00:00:26.000Our featured story tonight is about Elon Musk, and it's interesting that we're talking about it tonight.
00:00:33.000Just yesterday, people were asking about this.
00:00:36.000But today, Elon Musk sold, or rather, it was revealed that earlier this year, Elon Musk sold 7 million shares of Tesla stock to raise $7 billion in order to potentially buy Twitter, which is a huge deal.
00:00:57.000And we talked all night last night about what it's going to take for us to get Trump in office in 24 and save the country and all that.
00:01:26.000It was announced that in order to, in the event that Elon Musk loses his lawsuit with Twitter and is forced to follow through with the purchase, he said that he needed to have the cash, needed to have the assets.
00:01:40.000In the event that that is the outcome of the suit, so he's got now seven billion dollars cash in the bank for this purpose to buy Twitter.
00:01:52.000Again, we don't know what the outcome of the suit will be, and we don't know ultimately how it's going to play out if he'll be forced to buy Twitter and forced to buy Twitter according to the provisions of the deal he made earlier this year, or if he wins the suit and doesn't have to buy Twitter but buys it in some other way, we don't know.
00:02:16.000But if he's selling the Twitter stock to have the cash on hand in the event that it's necessary, it looks like all the pieces are coming together to make that a reality.
00:03:02.000There is a prosecutor in Fulton County, Georgia, investigating Trump for his conduct in 2020.
00:03:09.000There is this prosecutor in New York State, the attorney general, who is investigating Trump for fraud, and that's what this deposition is about.
00:03:17.000Now there's this new issue of the allegedly Classified documents which were improperly transported from the White House to Mar a Lago.
00:03:27.000So there's a lot of legal issues going on with Trump right now, and they're all different.
00:03:31.000They're all coming from different jurisdictions, they're all coming from different people, and they're all concerning different things.
00:03:39.000The Fulton County investigation is about President Trump's call with the governor, the governor of Georgia during the 2020 election.
00:03:48.000The raid at Mar a Lago is this new thing about these documents.
00:06:04.000And Republicans, as always, get totally screwed over, particularly Trump, not just Republicans, but Trump in particular.
00:06:13.000And we just keep getting slapped around as the week goes on.
00:06:16.000Trump gets raided by the FBI on Monday, and then on Wednesday he gets deposed, and now that's going to turn into some big legal issue.
00:06:26.000But at least we're selling, at least Steven Crowder is selling the t shirts.
00:06:31.000It does make me feel a little bit better.
00:06:33.000When I see the walls closing in on dissent in America, When I see the bottom falling out from under Donald Trump and his allies, and I see a new interloper, a new never Trump avatar rising up to take his place, I feel good knowing that Steven Crowder and others are at war selling t shirts with discount promo codes, telling us that we're at war, telling us that the FBI freaking sucks.
00:08:17.000We're going to broadcast to our enemies.
00:08:22.000Without any kind of college degree at our high school diploma jobs, that we are not okay with what is happening.
00:08:31.000And I think eventually people are going to start to listen.
00:08:35.000One of these days, people are going to read these graphic shirts and they're going to watch enough Crowder and they're going to watch enough of this other stuff and they're going to say, you know what, maybe it's time to stop trying to kill all conservatives.
00:08:47.000So I feel as I don't know about you guys, but I feel very good.
00:08:51.000After the events of the last 48 hours.
00:09:16.000And another reminder tomorrow I'll be going live a little bit earlier than normal.
00:09:22.000I announced this yesterday, and this is a reminder that tomorrow I will be streaming at 7 o'clock Central Time with Lauren Southern and Destiny right here on Cozy TV.
00:11:17.000Interns, minions, draw up a dossier, draw up a report on the three hour Lauren Southern stream because I'm not going to have a chance to watch that.
00:11:25.000Still, weeks later, because I have all this other stupid, stupid bullshit that I have to deal with.
00:12:00.000Maybe we'll talk about how me and destiny became best friends.
00:12:04.000Maybe we'll talk about the weird sexual dynamic between the three of us.
00:12:09.000Maybe we'll talk about the weird dynamic politically between the three of us that we've got a Nazi, Christian conservative, And a female bimbo on the stream.
00:12:20.000Maybe we'll talk about the interplay of those big ideas.
00:12:24.000Stephen Gassimal Bonnell, who is a full on exterminationist.
00:15:05.000Potentially not this coming weekend, but next weekend, I may be doing an IRL live stream with the man, the myth, the National Socialist, Stephen Bonnell, the terror of Miami.
00:15:21.000So we'll be doing a little IRL stream with him.
00:15:23.000I'll get to meet him in person for the first time.
00:16:45.000Horrible to watch, not funny, not interesting, not cool.
