Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - October 31, 2022


EPISODE 303： DHS Leaks BOMBSHELL Rocks 2022, We have the receipts


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Summary

The DHS leaks, the Department of Homeland Security, the massive leak coming out today, documents, emails, and text messages showing the buddy-buddy relationship between the DHS and our national security agencies, and Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, Google, and even JP Morgan Chase, so much to dig into today. And in order to go through all of it, I am joined by Joel Berry, the Managing Editor of everyone's favorite website, The Babylon Bee.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 The DHS leaks, the Department of Homeland Security, massive leak coming out today.
00:00:06.880 Documents, emails, text messages showing the buddy-buddy relationship between the Department
00:00:13.120 of Homeland Security, our national security agencies, and Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia,
00:00:19.800 Google, and even JPMorgan Chase.
00:00:22.360 So much to dig into today.
00:00:24.420 And in order to go through all of it, I am joined by Joel Barry, the managing editor
00:00:28.940 of everyone's favorite website, The Babylon Bee.
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00:00:58.940 You would certainly concede that if the adult offspring of the President of the United States
00:01:10.560 or the Vice President were compromised, that would be a national security threat, right?
00:01:15.680 We speak through our filings in court, and we speak through our actions in open court.
00:01:22.140 So I would remain in that position.
00:01:24.880 Do you know where Hunter Biden's laptop is?
00:01:26.400 Again, I'm not going to talk about any potential ongoing investigation as I sit here.
00:01:32.240 Do you know where it is?
00:01:33.180 I'm not going to talk about any ongoing investigation as I sit here.
00:01:35.220 You come here and you tell us you follow the facts in the law, but you can't even follow
00:01:38.080 a laptop that you guys have had for three years.
00:01:39.960 We follow the facts in the law, and we speak in open court about our cases.
00:01:44.120 Yeah, but you aren't speaking about this.
00:01:45.440 But you know who is speaking about it?
00:01:46.900 The whistleblowers from the FBI who've gone to Senator Grassley and said that you guys
00:01:52.000 purposefully take any information that is derogatory about Hunter Biden, and you go and rat hole
00:01:59.080 it so that you never have to speak about it in any circumstance.
00:02:01.680 But the good news is you're not the only ones with that laptop.
00:02:04.880 Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily, powered by Turning
00:02:09.620 Point USA.
00:02:11.020 Today is October 31st, 2022.
00:02:13.360 Anno Domini.
00:02:14.440 It is All Hallows Eve.
00:02:17.420 Today, we've got an incredible story for all of you to dig into.
00:02:23.240 Newly leaked documents from the Department of Homeland Security.
00:02:28.700 Everything you thought was going on, it's actually worse.
00:02:33.440 We've got information that was first leaked to The Intercept of meetings that were held
00:02:39.960 between the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, JP Morgan
00:02:47.840 Chase, and many other big tech firms that started in 2020 and have been ongoing throughout the
00:02:55.580 years and months since, all about censoring disinformation, content moderation, shutting
00:03:03.280 down your freedom of speech here on the Internet.
00:03:07.100 We're going to break this down and get through all of it.
00:03:09.140 Joining me today is the great Joel Berry, managing editor of The Babylon Bee.
00:03:13.840 Joel, thanks so much for coming on.
00:03:15.480 Thanks for having me.
00:03:16.360 Appreciate it.
00:03:16.820 So this first story, and as we sit here, it's trending on Twitter.
00:03:21.700 It's currently number four.
00:03:23.300 Obviously, you guys can't see that because Babylon Bee is locked out of Twitter, but we've got
00:03:27.960 text messages and emails now that basically tell us that these tech firms, which include
00:03:34.240 Wikipedia, by the way, and Google and all the rest, even JP Morgan Chase, a financial
00:03:38.460 institution, are working hand in hand with the federal government to censor stories like
00:03:45.840 the Hunter Biden laptop.
00:03:47.180 That's confirmed, by the way.
