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00:01:14.000do In this video, you're going to see the future.
00:01:34.000Hello there, you awakening wonders, you great souls, you fire walkers.
00:01:39.000While the rest of the world is trying to close down free speech, we are advocating for even more of it and granting it even to other species, like the hound.
00:02:16.000Later we're going to be talking about how Tucker and Glenn Greenwald have been talking about censorship from the right and how the left now are demanding free speech.
00:02:28.000As these conflicts escalate, as the Omnicrisis devours more people, as division is created and fracture is cleaved, where once there was an emergent new union, you're seeing people switching sides.
00:02:41.000Rito says, yeah, my dog is pretty cute.
00:02:43.000If you want to join us in the Rumble Chat, join us in the Rumble Chat.
00:02:46.000If you're watching us on YouTube, you'll have to join us eventually, because the day will come where YouTube just simply will not allow free speech.
00:02:52.000That day ain't here yet, and if you're one of our Awakened Wonders watching there, We love you.
00:02:56.000If you want to support our content, press the red button, become an Awake and Wonder like MaximumTitus444, MyDogIsCuter, he's saying, Primal Collins talking about how will the Aussies deal with the new mask mandates.
00:03:06.000We're covering that in a minute, but we will not be able to cover that on YouTube because Australian news media They took a swerve because you know how heavy they got during the pandemic times.
00:03:16.000Well, the news media and the medical establishment ain't taking no more of it.
00:03:21.000Remember, download the Rumble app if you ain't got it yet because then you'll get proper notifications and you'll be here from the start.
00:05:59.000That is where we have our bare-knuckle fights!
00:06:02.000That's where we run our corruption from!
00:06:04.000That's where I get my money from Pfizer!
00:06:07.000The idea that you would come in there with no zip ties!
00:06:10.000Nancy Pelosi's in there right now, not telling her husband which stocks and shares to invest in, I'll tell you that.
00:06:16.000The idea that there's any sanctity, it's a veneer, it's a performance, it's disintegrating and apparently it's pretty common because Tim Burchett is also saying that, I think it was Kevin McCarthy, elbowed him in the ribs.
00:06:28.000It's like something from Huckleberry Finn.
00:07:22.000As I've stated many times, he's a, he's a bully with $17 million in a security detail.
00:07:27.000You know, he's the type of guy that When you're a kid, would throw a rock over the fence and run home and hide behind his mama's skirt.
00:07:33.000He's behind his mama's skirt right now, threw a rock over the wall.
00:07:36.000Why is this mad Wonder Years violence?
00:07:40.000You know, he, he, uh... The Speaker of the House doesn't have third most...
00:07:46.000Third most important political figure.
00:07:47.000Of course, many of you are saying in the chat over on Rumble, it's because it's a charade, it's because it's a performance and this is merely the revelation of the ulterior reality.
00:07:57.000An ulterior reality we're protected from seeing.
00:08:45.000Not elbows in the ribs or a smack in the mouth.
00:08:48.000He's had six letters of no confidence but he has also had a fruit basket from Moderna thanking him for his wonderful time when he funded Moderna through his hedge fund and through the many Moderna employees that have come via the government.
00:09:01.000Used to work for the government, now work at Moderna.
00:09:04.000Extraordinary how that sort of stuff keeps happening and without independent media You wouldn't know nothing about it.
00:09:09.000I wouldn't know nothing about it without other brave, bold voices in independent media from across the spectrum, the daddy of them all, our Joe Rogan.
00:09:17.000But, you know, whether you like him or not, Jimmy Dore, Dave Rubin, Ben Shapiro, from across the whole spectrum.
00:09:25.000You might disagree with some of these people, but what we want, Tucker, Tucker, World King.
00:09:30.000You know, what you want are voices that will openly discuss this stuff, and where they're going to increasingly be doing it is on Rumble.
00:10:03.000That rumble breaks down in that kind of way.
00:10:06.000And a lot of people are trying to censor free speech, and particularly in online spaces, even more fervidly than ever.
00:10:14.000Nikki Haley, who you will... Well, you know Nikki Haley anyway.
00:10:16.000She loves the war, and she loves the profit.
00:10:19.000And she loves getting gnarly with Vivek, don't she, on the TV set?