00:16:50.000And this entire show and this entire movement, and probably a lot of you guys, came around in the Trump era, in the post Trump era, which is after 2015, after he announced.
00:17:42.000Because without him, it's just, we're just getting, this entire country is just getting gayed up all the time.
00:17:49.000It's just getting gayed up and womaned up.
00:17:52.000And all the time, every day, and SNL's not funny, and Star Wars sucks, and we can't use Twitter, and I just want to blow my head off without the big man.
00:20:41.000I'm talking about the election laws, I'm talking about the tax code, I'm talking about business law.
00:20:48.000We have gone to the point in America where the law and the judiciary is so broken that it's really just a matter of discretion.
00:20:57.000And there are statutes that are so broad and so complex that it's really just as simple as if you're a targeted individual, high powered lawyers, high powered prosecutors, they can open up their big book of laws and they can find something.
00:21:34.000If they can't get Alex Jones to stop doing his show with censorship and the rest of it, well, they just pour over everything he said for 20 years and find the one halfway viable defamation case and they demand $150 million.
00:21:53.000Find a creative way to indict him for January 6th.
00:21:56.000Well, just throw the book at him in every other way.
00:21:59.000And so, like I said, there's at least five legal matters that Trump is engaged in right now.
00:22:05.000There is the criminal probe into his conduct during Stop the Steal on January 6th by the Department of Justice.
00:22:12.000There is an effort by legislators to unseal his tax returns and get access to his tax returns.
00:22:20.000There is an effort by a prosecutor in Georgia looking into his conduct in Stop the Steal, particularly.
00:22:27.000His call with Brian Kemp as the governor of Georgia two years ago.
00:22:31.000There is now this new thing as of Monday where the FBI raided Mar a Lago because of confidential documents that were transported to his residence.
00:22:40.000And now there's this thing which we're covering tonight in New York State where there's a civil investigation into whether or not he inflated the value of his assets in order to get favorable tax treatment and favorable credit.
00:22:55.000And that will then be referred to, and that will be referred as a criminal matter.
00:23:00.000Pending the outcome of this civil matter.
00:23:05.000And so, like I said, the gist of what's going on here is this is lawfare.
00:23:09.000This is warfare by abusing the law and using a broken judiciary, using the vast resources of the state and of superpowered corporations at their disposal to try to hurt Trump.
00:23:22.000Because here's the thing if a prosecutor, if the Department of Justice, if these kinds of powerful institutions are coming after you, you have to defend yourself.
00:23:59.000They create all this legal risk and legal exposure for Trump, and this necessitates a response.
00:24:05.000And so, while Trump may want to run his campaign or may want to run his business or whatever it is, He has got to now be engaged on the day to day with five extremely dangerous legal matters at the highest levels, which are very costly in time and energy.
00:24:26.000And so, this is a development in this matter in New York State.
00:24:30.000As I said, he was ordered by a judge to participate in this deposition, him and his kids in New York, about the asset valuation.
00:24:40.000And he went to New York and he was there this week while Mar-a-Lago was being raided.
00:24:46.000And he testified today but pled the fifth on every question.
00:24:51.000It says, quote, former U.S. President Donald Trump has declined to answer questions as part of a New York State investigation into his family's business practices.
00:25:01.000Mr. Trump had sued in an effort to block the interview at the New York Attorney General's office on Wednesday.
00:25:07.000State officials accused the Trump organization of misleading authorities about the value of its assets in order to get favorable loans and tax breaks.
00:25:16.000Mr. Trump denies wrongdoing and has called the civil probe a witch hunt.
00:25:21.000An hour after he was pictured arriving at the Manhattan office where he was questioned under oath, Mr. Trump released a statement in which he criticized New York Attorney General Letitia James and the broader investigation.
00:25:33.000Ms. James' office confirmed that the interview took place on Wednesday and that Mr. Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination.
00:25:41.000While the Attorney General's investigation is a civil one, a parallel investigation is being carried out by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, which could result in criminal charges.
00:25:53.000So, You have the Attorney General of New York State pursuing a civil case against Trump and a deposition's testimony in a civil matter.
00:26:03.000And the Manhattan DA is going after Trump with a criminal probe.
00:26:09.000So it's technically five or six things that he's embroiled in.
00:26:13.000Legal analysts suggest Mr. Trump may have declined to answer questions on Wednesday because his answers could have been used against him in that criminal investigation.
00:26:23.000The questioning lasted around four hours and included lengthy breaks.
00:26:27.000Mr. Trump began by reading a statement into the record condemning the attorney general and her investigation and invoking his Fifth Amendment rights.
00:26:35.000Ms. James' office has said that the depositions were among the last remaining investigative procedures to be carried out.