00:03:48.760 Vijaya Gade, who was just fired by Elon.
00:03:51.220 We'll talk more about that in the next segment, was a part of this.
00:03:54.700 Microsoft executives, they got a text message from the one guy saying, we need the platforms
00:03:59.340 need to become more comfortable in their relationship with the government.
00:04:03.240 That's verbatim text messages from Microsoft executive that's coming out in this.
00:04:07.940 Some of the other topics that they're telling us include the origins of COVID, even up to
00:04:13.840 and including Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan was something that they were looking at stopping
00:04:20.200 the spread of what is going on.
00:04:23.180 Why are our tech companies essentially becoming agencies like out of 1984?
00:04:29.960 Yeah, well, I think it's something that we all kind of suspected was going on.
00:04:33.540 Even though almost it's kind of not surprising to see these, it's still quite a shock.
00:04:39.560 And it really kind of confirms what I've thought about these big companies in the sense that
00:04:46.880 they're kind of a way for the government to do what they have always wanted to do that
00:04:52.780 the constitution won't allow.
00:04:53.920 They kind of launder their censorship through these big tech firms.
00:05:00.460 And it's something that we've all kind of felt.
00:05:02.500 We felt it in the Twitter algorithm.
00:05:04.220 We've kind of felt that thumb on the scale of our discourse as we're interacting on different
00:05:10.460 platforms.
00:05:11.720 And to see it confirmed like this is just wild.
00:05:14.220 But again, kind of not surprised.
00:05:15.980 Well, what's crazy to me is that, you know, a place like the Babylon Bee would get targeted
00:05:22.000 so much, whether it's for misinformation or hate or whatever.
00:05:26.640 I mean, you guys do satire.
00:05:28.620 It's jokes.
00:05:29.600 It's meant to be funny.
00:05:30.880 And obviously, good satire obviously, you know, has a bit of a sting to it.
00:05:34.520 So it has that realism edge to it.
00:05:36.260 But why is it that satire is so dangerous to this group of people?
00:05:41.120 Well, yeah, I think satire is something that the right is kind of only recently waking
00:05:47.140 up to.
00:05:47.600 But it's something that the left has been good at for decades.
00:05:50.340 I mean, going back to, you know, Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, you know, he talks about
00:05:54.260 the power of mockery.
00:05:57.160 And it's something that the right has never really employed effectively.
00:06:00.520 So I think when the Babylon Bee started doing what we're doing, I think the left immediately
00:06:05.300 recognized the power and the danger that it posed to them and to their narrative.
00:06:10.340 And to their agenda.
00:06:13.040 And I think, you know, the people who knew knew that it had to be stopped one way or another.
00:06:17.420 And they came at us, you know, more blatantly in the beginning, you know, with with Snopes
00:06:22.040 and fact checks.
00:06:23.200 And now it's a lot more sneaky.
00:06:24.720 Now it's done through the algorithm.
00:06:26.580 And as we know now, through these kind of backdoor meetings with the government, you
00:06:32.220 know, that's in our book, The Babylon Bee Guide to Democracy.
00:06:34.740 We talk about in one of our chapters that the fourth branch of government being the corporate
00:06:39.180 branch. And that's that's essentially what the government's done is they, you know, all
00:06:42.520 these things that they are unable to do that the Constitution doesn't allow them to do, they
00:06:47.880 can accomplish through the deep state, through the regulatory agencies in partnership with
00:06:52.820 these corporations that have grown so powerful.
00:06:56.320 And their relationship with the government is more important to them than their relationship
00:07:02.680 to consumers, to advertisers and things like that.
00:07:05.380 And so I think what what Elon's doing is pretty exciting, just kind of going in there and
00:07:10.160 blowing it all up.
00:07:11.520 No, I agree.
00:07:12.300 And I want to get into that in the next segment, because the way I keep looking at it is these
00:07:16.580 people have had so much power for so long, really in the past six years, they've had the
00:07:23.020 ability to just become super powerful.
