00:00:38.000And the official name is something like TMTG, I think.
00:00:43.000But the goal is not only now to replace Facebook and Twitter with a new social media company, but this new social media conglomerate or consortium.
00:00:55.000The goal is to take on the entire entertainment information complex that exists.
00:01:06.000And like I said, we have very little detail on this other than a 22 page PowerPoint that was presented today when they announced all of this and a press release that was put out for the public.
00:01:19.000And all that we know is that they're launching this truth social network.
00:01:24.000They'll be doing a beta test next month in November, launching it in 2022.
00:01:29.000And then, according to that presentation, there is some vague plan that they're going to bring together all of the alternative tech social media companies.
00:01:37.000And that they have plans to not just go after social media, but also to be competitors to the major streaming services like Netflix and Disney, as well as back end internet services like Amazon Web Service and things like that.
00:01:56.000And it's about time we've seen something from the Trump camp.
00:02:00.000I honestly don't know how to feel about this quite yet.
00:02:04.000We'll have to wait and see what it looks like in November.
00:02:07.000All I can say, though, is that it's about time.
00:02:10.000Because, as we know, social media censorship and the monopoly on entertainment and distribution of information, this has been a problem now for at least five years at the minimum.
00:02:23.000You could say it's gone on longer than that, that it's transcended the internet.
00:02:26.000You know, it was in the television, radio, and print before social media.
00:02:32.000But we know that, at least since around the time that Donald Trump got elected and a little bit before, this has been a real issue that our enemies in Silicon Valley.
00:03:23.000There's got to be somebody out there who sees the market potential for 75 million Trump voters that are at risk of being censored or no platformed.
00:03:36.000I was beginning to think they weren't going to do anything, but here we are.
00:03:51.000Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, held a press conference announcing that he is calling a special session of the Florida state legislature to fight vaccine mandates.
00:04:00.000And he says specifically that he wants to go after private companies that mandate the vaccine and hold them legally accountable for any adverse effects that people may suffer as a consequence of getting the vaccine if the company mandated it for the employee to continue working there, which is a pretty big deal.
00:04:21.000And it's a notable departure from the federal government policy because, and I don't think we covered this yet on the show, but the federal government policy on the vaccine mandate is they're not even collecting information on adverse effects in the workforce.
00:04:38.000Because, you know, I think a pretty natural and obvious reaction to all of this is to say if an employer mandates the vaccine, then certainly the employer should be liable.
00:04:51.000If an employee suffers some kind of adverse reaction from the vaccine that was mandated.
00:04:57.000But according to the rule change that was filed last week by OSHA, they won't even collect information on adverse effects for vaccines in the workforce.
00:05:08.000They don't collect it at all on a medical level, as we know.
00:05:13.000All we have is a self reported VARES system.
00:05:16.000The doctors, scientists, drug companies, they're not interested.
00:05:21.000In collecting any data on adverse reactions, and neither are the employers for legal liability.
00:05:27.000So, as it stands now, the government is forcing you to get these vaccines made by drug companies.
00:05:33.000You can't sue the government, you can't sue the drug companies.
00:05:36.000That's a funny thing about vaccines whatever the adverse effects, the drug companies that made those vaccines are not liable for them.
00:05:45.000And now, even the private institutions that mandate the vaccine force you to get it if you develop precarditis, myocarditis.
00:05:53.000Which is heart inflammation or any other side effects, they too will not be held legally liable.
00:06:00.000At least that's the approach to this on the federal level.
00:06:05.000Thankfully, and this is the first I've heard of it, Governor DeSantis from Florida says that at the state level, they will hold private companies accountable for adverse reactions, which is, I think, a pretty brilliant idea.
00:08:53.000We've got lawyers, accountants, video editors.
00:08:56.000We've got people that do graphic design, people that make our graphics, and tons of other stuff.
00:09:02.000So, if you're interested, obviously, web developers, we have a lot of interested web developers since we launched the beta test of this site.
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00:11:45.000I just wish we could stretch it out a little so there's content throughout the day, whatever.
00:11:50.000Anyway, but I was, I saw that and it actually made me feel really good because I think it was Vince, not Jaden, because Jaden streams after my show.
00:12:00.000I saw Tyler, Vince, Bryson, and Beardson.
00:12:03.000They're all streaming at the same time.
00:12:05.000And I'm going between the different streams.
00:12:07.000I'm watching Tyler and he's doing, he's reading super chats.
00:12:10.000And I'm watching Beardson and he's doing his thing.
00:16:21.000We got the brightest minds in the universe coming together to put together a platform so that free thinking can happen, so that real free thinkers can free think and express themselves.
00:17:44.000You know, thank you for your patience, by the way.
00:17:46.000Building a censorship proof platform under the weight of the federal government and big tech and Visa and MasterCard and all the back end tech services.
00:17:56.000And we've been working on it for nine months, and we're beta testing it.
00:18:00.000And we're like, you know, five minutes go by because, you know, we're having a little glitch.