00:26:41.000Once the investigation concludes, the state attorney general could decide to bring a lawsuit seeking financial penalties against Mr. Trump or his company.
00:26:52.000So, this is what Trump is going through right now.
00:27:22.000So if you got into this when Trump announced, if you started paying attention to politics or started to become right wing when Trump announced, this is a six, seven year journey.
00:27:33.000And a lot of people along the way have, for various reasons, decided that maybe it's not worth it, or maybe we don't really have a chance of winning, or maybe politics is futile to begin with, or maybe Trump isn't who he said he was, or all these kinds of things.
00:27:52.000And so, certainly, a lot of people that were paying attention, a lot of people that supported Trump in 15, people like Mike Cernovich or others, seven years later don't really support Trump anymore, and maybe they don't even like politics anymore.
00:28:07.000And my takeaway tonight is the war is still going on.
00:28:13.000Although it's gotten difficult, although it's gotten nightmarish with the DOJ investigation and the national security state coming after everybody and censorship and debanking, it has gotten as bad as everybody said it would years ago.
00:28:44.000Trump is still a year and a half, whereas everybody who went on January 6th, like me, I went on January 6th and I dealt with a lot of stuff, but I was able to go home.
00:28:54.000You know, I was there at the January 6th protest and I was put on the no fly list and I had my money frozen and all kinds of other things.
00:29:03.000I got subpoenaed, I was investigated by the FBI.
00:29:07.000But, you know, knock on wood, here I am a year and a half later and I'm at home and I haven't been charged.
00:29:24.000Some people are still in jail, although not many.
00:29:27.000Some people, like Baked Alaska, have been charged and will probably go to prison.
00:29:33.000And you look at somebody like Donald Trump, who 18 months later is still in serious legal peril in multiple jurisdictions for all kinds of things civil matters, criminal matters, state matters, federal matters.
00:29:49.000And the point is, this is not for the faint of heart.
00:29:54.000And when you're in a war, you're going to get attacked and you're going to have to make sacrifices and there's going to be casualties and you're going to be injuries and there's going to be deaths.
00:30:05.000And if we want to make the country the way that we want it to be, all of this is necessary.
00:30:13.000Many people have to suffer a lot before things are going to get better.
00:30:18.000And a lot of people seem to be okay with that idea in theory.
00:30:21.000But then, when it comes to practice, a lot of people don't like it.
00:30:25.000And a lot of people start to say, okay, well, I don't know.
00:30:28.000I mean, this is fun and all, but I have a life to live, and so on.
00:30:34.000And the Trump example is instructive because if it could happen to him, it means that if he goes down for this, and if there's nothing that replaces him, it means that there's no resistance to what's happening in the country.
00:30:51.000This is the guy that ran the impossible campaign.
00:30:55.000Reoriented the Republican Party and so on.
00:30:59.000And if they could bury this guy in lawsuits and charge him and prevent him from running and censor him, and if they keep this guy down and it's a meaningful defeat and there's no comeback and there's no alternative, there's no viable successor, it says that resistance is impossible.
00:31:19.000And it says that, you know, for all the people that want to go on and just live their lives, for all the people that would like to just abdicate their duty to fight in this conflict, we're all going to have to do it under the complete domination and conquest of the left.
00:31:38.000Because this is the example that was set by them for the last person to be the most successful in trying to fight them.
00:31:46.000If Trump couldn't do it in 16, if Trump couldn't fight through over the past four years, if this is the fate of the left, Of anybody that rises and stands against the establishment.
00:31:55.000And if people allow that to happen, it's over.
00:32:35.000Being the one independent media outlet out there, completely independent, saying the kinds of things that he says conspiracies and going against globalists and that kind of thing, even decades ago, opposing the Iraq War, and even when that was unpopular among conservatives.
00:33:08.000You know, he could have never worked again.
00:33:12.000But, point being, is, you know, instead of in 2016 running for president, he could have just played golf for the rest of his life and been a celebrity and gone to the award shows and been on Twitter and been funny and hosted his Celebrity Apprentice show and just made more money for his kids.
00:33:34.000And now he's in depositions and his home is being raided and he's the subject of a criminal probe.
00:33:39.000And his old assistants and allies in the White House are out there on TV blasting him and talking about him grabbing the steering wheel and throwing his lunch against the wall.
00:34:09.000Some of the reaction was to rally behind Trump, and some of the reaction was to say, we got to stand by him, and he's a martyr, and he's a symbol, and so on.
00:34:17.000And there were a lot of people consistently over the past 18 months that have said, Trump needs to step aside.
00:34:42.000And Trump has taken on more heat than anybody in the world over the past six years.
