Tech platforms ban Trump and deplatform conservative voices, the media bathes itself in conservative heads, and House Dems push forward toward a second impeachment. All of the tech infrastructure is now mobilizing to take conservative outlets off the air, in order to ensure that conservative websites no longer appear on their platforms. That s what we are watching right now, and it s one of the most dangerous moments in modern American history, not just because of what happened at the Capitol last week, but because we are rapidly reaching crisis point in terms of the attempt to bar conservatives from virtually every platform. Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. For peace of mind wherever you go online, visit Expressvpn.net/TheBenShapiroShow and use coupon "ExpressVPN" to get 20% off your first month with discount code "PODCAST" when you shop at ExpressVpn. Use the promo code: PODCAST at checkout to receive $10 off your purchase when you sign up. The show is now available in Kindle, iBook, Paperback, Hardcover, and Hardcover. Subscribe to The Ben Shapiro Show on Audible, and become a supporter of the show by becoming a patron. You get 10% off the first month, plus free shipping when you buy a second copy of the book, "The Ben Shapiro Guide to the world's most valuable hardcover edition of "The New York Times bestselling edition of The New York Review of Hardcover Edition of The Huffington Post." The Best of the Hardcover edition, available in hardcover and hardcover, available for $99.99 starting on Amazon Prime and Audible starting on Nov. 1st! Subscribe for the paperback edition starting on October 31st. Learn more about your ad choices, including hardcover hardcover editions, hardcover only, limited edition hardcover print edition, and a limited edition print edition edition, only on Kindle $99, and limited edition edition edition of the Audible edition, $99 at $99 plus Audible UK paperback edition, including Audible.99 retail edition, The Real Goodie Box Set, and two hardcover $99 paperback edition? All other Audible Prime memberships starting on May 1st, shipping only $99 and two-CD-edition edition, shipping nationwide, and 2-AVGO Pro, and 3-track rental service, starting on Satirical, starting at $49.99,
00:00:00.000All of the tech platforms ban Trump and de-platform Parler, the media bathe for conservative heads, and House Democrats push forward toward a second impeachment.
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00:00:22.000Alrighty, so I just want to begin today with something that I never do, but I'm going to do it now.
00:00:25.000Okay, I really don't do this because it's self-serving and it seems silly, but I'm just going to say right now, I want you to go subscribe over at dailywire.com to this show and to what we do at Daily Wire.
00:00:34.000The reason I'm saying this is because we are quickly reaching crisis point in terms of the attempt to bar Conservatives from virtually every platform.
00:00:42.000That is what we are watching in real time happen.
00:00:45.000On the back of the awful and evil incident at the Capitol last week, the entire tech infrastructure is now mobilizing in order to take conservative outlets off the air, in order to ensure that conservative websites no longer appear.
00:01:09.000They're going to start with people who are outliers.
00:01:11.000They're going to start with people who are considered more radical.
00:01:13.000But they have basically decided that if they at any point have the opportunity to take you out, they will take you out.
00:01:19.000So, I can't guarantee how long Apple Podcasts is going to be distributing things like Daily Wire Podcasts.
00:01:25.000I can't guarantee how long Amazon Web Services is going to allow websites like Daily Wire to be up.
00:01:31.000You need to go directly to the source.
00:01:33.000You need to go to dailywire.com right now and you need to subscribe because it may be, over the course of the next couple of years, it may be the only way you actually get the content that you want.
00:01:42.000The way that Facebook is moving, the way that Twitter is moving, the way that all of these outlets are moving, all of these supposed platforms, they are now no longer really platforms, they are now publishers, basically based on what they are doing.
00:01:53.000The way that all of these outlets are moving, they're moving more and more toward the deplatforming, dismissal, the creation of an echo chamber just for the left.
00:02:19.000Those Americas are divided by politics.
00:02:21.000There will be a group of corporations that only services the left.
00:02:24.000There will be a group of online mechanisms that are only allowed to actually platform the left.
00:02:31.000And the right's gonna have to build its own outside mechanisms.
00:02:35.000I've been warning about this for quite a while.
00:02:37.000It's amazing because the same people right now who are calling for deplatforming, the same people who are calling for corporations not to do business with people who are conservative, the same people who are attempting to boot people from platforms that were supposed to be places for open discussion and debate, those same people complain that the right lives in an echo chamber.
00:02:53.000Well, one of the reasons that the right has increasingly lived in an echo chamber is because the left has forced everybody outside the Overton window.
00:03:00.000The left continues to shrink the Overton window so that it encompasses only them and only their friends.
00:03:17.000And we are finding out new details showing how extraordinarily dangerous that was for the Congress people, for the Vice President, for everybody inside, for the police officers.
00:03:25.000The second police officer committed suicide over the weekend.
00:03:28.000It was an extraordinarily dangerous event.
00:03:30.000But it turns out that on the back of extraordinarily dangerous events, extraordinarily terrible things can take place.
00:03:35.000And one of the things that is taking place right now is the division of America into conservative and liberal.
00:03:41.000This could be a unifying moment, as I said last week, because everybody of sound mind looks at what happened at the Capitol last week and is appalled and thinks it's disgusting and horrible.
00:03:49.000Instead, what we are watching is the exacerbation of an underlying philosophical rift.
00:03:54.000And not just that, What we are watching is the formalization of that rift, so that now, you're just not going to be able to associate with anybody on the opposite side of the aisle, because the people on the other side of the aisle will not want to associate with you in any way, shape, or form.
00:04:09.000Axios is basically admitting that this morning.
00:04:11.000So Axios has a short piece by Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei, and here's what they write.
00:04:16.000Republicans are losing power where power matters most, at the national level, in politics, media, technology, and the workplace.
00:04:26.000The right is being barred from the halls of power in nearly every area of American life, from sports to Hollywood, from technology to your workplace.
00:04:35.000You're getting the letters from your employer saying that if you posted in favor of Trump back in September, or if you said, I'm voting for Trump back in September, or if you posted against Black Lives Matter back in August, well, you know, you may lose your job.
