Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden-Harris administration pressured him to censor content, and that he regrets not speaking out about it. A federal judge in Texas puts a pause on the Biden administration program that offers legal status to spouses of U.S. citizens. Just hours ago, the Supreme Court ruled that will keep Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate, on Wisconsin s ballot.
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00:00:50.340Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg now says the Biden-Harris administration pressured him to censor content
00:00:56.420and that he regrets not speaking out about it.
00:01:00.000In a letter to the House Judiciary Committee, Zuckerberg wrote,
00:01:03.220in 2021, senior officials from the Biden administration repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor
00:01:08.740certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire,
00:01:11.900and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn't agree.
00:01:16.600Was there anything, what did they think about Harris?
00:01:18.740Did they have anything to say about her?
00:01:19.900For the most part, in Pittsburgh or in the Jersey Shore and Atlantic City, many people did not know who she was.
00:01:28.640She's been part of the failures of the Biden-Harris administration for four years.
00:01:32.560And when she campaigned for president in her own right, she did, in fact, promise things like decriminalizing illegal immigration and taking away health insurance.
00:01:40.120But that's a position she's clearly changed on, and she has said she has changed.
00:01:47.740Just hours ago, the state Supreme Court with a big decision that will keep Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate, on Wisconsin's ballot.
00:01:55.220Democrats had sued looking to remove her.
00:01:57.640The California Dream for All program, it's created to help middle- and income homebuyers.
00:02:02.840Now, initially, the program required residents to be here legally, either a U.S. citizen or a legal permanent resident.
00:02:09.920But last week, Assembly Democrats overrode Republican opposition, changing that eligibility to say this.
00:02:16.620An applicant who meets the requirements for a loan under the Home Purchase Assistance Program shall not be disqualified by the agency based solely on the applicant's immigration status.
00:02:28.240A federal judge in Texas made a decision on Monday to put a pause on the Biden administration program that offers legal status to spouses of U.S. citizens.
00:02:36.520This comes after 16 states challenged the program, accusing the administration of bypassing Congress for blatant political purposes.
00:02:45.520Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily here live, Washington, D.C.
00:02:51.740Today is August 27, 2024, Anno Domini.
00:03:05.120Send us your answer to that question here, 1776 at humanevents.com.
00:03:10.900Do you think that illegals should be allowed to vote in America?
00:03:13.540Do you think that illegals should be given that option?
00:03:18.720Well, here's the thing is in a lot of states, they do have the ability because there are no background or controls or procedures to stop this.
00:03:59.140This is something that absolutely needs to be put into place in not just the swing states, but certainly the swing states, in all 50 states.
00:04:07.660And we've seen individual after individual, it requires anyone registering to vote in federal elections to provide approved citizenship documents, including a passport, military ID, a birth certificate, naturalization certificate, or a government-issued photo ID card that signifies it.
00:04:25.060It requires states to purge non-citizens from the voter rolls.
00:04:29.180And if someone is unlawfully registered to vote, oh, boy, boys and girls, you get put to the front of the line for deportations.
00:04:38.040Well, that sounds like an amazing thing.
00:04:39.500It also sounds like something that should be nonpartisan and, more than anything else, should be something that all Republicans can get behind.
00:04:47.040However, comma, there's a problem here.
00:04:51.340So you see, the Democrats don't want to do this.
00:04:53.320They don't want to put it through the Senate.
00:05:11.580You go and you attach it to the spending bill of September 30.
00:05:16.900If they want the government to be funded, then government funding must include the SAVE Act, a nationwide citizenship verification for voting.
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00:06:56.560Folks, you've all heard the news from Elon Musk.
00:06:59.240He said if Apple were to implement OpenAI into their operating systems, all Apple products would be banned from each of Elon's businesses.
00:07:07.820And if you happen to visit one of his offices, or we're talking Tesla, you're talking SpaceX, you're talking Twitter, you'd have to put your Apple device in a Faraday cage.
00:07:17.900Elon understands that we have to stop big tech and government overreach.
00:08:53.920We must conduct a shaping operation prior to Election Day.
00:08:59.760Just like in the military, when you know you've got a big mission, you can sometimes conduct shaping operations to tilt the edge of battle, to tilt the battlefield to your advantage.
00:09:12.860Why should we go into the November election with illegal aliens being allowed to vote, purge the voter rolls, deport illegal, let them know they're going to be deported front of the line, and then make sure that people must provide nationwide proof of citizenship.
00:09:29.460It's very confusing to those who may not be paying attention, but for those who understand the establishment for what it is and the role that Mitch McConnell plays in there, it makes a lot of sense.
00:09:39.500Someone who does understand the big picture is Darren Beattie of Revolver News, who joins us now.
00:09:48.580So, Darren, I'd love to get your comment.
00:09:50.120I know there's a lot of stuff going on, but this idea that really came out, there's only one report in Axios, and I haven't seen any of the other really, you know, anyone else in conservative.
00:09:59.460I know there's a lot of media talking about this, but Mitch McConnell, why would Mitch McConnell oppose an act that would provide for nationwide proof of citizenship for voting?
00:10:10.960I mean, it's a great question, and we can extend that to say, why would anybody oppose this?
00:10:17.780And if we can answer that, I think we can probably answer with respect to Mitch McConnell.
00:10:22.940The reason anyone would oppose limiting citizenship, limiting voting to actual citizens would be that they want to rig the political process in a certain direction, because we know that the more that the franchise is expanded, basically the worse results you get.
00:10:43.040Certainly, the more left-wing results you get, and the more you have people who are able to manipulate the process.
00:10:50.740You know, that's the thing that people don't understand is, you know, there's one, you know, it's ridiculous on its face that the franchise would be extended to non-citizens.