00:07:25.920 Right.
00:07:26.300 These these are preternatural powers that are beyond that.
00:07:28.960 It's sort of like, you know, when you're in the Matrix, the agents have more power than everybody
00:07:33.520 else, right, except for Keanu Reeves.
00:07:35.580 But we all know Keanu Reeves is the most powerful human that ever lived.
00:07:38.640 But they, you know, they have the ability to teleport and jump and fly into all these
00:07:43.900 things.
00:07:44.640 And so these hall monitors, the school marms, the censorship, the organizations, the disinfo
00:07:51.000 journalists.
00:07:51.640 And they're out there crying on MSNBC this morning saying, well, we we can't ban Elon.
00:07:56.740 There's nothing we can do.
00:07:57.900 He can spread whatever he wants and promote this and go after that.
00:08:01.780 And it's like, yeah, that's how the Internet was.
00:08:04.840 That's how the world is on a regular basis.
00:08:06.820 You know, if you and I are just talking in person, there's no intermediary.
00:08:10.640 But what they've used is these platforms.
00:08:12.400 We only got a minute left as a way to stifle that communication.
00:08:17.420 Yeah, well, I mean, you might remember the early days of YouTube.
00:08:20.020 I remember, you know, when when Ben Shapiro clips used to go viral and and people would
00:08:25.620 be convinced.
00:08:26.120 I've talked to many people who who became conservative through the YouTube algorithm
00:08:30.660 until they wised up and realized that it was helping conservatives because our message
00:08:35.100 is powerful.
00:08:36.040 Oh, that's why they shut it all down.
00:08:37.320 And they know that that's that's why they had to shut it all down.
00:08:39.700 That's why Twitter shut down Periscope, because people like me and others and all it was all
00:08:43.280 conservatives, all conservatives.
00:08:44.540 They were doing well.
00:08:45.880 That's I tweeted Elon.
00:08:46.760 He's talking about bringing Vine back.
00:08:48.080 I say, bring Periscope.
00:08:49.120 Let me live stream.
00:08:50.600 Don't give me any special favors.
00:08:52.160 Don't give me any special, you know, guidance or powers or advance, whatever.
00:08:57.040 No, you want me to pay?
00:08:57.800 I'll pay something fine, whatever it is.
00:08:59.880 I just want the same playing field as everybody else.
00:09:02.820 And by the way, the government needs to get out of it.
00:09:06.440 Stay tuned.
00:09:06.780 Be right back here.
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00:10:07.340 Elon Musk says he's putting his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter on hold until the company
00:10:16.120 can back its estimate of how many bots are on the platform.
00:10:19.840 So why is Musk so concerned about bots?
00:10:23.380 Twitter has said that less than 5% of its daily users are false or spam accounts.
00:10:29.860 But Musk, who struck a deal to buy the social media site on April 25th, is skeptical, tweeting
00:10:35.200 three weeks later, my offer was based on Twitter's SEC filings being accurate.
00:10:40.520 Musk also said Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal refused to show proof that fake and spam accounts make
00:10:46.580 up less than 5% of users.
00:10:48.760 So Elon Musk, if you've been on Twitter this entire past weekend, you know, I'd encourage
00:10:54.200 you to go there.
00:10:54.860 Of course, follow us at human events pod on Twitter.
00:10:58.060 This has been a sea change kind of weekend because he's tweeting stuff about Paul Pelosi.
00:11:03.560 He's tweeting internal messages from Twitter inside their internal.
00:11:09.000 It looks like a message board or maybe a Slack channel.
00:11:11.820 He's going into the nuts and bolts of Twitter itself.
00:11:16.340 And he owns all of this.
00:11:18.020 He owns your direct messages.
00:11:19.320 He owns the direct messages.
00:11:20.440 You know, that little terms of service you have to click there.
00:11:22.800 Every journalist in the world.
00:11:24.080 Guess what?
00:11:24.440 He owns your DMS now.