00:04:47.000All your friends are going to look at you as scams.
00:04:49.000If you work in the tech industry and you signify that you are in favor of sites like Daily Wire or Daily Caller or anyone on the right not being shadow banned or downplayed, you might find yourself on the firing line.
00:05:05.000The political conflict that has characterized the country since inception, right, I mean, that's never stopped, has now boiled over into every area of American life.
00:05:14.000Because who wins Congress, who doesn't win Congress, that has some impact on your life.
00:05:19.000Who wins the presidency, who doesn't win the presidency, that has some impact on your life in terms of regulations and taxes and policy.
00:05:25.000But what really has impact on your life is how you're treated by your friends, by your neighbors, by your employers, By the outlets that you use, by the culture that surrounds you, and all of that is being twisted against you right now if you are conservative.
00:05:37.000And Axios is pointing this out because Axios happens to be correct about this.
00:05:41.000They say Republicans often felt mistreated when they had real power in the form of the presidency and the Senate.
00:05:45.000Watch Fox News or listen to Ben Shapiro, you will see and hear how this new isolation will feed Republican worries and grievances in the months ahead.
00:05:52.000Well, maybe the problem isn't that Fox News and Ben Shapiro are pouncing on us.
00:05:56.000Maybe the problem is that people are doing this in the first place.
00:05:59.000I have made my own show very often a place for discussion and debate.
00:06:04.000We did the Sunday special every week for, what, two years?
00:06:07.000And the Sunday special was designed to allow me to talk to people on the other side of the aisle.
00:06:12.000You know how many people refused to come on the show?
00:06:14.000You know how many people said, I literally will not sit in the same room as you and have a discussion with you because that might legitimize your position?
00:06:22.000You can ask our producers who are asking people across the aisle from us on the show every single week.
00:06:28.000Democrats, according to Axios, will soon control the White House, Senate, and House.
00:06:31.000They already dominate most mainstream newsrooms, own big tech companies, and often band together inside corporations to force politically motivated decisions.
00:06:38.000Republicans will be left with Mitch McConnell as party leader of a 50-50 Senate, primetime in Fox News, and the Wall Street Journal editorial page.
00:06:44.000Most importantly, the right has the Supreme Court, which might prove to be the one reliable counterbalance, and the majority of power at the state level.
00:06:51.000Conservatives long ago lost so many key institutions that define national conversation, including culture, media, and higher education.
00:06:59.000Now, President Trump has cost Republicans those tools of political power and policymaking the party will have to rebuild around new people and ideas.
00:07:06.000Well, that's a change from what Axios originally argued.
00:07:08.000Originally, they said, we are now going to rethink things like free speech, freedom of association in this country, because that's what the left really would like.
00:07:15.000Now that they have all of the tools at their disposal, they're going to rethink free speech.
00:07:18.000They're going to rethink free association.
00:07:20.000And the way they are going to do that is by proclaiming loudly and clearly, once and for all, that if you are on the right, you are in league with the people who stormed the Capitol.
00:07:28.000That if you were a supporter of Trump, or even if you didn't support Trump, if you're just a religious conservative, if you're somebody who held your nose and voted for Trump because you looked at the left, and the left was getting so insane that they were openly backing Black Lives Matter's rioting, and backing critical race theory, and trying to ram down an extraordinary level of intolerance on right-wingers across the country, and on people who are middle of the road, and moderate liberals across the country.
00:07:50.000If you looked at that and you said, you know what, I'm not into that, now the rule is that you were in favor of what happened at the Capitol last week.
00:07:59.000And the people who are saying this sort of stuff are doing something deeply politically malevolent.
00:08:05.000If you're lumping in with the hundreds of people who should go to jail for a very long time, Who did what they did last week.
00:08:12.000If you're lumping in with those people, the 75 million Americans who voted for Trump, and then probably another 100 million Americans who disagree with the left on a wide variety of issues, ranging from whether children should be allowed to change their sex to whether Americans should be divided along the basis of race and then special government benefits given to them.
00:08:32.000If you're lumping all those people together and saying, yeah, you were those people.
00:09:04.000It does mean that the system was resilient.
00:09:06.000Resilient enough that within a couple of hours, everybody was regathering on the floor of the same building that had been invaded and was voting in favor of the system.
00:09:17.000The danger to the system right now is not the exogenous danger of rioters taking over the Capitol.
00:09:21.000The danger to the system right now is the complete lack of trust, the breakdown in basic cultures of rights.
00:09:26.000We talk on the show a lot about how culture is upstream of politics.
00:09:29.000We talk on the show a lot about how a culture matters more than the politics, that your culture shapes you.
00:09:34.000The waters in which you swim, the stuff that you watch, the church you go to, your neighbors, that really shapes who you are as a person, and then that is manifest in politics.
00:09:42.000Politics does not shape culture nearly as much.
00:10:14.000But a culture of rights, which means a people who prize the ability of people to do things they don't agree with because they believe in the underlying rights, that has to undergird Any legal system of rights.
00:10:25.000Because sooner or later, and usually sooner, a culture that opposes the rights of others turns into a legal structure that opposes the rights of others.
00:10:35.000If you think the First Amendment is going to protect you, if the entire culture has decided the First Amendment no longer matters, wrong you are.
00:10:40.000We're going to get to more of this in a second and why this has become such an issue.
00:10:44.000Because over the weekend it really broke out into the open.
00:12:02.000The narrative is not that a bunch of kooks and evil people decided to storm the Capitol last week, but that every Republican was responsible.
00:12:10.000That this was completely foreseeable in every respect.
00:12:12.000At the moment Trump rose, this was going to be the inevitable outcome.
00:12:20.000Do you really think that if this was the foreseeable outcome, that like it was the most foreseeable, like the most likely thing was gonna be a bunch of QAnon supporters and nutzos storming the Capitol and taking pictures of a barbarian in a helmet.