00:34:46.000And he's still standing and he's still in the fight trying to mount a comeback.
00:34:51.000And people are ready to say, well, because he imposed the sort of necessary costs, because, or incurred, I should say, because Trump went out there and took the flack and got.
00:35:06.000The response and the kind of attacks that you get from being the tip of the spear, well, that sort of disqualifies him, and so we got to go with somebody else.
00:35:13.000You're not going to get somebody that's going to change the country if they don't get attacked.
00:35:18.000Trump and Alex Jones are under this kind of legal scrutiny.
00:35:46.000The consequences, the necessary consequences, the necessary reaction that you face by being outspoken and correct and effective, that is such a strong negative and liability that we got to just go and do something else.
00:36:01.000Well, you know what you're going to have to necessarily do then?
00:37:05.000If you say that the enemy is so strong and so overwhelming, and if we fight them, we'll lose, so we should just take a path of least resistance where we don't have to fight them and therefore don't have to face them head to head, that's called concession, that's called surrender.
00:38:38.000It is run by cosmopolitan coastal elites, whom Sean Hannity works for.
00:38:44.000And he keeps his advertisers, and he keeps his platform, and he keeps his patronage.
00:38:49.000And you don't see him getting sued for defamation.
00:38:51.000You don't see people going after his real estate empire, his business.
00:38:55.000You don't see people going after his family.
00:38:57.000And that's because he's not telling the truth, he's not fighting in the war.
00:39:03.000And the Sean Hannity's of the world, and the Ron DeSantis of the world, and the Marco Rubio's of the world, and all these other characters, they could go on being the useless resistance.
00:39:13.000They could go on being the useless opposition.
00:39:16.000And Hannity can do his show and say that Biden's ill.
00:39:19.000And Rubio can support Gang of Eight, but then say he's America first.
00:39:23.000And Ron DeSantis can pretend to be the bane of the left's existence while being endorsed by The Atlantic and The Washington Post and National Review.
00:39:33.000And they could do all of those things without changing the trajectory of this country by one degree.
00:39:40.000They could go on pretending to be the opposition and doing their little charade.
00:39:44.000Without actually, in a revolutionary way, challenging the way this country is run.
00:39:49.000And that's why they're allowed to do it, and that's why it's not them being deposed, attacked, sued, probed, conspired against, so on.
00:40:01.000And the point I'm trying to make is this this is a time where we need to decide if we're going to fight.
00:40:08.000Are we going to infiltrate the institutions?
00:40:13.000Are we going to join the Trump campaign?
00:40:15.000Are we going to do whatever's necessary and suffer the consequences?
00:40:19.000And that doesn't mean throwing ourselves against a brick wall and being unreasonable and being suicidal and not being prudent.
00:40:29.000But there's a real question that people have to ask themselves, and it's a question of character.
00:40:34.000Are we individually, personally, willing to make the sacrifices, whatever they may be necessary, and take a chance to fight in and try to win this war?
00:41:02.000We have to be very honest with ourselves about what our answer is.
00:41:06.000Because there's a lot of people that say, well, I'm really just going to run for the hills and not do anything, but that's just another way of fighting.
00:42:08.000And so people just need to be honest with themselves about what our goal is.
00:42:11.000If our goal is to grift, if our goal is to grift off the right wing and make a little bit of money and try and make a career for ourselves and advance ourselves or do some other thing that we want to do in our lives.
00:42:26.000Which is be left alone, make a nice living, have a family, whatever, and not be in this fight.
00:42:33.000You know, people can do that, but they've got to tell themselves that that's what they're doing.
00:42:37.000Otherwise, if you sign up with the Trump 24 effort, if you sign up with Stop the Steal and all the rest of it, that's a decision to be in the fight.
00:42:47.000And then, you know, on that, I look at these depositions, I look at the Alex Jones thing, and suffice to say, it's getting real.
00:42:54.000Okay, that, to summarize, In this time, in this period, it's getting real.
00:44:36.000These are the ones that are going to bring us across the finish line or at least pass a baton eventually.
00:44:42.000The idea that we're going to flip over and just, well, you know, The whole revolution thing didn't work out.
00:44:48.000I'm just going to go work for Fox News and be a good guy, good controlled opposition.
00:44:52.000I'm just going to go work for DeSantis.
00:44:54.000I'm just going to go work for Turning Point and I'm just going to be a good little controlled opposition and not talk about the globalists, not talk about Jewish power, not talk about race, not talk about all these things, not try to end the wars and reverse everything that's going on.
00:45:10.000That's a question because if they break our spirit in this moment, then the revolution's done.
00:45:17.000And everybody that decided to leave, they're just going to be.
00:45:21.000They're going to be roped right back into the controlled opposition that existed before.