00:11:25.480 Elon Musk owns them.
00:11:26.440 That's what the terms of service state.
00:11:28.700 All this stuff.
00:11:29.640 It's it's like Neo going into the matrix.
00:11:31.680 You know, what happens if I press this button?
00:11:33.300 What happens if I press that button?
00:11:35.000 And he just, by the way, dissolved the entire Twitter board, which obviously is a step towards
00:11:39.620 going private.
00:11:40.200 So he's the sole member of the board of directors of Twitter.
00:11:42.820 Now he's going to be taking it private.
00:11:44.420 But, Joel, we know what really happened here, don't we?
00:11:46.940 This all started with the lockout of the Babylon Bee and Elon getting mad about that and decided
00:11:53.040 to do something about it, isn't it?
00:11:55.200 Yeah.
00:11:55.420 Yeah.
00:11:55.620 It's all it's all our thank us.
00:11:57.700 It's all your fault because he dead made Rachel Levine.
00:12:01.840 That's what it's all comes down to that.
00:12:03.680 Yeah.
00:12:04.040 I mean, well, you know, Elon's been a fan of comedy for a long time.
00:12:07.600 I remember years ago him talking about how much he loved the onion.
00:12:11.080 And then, you know, years later, how he kind of switched over to the bee.
00:12:15.880 And and so I you know, I don't think that we were the sole reason by by any means, but
00:12:20.700 it may have been kind of maybe the straw that broke the camel's back.
00:12:23.800 I don't know.
00:12:25.380 Well, what's what's amazing to me, though, is looking at this, the news as we're facing
00:12:30.920 it, it seems as though he's going through bit by bit, because I saw at one point it's
00:12:35.320 not just Elon.
00:12:36.060 That's what people need to understand.
00:12:37.120 It's like he's the only guy.
00:12:38.140 I mean, of course, the you know, you see him with the saying coming in very, very strong
00:12:42.280 visual persuasion, Neo into entering the matrix, taking it over from the architect's chair.
00:12:46.760 But there was a guy who got fired on Twitter, a senior product coordinator who actually tweeted
00:12:53.540 that the reason that he was fired is because Elon's got his whole team from Tesla now come
00:12:59.420 over to the platform and they're going through the code line by line.
00:13:03.000 And they're looking at the coders and saying, look, we're just checking to see if you haven't
00:13:08.040 posted anything into the code in the last six months, the last four months, or if you're
00:13:12.920 not posting a lot.
00:13:13.920 Now they're going to you and ask having ever it's like I've seen an office space, right?
00:13:17.580 Saying, what would you say you do here?
00:13:20.220 And they're basically if you don't have a good answer, they're giving you the boot.
00:13:23.720 And this guy said they were doing that.
00:13:25.100 And then a couple hours later, he goes, well, I've been fired from the bird app.
00:13:28.880 Wow.
00:13:29.800 Well, that's I mean, I kind of am I'm really excited to see what comes out over the next
00:13:34.460 few weeks.
00:13:34.880 I think we've all kind of just had this sense that there's shenanigans shenanigans going
00:13:39.240 on in the background.
00:13:40.140 I just recently I I was looking at the race.
00:13:44.280 I think it was at Mike Lee who's running in is it Utah for for Senate there and the the
00:13:51.760 leftists that he's running against.
00:13:53.460 I just kind of did a little comparison of the of their Twitter profiles.
00:13:57.160 You know, Mike Lee, more followers than the leftist and his tweets might get, you know,
00:14:03.740 50, 60 likes a piece, whereas the leftist is getting like, I mean, every single one of
00:14:07.960 his tweets the last couple of weeks have been going viral.
00:14:10.240 Five.
00:14:10.460 And the question is, why?
00:14:11.460 Why is that?
00:14:12.100 Is that what's going on?
00:14:13.300 Is that right?
00:14:14.160 Right.