00:12:32.000If you thought that was the most likely thing, then why was Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley backing the silly illegality they were backing?
00:12:39.000Why do you think they were doing that?
00:12:40.000Do you think that they thought, oh, you know what, what would be a great idea is for me to destroy my career so that people come in, like, To proclaim that this was foreseeable is, of course, silly.
00:12:48.000Okay, here's how everybody thought the last several months were going to go.
00:13:01.000State legislatures were going to reject them.
00:13:03.000The Electoral College was going to vote how it was going to vote.
00:13:05.000And then, the Congress was going to certify that vote.
00:13:07.000And a lot of people would protest, and a lot of people would yell, and Trump would probably lead a bunch of rallies.
00:13:11.000Okay, that was the most foreseeable outcome.
00:13:13.000Why was that the most foreseeable outcome?
00:13:14.000Because that's always been the most foreseeable outcome.
00:13:17.000And in fact, if policing at the Capitol had been proper, that would have been the total outcome.
00:13:21.000It turns out that policing at the Capitol was not proper, and so it was not the total outcome.
00:13:26.000I mean, for goodness sake, how outlandish, how out of the mainstream were the people who decided to storm the Capitol?
00:13:33.000Alex Jones was standing outside the Capitol yelling at people to stop.
00:13:37.000When Alex Jones is the voice of reason, I think it's fair to say that the people who stormed the Capitol are not representative of the 75 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump.
00:13:47.000But the revisionist history is that not only was this inevitable, every single person who voted Trump, every single person who didn't even vote Trump but talked up some of his policies, or who downplayed his tweets, who said that he says a lot of crap, because he does say a lot of crap, Who says that Trump is irresponsible in his rhetoric, that he heightens the tensions, that he makes the temperature warmer, but that he doesn't openly incite violence?
00:14:07.000Anybody who said that sort of stuff, they all knew this was going to happen, right?
00:14:12.000So this led to the most popular video of the weekend, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
00:14:15.000And this does signify where so many in the media and sort of the mainstream left wish, and Arnold was never a conservative, right?
00:14:23.000I mean, when I was in California and he was governor of California, he governed basically like a moderate Democrat, blew out the deficit and all that.
00:14:28.000In any case, Here is Arnold Schwarzenegger suggesting that what happened last week is like Kristallnacht.
00:14:34.000Republicans are like Nazi fellow travelers, and then pledging allegiance to Biden forever.
00:14:38.000This is one of the most popular videos of the weekend about what happened last week.
00:14:43.000I'm very aware of Kristallnacht, or the night of broken glass.
00:14:48.000It was a night of rampage against the Jews carried out in 1938 by the Nazi equivalent of the Proud Boys.
00:14:57.000Wednesday was the day of broken glass right here in the United States when John F. Kennedy wrote a book called Profiles in Courage.
00:15:06.000A number of members of my own party, because of their own spinelessness, would never see their names in such a book.
00:15:15.000Okay, so first of all, a few things here.
00:15:16.000those who carry the flag of self-righteous insurrection into the Capitol.
00:15:20.000President-elect Biden, we stand with you today, tomorrow, and forever in defense of our democracy from those who would threaten it.
00:15:29.000Okay, so first of all, a few things here.
00:15:32.000One, all the best to President-elect Biden in his new term, so long as he does things that obviously defend the rights of the American people.
00:15:41.000I wish him the best when he does things that are good for America, and when he pursues policies that I think are bad for America, then we should oppose him, just as we would any other president.
00:15:52.000Okay, when it comes to insurrectionists attempting to prevent him from being duly elected president of the United States, of course I support him and anybody else who opposes that, including Mitch McConnell, including the other Republicans who oppose that.
00:16:05.000As far as the Kristallnacht comparison, it was a very long talk here that Schwarzenegger did where he talked about how his father and other men in Austria would think back to their time when they were complicit with the Nazis and then they would, this is after World War II because he was born a couple of years after World War II, and they'd beat their wives and they'd beat their children and they'd get drunk.
00:16:21.000And the implication, of course, is that there are millions and millions and millions of Americans who are complicit in what happened on Wednesday.
00:16:25.000First of all, it was not Kristallnacht.
00:16:27.000You know how I know it wasn't Kristallnacht?
00:16:28.000Because Kristallnacht, for those who are historically ignorant, happened in 1938 with the express permission of the Nazi government.
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00:19:45.000Okay, so here are all the platforms that have so far banned or restricted Donald Trump.
00:19:49.000Okay, and they've done so On the basis of some pretty weak tea.
00:19:54.000So here are the comments that got Trump kicked off of Twitter last week.
00:19:57.000So he was kicked off for promoting the untruth, promoting the lie that he won the election and that it was a huge victory for him and that there was a possibility Congress was going to overturn it.
00:20:17.000Because his account has been shut down with its tens of millions of followers.
00:20:20.000Quote, as I've been saying for a long time, Twitter has gone further and further in banning free speech.
00:20:25.000And tonight, Twitter employees have coordinated with the Democrats and the radical left in removing my account from their platform to silence me and you, the 75 million great patriots who voted for me.
00:20:33.000Twitter may be a private company, but without the government's gift of Section 230, they would not exist for long.
00:21:06.000Nothing in those tweets exacerbates the possibility of violence.
00:21:09.000He literally says, there's an alternative out there.
00:21:11.000Presumably he's referring to Parler, which we'll get to in a minute, because this is the truly insane story.
00:21:15.000Trump being banned from these various sites, that's kind of wild considering he's the sitting president of the United States still, but it's what's happened to Parler over the weekend that should scare the living devil out of everybody.
00:21:25.000It should scare the bejesus out of everybody.
00:21:27.000It's insane what is happening with Parler over the weekend.
00:21:31.000So here is a running list of all of the outlets that have banned Trump.
00:21:35.000Reddit banned the subreddit group Donald Trump, a spokesperson confirmed to Axios on Friday.