00:18:05.000And people go with the smart ass remarks.
00:18:08.000So, you know, thanks for your patience, by the way.
00:18:15.000Megan Squire's going to call up and say she's going to come to the America First headquarters, come to my parents' house, pound on the door.
00:19:50.000And even when it comes to the vaccine mandates, they're enforcing the vax mandates in Texas against, you know, contrary to the executive order by the governor.
00:20:01.000And I believe they're doing the same thing in Florida, too.
00:20:03.000But nevertheless, we'll talk about this press conference.
00:20:09.000Like I said, Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, he held this big press conference this afternoon.
00:20:14.000And he said he was calling a special session of the state legislature specifically to pass statewide laws that are aimed at rolling back some of these already existing vaccine mandates that have been put in place by businesses, private businesses in particular, in response to the federal government OSHA fines that were just filed last week.
00:20:38.000It says, Governor Ron DeSantis says the Florida legislature will be brought together sometime in November for a special session.
00:20:47.000As he asks them to take action to protect Floridians who are facing termination from their employers for not receiving the COVID 19 vaccine.
00:20:56.000The governor said, We need to take action to protect Florida jobs.
00:21:01.000Freedom has a home here, and he said, Don't tread on Florida.
00:21:05.000The governor, I'm sorry, those are signs.
00:21:07.000People are holding signs that said that behind him while he was speaking.
00:21:12.000It says, The governor who was joined at a Thursday news conference in Clearwater by Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo and Attorney General Ashley Moody.
00:21:21.000Said he will also continue to fight against the Biden administration, which he said is, quote, trying to use the heavy hand of government to enforce injections.
00:21:30.000DeSantis said he believes receiving the vaccine should be an individual's choice and said people's right to earn a living should not be contingent on COVID shots.
00:21:40.000He said that losing nurses, police officers, and firefighters, among others, will not be good for the state of Florida and said that he believes employers who are mandating vaccines were stabbing his administration in the back.
00:21:54.000After they stood up for their rights during the pandemic, which is true.
00:22:01.000Because it's important to keep in mind, and I'll resume with this in a second, but this is an important point.
00:22:08.000It's important to remember that the vaccine mandate, and in particular, the vaccine mandate, which is enforced by fines from the federal government, it's not like we're just getting this out of nowhere.
00:22:22.000It's not like this is the beginning of the COVID tyranny state.
00:22:28.000Because we've been under a lockdown or were under a lockdown for nearly a year.
00:22:33.000And it varies from state to state when they started opening up and in what capacity.
00:22:37.000But it was about one year of lockdown from last spring until around this spring or beginning of this year's winter.
00:22:47.000And that decimated a lot of businesses, as you know.
00:22:50.000There were many restaurants that did not survive, lots of other businesses went under because the government banned them from operating, banned them from having customers come in the store and workers coming into work.
00:23:03.000And had a lot of businesses radically change their model.
00:23:09.000And the stimulus wasn't sufficient to keep every business alive and every business surviving through this year.
00:23:15.000Even this year, a lot of businesses are going under.
00:23:17.000They just can't recover from one year of not being in operation.
00:23:22.000So it's not just that we've got this vaccine mandate enforced by onerous fines and other things, but this also came a year after they shut down every business.
00:23:32.000And just now, businesses are getting back on their feet if they didn't die already.
00:23:38.000Florida never had a lockdown, and so there was never this tiered system of essential workers versus non essential workers.
00:23:48.000All the businesses in Florida were able to, and it was up to their discretion, they were able to remain in operation, and their employees could continue coming into work, and the businesses could keep making money.
00:24:01.000And so here we are now, a year and a half later, after the lockdowns began, the state of Florida, the government in Florida, protected those businesses from the lockdown.
00:24:11.000Allowed them to survive, tourism industry alive, restaurants, all of that.
00:24:15.000And now they turn around and they're going to enforce the vaccine mandates.
00:24:19.000I mean, I never even thought of that that way, but the governor's right.
00:24:24.000You know, DeSantis protected all these private businesses from going under, protected them from the lockdown.
00:24:30.000The governor opposes the vaccine mandates, and now all these businesses are going to go against him and put in place their vaccine mandates.
00:24:37.000They won't eat the cost of these OSHA fines if they'll ever even be enforced, which It was indicated last week when they announced that the rule change was being filed that the rule might not even be enforceable in the sense that there are a lot of businesses in America and the Department of Labor isn't that big.
00:24:57.000So, can they really go after every federal contractor, every business over 100 employees?
00:25:03.000Can they really make sure every employee in every business has been vaccinated and then levy a big fine?
00:25:10.000They said last week that it would be largely voluntary because it's just not enforceable.
00:25:15.000So, there's no good faith being shown, in other words, on the part of small businesses.
00:25:22.000It says the governor also claimed that many employers have not been honoring religious exemptions as required by federal law and vowed to stand up for people's jobs and their livelihoods.