00:10:23.000And she don't like people having her daughter's name by this, by her mouth hole!
00:10:27.000Do not mention my daughter's on TikTok!
00:10:29.000She's also now saying that TikTok needs to be controlled and she wants an end to online anonymity.
00:10:36.000But online anonymity, as well as of course it does permit trolling and stuff like that, but It also allows people to make revelations, it permits whistleblowers.
00:10:44.000Think about during the Covid pandemic period.
00:10:46.000Many of the people denied anonymity that reported stuff that we now know is factual would not have had the opportunity to anonymously report their information.
00:10:54.000Look at what Nikki Haley's proposing and also look how she talks about algorithms.
00:10:58.000I don't think she knows what algorithms are.
00:10:59.000When I get into office, the first thing we have to do, social media accounts, social media companies, they have to show America their algorithms.
00:11:07.000Let us see why they're pushing what they're pushing.
00:11:09.000The second thing is every person on social media should be verified by their name.
00:11:15.000Made up laws like people make up without thinking about it, innit?
00:11:18.000That's... First of all, it's a national security threat.
00:11:20.000When you do that, all of a sudden people have to stand by what they say.
00:11:24.000And it gets rid of... Good luck criticizing the establishment!
00:12:23.000It's not some sort of cute little village no more, white picket fences, people concerned about their neighbours.
00:12:27.000That society was broken down when all of us were turned into mind-numb, mindless consumers with no connection to one another, turned towards hating one another senselessly, mindlessly, By career politicians that don't understand the consequences of their actions, that are willing to use liberal language when it's appropriate, but never met a country they didn't want to drone.
00:12:52.000He's got a seven-month prison sentence for posting memes.
00:12:55.000Obviously, the framing of this was that it was election interference.
00:12:59.000But does anyone really think you can text a vote?
00:13:01.000I mean, you can't make any impact on democracy if you actually bother to vote, you know, let alone if you start Texting it into cyberspace.
00:13:24.000If you speak out consistently against real power, you are in serious trouble.
00:13:30.000Douglas Mackey, seven-month prison sentence, and here's Hillary Clinton normalising this.
00:13:34.000There we just saw Nikki Haley from the other party saying there should be no online anonymity.
00:13:40.000Look at how this stuff all ties together.
00:13:42.000There was just a trial in Brooklyn where a guy who had been one of the main... I guess he was one of the main people running memes against me in 2016.
00:14:46.000So, like, can you see how the normalization of censorship is continuing?
00:14:50.000Can you see that the incarceration of someone for posting text this number if you want to vote for Hillary, which was apparently happening... Thanks, mate.
00:15:00.000That invasion was provoked by NATO, as a matter of fact.
00:15:03.000He would never have crossed that border had NATO not for ages been ignoring his demand that Crimea remain independent.
00:15:10.000Hey, so yeah, what I'm saying there is that But plainly, free speech is becoming criminalised.
00:15:18.000Wherever you look, there is more legislation that legitimises censorship.
00:15:23.000There are people being imprisoned for posting memes.
00:15:27.000There's a cry to get rid of online anonymity.
00:15:31.000All of these measures essentially facilitate centralised control, wouldn't you say?
00:15:38.000So here's how the mainstream, the legacy media, are cynical when it comes to reporting from independent media, but compliant when legacy media uptakes it.
00:15:51.000This is a story about Iran and a sort of a $10 billion, what you'll see from the video.
00:15:57.000The US is about to issue a new waiver on Iran that will allow Iran to access $10 billion Why?
00:16:18.000I think I just answered it or declined to answer.
00:16:21.000Oh we're not having that and there's a distinction between social media and independent media I would say.
00:16:25.000Like we try to do our very best to ensure that the information we give you is undergirded by Decent fact we fact-check it and not the kind of Reuters fact-checking That's got curious financial ties or the Facebook fact-checking that ultimately appears to be funding it funded in unusual ways We'll be telling you more about that over the coming weeks, and yeah sure enough the next day legacy media report
00:16:46.000Biden admin renewed sanctions waiver, giving Iran access to 10 billion dollars from Iraq.
00:16:50.000Extraordinary, given the escalating tensions.