00:45:25.000And I said this was going to be the number one threat for years.
00:45:29.000I said this would be the number one issue the establishment is going to get people to buy back into business as usual politics by imposing a huge cost on revolution.
00:45:41.000They're going to say, you know what, this Trump business, it's too hard, it's too tough, and look at how that turned out.
00:46:27.000And that's how they're going to get people right back on the hamster wheel for the next cycle and the cycle after that and the cycle after that.
00:46:34.000Well, everything remains fundamentally the same the mass immigration, the free trade, the deindustrialization, the social liberalism and social revolution going on.
00:46:46.000So it's really, as I've been saying over the past couple of weeks, it's all or nothing.
00:46:50.000It comes down to 24 and we've already got our guy.
00:46:53.000So Trump is under a lot of intense pressure, but that's because.
00:46:57.000That's because he's the only one that can win.
00:48:10.000That's happening in the major cities, and that's happening in the big states, and that's happening in the In Washington.
00:48:17.000And the reason they're drudging up these pre election issues, these five, six, seven decades old issues, is totally arbitrary and it's totally political and targeted.
00:48:36.000These are horrible human beings wrecking one of the great American cities and great American states.
00:48:43.000And they're so corrupt, they're using their office to prosecute Trump.
00:48:49.000To prevent him from changing things, to prevent him from running for office and changing things.
00:48:55.000And they're doing the same thing in the Department of Justice and the same thing in Georgia and the same thing everywhere else he's being investigated.
00:50:43.000Here's a guy that comes from the manosphere, comes from a cultural sphere, gets involved in the Trump election, and does fabulously well, becomes famous, makes money, makes documentaries, writes books, makes a fortune off of this.
00:50:59.000And before that, he wasn't making a great living, and he was getting paid alimony by his ex wife.
00:51:06.000Now he's a New York Times bestselling author.
00:51:07.000He's being interviewed and all this kind of stuff because he's a Trump guru.
00:51:11.000And now here we are four years later, and Cernovich is now like some kind of political operative.
00:51:16.000And now he's just voicing his opinion on DeSantis is great.
00:51:20.000And it's like, so here you were a cultural guy, made a bunch of money off of this Trump cultural phenomenon.
00:51:26.000And now when that becomes a liability for the Twitter platform and for other things, oh, now you're some political pundit supporting DeSantis?
00:53:20.000Because it's this confounding logic I see all the time where people look at Trump and Alex and Tucker or others and they'll say, and less so Tucker, I have to say.
00:53:32.000But they'll look at a guy like Trump and they'll say, oh, well, he's being attacked, so he's not our strongest candidate.
00:53:39.000It's like, okay, but he's being attacked because he's the guy that's effective.
00:55:21.000I want to get into our featured story, which is about Elon Musk and the Twitter purchase.
00:55:27.000And, you know, I said this is a big white pill, and it kind of is, and it kind of isn't.
00:55:33.000So, as you know, Elon Musk began this effort earlier this year to buy Twitter in order to take it private and make it a free speech platform.
00:55:44.000And so he made an offer to Twitter and he offered to buy the entirety of the company, 100% of the company, for $46 billion at approximately $54 per share.
00:55:57.000And he forced the board to accept his proposal and the board approved the proposal and ordered the shareholders to agree to the proposal.
00:56:06.000And it looked like it was all set to go, and Elon Musk was going to execute the deal and buy Twitter and take it private and make the changes.
00:56:13.000And then Musk said that there's a problem because Twitter misrepresented the value of the company.
00:56:23.000Twitter misrepresented the number of spam accounts, and so they misrepresented the actual size of the real user base on the platform, which is a huge problem for the deal.
00:56:35.000If the company is valued at $46 billion based on Their user base minus the 10% or the 5% that they claim are bots.
00:56:47.000But in actuality, there's however many users minus 10% or 20% or 25% of the users.
00:56:56.000That means that they manipulated and inflated the value of the company.
00:57:02.000The value of the company is tied to the user base.
00:57:06.000If they misrepresented the number of spam or the proportion of spam, then they misrepresented the number of users by a lot.
00:57:15.000By an order of magnitude, by a multiple of two or three.
00:57:19.000And if they misrepresented the number of users and the valuation was based on this flawed number, then you can't buy the company for that price.
00:57:29.000If Twitter's worth $46 billion with 5% spam, what is it worth with 10 or 15 or 20% spam?
00:57:36.000It's probably worth 5, 10 or 15% less.
00:57:40.000Not perfectly, but something like that.
00:57:42.000That's what Elon Musk said that he wants to pull out of the deal.
00:57:46.000But that's a problem because the deal says that any party that wants to pull out of the deal or cancel it has to pay a $1 billion fine.