00:21:42.000Twitch disabled Trump's channel, citing the move as a necessary step to protect its community and prevent Twitch from being used to incite further violence.
00:21:48.000Shopify took down two online stores affiliated with Trump for violating its policies on supporting violence.
00:21:54.000Like selling MAGA hats, I guess, is now supporting violence.
00:21:56.000Twitter announced that they would permanently ban Trump's account, effective immediately.
00:22:00.000Google pulled Parler, which we'll get to in just one second.
00:22:03.000YouTube is accelerating its enforcement of election misinformation and voter fraud claims against Trump and other channels as well.
00:22:09.000Facebook banned Trump from posting on his Facebook accounts for at least the next two weeks, but mostly indefinitely, like forever, probably.
00:22:15.000Instagram banned Trump from posting on his Facebook accounts for at least the next two weeks, but probably forever.
00:22:20.000Snapchat disabled Trump's Snapchat account because they said that the account promotes and spreads hate and incites violence.
00:22:25.000TikTok, a Chinese-connected company, is removing content violations and redirecting hashtags like Storm the Capitol and Patriot Party to its community guidelines.
00:22:33.000Apple threatened to remove right-wing-friendly social media app Parler.
00:22:37.000Again, we'll get to Parler in just one second, because that's the bigger story.
00:22:40.000Pinterest has been limiting hashtags and Stripe is no longer going to process payments for Trump's campaign, right?
00:22:47.000Trump's campaign continues to fundraise.
00:23:23.000Twitter's standards here are extraordinarily, extraordinarily inconsistent.
00:23:28.000Okay, Twitter will allow Kamala Harris to literally fundraise for people who are in jail for rioting.
00:23:34.000Twitter, We'll allow people to make death threats on a routine basis against people who are of right-wing orientation.
00:23:42.000I know this because I was literally the person targeted the most by anti-Semitic death threats on Twitter in 2016.
00:23:47.000I received thousands and thousands and thousands of them.
00:23:50.000And Twitter didn't shut down all of those accounts.
00:23:53.000Twitter didn't shut down accounts that were promoting those accounts.
00:23:57.000So the standard that Twitter is still putting up and allowing to remain up, tweets from the Iranian government calling for genocide against Jews in Israel, tweets from the Chinese government touting its own forced sterilization of women in Zhangjiang.
00:24:23.000The PGA of America moved to ban the 2022 PGA Championship from Trump National Golf Club.
00:24:28.000So the idea now is that all of the employees of Trump National have nothing to do with Trump's political career.
00:24:34.000All the people at Trump National, like the groundskeepers and the janitors and the people who work the club over there, all those people are going to lose out because they've decided that you can't even do business with any club that Trump owns because of what happened on Wednesday.
00:24:50.000Now, let me start from this perspective.
00:24:53.000As I said last week, you are to blame for incitement if you tell people to go do violence.
00:24:58.000That's when you are to blame for incitement.
00:25:00.000But this standard does not hold for the left.
00:25:03.000If you're Bernie Sanders, and you say over and over and over again that Republicans are literally killing your grandmother because of their failure to support Medicare for All, and then one of your supporters goes and attempts to murder dozens of Republican congresspeople and nearly shoots one to death in Steve Scalise, you know who's not responsible for that?
00:25:17.000Bernie Sanders, he's responsible for increasing the temperature.
00:25:20.000He's not responsible for the insane person who decided to shoot people based on that.
00:25:26.000Let's say that you are the President of the United States and you say over and over and over and over again that the police in the United States are systemically racist, that they are targeting black people for destruction, and then let us say that a supporter of Black Lives Matter goes and murders six police officers in Dallas.
00:25:40.000You know who's not responsible for that?
00:25:45.000And yet the idea here is that Trump is responsible, like directly responsible, so much so that no one can ever do business with any business associated with him.
00:25:53.000He should be banned from all of his accounts, not on the basis of violating policy, but on the vague basis that he is a threat to the public peace.
00:26:00.000Here is why I am so skeptical of these claims about threats to the public peace.
00:26:21.000So he tweeted out over the weekend, quote, imagine the scenario.
00:26:26.000Reverend Al Sharpton holds a rally and tells his supporters to take back their country with strength and combat.
00:26:30.000Then five people die after Black Lives Matter activists stormed the US Capitol.
00:26:33.000How would Fox News and congressional Republicans respond?
00:26:36.000This is such an unbelievably great example of how the left just doesn't have... It's not that the left has a double standard, it's that the left doesn't have a standard.
00:26:43.000The standard is that if you are a conservative, you are bad.
00:26:46.000And we will hold you accountable for anything anybody does.
00:26:49.000He actually used Reverend Al Sharpton in an example of what would people do if somebody incited a riot.
00:26:55.000Okay, if you're talking about borderline incitement of rioting, Al Sharpton did that twice.
00:27:01.000He literally did it in Crown Heights in 1991 when he said at a funeral for a black kid who was hit by a car driven by a Hasidic Jew, he said, if they want to get it on, let them pin back their yarmulke and come on over to my house.
00:27:29.000In any case, he suggested that diamond merchants had invaded the neighborhood.
00:27:34.000Okay, and this resulted in one of the people who was at one of his rallies going and burning Freddy's Fashion Mart, ending in the death of at least one person.
00:28:16.000He's one of the most respected civil rights leaders on the left after having participated in rhetoric so incendiary that two riots ensued.
00:28:26.000And you're telling me that there's a double standard here?
00:28:28.000I think that you've got this a little bit wrong.
00:28:30.000And none of this is to argue that Trump's rhetoric has been anything remotely approaching good here.
00:28:34.000I've said since the very beginning, I said literally since election night when he declared that he had won the election, I said that is irresponsible and wrong.
00:28:42.000That the evidence is not sufficient to show that the election was stolen.
00:28:46.000I said that over and over and over again.
00:28:47.000And then I said there's no legal basis for overturning the election.