00:14:14.860 Obviously, there's you know, there's a question of is Twitter showing favorability towards
00:14:19.060 that people who's verified, who's not verified.
00:14:21.620 I like that he's talking about opening up that process.
00:14:24.300 And there's this whole sense, though.
00:14:26.180 But let's let's tie the two together, because do you think then so is they have this relationship,
00:14:31.260 I guess, with the federal government?
00:14:32.660 They're working with the FBI.
00:14:34.020 They're working with DHS.
00:14:35.960 How amenable is Elon going to be to that?
00:14:38.540 Because it seems to me like not at all, really.
00:14:42.240 Yeah, it doesn't seem so.
00:14:44.860 I think of all the people in the world to do the job, Elon seems to kind of most fit the
00:14:50.580 bill because he's he's not he's motivated by other things that kind of transcend money
00:14:55.960 and partnerships with the government.
00:14:57.100 He said again and again that, you know, that an application where people can have a free
00:15:02.440 discourse is he sees it as essential to the future survival of humanity.
00:15:07.080 So he's got he's he's not really motivated by money here.
00:15:09.980 And I I don't think he'll be really to take too kindly to these secret government partnerships.
00:15:15.180 And I think one thing that we're learning, too, just in the previous story is that, you
00:15:20.480 know, it you know, Twitter, social media is so powerful and the government is going to
00:15:26.360 do whatever they can get away with.
00:15:27.660 If they can wield that power to further their agenda, if they can wield it against you,
00:15:33.300 they will do it as long as they can, as long as no one stops them.
00:15:37.240 How much and no, I was going to say, how much would you love to be sitting in that meeting
00:15:41.900 the very first time that the FBI rolls in?
00:15:44.380 It's Elon Musk at the head of Twitter in San Francisco.
00:15:47.880 Elon, you know, there's a story coming out.
00:15:50.180 You know, we've got a new laptop.
00:15:51.740 It turns out Hunter left one in Shanghai and we've got it.
00:15:55.200 We've we're going to, you know, Steve Bannon and Jack Posobiec got a hold of it.
00:15:58.540 The Babylon B's going through it right now.
00:16:00.620 We're going to need you to shut that down.
00:16:02.240 And Elon's just sitting there going, no, I'll tweet this out.
00:16:06.660 He would tweet it out.
00:16:08.340 He would start live.
00:16:09.460 He starts live streaming.
00:16:10.860 FBI just came into my office.
00:16:12.600 This is interesting.
00:16:13.820 Here, I've got to put some pictures of the agents.
00:16:16.180 And that's why they're panicking.
00:16:17.420 They're they're panicking because they they see that they've lost a very, very important
00:16:21.300 tool in losing Twitter.
00:16:23.340 And so I think that the attacks, you know, we see this attack against his his ad revenue.
00:16:28.720 We saw this these bot accounts, these 300 bots that that spammed Twitter with like 50,000
00:16:33.900 racial slurs on Friday.
00:16:35.580 That I bet you that's all coming from the left.
00:16:37.600 I bet you that's all coming from the left.
00:16:39.360 It's all manufactured.
00:16:40.880 It's sabotage.
00:16:41.440 It's all sabotage.
00:16:42.500 Absolutely.
00:16:43.220 Yeah, I agree.
00:16:44.380 Yeah.
00:16:44.980 So, you know, I think if it's not this, it's going to be others.
00:16:47.980 And I think we have to kind of be aware that any of these attacks, we have to be willing
00:16:53.040 to look past them and find out what the real motivations are until things settle down for
00:16:57.200 sure.
00:16:58.200 No, I completely agree.
00:16:59.020 And I love the idea of him saying, look, you know, people are going to be let back on
00:17:02.340 Jordan Peterson.
00:17:03.340 I mean, I imagine Babylon B is something that he would look at.
00:17:07.360 I've called basically just for general amnesty, complete general amnesty on all lifetime
00:17:12.820 bans.
00:17:13.140 I think the idea of a lifetime ban and that's something that Elon has talked about as well
00:17:16.820 is just ridiculous, right?