00:16:53.000It's almost as if war, from all angles, is beneficial to the truly powerful interests.
00:16:59.000Meanwhile, independent media is further censored.
00:17:03.000Like Mint Press, which is a sort of a UK-based online media organization, has been demonetized by YouTube.
00:17:10.000Presumably because they've said something about the current conflict in the Middle East that whoever runs YouTube don't agree with.
00:17:17.000And remember that YouTube are part of the Trusted News Initiative that includes the BBC, Facebook, a group that decide when something is disinformation and misinformation.
00:17:25.000The same way that YouTube use the WHO to provide their community guidelines when it comes to health matters, the Trusted News Initiative ensure compliance in other Hey, we're still on YouTube right now, so I shouldn't be being so critical because I am grateful.
00:17:39.000I'm grateful to all of you that are watching on that platform, but I do need to ask you to join us over on Rumble.
00:17:45.000You've just seen now, in spite of what you've been told, it's not just like a sort of a crackpot, lunatic, hell hole for denizens of the conspiracy theory world, although We do like to discuss the odd conspiracy theory.
00:17:57.000Chief 411 says free speech is becoming criminalized.
00:18:03.000Did you see the FBI leak where they're classifying anyone who questions vaccines, refuse to wear a mask, or religious as far-right extremists?
00:18:09.000I've said it before and I'll say it again, they're commies.
00:18:21.000I like the neutral color with the blue accent.
00:18:23.000You will never know the details of my complex hat.
00:18:25.000That is the simple truth of the matter.
00:18:27.000Now we're going to talk in a minute about that manhunt that took place after someone was alleged to have assaulted a police officer on January 6th.
00:19:32.000An all-out manhunt tonight in this small central New Jersey town just 40 miles southwest of New York City after this man, wanted in connection to the attack at the Capitol on January 6th, evaded arrest.
00:19:44.000Gregory Yetman fleeing on foot into the wooded area near his home.
00:19:49.000Police searching from the sky and on the ground.
00:19:52.000According to USA Today, Yetman is suspect number 278 AFO, wanted for assault of a federal officer, pictured at the Capitol in these photos on the FBI's website.
00:20:58.000It seems to me that they're making a clear example.
00:21:01.000If you want to oppose power, if you want to protest, if you want to come together with your fellow Americans and oppose the establishment elites, There's a SWAT team coming for you.
00:21:12.000Let me know in the chat if you think this is about making an example for him.
00:22:10.000Speak freely over there in the Awake and Wonder chat.
00:22:13.000Because, when you are divided, it's very easy to control you, and the left, that were complaining about censorship, like, well no, excuse me, when the left were saying it's not, there is no censorship, there is no censorship, a little while ago, and now acknowledging censorship is a thing.
00:22:40.000Tell me in the chat while we look at this conversation between Tucker and Glenn Greenwald who expose right-wing censorship occurring on the current Hamas-Israel war after three years of censorship on the subjects of COVID and Ukraine, which is wrong.
00:22:56.000Does either of your American parties really believe in free speech or both simply favor speech for themselves and the censoring of their enemies?
00:23:33.000Tucker and Greenwald exposed that the right is now pro-censorship when it comes to the Middle Eastern war.
00:23:40.000We know that the left are pro-censorship because of the last three years of Covid and Ukraine censorship.
00:23:45.000So does either party believe in free speech anymore?
00:23:50.000Today we are discussing the legacy media and both political parties adverse reaction to your free speech and your free thought.
00:23:59.000This comes off the back of a brilliant conversation between Glenn Greenwald and Tucker Carlson where they talk about the escalating Middle Eastern tensions and how that's created a kind of aptitude and even acceptance of censorship on the right that previously was not there at all.
00:24:13.000Does being pro-free speech always mean being pro-speech that you're opposed to?
00:24:18.000Willing to listen to alternative and opposing ideas that you're explicitly against but accept that in principle you have to hear.
00:24:25.000Let's have a look at them talking about it and then let's look at the normalization of censorship that's taken place across the world in the last few years and has led to a spate of legislation, cancellation, shutting down of dissent and normalizing the unpersoning, canceling, de-financing and control of ordinary citizens and entire political movements.