00:28:49.000I said all of those things over and over.
00:28:51.000But that does not mean that he, quote unquote, incited to the point where he, you know, forced these people or wanted these people to invade the Capitol.
00:28:58.000And certainly it doesn't mean that all of the people who voted for Trump, 75 million Americans voted for Trump, are responsible for that.
00:29:12.000See, by declaring that violence is just around the bend and that anything any conservative says is going to result in violence and all of it is foreseeable, what the left is really attempting to do is they are attempting to implement the standards that have been implemented in Germany for a long time.
00:29:26.000Since World War II, Germany has implemented a standard.
00:29:30.000The basic standard is that if they think that you are saying things that undermine democracy, it is more of a threat To democracy than shutting down your speech and thus your speech can be shut down.
00:29:41.000So what the left is attempting to do is claim that all conservatism inevitably ends in violence and therefore you should be shut up.
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00:32:18.000The point here, from the left, is going to be over and over and over again, that if you are right-wing, you are inciting violence.
00:32:24.000If you are conservative, you are inciting violence.
00:32:26.000And you knew that Trump was inciting violence, and so if you voted for him, you're responsible, too.
00:32:30.000This is the unpersoning of tens of millions of Americans that we are about to watch.
00:32:35.000John Brennan, who committed literal crimes, I mean, John Brennan had his CIA spying on the legislature, and then he lied to the American people about it, which is, in fact, a threat to the constitutional order.
00:32:45.000He tweeted out, anyone now seeking national redemption by claiming to no longer support Trump must acknowledge how wrong it was to ignore and enable his corrupt, dishonest and divisive agenda.
00:32:53.000Total denunciation of a despot's legacy is necessary to eradicate any remaining malignancy.
00:32:58.000So in other words, if you supported the Abraham Accords, or if you supported the tax cuts, or if you just liked his judicial picks, or if you thought that sometimes when he was fighting back in the culture wars, that was absolutely justified, you are part of the problem, right?
00:33:11.000Meanwhile, you got Nicole Hannah-Jones.
00:33:13.000Nicole Hannah-Jones is, of course, the progenitor of the 1619 Project, a pack of lies about the United States of America.
00:33:18.000And you have to understand how all of that ties in here.
00:33:21.000As James Lindsay has pointed out on Twitter, the entire argument of the 1619 Project is that America is a white supremacist project, and therefore, that project came to its culmination last week in the Capitol building, and the only way to cure America is to wipe clean everybody, right?
00:33:35.000So she tweeted out, she's a damned liar, She's a prevaricator, a Pulitzer Prize-winning garbage pseudo-historian.
00:33:43.000She tweeted out, the reckoning needs to come to the media, too.
00:33:46.000And what I love most is our guardians of First Amendment freedoms, the people who say it's really bad when Trump called the press the enemy of the people, saying that it looks like some of the members of the press are enemies of the people.
00:35:15.000I mean, if you're on the left, now is a time when, yeah, something really bad happened last week and that was terrible.
00:35:19.000But the good news is now is a perfect time to deplatform and destroy anybody who disagrees with us and use every tool at our disposal from tech to the media to corporations to really just, you know, wipe the slate clean.
00:35:33.000Meanwhile, over in Congress, Meanwhile, over in Congress, Cori Bush, who's a BLM activist, joined by Ayanna Pressley, they are now suggesting that the 14th Amendment, which says that you cannot be a senator or representative in Congress, Or elector of the president or vice president, if you joined in an insurrection or rebellion, right?
00:35:57.000It was written right after the Civil War, right?
00:35:59.000So it meant to refer to people who had engaged in the actual Confederacy.
00:36:03.000Cori Bush said, yes, it's the 14th Amendment, and it's why I'm introducing a resolution to investigate and expel the members who attempted to overturn the presidential election and incited a white supremacist coup attempt.
00:36:14.000If you agree, call your representative and ask them to co-sponsor it.
00:36:17.000Now's a perfect time to throw any elected representatives out of Congress on the basis that they were complicit in an insurrection.
00:36:48.000Do you think that Josh Hawley, when he walked outside and he shook his fist at the protesters in support, do you think that he thought, five seconds later, they're gonna be invading the Capitol building?
00:37:08.000So now, everyone in Congress who you don't like and does something that's bad, those people need to be thrown out.
00:37:13.000By the way, if we consider that the basic premise of so much of the left's ideology is predicated on overthrowing basic American rights, I guess if we broadly construe that, then maybe the 14th Amendment should apply there too.
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00:43:08.000♪♪ Okay, so the big story of the day is, of course, that Parler has now been banned by Apple, Google, and Amazon Web Services, which basically takes them offline.
00:43:27.000Okay, because not only were they booted from Facebook and booted from Twitter, they were also booted from The Apple Store, for example, so you couldn't download the app.
00:43:37.000They were booted from Google, so like all their platforms.
00:43:41.000And then, worst of all, Amazon shut Parler down from its cloud hosting service.
00:43:48.000They took away all their servers and they said you can't use our servers anymore.
00:43:52.000So it's one thing to remove it from your app store.
00:43:53.000It's another thing to say you literally cannot exist online because we are taking your servers away from you, right?
00:43:58.000You no longer get to have your servers.
00:44:00.000Now, imagine Just for a second, if in the middle of the Black Lives Matter riots, and they were riots, they happened in hundreds of places around the country, imagine if in the middle of the Black Lives Matter riots, Facebook had been kicked off of its web hosting services.
00:44:14.000It had been kicked off of the App Store by Apple because people were using Facebook to organize protests that devolved into riots.
00:44:21.000And people were probably making comments on there that were really bad.
00:44:23.000Let's say that they were doing that, which we know they were.
00:44:26.000Or Instagram, where people were coordinating their activity.
00:44:28.000Or let's say that Twitter, which has been used for more violent threats against me personally than any other app.
00:44:32.000Well, let's say that their web serving, that Amazon web servers just decided, you know what?