00:25:33.000He said he is mounting aggressive legal challenges to federal mandates and will take legislative action to add protections for people in Florida.
00:25:41.000According to the governor, one of the actions he is taking, or rather, one of the actions he is asking the Florida legislature to take, is to ensure that employers are unable to state they are firing someone for cause if those employees refuse to get vaccinated against COVID 19.
00:25:59.000He said employers who require that their employees be vaccinated should also be held liable if those employees suffer any adverse reactions from the vaccine.
00:26:17.000Because, you know, there is this pernicious, Line that you hear in these circles where people say something like, We're not going to vote our way out of this, or There is no political solution, or something like that.
00:26:29.000The reason why lines like that are appealing, and that's what it is, is it's a one liner, okay?
00:26:37.000These are one liners, and I understand why one liners like that are appealing.
00:26:43.000I understand why that resonates with people.
00:26:45.000People are frustrated with the political process.
00:26:47.000People look at elections and they see clearly elections can be stolen, and probably more often than not, they are.
00:26:54.000And they see that even when we do get the so called desired outcome in an election, we don't necessarily get the policies or the kinds of reforms that we were promised, that underlie the whole reason we elect politicians and participate in the process.
00:27:10.000So there is a half truth in things like this.
00:27:15.000We're not going to vote our way out of this and no political solution.
00:27:18.000Certainly, our problems are bigger than just the next election.
00:27:22.000So there is not going to be one election.
00:27:26.000Now or in the near future, which is going to change our fortunes.
00:27:30.000There's not going to be one election, one vote at the ballot box.
00:27:35.000It's not going to be solved by picking the right president or picking the right governor that's going to turn all of civilization around because the problems are much deeper than that.
00:27:44.000And certainly it's beyond the scope of what any one politician could do in any one office.
00:27:51.000And there's also a half truth in the idea that maybe our problems are bigger than politics at all.
00:27:56.000Forget even the ballot box, but politics at all.
00:27:59.000And usually when people say that, they're implying a violent solution is necessary.
00:28:03.000I don't think there's any truth in that.
00:28:06.000And the reason for that is because, you know, show me where the capability lies to challenge the federal government on a military level.
00:28:14.000I think you just look like an idiot if you think that's the case.
00:28:18.000You look at what right wing organization is capable of, and we can't even do large protests, you know?
00:28:25.000You look at Antifa and BLM and the Women's March and their ability to effectively organize in large cities, and we can't even compete with them on that level.
00:28:36.000And if Republicans and conservatives can't even put one man in every room where ballots are being counted in an election, how are they going to run a militia that's going to challenge the government?
00:28:48.000And with what means, and with what arms, and with what support, and in what cities?
00:28:52.000And I mean, talking like that is just not only technically illegal, but it's also absurd on its face.
00:28:58.000That being said, without that implication, just the line, no political solution, there's a half truth there, too.
00:29:06.000In the sense that it will not come from an act of Congress again that our fortunes will be changed or a series of reforms, maybe by a president or a governor or anything like that.
00:29:17.000All of that being said, all of that being said, I think very simply it could be stated this way politics is necessary but not sufficient for a victory.
00:29:29.000And I don't think anybody is saying otherwise.
00:29:33.000The half truth that both of these things have in common, which said fully, is this politics.
00:29:41.000Maybe these things just include the latter half.
00:29:43.000Politics is not sufficient to change our fortunes, and they leave it at that.
00:29:48.000You know, if you say no political solution, we're not going to vote our way out of this, what you're saying is politics is not a sufficient means by which we're going to change the country in the ways that we want it to change.
00:29:59.000I would just add another component to that and say it's necessary but not sufficient.
00:30:05.000I don't think that we're going to achieve our goals without politics.
00:30:09.000But certainly, politics in itself, or simply voting in an election, or merely working through a political process in itself, those things will not catalyze the change that is necessary because we're talking about large civilizational changes which are outside the scope of the administration of government at any level.
00:30:33.000Governor Ron DeSantis won his election a few years ago, I think it was in 2018, right?1.00
00:30:39.000If I'm not mistaken, Ron DeSantis won his election by less than 1% against Andrew Gillum, who turned out to be some drug addicted black homosexual or bisexual or something.1.00
00:30:52.000But that was a narrow, narrow margin of victory.0.99
00:30:56.000And I don't think you really need to imagine, I don't think you need a big imagination to think about how much different the past year would have gone, the past two years would have gone, if we had Andrew Gillum instead of Ron DeSantis.
00:31:10.000Gillum would have shut down the state.
00:31:11.000Would have killed all the jobs in Florida.
00:31:13.000There would be no safe haven where conservatives are now gathering and organizing.
00:31:18.000Sanctuary cities in Florida would still be open and lots of other things would be going on.
00:31:24.000Now in Florida, we have what amounts to basically a safe refuge.
00:31:27.000We've got like an opposition government.
00:31:29.000That's like America's Taiwan over there.