00:24:45.000What's so terrifying to me though is that The right, the American political right, which really was through this kind of weird transformation that's happened over the past dozen years, has become the lone defenders of the First Amendment.
00:24:59.000They've abandoned that in the last month, like instantly.
00:25:04.000So I think you could say, you know, I strongly support Israel.
00:25:25.000And I don't hear many conservatives saying that.
00:25:28.000And so you sort of wonder, like, if they're not defending it, who will?
00:25:33.000I mean, there are people who have built their careers, Tucker, over the last five, six years, standing up and saying, we can't have cancel culture, we can't have censorship, college students aren't entitled to feelings of safety, we don't censor in order to protect people from views they find threatening, mocking the notion that minority groups are vulnerable and we have to censor in order to protect them.
00:26:54.000It's true that during wartime, governments sometimes censor and restrict liberties, including on the basis of ideology, race, and religion.
00:27:01.000But after governments have done so, societies almost always regret what occurred.
00:27:05.000After 9-11, the FBI abused its powers and entrapped Muslims.
00:27:09.000After Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the rounding up of Japanese Americans.
00:27:14.000These are moral stains on our history.
00:27:16.000Keeping military secrets is one thing.
00:27:18.000Demanding censorship of even ugly, awful and offensive speech is another.
00:27:24.000They must remain free to do so, not just because the First Amendment requires it, but also because talking back to hatred is ultimately the only way to overcome it.
00:27:32.000And while the suppression of free expression always starts with the least popular speech, it never ends there.
00:27:38.000Yes, it does seem, just on my experience in the last few years, that certain figures were taken out of the culture, but over time that has escalated to include more people and more ideas and it's been a kind of expanding remit of ideas and speech and individuals that can be censored and shut down.
00:27:57.000And in a way, even though free speech necessarily means hearing speech you don't agree with, that's An easier sacrifice to make than its alternative, the ongoing implementation of ever-increasing censorship, particularly when you suspect from movements of power elsewhere in the world that there's a desire to centralise authority.
00:28:17.000I'm talking about legislation for censorship, online safety bills, the bill in Canada, the bill in Ireland, EU's proposals, the introduction of CBDCs that primarily seem to be beneficial because they can be controlled and shut down.
00:28:29.000I suppose Taken in context with the apparent agenda to increase authoritarianism, this increase in censorship via challenging free speech on the basis of hate speech is a trend that has to be observed.
00:28:43.000And I suppose it's surprising, isn't it, that people that had built their career around it, or people that were determined that free speech was everything, suddenly abandoning it.
00:28:52.000A month ago, France banned all pro-Palestinian demonstrations in the country.
00:28:56.000On the same day, Germany banned a pro-Palestinian protest group.
00:28:59.000In the UK, the Home Secretary instructed police to consider taking unspecified measures against such actions as chanting slogans and waving a Palestinian flag.
00:29:08.000In the United States, such measures would clearly violate the Constitution.
00:29:11.000Such state suppression of political speech is anathema to American values.
00:29:15.000But in the United States too, our commitment to free speech is being tested.
00:29:18.000Within hours of the attacks, a number of Harvard student groups signed a letter placing blame for all violence in the region on Israel alone.
00:29:25.000The apartheid regime is the only one to blame, it read.
00:29:27.000Bill Ackman, a billionaire hedge fund manager, demanded that Harvard release the names
00:29:32.000of all the student members of those groups so that he could compile a hiring blacklist
00:29:37.000Someone on Twitter compiled such a list himself called the Terror List.
00:29:40.000Later, a truck began circling the Harvard campus with digital billboards displaying the names and faces
00:29:46.000of students alleged to have signed the statement under the title Harvard's Leading Anti-Semites.
00:29:50.000Websites popped up listing student members' names, pictures, social media profiles,
00:29:55.000classier hometowns and former employers.
00:29:58.000Republican Senator Josh Hawley said he hoped the Department of Justice was investigating pro-Palestinian student groups like the ones at Harvard.
00:30:04.000The Harvard students weren't the only ones who faced real-world retaliation for their views.
00:30:08.000An NYU law school student saw a job offer rescinded for expressing a sentiment similar to the one in the Harvard student group letter.
