like this.
00:43:51.000I'd love for you to rewind a little bit to 2016 when the Merrick Garland situation happened.
00:43:58.000I mean, I don't remember seeing CNN and MSNBC and everybody else saying, no, no, no, you should not be, a new president's coming in one way or the other because you're going out.
00:44:51.000Not a single one of the arguments are actually, wait a minute, we have the law on our side, the law says XYZ.
00:44:58.000Instead, they're just having to say, we really don't like the way that this would look, we're really serious about it.
00:45:03.000I mean, they do it very openly, but I can't even muster the Look, I agree with that and I understand that, but at the same time, you do what's right even when it's inconvenient, right?
00:47:55.000And they want to pack the Supreme Court.
00:47:57.000Keep in mind, they're complaining about something that is entirely within not only constitutional parameters, but historically there's been a standard set.
00:48:06.000They have been clear that if Biden is elected, they want to change all of it and pack the courts.
00:48:12.000If, in fact, they are successful in placing a justice on the court, I think that what Democrats have to do, assuming that Biden is president and there is a Senate majority for the Democrats, we need to think about court reform.
00:48:28.000And at a minimum, as part of that reform package, I think additional justices need to be placed on the Supreme Court.
00:48:36.000I don't care, photo-negative Ned Flanders!
00:49:16.000Really they're one and the same with the leftist government right now because they follow lockstep with the same policies.
00:49:22.000When you have effectively Hillary Clinton coming out saying under no circumstances should Joe Biden concede.
00:49:28.000And then you have Jack Dorsey and you have people on Twitter.
00:49:30.000I don't know if Zuckerberg joined in or who did at Alphabet, but I know Jack Dorsey did in no uncertain terms.
00:49:34.000When they join in with Hillary Clinton echoing her sentiment saying, we will remove any misinformation that claims on election day that Donald Trump has won.
00:49:42.000Listen, the two are inextricably tied.
00:49:44.000The current DNC and Big Tech, they're working together also because they understand that the DNC will offer protections to them with a double standard that they would not offer to other companies.
00:50:46.000Well, she did say to John Cena, and then she was reiterating it to her granddaughter, and she said, I told John Cena, but he just kept doing this.
00:51:53.000He's like, I don't remember because I'm also 85.
00:51:54.000You know what's one thing that's a very telling admission of that is that if there was a time That you were going to use a dying wish to say something, you would use it to say, oh, the law says you can't do X, Y, Z. And for all of her faults or the opinions that I disagreed with that she authored, she was a very brilliant legal scholar.
00:52:13.000And a very brilliant legal scholar and her dying wish was not, the law says you can't do it.
00:52:19.000It was, I prefer that it not be that way.
00:52:21.000And that is an honest admission, unlike what we're hearing from the Dems, which is, oh, there's legal hurdles.