Rebel News Podcast - August 10, 2021


EZRA LEVANT ｜ Why was Barack Obama’s birthday party a big deal？


Episode Stats

Length

29 minutes

Words per Minute

165.34427

Word Count

4,918

Sentence Count

371

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

7


Summary

Barack Obama turns 60 years old and has the biggest party of the decade. All his fancy friends came in on their private jets. Why was this a big deal? And why is Barack Obama exempt from the condemnation?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. I don't know if you saw Barack Obama turn 60, Mazel Tov, and happy birthday,
00:00:04.480 but boy, did he have a blowout party, the party of the decade. Put aside the climate change
00:00:11.120 shenanigans there, all these private jets coming, but what about this whole COVID thing? What about
00:00:16.520 this mask thing, this social distancing thing? Why is Barack Obama exempt? And why is he being
00:00:24.680 excused by the media party and others are condemned? I'll take you through it and show
00:00:29.320 you some video and pictures from the party. But first, I guess I'm going to show you the
00:00:34.400 pictures, but if you're listening to the podcast, you won't be able to see it. I really want you to
00:00:38.300 see these pictures of this party. It really is a bacchanalia. Lots of photos. If you are a subscriber
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00:01:11.120 Tonight, why was Barack Obama's birthday party a big deal? It's August 9th and this is the Ezra LeVant
00:01:27.520 show. Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know? There's 8,500
00:01:34.780 customers here and you won't give them an answer. The only thing I have to say to the government
00:01:39.800 about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:01:48.480 How did Barack Obama end up so rich? He didn't have much wealth before he came president. His wife
00:01:55.600 had a diversity job at a university that paid six figures, but they had a costly lifestyle too.
00:02:03.100 Then he was president for eight years, which earns $400,000 a year. It's true. That's not nothing.
00:02:09.460 And most of his expenses were covered, but his kids go to fancy schools. But now he's living like
00:02:15.340 he's a billionaire, or at least close to it. If you think that's something, look at the wealth of
00:02:21.180 Nancy Pelosi or other lifers in Congress. Anyways, I couldn't help but notice it. You'd think someone
00:02:27.200 who goes on about global warming wouldn't have such a big footprint, as they say. And you'd think they
00:02:33.420 wouldn't be buying such a luxury property on the waterfront. I mean, didn't he tell us the sea
00:02:38.280 levels are going to rise? Well, that's the thing. Don't look at what he says. Look at what he does.
00:02:43.120 And at his luxury home, for his 60th birthday, he was going to have the party of the decade. All his
00:02:50.940 fancy friends were going to come in on their private jets. Here's John Kerry, Joe Biden's global
00:02:56.940 warming czar, arriving on a private jet for the party because he's so very important. It's literally
00:03:02.780 his excuse when asked. He's important. What he's doing is more important than what you're doing.
00:03:07.780 So if you happen to notice that he absolutely never follows his own rules, he doesn't deny it.
00:03:13.940 It's just that the rules don't apply to people like him. That's what he actually says.
00:03:18.140 On that issue, pollution, I understand that you came here with a private jet.
00:03:22.140 Is that an environmental way to travel? If you offset your carbon, it's the only choice for
00:03:28.760 somebody like me. Yeah, well, not just private jets, though. Occasionally, he slums it and flies
00:03:35.100 first class domestically. And he just doesn't wear that mask. He doesn't like it. I get it.
00:03:41.100 I hate masks, too. They're sweaty and dirty and you rebreathe your own hair and they don't make a
00:03:46.000 lot of sense. You're wearing it for a moment on an airplane and you really, really have to. But
00:03:50.420 then they serve coffee or snacks and you can take it off for like an hour and you're just as close to
00:03:56.280 the person next to you. It's all theater. It's all a performance. John Kerry knows that. And really,
00:04:01.040 he's too important. And I'm sure he tells flight attendants that if they bother him, he's just too
00:04:05.340 important. So the huge Obama bash started to get a lot of media coverage in advance, not just because