00:17:18.380 How can you ban a person forever from the platform?
00:17:21.080 I mean, if they're not conducting, you know, criminal activity, right?
00:17:24.100 If it's First Amendment protected speech, why are you banning someone for a lifetime?
00:17:28.240 You know, take out a tweet or, you know, get, you know, a lockout.
00:17:32.200 That's one thing.
00:17:33.180 We can talk about all of that.
00:17:34.420 But if you're going to take someone down for their entire life, no, it doesn't make
00:17:37.060 sense.
00:17:38.020 Yeah, especially when you consider the people that are still on Twitter.
00:17:41.380 Yeah, right.
00:17:41.920 No, precisely.
00:17:44.100 Right.
00:17:44.600 So we've all seen, you know, they set up, well, Alex Berenson or Alec Berenson got back
00:17:48.960 on because they set up a three strike rule for COVID misinformation and then they banned
00:17:52.720 him after one strike, right?
00:17:54.020 So they weren't even following their own three strikes rule.
00:17:56.660 And that's how in his lawsuit.
00:17:58.120 And I think that's one as well, by the way, where Berenson said that he's going to Elon
00:18:03.980 Musk to see if, because obviously the settlement was made with Twitter.
00:18:07.800 Now Elon runs Twitter.
00:18:08.740 He said, look, you know, can I go public with the full details of my settlement?
00:18:15.340 Joel Berry, stick with us.
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00:19:30.140 I think the operative word that we saw across 2020, um, despite the continued refrain that it
00:19:37.080 was the safest and most secure election ever.
00:19:42.340 In fact, in our opinion, it was quite the opposite.
00:19:46.960 Lawlessness seemed to rule the day.
00:19:50.920 We must commit all of us to now being engaged in the process for the betterment of the process.
00:19:58.820 Yes, continuing to vote clearly, but also to help to support your legislature, legislators
00:20:04.880 to, to work in community, to reach out to the party or candidate of your choice and ask how
00:20:10.140 you can be involved in elections.
00:20:11.920 Be a part of the solution.
00:20:14.340 We must find our way back.
00:20:16.180 We must find our way back to the sanctity of the vote that unites us as Americans.
00:20:22.520 We can find our way back.
00:20:24.060 So that's Catherine Engelbrecht of true, the vote.
00:20:27.180 She's sitting there with Greg Phillips, but she's not sitting and hearing today.
00:20:31.380 She's sitting behind bars in a federal prison.
00:20:35.740 Why?
00:20:36.660 Because she's being held in contempt along with Greg Phillips over this case where they claimed
00:20:42.720 that Eugene, you, who was the CEO of Conak, right?
00:20:45.900 There's a little bit of a convoluted story here.
00:20:47.640 They claimed that he was storing data on servers in China.
00:20:51.380 Well, he sued them for, for defamation.
00:20:54.440 Then he gets arrested by the feds for storing data on servers in China.
00:20:58.640 But for some reason, the defamation case is still going through and they're refusing to
00:21:03.380 give up a confidential informant that they claim is where they got this information from.
00:21:08.440 The judge holds them in contempt.
00:21:11.020 So as we sit here right now, Joel, Catherine and Greg are behind bars.
00:21:16.340 Is this normal?
00:21:18.400 Is this how our country usually works?
00:21:20.320 This seems a little different to me.
00:21:22.040 I don't know.
00:21:22.400 This seems like something that you'd see in like, I don't know, China or Cuba or I mean,
00:21:27.580 not that you can vote there.
00:21:28.660 Maybe Russia.
00:21:29.460 I don't know.
00:21:29.980 It's this is like the whole story is insane to me.
00:21:33.220 Yeah.
00:21:33.540 I, you know, say what you will about the election.
00:21:35.840 You know, I don't know everything that went down to me.
00:21:39.960 The the the insane like foaming at the mouth, forceful opposition to any attempt to even
00:21:46.440 raise questions or do any checking or investigation is more telling to me than anything else.