00:31:33.000We now have something like a safe harbor from COVID tyranny, from lockdowns, from lots of things.
00:31:40.000Potentially a safe harbor from vaccine mandates.
00:31:43.000And think specifically about what Ron DeSantis is doing that no other institution, other than a state or political institution, can do.
00:31:52.000Ron DeSantis is challenging the vaccine mandate in the courts.
00:31:56.000The reason why this is a big deal is because normally going against the federal government in the courts or any government entity. Is suicidal because the government has nearly unlimited resources.
00:32:11.000Unless you've got a billionaire backer, unless you've got real financial backing, usually it's a fool's errand because the federal government will keep appealing and keep appealing and keep stalling and keep coming back.
00:32:24.000And lawyers are not cheap and the legal process is not cheap.
00:32:28.000So, what Ron DeSantis can do that private citizens cannot, that your uncle or your aunt or your mom or your sister cannot do, Which is, they can challenge the federal government using state resources.
00:32:40.000They don't have to tap into their savings account.
00:32:43.000They don't have to tap into their retirement.
00:32:45.000They don't have to go and e bag on GoFundMe or Give, Send, Go.
00:32:49.000They've got the resources to challenge the federal government.
00:32:55.000And then on another level, they've got the power to go after private companies.
00:32:58.000They could say that we're going to call a special session in the state legislature and hold companies accountable for the vaccines they're mandating.
00:33:07.000That you've got Ron DeSantis in Florida.
00:33:10.000Holding the line, pardon the expression, but it's true that you've got them, and he's not doing a perfect job, I would not say that, but he's doing better than anybody else.
00:33:21.000If you did not have him holding the line in Florida, it would be a different situation for Patriots, it would be a different situation for conservatives.
00:33:31.000And as time goes on, it will become more difficult, if not impossible, for us to fight for national power in the federal government.
00:33:38.000And obviously, they're consolidating their grip on the country.
00:33:42.000But you're going to see as time goes on, there will be these loci, locus, you know, loci, the plural of locus.
00:33:50.000There will be loci of power in the country where there will be opposition to the system.
00:33:57.000And I've talked about this for a long time on the show.
00:34:00.000As government efficacy wanes, as the ability of the government to competently carry out its functions wanes, and therefore its ability to project its power and command legitimacy, And exercise legitimate authority.1.00
00:34:15.000As all of that wanes, because the government is being filled up with diversity hires and trannies, and it's full of all these people that hate each other, it's Dave Chappelle saying, you need to care more about racism, and trannies saying, you need to care more about transphobia.1.00
00:34:31.000As that happens, you will see, I believe, these little sort of patches of resistance opening up.1.00
00:34:40.000Different power structures, not necessarily competing in a climactic showdown with the federal government.
00:34:46.000But where the government's power is subsiding, you will see things like this starting to form and starting to rise up.
00:34:55.000Participating in local politics, building communities, winning local elections, and working your way up the system.
00:35:01.000Maybe states, maybe an entity as large as a state could be a loci of power, of opposition against the federal government, against the system.
00:35:35.000I don't know that the execution will be there, or if it is there, that it will be great or perfect.
00:35:42.000But it is good to see that, you know, Abbott's not so competent, but DeSantis does seem to be better.
00:35:49.000If he is really serious about fighting these vaccine mandates and not just doing some political grandstanding, if he's serious about this, obviously this is a positive development.
00:35:59.000And hopefully we could get people to move down there and work there.
00:36:02.000And if people get fired, maybe they could find opportunities in Florida.
00:36:06.000Maybe this is a place where all this tyranny is going to hit later, or hopefully not at all.
00:36:12.000So I don't think there's too much to say on that front other than, as we all know, this is positive.
00:36:18.000The COVID vaccine mandate is one of the worst things ever to happen to America.
00:36:22.000And where it is not able to be imposed, that presents a real opportunity for us.
00:36:45.000But I'm more confident in him than I am in Abbott in Texas.
00:36:50.000But like I said, to me, the bigger picture to maybe make a point.
00:36:54.000That is bigger than that, that is less obvious, is to talk about how practically important it is that we have got an entire state run by a governor who is based.
00:37:05.000And people ought to think about that because I know people look at the political system and the process, and this has been like this for forever, but really it's been this way ever since 2017.
00:37:16.000A lot of people are out there discouraging everybody from thinking politically, and they want people to think in terms of violence or disengagement from the system.
00:37:27.000And I have always been, I always have been, I always will be somebody who is in favor of engagement with the system.
00:37:35.000I do not think that we can afford to not engage in the political process.
00:38:32.000That might be a good idea for your family.
00:38:35.000That might be a good idea if you want to raise your family unimpeded and, you know, without some of the problems that you get in the cities.
00:38:42.000But that's not really a recipe for us to change our political fortunes in America.
00:38:47.000It's really an all or nothing proposition.
00:38:50.000Either the people in charge currently are going to decide the destiny of the nation and that will have a totalizing effect, or we will be.