00:04:12.680 Obama was living like a Kardashian, living like a billionaire, living like a celebrity, lavish. The guy
00:04:18.500 who told you you had to lose your job if you worked in coal or fracking, the guy who said you need to drive
00:04:24.500 less. He was above all that. That's news. And all the hangers on were news. But it just happened to
00:04:32.000 coincide with Joe Biden saying we need to all mask again and lock down again. Once again, I want to
00:04:39.740 thank the local leaders in the private sector, leaders who are imposing vaccine requirements.
00:04:45.400 America can beat the Delta variant. Just as we beat the original COVID-19, we can do this.
00:04:55.580 So wear a mask, we're recommended. Get vaccinated today. All of that will save lives.
00:05:05.440 So that's a bit embarrassing. Joe Biden is saying stop living freely. And his former boss,
00:05:10.640 Obama is having the party of the century. So Obama says, message received, I'll uninvite people,
00:05:19.900 just close friends and family. Wow, he really is a man of the people. So this is what just close
00:05:25.740 friends and family looks like. That massive thing, that's the party tent, it holds hundreds.
00:05:32.380 And close friends and family, oh, like any liberal Hollywood actor around. It was like an Oscar
00:05:38.840 after party. Everyone was there. And of course, they weren't wearing masks. Are you kidding?
00:05:44.840 Not a soul wearing a mask. They were hugging and kissing and dancing close to each other.
00:05:49.900 All of these photos were posted online by celebrities who were there boasting about their connections
00:05:54.340 until they were told to take them down. You're embarrassing Obama. Here's a singer from about 20
00:05:59.320 years ago named Erykah Badu. She was so excited to be there. She couldn't help herself filming a video
00:06:06.420 selfie of Obama in the background. Oh my God. I'm actually shocked too. He dances like Eddie Murphy
00:06:12.240 pretending to be a white guy. It's sort of funny. But it was all about who's cool and who isn't and
00:06:17.600 who's invited and who isn't and who's on the in crowd and who isn't. And look at how massive it all
00:06:24.220 was. No quarantining, no masks, no social distancing, no vaccine passports, no testing. It was normal life,
00:06:30.300 by which I mean the millionaire and billionaire oligarchs living it up. By normal, I mean people
00:06:35.940 who tell you to live smaller are living large. Of course, it's a laugh environmentally. I'm still
00:06:42.240 waiting for Greta Thunberg to say something. I'm not sure if she's still a thing. Her thing was that
00:06:46.340 she was a child, like a child preacher or a child prodigy, a bit of a freak show. But now that she's,
00:06:52.620 you know, she's like a child actor who's grown up. She's lost that special status. She's just not
00:06:59.200 that special anymore. She's ordinary now. And her cause celebra is being forgotten with all the
00:07:05.040 COVID stuff. But the media party knew how bad it looked. Here's the New York Times on CNN.
00:07:12.060 Other people said, you know, this is really being overblown. They're following all the safety
00:07:18.260 precautions. People are going to sporting events that are bigger than this. This is going to be
00:07:22.880 safe. This is a sophisticated vaccinated crowd. And this is just about optics. It's not about safety.
00:07:29.020 I wonder what she means by that. They're sophisticated people, so don't worry about it.
00:07:34.900 What does that mean? Is that a medical term? Is that a comment about class or political partisanship?
00:07:41.120 They're in the right party. How is that a thing being sophisticated when it comes to public health?
00:07:45.740 Here's Anthony Fauci, same day, talking about another public gathering, a motorcycle rally,
00:07:51.860 all outside, all socially distanced, by the way, in a Republican state. Oh, he hated that.
00:07:58.760 You've brought up regionally the South, but out in the plains, in the Great Plains, we have Sturgis,
00:08:04.420 South Dakota, there's a gathering right now of some 700,000 people. Last year, it was a smaller
00:08:11.460 turnout. And it was over about 150,000 people. And it led to a massive outbreak in the Dakotas,
00:08:18.520 where they became number one and number two for essentially the rest of the calendar year of cases.
00:08:25.120 What do you expect this rally to do to that part of the country?
00:08:28.420 Well, I'm very concerned, Chuck, that we're going to see another surge related to that rally. I mean,