00:44:40.000The reaction would be, wow, that sounds really, really scary and fascist, in fact.
00:44:44.000To de-platform entire applications because people were misusing the application cuts directly against the culture of free speech.
00:44:51.000Not the legal of free speech, the culture of free speech.
00:44:54.000Again, these companies have a right to do what they are doing.
00:44:56.000But as we will talk about in a second, when you're talking about monopolistic collusion, which is really what this looks like, I am as anti-regulation as any person in America, but you gotta be worried about this, and you should be worried about this, because, again, to be kicked off your server, like, here was the idea.
00:45:12.000The idea was, okay, you didn't like Twitter?
00:45:20.000Now, I'm not gonna vouch for Parler's policies, because I don't know Parler's policies, but I do know that what you cannot do is force people off a platform like Twitter You know, you boot people off, or you alienate people, so they build an alternative.
00:45:54.000Maybe that's where all of this is going.
00:45:57.000But imagine for just a second if this had happened around BLM and not around a conservative-oriented platform.
00:46:04.000Imagine for a second that, again, Facebook had been deplatformed because people were using Facebook in order to coordinate activity in the middle of a pandemic, by the way, that was going to violate not only law, but was also going to violate basic precepts of human decency in the form of riots.
00:46:18.000And so people would be like, you know what?
00:46:42.000So people talk a lot about Section 230.
00:46:44.000I've said, because legally this is correct, Section 230 doesn't make a distinction between platforms and publishers.
00:46:49.000What Section 230 does is it says you are not responsible for open source posting on your website, even if you do some moderation of the open source posting.
00:46:57.000So if there's a comment section on Daily Wire, Daily Wire is a publication.
00:47:01.000We are responsible for what our editors and writers put up.
00:47:03.000But, if there's a comment section, and then we moderate it to get rid of, for example, violent threats, then we still will not be held responsible for anything that happens in the comment section.
00:47:14.000Now, Section 230, to understand what it was about, originally, it was well understood, under basic precepts of American law, that you don't hold platforms accountable for how people use the platforms.
00:47:25.000So, for example, everybody uses phones.
00:47:27.000For years, most crime was committed not online, but it was committed via phone, right?
00:47:47.000Okay, and then, when it came to the internet, that was also the idea, was these open source platforms were not responsible for any activity that happened that was illegal on the, it wasn't assumed to redound to the liability of the company that allowed the posting, right?
00:48:00.000If you had an open source, and somebody posted a bad comment on YouTube, or posted a bad comment on Twitter, or posted a bad comment in the Daily Wire comment section, none of those places were responsible for the bad comments that were posted, it was just the person who was responsible for the bad comments that were posted.
00:48:47.000So now the idea is if you do not moderate, you are liable.
00:48:51.000So the only people who are not liable in the cultural sphere are the people who do not moderate.
00:48:56.000So in other words, only if you follow the standards, the screening standards, the fact-checking standards, or the informational standards of Twitter, or Facebook, or Apple, or Amazon, only if you do that will you be allowed a platform in the private sector.
00:49:14.000Only if you do that will you be allowed this.
00:49:16.000Okay, that's an insane reversal of the intent of Section 230, obviously.
00:49:20.000Which, again, was meant to protect a lot of these corporations from liability because they were moderating, not because we wanted more moderation, but because we just wanted to make sure that people who were moderating weren't getting punished extra.
00:49:33.000Okay, but now, Parler has been dropped, not just by the Apple Store, but also by everyone, by Amazon Web Services.
00:49:43.000Now, again, I'm all in favor of the free market.
00:49:47.000But you have to wonder about monopoly practices here.
00:49:50.000When the technological instruments that are necessary for free speech are located basically in three companies.
00:49:55.000Because in order for you to be online, in order for you to even host a website, you basically are doing it through one of three companies.
00:50:01.000Amazon, Microsoft, which is Azure, or Google, right?
00:50:07.000Amazon controls, according to the firm Stanford, they control about 50% of all public cloud infrastructure.
00:50:14.000Microsoft controls about 16%, so now you're up to 66%.
00:50:16.000Google controls about 4%, and they're a vast body of tiny, tiny little firms that have a little bit of public cloud infrastructure, but not nearly of the size and scope necessary to actually allow pages to load fast.
00:50:27.000Latency comes out, and it's a real problem.
00:50:30.000Okay, so you have these three companies, and not only are these three companies controlling all of the infrastructure, which again, that's okay, they are colluding in what they wish to ban.
00:50:39.000They are colluding in their standards.
00:50:42.000Even the consumer-based theory of anti-monopoly, which is one I subscribe to, right?
00:50:45.000If it's not bad for consumers, I don't really care about monopoly.
00:50:48.000If the consumer-based theory is true, it is very bad for consumers when all of the companies are agreeing on the same exact standard for what they will platform and what they will not platform because there are no alternatives available.
00:51:01.000You know, everybody on the right is correctly concerned that this ain't gonna stop at Parler.
00:51:05.000They're saying, oh, Parler didn't keep to our moderating standards.
00:51:07.000Let me tell you, the moderating standards at Twitter are garbage.
00:51:11.000The moderating standards at Facebook are a little better, not super a lot, as, by the way, the left has been saying.
00:51:18.000But everybody is worried where this is gonna go, and they should be.
00:51:21.000They're worried that they're gonna take down podcasts like this one from the Apple Store.
00:51:23.000They're worried that they're gonna take down the Daily Wire app, saying that it's quote-unquote misinformation on the basis of bullshit fact-checkers, these fact-check sites that are left-wing oriented.
00:51:33.000Everybody is worried about that, and they should be worried about that, because that is where this is going.
00:51:39.000It's gonna get worse and worse, and it's not going to stop.
00:51:42.000They're going to de-platform everyone.
00:51:43.000Here was Parler's CEO yesterday, saying, we were dropped by every single vendor.
00:51:49.000They made an attempt to not only kill the apps, but to actually destroy the entire company.