00:38:59.000But I don't think there's going to be a breakup.
00:39:01.000I don't think there's going to be a split.
00:39:03.000I don't think that we're going to go and live in the woods and create a Commune.
00:39:07.000I think anything short of that is living in denial.
00:39:14.000And I think that it's a winner keep all situation, winner take all situation.
00:39:20.000So you've got the left and the people that occupy the power structure currently, and then you've got this emergent parallel structure, which is in its infancy right now.
00:39:31.000We need that to be born, and we need that to compete with what exists now.
00:39:35.000Whoever succeeds will decide the fate of America.
00:39:39.000But I think these fanciful ideas of, you know, you're going to get Texas.
00:39:44.000And they're going to get California, and we're going to get Florida, and they're going to get New York, and something like that, or this idea that we're going to go in the wilderness and be left alone.
00:39:54.000I think people that talk like that are in denial about the nature and the gravity of our situation.
00:40:02.000So, anyway, so I think there's a little bit more insight that we can glean from this other than, you know, anti vax governor is good.
00:40:12.000I think we can look at this and say, here's a demonstration of how elections have consequences.
00:40:52.000I'm not somebody saying DeSantis 2024 or anything like that, but I am saying him running for office, that election, as close as it was, getting the right outcome, has made a big difference.
00:41:05.000And certainly we're better off for that having happened than not.
00:41:08.000And if you listen to some people, and if you fall victim to some of these defeatist ways of thinking, that might not have happened.
00:41:15.000If people said, we're not going to vote our way out of this, there's no Ron DeSantis, there's no Donald Trump.
00:41:21.000If those things didn't happen, I don't think there'd be any political hope.
00:41:25.000If Donald Trump never got elected and DeSantis didn't get elected and Tucker Carlson never got put in the primetime slide on Fox News, I wouldn't be optimistic or as optimistic as I am.
00:41:36.000We would have had Marco Rubio or Jeb Bush in 16.
00:41:39.000We would have had Gillum as the governor of Florida and Bill O'Reilly'd still be on Fox News.
00:41:44.000And it would be a totally different world.
00:42:06.000They look at Florida and they look at the Trump election in 16 and they look at Tucker and they look at lots of positive things that have happened.
00:42:13.000When you look at the big picture, you look at these civilization changing things, these cracks in the dam, things that are really pushing us in the right direction, and people see where it didn't go all the way or where it wasn't absolutely perfect.
00:42:27.000And they say, oh, we're wasting our time.
00:44:06.000An entire media group that's in the name.
00:44:10.000They put out a big press release and they say that as soon as November, we're going to get a beta test.
00:44:16.000Of the official Trump social network called Truth Social.
00:44:21.000It's going to come out in 2022 in the first quarter.
00:44:24.000And they're coming out with other products in the coming months that are supposed to compete with the big streaming services like Netflix and Disney, as well as back end internet products to compete with Amazon AWS and other things like that, which is a big surprise and very ambitious.
00:44:47.000And, you know, we'll just have to see how that goes.
00:44:53.000It's his quote Former U.S. President Donald Trump has announced plans to launch a new social media network called Truth Social.
00:45:02.000He said the platform would stand up to the tyranny of big tech, accusing them of silencing opposing voices in the U.S. Social media played a pivotal role in Mr. Trump's bid for the White House and was his favorite means of communication as president.
00:45:17.000But Mr. Trump was banned from Twitter and suspended from Facebook after his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol.
00:45:23.000I still can't believe that that happened, by the way.
00:45:26.000Whenever I read those words, too epic to be believed.
00:45:31.000Do you remember that time when President Donald Trump's forces stormed the U.S. Capitol when the election was stolen from him?
00:46:43.000Imagine if millions of patriots heeded the call.
00:46:47.000Imagine if, like, on that day, his supporters surrounded the Capitol, occupied it, and then Trump went there.
00:46:53.000And from inside the Capitol, said something like, I'm calling all patriots to come to the Capitol.
00:47:00.000And imagine if people are, you know, they're like driving, they're in Alabama, they're in Kentucky, you know, your regular Trump supporter with the MAGA hats driving, and he hears on his radio, you know, eh, eh.
00:47:16.000This is a national emergency broadcast, official recording from the President of the United States.
00:47:22.000And, you know, Donald Trump issues the call, and all these Trump supporters, you know, they just turn the car around.
00:47:31.000I'm going to D.C. to save the President.
00:47:34.000I'm going to D.C. to prevent this election from being rigged.
00:47:41.000I mean, that's what that's practically that's practically what they're telling us went down.
00:47:47.000If only if only if only that were the case.
00:47:51.000Instead, instead, we uh, you know, that didn't happen.
00:47:54.000Thankfully, thankfully, because you know, I disavow violence, I disavow uh, you know, attacks on the Capitol, I disavow any challenging of the government.
00:48:07.000But yeah, could you imagine your regular Trump supporter?
00:48:09.000All these MAGA boomers, all the boomerwaff, and they're just driving in their car.