00:57:55.000So Elon Musk is sort of trapped in this deal where he has to buy it.
00:57:59.000He made the commitment, he signed the deal, the board agreed to it.
00:58:02.000Now he has to execute the deal or else he has to pay a $1 billion penalty.
00:58:07.000So Elon Musk is suing Twitter to get out of the deal and saying that he has a right to leave the deal because Twitter breached the contract by misrepresenting the number of spam users.
00:58:19.000And then not being forthright in giving Elon Musk the data about the spam.
00:58:24.000Twitter is arguing that they were being forthright and they did communicate the correct amount of spam, and so that Elon Musk has to file through with the deal.
00:58:35.000And the big development today is that Elon Musk has sold $7 billion worth of Tesla stock in order to buy Twitter if, over the course of this litigation, he'll be forced to execute the deal.
00:58:49.000It says, quote, Elon Musk has sold $6.9 billion worth of shares in Tesla to raise cash amid a legal showdown with Twitter over a failed $44 billion takeover deal.
00:59:02.000He disposed of some 7.92 million shares on August 5th, according to a series of regulatory filings after the U.S. markets closed yesterday.
00:59:12.000Amid mounting speculation over the reason for the sale, Musk posted a series of tweets explaining that the move was necessary in case he's compelled to complete the $44 billion takeover of Twitter.
00:59:26.000He said that it's important to avoid an emergency sale of Tesla stock.
00:59:30.000The billionaire also responded yes when asked whether he would purchase the shares again if the Twitter takeover does not take place.
00:59:38.000So, in other words, he's saying that if he's not forced to buy Twitter, he'll just put all this money back in Tesla, which says that there's no reason he sold the stock to buy Twitter.
00:59:51.000And at the minimum, I would say this is cause for optimism because.
00:59:56.000He recognizes there is a good possibility that he'll be buying Twitter.
01:00:02.000And remember, the penalty is a billion dollars.
01:00:07.000So he's not selling a billion dollars worth of Tesla in the event that he has to pay the penalty to get out of the deal.
01:00:16.000He sold seven billion dollars worth of Tesla stock in the event that he is forced to execute the deal and buy the company.
01:00:24.000Now, he doesn't have to buy the company.
01:00:26.000He could, if he wanted to, leave the company and just pay a billion or leave the deal.
01:00:34.000You know, if the court says you can't leave the deal, Elon Musk could simply rip it up, but then he'd have to pay a billion dollar penalty.
01:00:42.000So he didn't sell a billion dollars in the event that he loses the suit and has to pay a billion to get out of the deal and be done with it.
01:00:50.000He liquidated $7 billion worth of stock in the event that he loses the suit.
01:00:55.000And instead of ripping up the deal and paying the penalty, Loses the suit and then goes along with the court order to execute the deal, in which case he's got to put up a significant amount of cash.
01:01:08.000So, in other words, if he loses the suit and he didn't want to buy Twitter, he could rip up the deal, pay the billion dollar fine.
01:01:17.000He probably would have sold a billion dollars worth of stock to do that, a billion and change.
01:01:23.000Because he could win the suit, in which case he's out of the deal and he doesn't have to pay anything.
01:01:27.000If he loses the suit, he has to buy Twitter or Pay a billion dollar penalty.
01:01:32.000So if he wins the suit, he doesn't need to sell the stocks.
01:01:36.000If he loses the suit, the only money that he'd be paying is either a billion to get out of the deal, a penalty, or significantly more to follow through with the deal.
01:01:47.000If he's selling seven billion worth of Tesla stock, I think there is some sort of implication within that.
01:01:54.000I don't know how much we should look into that, how much we should read into that, but it almost suggests that if he loses the suit, he's not going to pay the billion penalty.
01:02:04.000He's going to secure the financing and he's going to pay his own amount of cash to follow through with and buy Twitter for $44 billion.
01:02:12.000That's what it looks like to me, at least.
01:02:14.000And I don't know if that's the correct take.
01:02:18.000I don't know if there's some other consideration there.
01:02:20.000But that's what it would seem like to me at this point if he was extremely confident that he would win the suit, maybe he wouldn't sell anything.
01:02:29.000And what's more, if he thought he was going to lose the suit but had no intention of buying Twitter regardless, maybe he'd sell a billion dollars worth of stock.
01:02:38.000If he's liquidating $7 billion, it suggests that there's a possibility that, pending the outcome of the suit, he may be buying Twitter.
01:03:14.000All the major social media censor, and they all censor politically, and the censorship has no recourse.
01:03:20.000And all the lawsuits have failed, and the Supreme Court hasn't weighed in, and the government hasn't weighed in, and it just seems to be like no hope on that issue.