00:51:55.000And it's not just these three companies.
00:51:57.000Every vendor, from text message services to email providers to our lawyers, all ditched us, too, on the same day.
00:52:09.000And they're trying to falsely claim that we were somehow responsible for the events that occurred on the 6th.
00:52:17.000Okay, and this is what's going to happen to company after company.
00:52:19.000Because so long as the left can connect you to violence, so long as the left can even make the argument, the left's goal is going to be to de-platform you and ruin you personally, ruin your company, get you fired, destroy you in your social life.
00:52:53.000What replaces that is the monopoly media.
00:52:56.000What replaces that is the reestablishment of the monopoly media.
00:53:00.000So, that's been the whole goal here, right?
00:53:02.000Why do you think there's so many members of the New York Times who've been stumping for literally years, the Kara Swishers and Kevin Ruses of the world of the New York Times, stumping for years on end, the juggla-gumbal-gums, all these people saying every outlet that is not left-wing should basically be shut down, deplatformed, marginalized, all of these should be shut down.
00:53:20.000So they can re-establish control of all methods of informational distribution.
00:53:25.000And then they can just control, you see, we can have a happier America because we all think the same, right?
00:53:30.000We all think the same because we're getting our information from the same five sources, all of which are now the trusted news sources over at Facebook.
00:53:36.000Facebook has this quality control measure that they were using in the last days of the election, which naturally suggested that the quality outlets were ones like CNN and the non-quality outlets were ones like, you know, the New York Post because they printed all that Hunter Biden stuff.
00:53:53.000I mean, I think that they are trustworthy people and that they have really strong standards when it comes to misinformation and disinformation, which is why PBS hosted Dan Rather, the former news anchor from CBS, who literally presented a falsified document about George W. Bush going AWOL in 2004.
00:54:08.000As their commentator on why we need better information from our media.
00:54:20.000Here they are talking with Dan Rather, an overt journalistic liar about the standards in media that need to adhere.
00:54:31.000Everything is on the table for this country.
00:54:33.000And we need to recognize that, that we can have a great future, a future Bigger and better than anything our fathers and mothers ever dreamed of.
00:54:42.000But we have to move, because we're teetering on the imbalance, if you will, of just what you described, a world in which truth is rarely pure, never easy to come by, and increasingly difficult to sort out.
00:56:15.000How many covers of Vogue magazine was Melania Trump, an actual fashion model, featured on?
00:56:19.000But here's Kamala Harris, a style icon in that she wears the same exact thing that every person wears to the office who is a female, but also Converse sneakers.
00:56:28.000So this became a massive controversy because, oh my gosh, here is the Vogue cover that Kamala Harris' team thought would be released.
00:56:34.000Wow, in that one, she's in like a powder blue pantsuit, as opposed to the other one where she's in like a black pantsuit.
00:56:41.000Well, I mean, now the media are really doing their jobs.
00:56:45.000Yashar Ali says, I'm told this cover on the left will be the digital cover, but the much maligned cover on the right has already gone to print and will be the cover available for sale and sent to subscribers.
00:56:54.000Our media really, like, it's a time of crisis in the country, but our media really focusing in on, you know, the huge issues.
00:57:00.000Meanwhile, promulgating narratives that, again, are extraordinarily biased.
00:57:04.000So Jeffrey Goldberg, who is an Obama administration stenographer, Literally, Ben Rhodes suggested that Jeffrey Goldberg was used as a mouthpiece for the Obama administration over and over and over, including in propagandizing for the Iran deal.
00:57:18.000So now Jeffrey Goldberg, who is such a free speech advocate that he fired Kevin Williamson from the Atlantic for the crime of being Kevin Williamson after hiring Kevin Williamson because he knew who Kevin Williamson was.
00:57:27.000Gutless, pathetic dweeb over here, Jeffrey Goldberg.
00:57:33.000So if I'm a dweeb and I look down on other dweebs, they are super dweebs.
00:57:37.000Here is Jeffrey Goldberg suggesting, you know, that the fair perspective, the fair perspective is that Trump incited a mob to sack the Capitol.
00:57:51.000You know, again, these are your news people.
00:57:52.000And once you establish a monopoly in news, you have the control over the over the auspices of information.
00:57:59.000When you're describing what happened this week, it probably should be described simply as the President of the United States incited a mob to go sack the Capitol and lynch the Vice President, his Vice President.
00:58:10.000I mean, that is a fair way of describing what happened or what could have happened had the mob broken through and got to the Vice President or the Speaker of the House or other members of Congress.
00:58:28.000But the fair way to describe it is that the president incited the mob to sack the Capitol and hang the vice president?
00:58:34.000Really, is that the fair way to describe that?
00:58:35.000As before, I've held the exact same standard for Bernie Sanders as I've held for Barack Obama as I hold for Donald Trump when it comes to the standard of incitement.
00:59:46.000But you do have to know if you're a news person, you might want to note somewhere in there that the president did say that people were going to patriotic and peacefully make their voices heard.
00:59:54.000And by the way, that's probably what Trump thought was going to happen because that's what had happened all along.
00:59:58.000He says things, people yell and scream, and then they go home because that has always happened.
01:00:02.000The reason people were shocked on Wednesday is because it was shocking.
01:00:05.000It was a shock what happened on Wednesday.
01:00:08.000That does not mean that Trump's behavior before, during, and after was good.
01:00:13.000It does mean that when you say, you know, the fair story is that he incited a mob to sack the Capitol and try to kill his vice president.
01:00:20.000Yes, that is fair journalism right there.
01:00:22.000Now, the whole goal here is, of course, to create a complete dichotomy between people who voted for Trump, thought about voting for Trump, voted against Democrats, didn't vote at all, right?
01:00:31.000A dichotomy between those people and the people who stand for goodness and justice and wonder in the Democratic Party.
01:00:37.000Now, let me just remind you, this could be a moment when Joe Biden and the Democrats actually put forward a unity agenda.