00:21:51.020 I just that the whole reaction of from the left, from the government to anyone just wanting
00:21:57.020 to ask questions just seems so suspicious to me.
00:22:01.100 You know, and the fact that they would you know that they would get this this poor woman
00:22:04.680 who's doing good journalistic work, she's doing the job that the journalists should
00:22:09.380 be doing, you know, that they would they would go after her like this on kind of a
00:22:13.480 process crime.
00:22:14.820 That's scary in and of itself.
00:22:16.040 But it's also a reminder that like the feds, like if they want to get you, they can get
00:22:19.760 you.
00:22:20.040 It doesn't matter how law abiding you think you are.
00:22:23.000 They can get you.
00:22:24.280 And it's it's kind of a scary thought.
00:22:27.020 I don't know.
00:22:28.100 No, I mean, it's it's this idea that, you know, and by the way, you know, look, I, you
00:22:32.480 know, I'd go to jail to protect a source, too.
00:22:34.620 I'd go behind bars.
00:22:35.660 I'd do whatever they have to do, because otherwise no one's ever going to be a source
00:22:38.440 for me again or for human events.
00:22:40.180 And when when you look at this, it's look.
00:22:44.360 And by the way, go watch 2000 Mules, go go for everybody out there in the audience.
00:22:48.900 Go check it out.
00:22:50.020 Go see what they have to say.
00:22:51.420 And if you disagree, that's fine, too.
00:22:53.200 Go make your own response to it.
00:22:54.740 That's how the system is supposed to work.
00:22:56.180 It's the thing called freedom of speech.
00:22:57.900 And yet we have this group of people out there who tells us we have to protect democracy.
00:23:02.000 We have to defend democracy.
00:23:03.320 And we're going to lock up people that are trying to secure voting rights here in America.
00:23:08.660 But the Babylon Bee, Joel, you guys have a whole book out that's explaining how democracy
00:23:13.360 is supposed to work to us.
00:23:14.720 Tell us about the new book.
00:23:15.560 Yeah, well, it was kind of inspired by kind of that that refrain that you hear from the
00:23:20.520 left all the time, you know, that we must defend we must protect our holy democracy,
00:23:25.500 you know, and anything that is in opposition to them or anyone that disagrees with them
00:23:29.420 is a threat to democracy.
00:23:30.580 And so that kind of is where this book came from.
00:23:33.420 But it's a it's a really fun book.
00:23:35.420 It's it's kind of a bit of a civics lesson combined with a lot of satire and a lot of really
00:23:39.840 funny pictures in it.
00:23:41.640 We talk about, you know, the branches of government, how government's supposed to work, how it actually
00:23:46.760 works.
00:23:47.140 We talk about lobbyists.
00:23:48.420 We talk about, oh, that's great.
00:23:49.360 You know, how how politicians are purchased and how they go for sale.
00:23:53.360 We talk about the fourth branch of government, which is the corporate branch.
00:23:56.540 And so it's Washington's such a mess that that it almost is funny.
00:24:01.580 I mean, corruption, while corruption is disturbing and damaging, there is something that's very
00:24:06.120 funny about it when you watch all these people who kind of think so highly of themselves,
00:24:09.360 you know, there's an old there's an old meme that, you know, and I certainly come up with
00:24:14.780 this, but it's this idea that all the politicians should have to wear uniforms like in NASCAR
00:24:19.680 that they put all their sponsors on their suits.
00:24:21.920 I'm sure you've heard of it before.
00:24:22.920 But, you know, I still I love that one.
00:24:24.520 I think if we make that a law or, you know, if I ever get appointed in charge of the entire
00:24:28.380 government, I'm just going to make that, you know, that enshrined.
00:24:31.100 So that or even when, you know, maybe you could get a filter for this, that when you see
00:24:34.100 them on TV, it would just pop up.