01:03:30.000And so nobody's really talking about it anymore.
01:03:32.000All the people that will be censored have been censored for the most part, and the people that will not be censored don't care anymore.
01:03:42.000I don't see Charlie Kirk or any of them talking about censorship because they're good.
01:04:03.000And aside from these performative things where they get a 12 hour suspension unless they delete a certain tweet and they say they got banned, there's no concern there.
01:04:12.000But this remains one of the number one issues because this is where politics happens.
01:04:25.000And so, if reactionaries can't be on TikTok, and if you can't find our content on YouTube, and if it can't be searched on Google, and if you can't find it on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, then this information isn't getting out there, and these opinions are not being adopted.
01:04:43.000And at the furthest extent, then people doing it can't make a business off of it, and they can't make money, and if they can't make money, they won't do it.
01:04:52.000And so, big tech censorship is just completely snuffing out.
01:04:57.000It is to completely snuff out any form of alternative information or opinion.
01:05:04.000It is designed to snuff out dissent, prevent people from hearing it, prevent people from finding it, prevent people from funding it, prevent people from spreading it and creating it.
01:05:16.000It is designed to completely dampen and suffocate any kind of dissent against the government and the regime consensus.
01:05:29.000And ultimately, in the long run, technology will be here longer than Trump.
01:05:34.000Technology will be here longer than you and me.
01:05:38.000It'll be around longer than the present political crisis.
01:05:43.000And so, whatever the outcome is over the next couple of years, and to the extent that that's going to influence big tech, that's great.
01:05:50.000But this is one of these issues that, if it's not solved, given enough time, it will prevent dissent from happening, period.
01:05:57.000And it's only getting worse over time.
01:06:00.000So, it is imperative that we get some kind of a beachhead.
01:06:03.000We don't need to take over all of it, but it's imperative that we get some kind of a beachhead in the digital world, in the big tech ecosystem, to spread information, to spread opinion, to raise money, to do these things, or else you're just not going to have dissent within five or 10 years.
01:06:35.000Because you think about it, what kind of media existed before the advent of social media and the universalization of social media with mobile phones?
01:06:45.000Rush Limbaugh was about the best that you had.
01:07:13.000You had these kinds of things, which has existed in.
01:07:17.000Circles of people that were in the know and intellectuals, but that's it.
01:07:22.000And there was this brief period from around 2014 to 2020 where you have this real renaissance with Gamergate and the Trump election and those kinds of things.
01:07:33.000YouTubers and drama and all of that culminated in a real revolution, a real resistance movement.
01:07:41.000And just as quickly as that emerged, the regime caught on and began to put the lid on it in 2016.
01:07:47.000And that's accelerated to the point now where.
01:07:49.000It parallels where we were before 2012.
01:07:52.000We had before 2012, parallels what you have after 2020, which is a finite, controlled number of options, which are all dependent on the regime.
01:08:04.000And that media ecosystem, that dynamic will far outlive, it will outlive by a long shot Trump and everything going on right now.
01:08:13.000If we get Twitter back, that means that we can have a beachhead in the digital world.
01:08:18.000That means that we can, in some sense, on fumes, continue what was going on in 2014.
01:08:24.000In the hopes that we could get Trump across the finish line and find a more permanent solution.
01:08:28.000But that's really the dynamic of this right now get it for long enough to get someone in office to change it forever, or else the gains that we make now will be reversed over time and it won't even matter.
01:08:46.000So, Elon Musk getting control of Twitter, I don't know that it's necessary, but it is extremely consequential on the prospect that Trump could get in in 24 and fix tech censorship at the government level.
01:09:27.000We really got to hope that he pulls his deal off when we get back on Twitter within a year or so, because otherwise.
01:09:33.000I mean, you see where, if you zoom out, you see where all of this is headed, with or without Trump, with or without politics, with the technology.
01:09:43.000It almost operates at a higher level than everything else we just talked about.
01:09:48.000So that's that, but I want to move on.
01:09:49.000I want to take a look at our super chats, and we'll see what you guys have to say about all this.
01:09:55.000So let me bring on my water, I'll get my headphones out.
01:10:00.000We'll see what the super chatters have to say.
01:10:05.000Last night was a little rough, I'm not going to lie.
01:13:21.000I'd like to nominate Omar Mateen for the Fauci CDC Medal.
01:13:25.000His groundbreaking work in preventive disease control at Pulse Florida was unappreciated for a while, but now we see he was trying to save us from the monkeypox epidemic.
01:14:57.000You shouldn't be joking about that online.
01:15:00.000I'm saying that for your benefit because everybody thinks that talking about violence is funny online, but it isn't because they are watching all of us.