00:08:38.020 to me, it's understandable that people want to do the kinds of things they want to do. They want
00:08:45.040 their freedom to do that. But there comes a time when you're dealing with a public health crisis
00:08:49.940 that could involve you, your family, and everyone else, that something supersedes that need to do
00:08:57.220 exactly what you want to do. I mean, you're going to ultimately be able to do that in the future.
00:09:01.500 But let's get this pandemic under control before we start acting like nothing is going on. I mean,
00:09:08.620 something bad is going on. I mean, we've got to realize that.
00:09:12.160 Why didn't he talk about Obama's party? Is he hoping for an invitation or something?
00:09:16.200 Did too many of his friends go? His colleague, John Kerry, went.
00:09:21.660 Does anyone believe these guys anymore? Can you believe them when they don't live the way they tell you to live?
00:09:28.360 Like this guy, a politician or bureaucrat, I don't even remember. He's some boss.
00:09:34.180 Doesn't have a mask on, puts it on to walk on the stage, then takes it off for show.
00:09:39.460 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did the same thing just the other day, put on a mask for the cameras,
00:09:44.020 took it off when they left.
00:09:46.200 Even King Fauci himself. Remember that baseball game he threw the first pitch to?
00:09:50.520 It's just for show. He doesn't believe in it. It's uncomfortable.
00:09:54.420 Even this bizarre woman, I'm going to show you a video of a woman at Calgary's pro-lockdown,
00:09:59.200 pro-mask rally. It was a gathering where they were asking for a ban on gatherings.
00:10:04.420 This bizarre woman was shouting at people to go to Auschwitz. Isn't that what Nazis say?
00:10:10.080 We can talk about typecast to help Nazi, but even she wasn't wearing her mask, right?
00:10:15.240 Because it's not comfortable.
00:10:17.520 You better be careful. There's a COVID right behind you.
00:10:20.900 There's a COVID right behind you.
00:10:23.240 Not for your life, man.
00:10:25.040 By the way, that kooky woman assaulted our Calgary cameraman. So if you know who that is, go to WhoIsThis? Go to WhoIsThis.ca.
00:10:35.040 And if you can tell us who that woman is, I will give you $500 if you can ID her. Don't take matters into your own hands. Just tell us her name.
00:10:55.880 So no one believes the science. At least none of the bosses do. At least they sure don't act like they do.
00:11:02.960 And yet they use the science as an excuse to become more and more authoritarian.
00:11:07.360 Here's footage of French police enforcing vaccine passports at Paris bistros.
00:11:13.080 Eighty years ago, police would have done the same thing at those same bistros in Paris, asking for,
00:11:19.380 Dine Papier, show me your papers, in German. Today's French are only too happy to comply.
00:11:28.580 I saw this. Here's a translation of a news story from France.
00:11:32.580 The police are brutally enforcing vax passports, but they themselves are exempt.
00:11:37.760 That's odd, isn't it?
00:11:39.200 Here's some of that police brutality. You know, we make fun of France sometimes for surrendering to the Nazis so quickly.
00:11:46.680 Lots of jokes historically about that. They actually did lose quite a lot of lives fighting the Nazis.
00:11:52.380 But I have to say, the French don't seem to be surrendering peacefully here, unlike us in Canada,
00:11:59.700 where there's uniform compliance from the political and media and legal classes.
00:12:05.240 A few harmless public protests, but pretty much uniform compliance.
00:12:10.460 Politicians see that.
00:12:12.560 So today, Nova Scotia says they'll bring in vax passports for their own province.
00:12:17.380 New, a liberal government will be proactive in exploring a provincial vaccine certificate
00:12:21.820 for going to restaurants, shops, gyms, and other businesses.
00:12:24.660 Scotiapass would allow you to attend events without fear,
00:12:29.120 while not putting people's health at risk from dangerous COVID variants.
00:12:33.040 So again, pitting shopkeepers against their own customers, against their own staff,
00:12:37.240 pitting people against each other.
00:12:38.480 But that promise at the end, this will protect you.
00:12:42.280 This will end your fears. This saves you.
00:12:45.780 Don't lie. You don't actually know that, do you?
00:12:49.160 Israel, one of the most vaxxed countries in the world, now on their third shot.
00:12:55.380 Well, guess what? A surge in hospitalizations.
00:12:58.840 Another lockdown is imminent.