00:30:15.000NYU Student Bar Association voted to remove the student as president.
00:30:19.000The Philly Voice fired a sports riot for tweeting solidarity with Palestine always.
00:30:24.000Do you recall at the beginning of the assent of Jordan Peterson that he said, what's happening on campuses now will spread to the culture and you'll start to see this tendency towards cancellation and enforced speech and prohibition of speech?
00:30:38.000And it was obviously, you know, you all know how Jordan Peterson is regarded in the culture.
00:30:42.000Some of you now, because of Jordan Peterson's position on this war might have changed your perspective on him.
00:30:48.000But I feel the principle that Jordan Peterson was talking about was essentially free speech and refusing coercive speech.
00:30:54.000Now we're in a position where we're sort of normalizing cancellation.
00:30:59.000We're normalizing actions that don't seem to have due process behind them at all.
00:31:02.000It's just like these people signed this list and I don't know.
00:31:05.000Wouldn't you be happy to be friends with someone who is pro-Palestine or someone that's pro-Israel?
00:31:14.000Oh, what to do with your relatives that are pro-Trump at Christmas?
00:31:17.000And already for someone my age, that was an exaggeration and an amplification of the Ordinary tensions that were in any family.
00:31:24.000Any family would have people that were a bit conservative and some that were socialist.
00:31:28.000Unless you're in a very particular community where everyone's a docker or works at a coal mine or something, then you live in a very sort of insular tribalized community.
00:31:36.000But it was accepted that we didn't need to be so opposed to one another that we wanted the government to step in and censor speech on our behalf.
00:31:46.000You know, like, when you show your kid a movie and it's like, oh, this is meant to be a PG movie or a 12 movie, and you think, well, this movie, I'm thinking it's particularly of Little Shop of Horrors, shouldn't be a PG movie.
00:31:56.000But then I think, well, I am still in charge.
00:31:58.000I can just stop my kid watching this movie if I want to.
00:32:01.000We have power at the level of the individual.
00:32:03.000We have power at the level of the community.
00:32:05.000I wonder what is lost by empowering the state and other agencies to shut down, in particular, free speech on our behalf just because, in this instance, we happen to agree with it.
00:32:16.000There's certainly been a lot of things said about me lately that I wish had been shut down, let me tell you, but hey, free speech.
00:32:21.000All of this is legal in the United States, much of it is protected speech, but it's hard to deny at least without moving goalposts that the backlash is as clear an example as one can find of cancel culture.
00:32:31.000The purpose of exposing and punishing each of them personally is the same as when left-wing activists dox and shame their enemies to make anyone who thinks of voicing even moderate dissent, such as criticising the scale or conduct of Israel's military response, think twice lest they be punished too.
00:32:45.000Meanwhile, the same publications that have dismissed and denied the reality of government-funded, government-demanded and government-coerced censorship are raising the alarm about widespread censorship of progressive voices on social media platforms.
00:32:57.000It's one thing we can agree on, that we all want to be healthy and stronger, and that's why we use Fielder Greens.
00:33:52.000In its story on the censorship of pro-Palestinian voices, the Washington Post expresses great skepticism of big tech and sympathy for the people censored.
00:34:02.000The exact opposite of how it treated the issue when it was non-leftists who were being censored.
00:34:06.000In fact, the Washington Post, like most news media, spent years denying that censorship was occurring, even as they called for more of it.
00:34:13.000To be sure, there has been a concerning increase in demands for censorship and blacklisting since the October 7th Hamas attacks.
00:34:20.000Government officials are threatening to defund colleges for things students have said and are even demanding their expulsion.
00:34:25.000The State University System of Florida incorrectly warned that calls for Israel to be wiped off the map are criminal activity.
00:34:32.000And political officials, including the Attorney General of New York, are demanding greater censorship by social media platforms to stop the spread of violent rhetoric.
00:34:41.000I'm reminded of how the Section 702 bill introduced as part of the Patriot Act after 9-11 is used to spy on American citizens using skullduggery and manipulation, and they've spied both on Black Lives Matter activists and participants in January the 6th.
00:34:57.000When it comes to the deep state, When it comes to real power, what we regard as extreme and polarised position, like the example I just offered you, Black Lives Matter January 6th, that seems pretty extreme in American political culture.