01:15:11.000And if violence ever happens, anybody who ever posted stupid shit like that online, including me, unfortunately, is going to get raped by the government.
01:15:24.000So just quit while you're ahead with that.
01:15:30.000What do you think of the angle that because the FBI raid was ordered by an Epstein linked judge, it was actually about the deep state covering its ass?
01:16:38.000Trump had a Dancing Israelis UFO option of, you know, total alien disclosure.
01:16:50.000You know, honestly, I'm kind of getting what Destiny said.
01:16:55.000Can someone clip this and send it to Destiny?
01:16:57.000You know, when I was in a debate with Destiny recently, it was me and him and Rose Wrist and Baked Alaska.
01:17:04.000He was like, You know, have you ever thought about the things your audience said and thought, like, oh, I didn't realize that, you know, my audience was, you know, I was saying something that was a joke and my audience thought it was real and then, you know, I had to correct it because my audience thought things that I didn't agree with, blah, blah, blah.
01:17:25.000And I said, no, not really because my audience really agrees with me and this and that.
01:17:29.000Yeah, I do regret in some sense because, look, I am a dissident and I am against the established consensus and all of that.
01:17:41.000I'm an information warrior and blah, But then you certainly, we certainly are sort of, you could say, what's the word?
01:17:56.000Cultivating this environment where people just become totally delusional.
01:18:03.000And to say that there's not an excess, Of that, I think is just not being honest.
01:18:18.000But you play into that, and then you get people that just come up with this, which is like, listen, at the end of the day, we want to get different people in charge of the government to shut down immigration and, you know, put America first and bring back manufacturing and all that.
01:18:36.000And then you get these people out there that are like, you know, then we just get all this crazy shit.
01:18:43.000Then we just get people saying, like, oh, well, maybe they raided Mar a Lago because.
01:18:49.000Trump had something on Epstein and blah blah blah, and it's like, you know, this is like QAnon level stuff.
01:18:56.000Don't you think that if Trump had any kind of, you know, if Trump had any dirt on them, don't you think that would have come out by now?
01:19:02.000I mean, it just doesn't even make any fucking sense.
01:19:05.000It just doesn't make any sense at all.
01:19:08.000And people are just, people just wildly speculate, and that just actually is not helpful to anybody at all because it just obfuscates the real lies that are going on.
01:19:20.000There are real lies, there are real conspiracies.
01:19:22.000And when people just pull stuff out of their ass, like this guy the other day saying that numerology says that Trump is the Antichrist or whatever, it's like you're just obfuscating the real conspiracies and the real lies that are going on.
01:19:37.000And there's real facts to back up real things.
01:19:39.000And there's like a real viable chance at raising the consciousness.
01:19:43.000And then you get people saying, well, what if Trump had a Samson option?
01:19:48.000Trump doesn't have no fucking Samson option.
01:21:17.000The angle, like that's like a serious thing that people are considering.
01:21:21.000What do you think of the angle that the FBI was ordered by an Epstein Link judge to take out Trump's dirt on the government that he was hiding at Mar-a-Lago?
01:21:31.000Yeah, right, along with Elvis Presley and the real Paul McCartney, right?
01:34:43.000Like, and don't take this the wrong way, but it's like, that's not exactly what I mean.
01:34:50.000Like, if you're allowed to work at your job without being vaxxed, like, you get fired or you could wear the mask, but wearing the mask sucks, but it's not the same thing as being vaxxed.
01:34:59.000You have people out there that are like, I can't keep my job unless I get vaxxed.
01:35:03.000You're allowed to keep your job without being vaxxxed, and yeah, I mean, the mask sucks, but at the end of the day, it is good to take a stand for that, but sometimes you do have to pick your battles a little bit.
01:35:15.000I don't know if that really applies in the same way.
01:35:18.000I get your point, but, you know, in other words, what I'm saying is my advice wouldn't be to everybody like, you know, get fired over anything.
01:35:34.000You should fight that, I guess, but, you know, you just have to ask yourself are you going to be able to find a job where there's no mask and no vax requirement?
01:35:44.000And, you know, what is that going to look like for you?
01:35:46.000Because it's not, I mean, again, I don't know that that's entirely the same thing.
01:35:52.000Like I said, I'm not telling everybody, hey, go and ruin your life for no reason.
01:35:57.000I'm saying that you got to decide to fight.
01:35:59.000And taking a stand on a mask in your office, I mean, I wouldn't consider that actually anything that's going to pay dividends other than get you fired eventually.
01:36:11.000So, I mean, if you're okay with getting fired, then yeah, do it.
01:36:14.000But if you can't get fired, I would say wear a mask until you're in a position where you can afford to lose your job.
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