00:13:00.320 And look at this headline.
00:13:01.980 14 Israelis who got the third shot later infected with COVID-19.
00:13:06.260 Maybe a fourth shot will clear this all up.
00:13:09.000 Or maybe a fifth shot.
00:13:10.720 Just one more lockdown, guys.
00:13:12.740 Seriously, just one more.
00:13:14.260 Just two years to flatten the curve, guys.
00:13:16.980 Trust us.
00:13:17.540 Just don't look at how we live and party or exempt ourselves.
00:13:22.900 Oh, and for your child's birthday party, mask up or the cops will come.
00:13:28.420 Stay with us for more.
00:13:40.820 Well, people sometimes ask me, Ezra, what is the biggest risk to your business?
00:13:45.460 And there's a few.
00:13:47.200 For example, donor fatigue from our crowd funders.
00:13:50.440 It's a possibility.
00:13:52.200 I think government censorship from Trudeau and Stephen Gubo, that's definitely a big one.
00:13:58.160 Traditional businesses only have to worry about things like, you know, competition.
00:14:01.920 But I think the number one threat to our company is that big tech firms like YouTube or Twitter, Facebook, suddenly decide that we're going to be unperson, that they'll cancel us without any reason at all.
00:14:19.900 And it happened to us, actually, a little bit, a few months ago, when PayPal, our first and most important payment processor, basically a credit card processing company, on a Friday afternoon after business hours, sent us a generic email just saying,
00:14:40.140 Hey, guys, we're shutting you down six years and tens of millions of dollars without complaint.
00:14:47.300 We're simply shutting you down without explanation, without appeal, without notice.
00:14:55.320 Outrageous.
00:14:56.380 But that is the era we live in.
00:14:58.260 And so I was very interested in the story in Breitbart.com by the senior tech editor, Alan Bocari.
00:15:04.740 The item is called Second Class Citizens, The Five Stages of Financial Blacklisting.
00:15:13.740 And Alan Bocari joins us now from Austin, Texas.
00:15:17.020 Alan, great to see you again.
00:15:19.680 They're not even hiding it anymore.
00:15:21.660 There was always some censorship beneath the surface.
00:15:24.940 And these tech companies were sort of shy about it.
00:15:28.160 But I think ever since the companies deplatformed Donald Trump in January, ever since he lost the election, they really said, all right, we're in no danger now.
00:15:36.740 We're free to show how woke we are.
00:15:39.060 We no longer have to pretend that we're politically neutral.
00:15:42.800 I think that's the number one difference between now and a year ago.
00:15:45.380 What would you say?
00:15:46.900 I think that is a big difference.
00:15:48.300 I think the Biden administration is also putting a lot of pressure on these companies behind the scenes to do their bidding.
00:15:54.400 And not just behind the scenes.
00:15:56.080 You know, the White House press secretary has been pretty open about saying Facebook should censor misinformation.
00:16:01.760 Biden's accused Facebook of killing people with misinformation.
00:16:04.860 So they're putting a lot of pressure on these companies in public.
00:16:07.220 You can only imagine what they're doing to them behind the scenes.
00:16:09.860 And what struck me as remarkable about this story was that, you know, PayPal obviously has withdrawn service from people before.
00:16:18.240 They've withdrawn service from from Rebel.
00:16:20.180 They've withdrawn service from from a range of conservative figures.
00:16:24.920 But they've now gone a step further.
00:16:27.320 They've said they're going to start sharing transaction data, monitoring transaction data and sharing that transaction data with both law enforcement and the far left anti defamation league in order to go after the so-called far right.
00:16:45.420 So if PayPal suspects you of being far right, they're going to be giving your sensitive financial transaction data to a to a far left pressure organization, essentially.
00:16:56.000 And they haven't released much, much, much information about how they're defining far right or what exact what kind of data they'll be monitoring or what kind of data they'll be sharing.
00:17:04.460 Yeah, that's got to be contrary to privacy laws and banking laws.
00:17:09.680 I mean, I think the first rule of banking is that a privacy that's like like a doctor, like a priest.
00:17:17.180 What you tell your banker is is enormously confidential.
00:17:21.820 It's the same thing about the IRS or in Canada, our CRA.
00:17:25.920 That is private info.