01:00:42.000They're just gonna push forward with their normal agenda, and then they're going to count on the media and social media to cover them as though they are doing something wonderful and unifying.
01:00:50.000And if you disagree, you're against unity.
01:01:09.000Here was President-elect Biden talking about his priorities in the aftermath of COVID and making sure that businesses get back on their feet.
01:01:15.000Does this sound really unifying to you right here?
01:01:19.000Our focus will be on small businesses on Main Street.
01:01:23.000that aren't wealthy and well-connected, that are facing real economic hardships through no fault of their own.
01:01:30.000Our priority will be Black, Latino, Asian, and Native American-owned small businesses, women-owned businesses, and finally, having equal access to resources needed to reopen and rebuild.
01:01:41.000But we're going to make a concerted effort to help small business and low-income communities, in big cities, small towns, rural communities, Ah, systemic barriers to relief.
01:02:15.000This goes back to the punch-a-Nazi days on the left just a couple of years ago, when they were basically suggesting not only that Nazis ought to be punched, which in the United States, if you believe in civil- Some of us have been against violence the entire time, guys.
01:02:26.000Some of us said that even though there's nobody on earth who hates Nazis more than I do, I'm an Orthodox Jew, you don't get to punch people based on perspective in the United States.
01:02:33.000The left was like, no, you can punch a Nazi.
01:03:00.000The goal is to create, again, and exacerbate an overwhelming, monolithic push from the left in every area of your culture, and if that means deplatforming, if it means silencing, so be it, because the left must emerge victorious.
01:03:14.000Okay, that brings us to the update with regard to impeachment.
01:03:16.000So I'd be remiss if I did not comment on what is going to happen this week.
01:03:20.000So Nancy Pelosi is now pushing impeachment.
01:03:23.000Her plan is to bring forward today a A measure that would essentially push Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment.
01:03:35.000It basically says, if you don't invoke the 25th Amendment, we're going to invoke the Articles of Impeachment.
01:03:40.000Now, I'm not sure if that is even real.
01:03:42.000I mean, if we're talking about things that are constitutional and violate norms, Congress trying to force invocation of the 25th Amendment is kind of a weird one.
01:03:49.000The 25th Amendment is an executive branch move.
01:03:52.000The executive branch Generally is tasked, not generally, it is tasked, in the origin anyway, with invoking the 25th amendment and saying the president is incompetent.
01:04:03.000Now obviously the 25th amendment was written in the aftermath of the Wilson administration.
01:04:07.000It was an attempt to prevent people who are literally incompetent, like literally they could not sip a glass of water without help from being president of the United States.
01:04:15.000It's pretty obvious legally that the 25th amendment does not actually apply here, no matter what you think of Trump.
01:04:20.000Incompetent here does not mean bad at his job.
01:04:21.000Incompetent means like you are physically and mentally incapable of performing the office.
01:04:27.000I actually don't think Trump has changed very much over the last four years.
01:04:29.000I think that he is just as erratic and volatile as he ever was.
01:04:33.000But I don't think he is significantly more so, except that when he's disappointed in things, then he becomes worse.
01:04:39.000But the 25th Amendment, the push by Democrats to push the 25th Amendment is likely going to fail.
01:04:45.000House Democrats are saying that Pence should respond to the resolution within 24 hours, and then they're going to bring impeachment legislation to the floor.
01:04:52.000The articles of impeachment are going to accuse Trump with, quote, willfully inciting violence against the government of the United States.
01:04:58.000Now, that's going to be a very hard legal case to prove because, again, incitement generally requires that somebody be asking for violence.
01:05:04.000As I played before that clip of Trump.
01:05:06.000I mean, Trump literally said, peacefully protest outside the Capitol building because that's probably what he thought was going to happen.
01:05:11.000It doesn't justify any other part of what he has done all along here with the lying and the prevarication and the pushing of myth and the characterization of the law.
01:05:18.000But it's hard to make the case that somebody is inciting violence when they literally say, I want you to go peacefully protest.
01:05:24.000And using vague language like, go fight for something, which is used all the time in politics, or we're going to win the culture war, or we can't stop fighting, or we need to go over there and make people feel strong.
01:05:37.000On a legal basis, I cannot imagine that that is going to rise to the level of even a crime, right?
01:05:41.000You can't charge a crime on that basis.
01:05:43.000Also, it is worth noting that today is January 11th.
01:05:46.000His presidency is over on January 20th.
01:05:50.000Okay, so really this is more for show than anything else.
01:05:53.000And you can say that you like the show, you think that the legislature should push back against Trump because Trump was attempting to pressure the legislature to do something unconstitutional, but here's the thing.
01:06:01.000The legislature didn't do the unconstitutional thing.
01:06:40.000But I just think that it happens to be bad impeachment policy.
01:06:43.000And I also think that it happens to be more politically driven than anything else.
01:06:46.000That becomes essentially even more true when you see the tactics that they are using.
01:06:50.000The tactics that are being used right now, they're not bringing up the impeachment today.
01:06:53.000They're trying to force Pence to do it.
01:06:55.000They know, by the way, that the Senate does not come back into session until January 19th.
01:07:00.000It doesn't come back into session until January 19th unless there is a unanimous agreement by the Senators to come back into session before January 19th.
01:07:14.000I just don't think it's gonna be particularly effective in this particular case.
01:07:17.000James Clyburn, by the way, says that Trump's impeachment trial could be held 100 days in.
01:07:23.000So he's saying, like, it's so urgent to get Trump out of office right this minute that we can wait 100 days until after he hasn't been president for literally 91 of them.
01:08:02.000That's going to be a tough one, especially because, again, there are going to be criminal investigations into everything that happened, and the story is not probably going to end here.
01:08:09.000Alrighty, so we're going to be back here later today with an additional hour of content.
01:08:13.000Also, go check out The Matt Wall Show to hear more about Joe Biden's new discriminatory COVID relief plans.