00:49:43.000Social media firms under pressure throughout Mr. Trump's presidency to ban him with his posts.
00:49:49.000Criticized as insulting, inflammatory, or peddling outright falsehoods.
00:49:55.000Last year, Twitter and Facebook began deleting some of his posts or labeling them as misleading.
00:50:00.000Earlier this year, he launched From the Desk of Donald Trump, which was often referred to as a blog.
00:50:06.000The website was permanently shut down less than a month after it launched, after attracting only a fraction of the audience he would have expected through established sites.
00:50:15.000His senior aide, Jason Miller, said it was just auxiliary to the broader efforts we have and are working on.
00:50:22.000An early version of his latest venture, Truth Social, will be open to invited guests next month and will have a nationwide rollout within the first three months of 2022, according to a statement by Trump Media and Technology Group.
00:50:57.000And I said this at the beginning of the year.
00:50:58.000I said that maybe this will be the year that the situation changes because I said this at the beginning of the year.
00:51:06.000It's been a long time, but our longtime viewers of the show will remember I said back in January that this presents perhaps the best opportunity, if there wasn't one in the past five years, for a real alternative to big tech social media sites to be invented.
00:51:26.000Because with the sitting president banned, along with lots of his supporters, Everything that comes with that would create a real market opportunity for a large investor, a billionaire, a company, you know, for something, someone, an inventor, a tech guru.
00:51:47.000It would present an opportunity for something to come along and invent the alternative.
00:51:53.000If that opportunity didn't exist years ago, it does now.
00:51:57.000Because before, you know, any prospective alternative tech company would be competing with Twitter and they would have to lure Trump off of Twitter.
00:52:07.000Where he had 70 million followers to a platform where he had zero and where nobody was on.
00:52:14.000Lure Trump off of Facebook, which has two and a half billion active users, and onto a new site, which, because it's starting out, would have zero.
00:52:27.000But after Trump gets banned, to have him reset at zero with his 75 million voters and whoever else, there's a real market opportunity there.
00:52:38.000There's a real opportunity to make money.
00:52:40.000And with Trump as the staple, with Trump as the feature, something like that could grow rapidly and get off the ground very quickly.
00:52:51.000I said, there may be a silver lining to all of this.
00:52:54.000Perhaps Trump getting banned, maybe this is the best possible outcome.
00:52:58.000Because then a real alternative is created.
00:53:01.000And this is something that outlasts potentially even Trump.
00:53:05.000Because social media censorship is one of the biggest problems of our time.
00:53:10.000And we outlined that yesterday on the show.
00:53:12.000If we can't provide And alternative to the mainstream narrative.
00:53:15.000If we can't present the truth of what's going on in the world, if we can't report that and get that out there, if we can't fashion and mold opinions and attitudes of people on a massive scale, then we can't compete in politics.
00:53:28.000And if we can't compete in politics, we can't change our destiny as a nation.
00:53:32.000So that's our number one priority right now in the short term is to get our people platformed, is to get our people re engaged on the internet.
00:53:41.000Because this is organization, mobilization, it's everything that is essential to any kind of Any movement that will be viable to challenge the existing power structure.
00:53:53.000So I said the silver lining is now something like that can come into being.
00:56:42.000I mean, that's easy to say, memorable.
00:56:45.000And, you know, the other thing is it can't be, there are some words that are a little bit tricky, you know, like, for example, we were considering doing friend, you know, F R E N, like we say friend.
00:56:57.000But then I'm thinking friend.tv or something like that.
00:57:00.000Well, are people going to spell it friend?
00:57:02.000Are people going to think it's called friend because it's friend dot?
00:57:07.000Anyway, so there's a lot of thought that goes into it.
00:57:09.000And so when I see all these other platforms come around, like Frank Speech, which is Mike Lindell's platform, Frank Speech, it's just a dumb name, in my opinion.
00:57:21.000You know, I think that it's got to be more ambitious than coming up with a partisan platform for conservatives to be on there.
00:57:30.000For Donald Trump supporters to get on there, we need a social media platform that everyone wants to get on.
00:57:36.000We want a social media platform that's a competitor, not something that's a ghetto for all the banned people or the conservatives, you know, all the boomer Trump supporters.
00:57:48.000So to brand it specifically about free speech or frank speech or frank talk or truth talk, I just think that's the wrong brand.
00:57:58.000I don't, from a branding point of view, from a marketing point of view, I don't see the appeal.
00:58:03.000You know, I don't go on Twitter to tell the truth.
00:58:06.000I don't go on Facebook to tell the truth or talk frankly.
00:58:10.000I go on Facebook to stalk people that I went to high school with.
00:58:15.000I go on Twitter to talk about, you know, taking a shit.
00:58:18.000Sometimes, and sometimes, you know, when I had a Twitter account, I would go on there to talk about politics and give an opinion or something.
00:58:25.000But it wasn't the act of telling revolutionary truths.