00:35:09.000Well, they'll be subject to the same kind of exploitation of surveillance and I would assume censorship and other measures of control that I strongly believe will be introduced if people aren't able to have open conversations about very contentious and in particular incendiary subjects like Palestine-Israel.
00:35:28.000Unless people can have an open discourse about that without being censored, unless you can have a workplace where people that are pro-Palestine and people that are pro-Israel can find a way to work together, I don't actually see a way forward because in the end you'll have to say, well, we're not doing that and we're going to create more polarity, more tribalism and...
00:35:45.000Ultimately in so doing, you empower centralised authority, which is garnering authority at an extraordinary rate in a bunch of ways that aren't initially obvious, but like the WHO proposed treaty is something you should look at, the legislation I've already mentioned around the world, the increasing surveillance powers, the tendency towards censorship, and many people believe, and I'd love to know what you think about this, that free speech is the fundamental right, because without free speech you can't have free thought, you can't have open communication, you can't have real relationships, you have to live in a kind of ongoing That's a real good way of exerting control.
00:36:19.000And to tell you the truth, that's the kind of tyranny and authoritarianism that scares me more than the last iteration of militarized tyranny.
00:36:27.000Although, I'm actually scared of all forms of dictatorship and tyranny, actually.
00:36:31.000But this is what seems to be the trend.
00:36:33.000A kind of sanitised, shutting down, an agreement in principle that that sort of speech is unsayable, that that sort of person should be cancelled.
00:36:41.000Then once you legitimise that, then you've essentially empowered the establishment to kind of do what it wants.
00:36:46.000But the alarm that the news media are raising is in striking contrast to the indifference at best and hostility at worst to the evidence of governmental and non-governmental censorship of a variety of disfavored views and voices relating to climate change, COVID, Ukraine, and the Biden family's influence peddling.
00:37:02.000For years, the left has insisted that cancelling blacklisting, shadow banning, and censorship were legitimate actions to punish people with unsavory views, protect safety, and fight disinformation.
00:37:11.000Now that the left may be on the receiving end of these tactics, they argue what many of us have been saying all along.
00:37:16.000Censorship causes far more harm than good.
00:37:19.000But the left is yet to acknowledge its double standards.
00:37:27.000Doesn't that suggest that we're not going to be able to find a way for, let's just take the example of American democracy because it's such a significant one, to not bypass but to get through the 2024 election cycle successfully.
00:37:41.000It seems that at best there's just going to be ongoing mudslinging by either side and isn't that the problem that's been in our culture since at least the build up to 2016 and it's getting worse and worse and no one's doing anything about it.
00:37:52.000There are no solid principles where you say well at least we all agree on that.
00:37:57.000Increasingly, that's disappearing from our culture.
00:37:59.000The simplest explanation for the left's hypocrisy on censorship is simply that they favour free speech for themselves and censorship for their enemies.
00:38:06.000Evidence of this can be found in virtually every mainstream news article about the Twitterphiles.
00:38:10.000Last December, The Guardian even acknowledged that the Twitterphiles showed censorship, but that such censorship should be welcomed, because it was against the political right.
00:38:17.000Like so much to do with American politics, opined Guardian's tech columnist Alex Hearn, the files fall flat if you view the American right as an outlier.
00:38:24.000If you have rules against election misinformation and only one party engages in a systematic campaign of election misinformation, it's not an unreasonable outcome for one party to be the focus of moderation efforts.
00:38:48.000For years, Wired magazine insisted that misinformation and disinformation resulted in real-world harms, including the election of Trump, and that more social media censorship was needed.
00:39:01.000Palestinians claim social media censorship is endangering lives, reads the headline of Wired's piece denouncing social media censorship of Palestinians in Gaza and around the world.
00:39:11.000TechCrunch dismissed the Twitter files spread by Barry Weiss on the shadow banning of disfavored voices because it only shows examples of moderation actions that affect a handful of conservative fringe accounts.
00:39:21.000The so-called fringe accounts included that of Stanford University professor Jay Bhattacharya, a leading global thinker on how to respond to pandemics.
00:39:28.000But such one-sidedness should be problematic for all journalists who claim to be fair and for advocates of free speech.