00:17:27.400 And for them to share your intimate spending, like there might be something there you're embarrassed about.
00:17:34.100 There might be some medical issue.
00:17:36.200 There might be some friendship or relationship you have for them to share that with a Democrat run hunter killer organization.
00:17:43.920 The ADL used to be a Jewish civil rights organization, the Anti-Defamation League.
00:17:48.740 They are not anymore.
00:17:50.160 They're run by a former senior Obama aide who is extremely partisan.
00:17:55.420 And I think that he can't believe his luck that one of the world's largest credit card processors is letting him look at everyone's secret transactions.
00:18:06.280 I think it's a gross violation of privacy.
00:18:08.060 Yeah, not only one of the largest payment processes, but one of the only ones, you know, other than PayPal and perhaps Stripe, there are very few big payment processes on the Internet that compete with them unless you want to go through the very costly process of building your own payment gateway, which a lot of small businesses can't afford to do.
00:18:28.700 Absolutely. So PayPal is, in many ways, probably one of the only two options that online businesses can use to process payments.
00:18:36.860 So they have an almost monopoly in this space.
00:18:39.380 So it's an extraordinary amount of power.
00:18:42.320 And they're not being very transparent about it.
00:18:44.440 They're just saying they're going to focus, according to, you know, the Reuters report, they're going to uncover and disrupt the financial flow supporting white supremacist and anti-government organizations.
00:18:55.580 That's not a lot of detail at all. First of all, what are they counting as white supremacists?
00:19:00.260 Is it the ADL's definition? Is it their definition? What's anti-government? Is that, you know, anarchists, libertarians?
00:19:07.900 Who is that? And what does uncover and disrupt even mean?
00:19:11.960 You know, uncover, you know, as we were saying, you know, uncover could essentially encompass an entire individual's financial transactions or it could be one or two transactions.
00:19:21.740 We don't know what it is they're actually going to be looking at.
00:19:24.460 Yeah. And disrupt. So you're you're basically going to war against your own customers because some Democrat says you should.
00:19:32.060 It's crazy. You know, I recall when you're talking about how the Biden administration is exhorting them on.
00:19:38.640 There was this incredible press conference where Jen Psaki said there are 12 people on Facebook who are like I'm not an expert in American law,
00:19:48.340 but the concept of a bill of attainder that you have a law passed to get, get him, get him.
00:19:55.300 That's an un-American, unconstitutional idea.
00:19:58.780 Here you have the Biden administration essentially saying there's 12 people.
00:20:02.540 We demand Facebook censors like it's just really scary.
00:20:06.100 And now for the banks to get in. And let's quickly go through some of the five stages you talk about.
00:20:11.660 The first was a few years ago, 2015, when GoFundMe shut down a Christian bakery that was looking to crowdfund.
00:20:22.740 It's legal offense, if I'm not mistaken.
00:20:24.740 The idea that GoFundMe would say we're not even letting you raise money for a lawyer to have your day in court.
00:20:31.180 That is so punitive. I mean, let the court decide, but GoFundMe wouldn't even let them crowdfund for that.
00:20:39.300 Am I getting that right?
00:20:41.080 That's correct. They shot that down.
00:20:43.340 And that kind of creates a chilling effect across the entire Internet,
00:20:46.840 because one of the great things about the Internet was, you know, democratized fundraising.
00:20:50.920 And, you know, the Ron Paul campaign, you know, proved how effective that could be politically
00:20:55.240 by, you know, beating all his Republican competitors in 2008 using small online donations.
00:21:01.180 But when crowdfunding sites like GoFundMe shot down a campaign for political reasons,
00:21:07.400 that disincentivizes people from creating any new campaigns,
00:21:09.920 because that also disincentivizes donations, because you don't know if the campaign is suddenly going to be shot down.
00:21:16.920 You know, a lot of people have been looking for other ways to raise funds.
00:21:21.060 And Patreon was something that was created with content creators in mind.
00:21:27.040 You can even see the root patron. You can have lots of little patrons of the arts.