00:58:29.000It was about, it was really about self expression.
00:58:33.000It was about, there was a social aspect to it.
00:58:37.000Participating in a global conversation.
00:58:41.000It's really less about the truth, and it's really, it's in the name, it's a social media.
01:03:45.000You know, from the very beginning, the approach has to be to create a real social network, not a conservative message board, but a real social network, something that people want to be on.
01:03:58.000Maybe it has a video player that works.
01:04:31.000When Clubhouse came out, Twitter just made a Clubhouse feature on their own platform.
01:04:36.000When Snapchat came out, Facebook just stole the disappearing messages and the story feature, and so did Instagram.
01:04:45.000And when they can't steal the features, they just buy the competitor and put it under their brand.
01:04:50.000You know, instead of reinventing the wheel or making like a conservative message board or making like inferior Twitter for boomers, they should just make a social media platform designed for everybody.
01:05:02.000Don't brand it based on free speech, just come up with some generic name, and it'll just work a little bit better or be on par with and have a good UI with any of the other platforms.
01:05:12.000And they don't have restrictive terms of service.
01:05:15.000I mean, just from a strategy point of view, the implementation is complicated, but from a strategy point of view, it's really quite simple.
01:05:26.000Make Facebook, but without the terms of service.
01:05:29.000They don't have, you know, they don't patent having a social network posting posts online.
01:07:08.000They think like we're going to make a movie, but it'll be a conservative movie.
01:07:12.000And that's how you get a movie like God's Not Dead, which is really a fucking Fox News segment turned into a feature length movie with the usual cadre of C list, B list actors that show up to CPAC every year and the Republican National Convention, right?
01:07:31.000And the same thing when conservatives want to make a song.
01:07:35.000Well, liberals have control over the culture, so we'll make a song, and we'll make a song about.
01:07:41.000Donald Trump, we're going to make a song about liberal cancel culture.
01:09:49.000But I'm talking about like God's Not Dead.
01:09:52.000I'm talking about some of the cheapest.
01:09:54.000The cheapest stuff that is out there, the most grifty political stuff that is out there, where it's literally all just like, we're going to make a movie about a liberal professor that bullies a conservative student because he's an atheist.
01:10:13.000Like, that's a Sean Hannity segment that they turn into a movie.
01:10:42.000And if you believe what you're saying, and on a serious note, if we really believe what we're saying about free expression, then that's all you need to do.
01:10:53.000Conservatives always say that liberal cancel culture is ruining comedy, it's ruining art, their censorship is suffocating.
01:11:04.000Interesting ideas and interesting people, and all of that.
01:11:08.000If that's true, then you don't need to build Trump Twitter, just build Twitter without the banning.
01:11:13.000And the interesting people will flourish and people will flock to them.
01:11:19.000Joe Rogan will go there, Kanye West will go there, PewDiePie will go there.
01:11:24.000You know, the most interesting people in the world are the ones chafing at the censorship.
01:11:30.000They're reluctantly on these platforms because they're the only game in town.
01:11:34.000Well, make a platform where the next genius can rise up.
01:11:38.000Make a platform where, in the absence of restrictive terms of service, the next great content creator can gain a following, and that is going to be the engine of the platform.
01:11:49.000And people, whether they're ideologically conservative or liberal, they will go there to find the content.
01:11:56.000That will be the home for the content.
01:12:05.000In the business sense, content is king.
01:12:07.000Content is the engine of the platform.0.98
01:12:09.000So if you build something, That is a vehicle in the sense that it works, it's not a pain in the ass to use, it doesn't have a stupid ass name, it's not just cringe, maga boomers weaning their usual nonsense.
01:12:24.000If it is a place where a real creator can go and thrive, that will be the engine of growth.
01:12:31.000And if it's something that, like the other platforms, is like addictive and designed to like hack your brain, you know, then we can get a top 10 social media platform with 100, 200, 300 million users.
01:12:44.000It will be an ecosystem, a global ecosystem, where conservatives can thrive.
01:12:52.000But we got to drop this nonsense about the free speech platform and calling it Frank Talk and Truth Social and Trump Twitter and all that kind of stuff.
01:13:31.000Parlor had the Mercer family behind it, and Dan Bongino, and some other notable people who I'm not really at liberty to say.
01:13:40.000They had a lot of backing, and Parlor doesn't even work.
01:13:43.000They've been at it for years, and it doesn't even work.
01:13:46.000In January, they were still running on Amazon web hosting services.
01:13:51.000So, you know, I don't know how serious this is going to be, but it looks like it's more serious than anything else that's come along so far.
01:14:00.000Getter just had a massive data leak, and, you know, so it's the woes of alt tech.
01:15:04.000And neither should going on your platform.
01:15:07.000Neither should it be that way on your platform.
01:15:09.000Going on a social media platform should not be necessarily a political act, an act of political expression, or exercise in political loyalty or something.
01:15:22.000The point of the social network is the connectivity, the expression, all of that, personal expression, and that is what it should be designed around that user experience.