00:39:34.000After all, it's not advocacy of free speech if the free speech is just for your team and not for your opponents.
00:39:39.000Most people on the left do not appear to realize that they are contradicting themselves by lamenting censorship of pro-Palestinian voices.
00:39:45.000Today, former President Barack Obama called for a respectful dialogue between people who disagree on Israel.
00:39:50.000But just one year ago, Obama urged greater social media censorship of views with which he disagrees, and called for the US government to create a regulatory structure to limit speech online.
00:40:00.000Since 2016, the left has increasingly espoused a tribal, rather than liberal, approach to politics.
00:40:05.000In fighting what they viewed as the threat of fascism and white supremacy, the left decided to, in large part, do away with the basic principles of liberal democracy, and to apply different speech rights, and even legal rights, to different people on the basis of a friend-enemy distinction.
00:40:19.000All of this is thus bad news for anyone who cares about free speech for all, and protecting liberal democracy.
00:40:25.000It shows that many of the people who are ostensibly committed to free speech, whether on the left or right, really only support it when it's for their group.
00:40:32.000It reveals that underneath our rationalist minds, there remains a highly tribal reptilian brain.
00:40:37.000In the face of the horrors that have occurred and those to come, we must not lose our humanity and our principles.
00:40:42.000It's possible for every one of us to have compassion for innocent people on all sides.
00:40:46.000It's also possible for every one of us to defend free speech for the views we most abhor.
00:40:50.000In so doing, we care more, not less, and keep the possibility of peace and security alive, however remote it may be at the moment.
00:40:57.000I suppose the abandonment of generally accepted principles at a time of crisis can only exacerbate those sets of crises.
00:41:05.000Long been obvious to me that principles and values were being weaponised, used to persecute people, to shut down debate, to create conflict.
00:41:13.000What I suppose we have to look at is how our willingness to put aside our own principles and values when it's convenient to us are likely to affect society as a whole,
00:41:23.000it's a very difficult thing to hold in your mind and in your heart
00:41:26.000what it is to observe the sanctity of the individual, the beauty of your individual connection to whatever higher
00:41:33.000reality or deeper purpose you believe in,
00:41:36.000and all of our shared duties towards community, whether that's a local or a global level.
00:41:40.000The problem I think we're experiencing as culture becomes banalizing,
00:41:44.000anodyne, as well as curiously highly conflagratory and conflict-driven,
00:41:50.000is none of us feel particularly connected to reality anymore.
00:41:53.000When you are allotted a role in a culture that ultimately leaves you simply as a consumer or an online activist, it's easy to feel disconnected from reality.
00:42:02.000It's easy to feel disconnected from principles.
00:42:05.000It's easy to feel disconnected from the environment and conditions that we evolved in.
00:42:09.000I feel that where possible, we have to look for ways to emulate the conditions we evolved in.
00:42:14.000Communities where we understood one another, where we knew that we had a shared purpose, where we recognised there are different tribal groups with whom we have a broader shared purpose.
00:42:23.000Recently I heard the phrase, curiously from one of the creators of Wikipedia, unified but decentralised.
00:42:30.000It seems to me that if we have true democracy, if we have true individual freedom, if we have true freedom of speech, we are going to be able to create a culture where open conversation, civil disagreement, diplomatic solutions again become possible.
00:42:45.000The more we are in conflict with one another, the more we're willing to put aside our principles because temporarily it's convenient for us, the more More likely it is that the advance of establishment elites that benefit from conflict will continue.
00:42:57.000The example I used of surveillance being applied to what are regarded as outside, alien or undesirable groups, whether that's from the left, Black Lives Matter, or the right, January 6th protesters, No.
00:43:07.000shows you that to the institutions and groups that are truly in power, our division is absolutely
00:43:12.000vital. Our willingness not to hold fast and firm to principles is a great weapon to people
00:43:17.000that ultimately benefit from censorship, shutting down of free speech, centralising resources
00:43:23.000and passing edicts that bypass democracy entirely. But that's just what I think. Let me know
00:44:23.000A potentially fair litmus test speech for, excuse me, a litmus test for free speech and censorship should be, you defend the full speech of those who would defend free speech and refuse to defend those who are pro-censorship.