00:24:35.720 You know, this person is funded by Raytheon, Boeing, all the way down.
00:24:40.200 That'd be wonderful.
00:24:41.220 Let's do it for journalists, too.
00:24:42.640 For goodness sakes.
00:24:43.740 Exactly.
00:24:44.280 You know, this person works for Jeff Bezos.
00:24:46.220 This person works in an organization funded by Google.
00:24:48.220 There actually is on Twitter.
00:24:50.180 I think there's a Chrome extension you can get for for like the NGO people like think tankers
00:24:55.740 that if someone works for a Google funded think tank, you can get it applied to their
00:24:59.980 name on Twitter, but only in your Chrome extension.
00:25:02.280 So it'll say this person works for a Google funded, you know, it's perfect because then
00:25:08.200 you get to know, which again, by the way, is one of those like, you know, they'll put
00:25:14.100 on Twitter, they'll put, you know, this is a Chinese organization.
00:25:17.120 This is a Russian organization, but they won't do it for like BBC or VOA or one of these things.
00:25:21.880 It's like, well, who's drawing the line here?
00:25:24.380 Well, no, that's totally different.
00:25:25.620 Well, why?
00:25:26.500 I mean, it's state NPR.
00:25:27.580 Why doesn't NPR say this is a U.S. government funded organization?
00:25:31.020 Because it is like literally.
00:25:33.500 Yeah.
00:25:34.100 Well, they don't they don't want you to parse the truth out for yourself and judge things
00:25:39.960 based off of the merit of what is actually being said.
00:25:43.220 They want you to, you know, trust things coming from certain authorities.
00:25:46.900 They're approved authorities, you know, so that that way they can label things that they
00:25:52.300 don't want you to believe and don't want you to hear.
00:25:54.140 And so that's exactly right.
00:25:55.480 And that's why the only the only news source that I recommend in the entire world other
00:26:00.340 than human events is the Babylon Bee, the most truthy website on the entire Internet.
00:26:06.160 Joel, thank you so much for joining us today.
00:26:07.640 Where can people go to get your coordinates, find out more about the Bee?
00:26:10.540 And then hopefully, you know, if Elon lets you guys out there, we'll get that news as well.
00:26:15.380 Yeah, yeah.
00:26:15.700 So you can you can find us at Babylon Bee dot com.
00:26:18.060 You can also purchase our book there as well.
00:26:20.280 You can follow me at Joel W.
00:26:22.120 Barry.
00:26:22.940 And hopefully when the Babylon Bee is back on Twitter, you can find us at at the Babylon
00:26:27.260 Bee dot com.
00:26:28.400 So at the Babylon Bee.
00:26:30.100 Fantastic.
00:26:30.880 Joel, thank you so much for joining us today.
00:26:32.260 Remember, folks, as always, our promise, our oath, our solemn vow to you be good, be brief,
00:26:36.520 be gone.
00:26:37.160 Your homework for us share this out with one, just one of your normie friends, then leave
00:26:39.980 us your five star review.
00:26:40.980 Apple, Spotify, wherever you get your fine podcasts, folks, when we're seeing what's going
00:26:47.120 on today, we are locked in this battle.
00:26:50.920 Liberty versus totalitarianism.
00:26:54.140 Which side do you want to be on?
00:26:55.700 You can see the forces.
00:26:57.700 They are out there on television every morning.
00:27:00.280 You turn on MSNBC, you turn on CNN.
00:27:02.020 They are seething right now.
00:27:03.740 Why are they seething?
00:27:04.760 Because they know they're losing their power.
00:27:07.900 They know they're becoming impotent.
00:27:09.420 They're being forced to have their wings clipped and walk around on two legs just like any other
00:27:14.400 human being, because they know they can't censor Elon Musk.
00:27:18.600 They can't get his tweets taken down.
00:27:20.080 And that means he's going to stop them from shutting down you, from shutting down your
00:27:24.460 family and from shutting down this movement of liberty.
00:27:27.600 Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.