00:21:31.180 But a few years ago, Patreon and credit card companies, and I know our friend Harmeet Dillon was involved in some of these cases,
00:21:38.560 they started pressuring Patreon to censor content.
00:21:43.100 And it wasn't just Patreon itself. It was credit card companies threatening Patreon,
00:21:47.520 almost like there's always some bigger fish out there.
00:21:50.920 Even if Patreon itself wanted to stand by the content creators, the credit card companies would threaten Patreon.
00:21:57.660 And there's always some bigger censor behind you, isn't there?
00:22:02.120 Yeah. And this really goes all the way to the banks, and not just in the U.S., but it's now spread into the U.K.
00:22:07.980 Just news in the past few days, the successor to Nigel Farage's Brexit party had their bank,
00:22:15.100 a British bank, Metro UK, cut off services to them, an entire political party.
00:22:20.980 So this is really spreading.
00:22:22.460 And when it goes all the way to the bank, then, you know, even if a payment processor or a platform like Patreon allows you to use their service,
00:22:31.740 if the bank says no or the credit card company says no, then there's nothing even they can do to help you.
00:22:38.640 So all of this actually, you know, raises the question of cryptocurrencies and the increasing need for them.
00:22:45.600 And of course, now the Senate is planning to pass a law that's going to, you know, raise a lot of taxes on that industry and maybe do some damage to it.
00:22:53.540 Yeah. I'm very worried about that.
00:22:55.300 I mean, they have targeted freedom-oriented groups.
00:22:57.940 For example, the David Horowitz Freedom Center in California, they're a strong pro-freedom property rights group.
00:23:05.180 Horowitz himself used to be a communist when he was young, and now he's flipped to be a freedom activist.
00:23:10.260 And for Visa and MasterCard to cut them off and David, sorry, Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch.
00:23:18.240 These are mainstream conservative or freedom-oriented points of view.
00:23:22.380 And when Visa and MasterCard themselves cut them off, it's terrifying.
00:23:27.000 Now, PayPal is a special case.
00:23:28.740 And like I say, PayPal cut us off.
00:23:31.300 But they were originally co-founded by Peter Thiel, one of the most liberty-loving men in Silicon Valley.
00:23:39.400 I don't think he's involved with running them anymore because they have gone so woke, they're literally working to root out.
00:23:49.400 Like they've taken it upon themselves not to be pushed around on this, but to lead the pushing around.
00:23:55.380 Like the bank itself is leading some purge of wrong thinkers.
00:24:00.620 Has there been any regulatory response by any bank regulator or financial services regulator, any civil liberties group?
00:24:08.880 I mean, obviously not the Biden administration, but has anyone else said, whoa, what are you doing?
00:24:14.260 This is China-style social credit.
00:24:17.620 No, I don't think anyone knows what to do at the moment.
00:24:20.900 Republicans are still getting their head around how to solve the social media censorship problem.
00:24:25.560 They haven't even started to address or even think about new laws to regulate the financial sector.
00:24:31.360 And, yeah, you mentioned that PayPal was founded by Peter Thiel, you know, one of the biggest conservatives, one of the smartest conservatives in the country.
00:24:42.960 It just goes, obviously, he sold the company in the early 2000s.
00:24:47.820 So he gave up control a long time ago since it's been taken over by people who are clearly very woke and very far left.
00:24:54.720 But that just goes to show why there needs to be industry-wide regulation, because when you have a company that's founded by a conservative who believes in free speech, you know, unless they hold on to it forever, it'll inevitably get taken over by crazy people who are going to deny people service for political reasons.
00:25:11.960 And that's why, just think, while it's good to encourage conservatives to start new companies and competitors, you ultimately need regulation, because that alone, as we see in the case of PayPal, that alone is not going to fix the problem.
00:25:24.240 You know what?
00:25:25.000 There was a British historian named Robert Conquest, and he came up with three laws of politics.
00:25:30.320 And his second law is any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.
00:25:38.280 And you would think, how could that possibly be true all the time?
00:25:42.360 Well, it's not true all the time, but it's certainly true a lot of the time.