00:45:03.000So listen, right, we're gonna show you this story about Australian media and an Australian doctor saying we're not having those mask mandates back.
00:45:10.000We've had just about enough of that crap.
00:46:10.000For a minute, we're going to, we're going to, three, yeah, a lot of you want the clever crows, but we're going to just talk about these mask mandates being back in America.
00:46:18.000And why don't you lot See, yeah, I know Whitney Webb already.
00:46:21.000I saw someone chatting about Whitney Webb.
00:46:24.000I get scared when I talk to Whitney Webb because she just sits there, very relaxed, playing this day, talking about people who went to Jeffrey Epstein's island.
00:46:35.000Okay, and a lot of you are saying free.
00:46:37.000We're going to do a little bit about mask mandates, and then I'm just going to ask you all to see if you can peacefully discuss matters in the Middle East.
00:47:25.000Carlos, if masks work at all, they only work when you wear them in all situations as part of a suite of measures, including social distancing and movement restrictions, which I can assure you we're not going back to.
00:47:38.000Now, the AMA has quoted 240... Just eat, handsome.
00:51:35.000Do you want to see Hillary Clinton or do you want to learn about this person in Congress or the Senate who's been getting into dogfighting?
00:52:13.000Frederick Douglas Moorfield, Jr., 62, of Arnold... I don't know what MD is, you tell me in the chat.
00:52:19.000Was a Deputy Chief Information Officer for Command, Control and Communications for the Secretary of Defense Chief Information... Oh God, that's a boring job.
00:52:25.000He was arrested for a charge of promoting and furthering an animal fighting venture, along with a longtime friend who allegedly admitted his participation in dogfighting, Mario Diefleib.
00:52:35.000There he is, a Pentagon official involved in dogfighting.
00:53:12.000There was just a trial in Brooklyn where a guy who had been one of the main... I guess he was one of the main people running memes against me in 2016.
00:53:25.000He went from what you could consider free speech.
00:53:28.000I mean, both Nancy and I have pretty thick skins.
00:53:30.000People say all kinds of things about us.
00:53:48.000It was like some sort of dopey meme saying text this number to vote for Hillary.
00:53:52.000There were other people doing sort of Trump ones.
00:53:54.000It was basically not a crime against democracy.
00:53:59.000What's a crime against democracy is I suppose the whole Russia gate hoax, the Steele dossier funded by the Clinton campaign or the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
00:54:12.000So it went from speech to action meant to subvert the election because thousands of people who they targeted through their algorithms.
00:54:22.000They targeted them through their algorithms.
00:54:26.000Oh, I can text my vote for Hillary Clinton.
00:54:29.000So Hillary Clinton, I want to deconstruct that in some greater detail in a minute, but Hillary Clinton apparently took that very seriously.
00:54:37.000You were using, quote, algorithms to subvert the election with that meme.
00:54:44.000I don't even really know what she means by that.
00:54:50.000What's worse is Douglas Mackey posting that meme on Nancy Pelosi's presumed insider trading.
00:54:59.000You've seen, right, how often, you know, her husband makes big tech investments that are alarmingly successful.
00:55:06.000I notice you, jiggly bits in the chat.
00:55:08.000I notice you, says NoticeMeRussell, he or she.
00:55:11.000I heard if you send $100 to the Prince of Nigeria, he'll vote for Hillary.
00:55:24.000Nancy Pelosi using her position within Congress to feed information presumably to Paul Pelosi, who then invests in the likes of, well, Alphabet or Amazon or Apple or whatever.
00:55:36.000Or is it dear old Douglas Mackey posting harmless memes that... I don't think it matters if people post, like, memes about, like, Trump or Hillary Clinton.
00:56:00.000Nancy Pelosi, there's a unanimous condemnation of the crisis within systemic democracy, the inability of ordinary people to have any real access.
00:56:11.000I'll tell you what, can we show the trailer?
00:57:05.000I tell you what, I think what we have to do here in this chat, in this little forum, is we have to get beyond the divisions of left and right.
00:57:11.000We have to acknowledge that there is a requirement for an independent movement, that we have to be willing to form alliances with people that have different cultural views than us.