01:20:09.000You just have to find a 25, 26 year old individual.
01:20:15.000But hey, if you're like that, maybe I could find somebody like that.
01:20:20.000And when I'm ready to get married in 5, 10, 15 years, I'll be able to go to war torn Ukraine or Moldova or something and find some kind of a wife.
01:21:22.000Connecticut Groyper says When you go to a Jesuit high school and your theology teacher makes you write an essay on homosexuality, anti Semitism, or slavery.
01:22:09.000Because when I was growing up, I was very controversial, and my teachers loved me.
01:22:13.000I remember being in like macroeconomics and debunking the wage gap and stuff, and my teacher was loving it.
01:22:21.000It was kind of funny because when I was in high school, when I was a senior, I took economics, and the actual get this, you're going to love this.
01:22:33.000The guy that teaches economics, who has a degree in economics, I think he moved to China or something.
01:22:40.000Or he, for whatever reason, he could not teach that class that year.
01:22:45.000So, you know who they brought in to teach economics?
01:22:48.000You know who they taught in to teach AP macro and microeconomics?
01:22:54.000Replacing the Chinese guy who had a degree in the subject, they brought in a football coach to teach AP college level macro and microeconomics.0.65
01:25:08.000You know, like all the other AP teachers, they were on top of it, you know, they knew their stuff, they worked in the field, and all that.
01:25:16.000And then this guy's like, hey, I just came back from football practice.
01:25:19.000But there's something about these, I don't know if it's a football thing, I don't know if it's a Chad thing, maybe you're six foot seven and good looking, and it's like, The world is your oyster.
01:31:14.000Steve Walker says a new Trump platform is going to be gay and lame because if it's available on mainstream platforms like Apple Store and Google, it will have to be almost as censored as Twitter and Facebook.0.53
01:31:25.000Yeah, not necessarily because Apple is afraid of antitrust.
01:31:30.000They are afraid of, like, they are a little bit threatened by legal action.
01:31:36.000Like, they just had that ruling against them with the Epic case.
01:31:40.000And Parler was threatening litigation, I believe, on this.
01:31:48.000In fact, hopefully, they force a confrontation on this issue because, yeah, you're right.
01:31:53.000It's not going to work if Apple dictates the terms based on the Apple App Store.
01:31:57.000You know, it is a non starter to have a free speech platform.
01:32:02.000If you can't have mobile, if you can't have a mobile app, and if Apple gatekeeps mobile applications because they control the market with iOS, you know, then you just can't have a free speech platform.
01:38:23.000Save some pussy for the rest of us, stinky nigga.0.99
01:38:27.000Pat Buchanan says Can I just give a quick shout out to Papa Pat Buchanan for predicting everything that's happening right now in his 2001 book, The Death of the West, 20 years before Mark Levin wrote American Marxism?0.99
01:40:38.000High school Groyper says, Keck, I would have to tell my mom that it's MAGA night at the White House and that Q is calling me and I must go.
01:42:11.000Tenrio says, I'm on the fence in regards to whether or not Trump's social media endeavors will work out, but win or lose, it will make a great meme.
01:42:19.000I bought into the acquisition company, not financial advice.
01:46:23.000Aries says I had been harassing my son's school district and the office of Ron DeSantis for months.
01:46:28.000Since they forced a mask mandate at my son's elementary school, he finally came through for me and other parents a couple weeks ago and threatened the teacher's salaries if they didn't drop the mandate.
01:48:28.000It's one of these incel things, you know, because some people in my life, they've got jerseys and they have a basic knowledge of the game and an awareness of the players, a consciousness of.
01:48:39.000The players and the standings of the various players and teams, and then they'll call me an incel.
01:48:44.000Because, you know, here's the thing that you got to imagine I'm somebody that can't really get along with normal people, because I'm not normal.
01:48:51.000And also, I'm somebody that if, like, if I dated a girl and then I went to meet her parents, I would be a total weirdo.
01:48:59.000I can't talk to dad about the game, I can't make small talk about my work or, you know, stuff like that.
01:49:07.000And people have the audacity to call me an incel.
01:49:11.000You know, and they're like, hey, how about those Jets, huh?
01:51:59.000Singhas Bigel says, Ho is going to be seething when they figure out Nick's plan to marry Soph in order to produce the Hyperborean Overman.0.73
01:52:06.000I don't think the Hyperborean genetic material is in Soph's womb.
01:52:26.000So long as you don't engage with them in an ideal society, you could play along for the end of getting married, but none of us volunteered for society, blah, blah, blah.
01:52:58.000So I don't know where you get off even saying that.
01:53:02.000Wow, that's just maybe everybody's drinking too much fluoride tonight.
01:53:06.000Diversity viewers says, I agree with you on conservative platforms will only be a version of Twitter or Facebook, but just being able to say socialism sucks.0.81
01:53:15.000Okay, yeah, you don't get it, but thanks.