00:25:45.800 And I think it would apply to PayPal for sure.
00:25:48.480 Actually, most of the big foundations, I will only imagine what John D. Rockefeller thinks of his great-grandchildren.
00:25:54.600 If he would see what they're doing in his name and with his money, I think he would have literally put it in a pile and burnt it.
00:26:01.660 And I'm worried about these things, but hopefully there will be certain legal solutions.
00:26:08.180 I know that there's some talk Clarence Thomas has alluded to certain legal approaches in the Supreme Court.
00:26:16.260 I sure hope that happens, because otherwise we truly will be living in a controlled society like China.
00:26:22.520 Alan, what do you think?
00:26:23.940 Do you think it's going to get worse before it gets better?
00:26:25.700 It depends on the country.
00:26:29.540 So interestingly, we've seen governments in Europe, Germany most recently, actually forcing some of the social media companies to restore posts that they've previously banned, restore users that they've previously banned.
00:26:44.220 And they haven't really done it on free speech grounds.
00:26:46.120 They've done it on, you know, process grounds, terms of service grounds, things like that, because obviously many European governments and ruling parties don't really believe in free speech that much.
00:26:55.980 But there is more leeway in Europe to do that, because companies can't turn around and say, hey, we have a First Amendment right to censor anyone we want, and you can't force us to carry certain types of speech.
00:27:07.340 Now, there is a way around that in the U.S. That's where the common carrier legislation and with public accommodation legislation, which is what Clarence Thomas has been talking about.
00:27:16.700 So there is a route to do that in the U.S. Texas is trying to pass a law to that effect.
00:27:21.560 Of course, the Democrats are preventing them from passing any laws by having their legislators run away from the state.
00:27:27.080 But it'll be interesting to see if that gets passed and what effect it has.
00:27:31.520 There are ways for red states to fix this, and Clarence Thomas has outlined that.
00:27:37.740 But certainly, I think Republican voters want their lawmakers to move a bit faster on this issue, because it is escalating very rapidly.
00:27:45.380 Yeah, well, hopefully we'll see some action from state governors.
00:27:48.720 Ron DeSantis looks like he's ready for a fight on this ground, and maybe Texas, too.
00:27:53.340 We're talking to Alan Bocari.
00:27:54.840 He's a senior tech editor at Breitbart.com.
00:27:57.500 His latest article is Second Class Citizens, The Five Stages of Financial Blacklisting.
00:28:02.620 And I want to remind our viewers that Alan saw this coming.
00:28:05.580 His book last year was called Deleted, Big Tech's Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal the Election.
00:28:12.080 Just absolutely chilling what he saw in advance, and I think it's all worse since then.
00:28:17.180 Alan, great to see you.
00:28:18.300 I hope that you continue to shed a light on this.
00:28:21.020 I think you do more reporting on this subject than all other reporters combined, so we're grateful when you visit us.
00:28:26.240 Thanks, Ezra.
00:28:28.120 Good to be on, as always.
00:28:29.520 Right on.
00:28:29.980 There you have it.
00:28:30.420 Alan Bocari from Breitbart.com.
00:28:31.960 Stay with us more ahead.
00:28:44.240 Hey, welcome back.
00:28:45.220 Pulse writes, they're training you to snitch on your neighbors, friends, and family.
00:28:49.240 They're training you to become more obedient to every single one of their orders.
00:28:52.840 Well, not just to be a snitch.
00:28:54.280 We've had that now for a year and a half, but now you have to be an enforcer.
00:28:58.060 If you have any shop or any restaurant, you're the one who has to enforce the passport, just like you had to enforce the mask.
00:29:04.940 This is pitting people against each other.
00:29:07.620 Karen writes, this is totally what it is, psychological torture.
00:29:11.300 I think that's right.
00:29:11.880 We've been in this stressed situation for a year and a half, and we don't even know it.
00:29:17.220 Dawson writes, keep fighting and getting the truth out, Ezra.
00:29:20.320 Well, we'll do our best.
00:29:21.240 Thanks for your support.
00:29:22.620 That's our show for today.
00:29:24.060 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.
00:29:29.020 We'll see you next time.
00:29:42.580 We'll see you next time.