00:11:02.720And once you do that, it's like this phrase has been beaten to death, but you don't have borders, you don't have a country, but if you don't limit voting to citizens, you don't even have citizenship.
00:11:13.120So the whole process is complete at this point, but there's another kind of concurrent dynamic whereby, you know, the left has always been a proponent of expanding the franchise as much as possible, but they're not really doing this because they think, you know, people have a genuine say, and each individual is like thinking for themselves and deliberating.
00:11:35.620All of the preconditions to what it actually means for someone to come to a decision deliberatively and then vote.
00:11:44.420No, they just want masses and blobs of the most easily mobilized and manipulated, you know, biomass possible.
00:11:55.540And this is just one other step in that direction.
00:11:58.800Now, why Mitch McConnell, who on paper is a Republican and should be wanting, you know, forget about the question of, you know, do you care about the concept of citizenship?
00:12:11.580Well, you know, McConnell has shown his true colors time and time again, and it wouldn't surprise me in the least that if he were working to sabotage Trump's chances, he doesn't, you know, stand to, you know, lose that much.
00:12:28.280And in fact, he might be better off if Trump loses.
00:12:31.560Well, you know, Darren, something spoke to a very high level source on the Hill yesterday about this.
00:12:37.640And the response that I got back was, you must understand that the role McConnell plays within the uniparty, within the regime.
00:12:46.020Yes, he is sort of the, the gain to Chuck Schumer's Yang.
00:12:50.620But one of the specific roles that he plays is not as a Republican or a Democrat, not as a conservative or a liberal, but in the role as an appropriator.
00:13:02.100His job, like so many, and by the way, this isn't anything about him personally either, because there's so many other Republicans that would be happy to step up and fill this role.
00:13:12.020It's the role in the appropriations process.
00:13:15.200They get to be the node through which friends are rewarded through the way, in, in the way that enemies are punished because of lack of funding.
00:13:24.660That's, the appropriations process is the process of who gets the spoils of government.
00:13:31.120And therefore, his job is to make sure, not necessarily that he's the one who makes those decisions, but his job is to make sure that the money keeps flowing.
00:13:40.120And if you notice that every single step of the way, he always makes sure that the money keeps flowing.
00:13:45.740That's always been the way that he breaks on these things.
00:13:48.520And typically, it's the House that, if ever, to hold up the government spending or government funding, forcing a government shutdown, which, by the way, I totally support a government shutdown over the SAVE Act.
00:14:01.500That's without question, and so should any conservative who's serious, by the way, and I certainly strongly urge Speaker Mike Johnson to also support so, and Speaker Johnson, take the time.
00:14:14.680If you want to man up, if you want to stand up to Mitch McConnell, if you want to stand up for your country, Speaker Johnson, now is your moment.
00:14:24.020This was a message to you. They're going to say, take the bow tie and go back to Louisiana and do as you're told, and here's your little pat on the head.
00:14:33.900Or do you want to go down in history as the man who stood up for the American people?
00:14:40.640But, Darren, the Speaker Johnson stuff notwithstanding, what do you think about that view of McConnell as the appropriator, the chief appropriator of the regime?
00:14:50.120I think it's a fairly accurate view, and, you know, McConnell has been around for a long time.
00:14:58.280You know, his counterpart would be somebody like Schumer has also been around for a long time.
00:15:02.880You know, he's of the stature of a Schumer or a, you know, the House side, someone like Pelosi, like an elder statesman, if you can use that term in the Senate, more like an elder operator than a statesman.
00:15:51.220He's a guy who plays the inside game exceptionally well, and I think, you know, the results speak for themselves.
00:15:58.340They haven't been good for the American people, but there's a reason he's been around for so long, and nobody's been able to take him out.
00:16:05.900Well, I think that's right, and it is a structural issue.
00:16:10.440It is a structural position which he holds whereby, and yes, he is ostensibly within the Republican Party, and yes, he will perform the functions of the party as well.
00:16:20.280Well, and certainly for those who have been on the wrong side of him, he has considerable influence within the government, but at the same time, you also realize that it's just as you say, the game that he's playing is different.
00:16:34.900So when people can't quite understand why would he support this, why would he support that, and basically the contention that I was receiving was that it isn't necessarily that he opposes the SAVE Act.
00:16:49.320It's more that he opposes anything that would be an affront to government spending.
00:16:54.240Any obstacle, any potential gumming up of the works, any potential bottleneck to the money flowing would be something that he opposes, and is something that would then be opposed rigorously by him.
00:17:09.520Now, are there ways to get around that?
00:17:11.500Yes, there are, because, oh, by the way, spending bills are not, under the Constitution, meant to originate in the Senate.
00:17:19.180They are meant to originate in the House, and the House, of course, is currently controlled by Johnson.
00:17:25.380So we're actually seeing a situation here, which is quite interesting, where Johnson, if he's willing, he can go toe-to-toe with McConnell and do so in a way.
00:17:37.520It's something that President Trump, by the way, is extremely behind the SAVE Act.
00:17:41.760Senator Mike Lee, Elon Musk, has been tweeting now more frequently about the SAVE Act.
00:17:46.500He would find, Speaker Johnson would find so much support if he were to stand up against McConnell and do the right thing.
00:17:55.240The question is, is he willing to go through the crucible, or as you like to call it, the pain box, that he would be placed in, should he do so?
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00:19:31.900Darren Beattie of revolver.news is our guest.
00:19:34.740Darren, in the last segment, so we were setting the stage, and by the, about this, so Speaker Johnson, will he be willing to hold up the Spending Act for the SAVE Act to be included in this package against not just Joe Biden and the Democrats, but even potentially against Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans?
00:19:56.080By the way, we got an email in from Ben here.
00:19:59.560He says, Jack, no illegal alien should be able to vote.
00:20:13.160Darren, you've described the concept of the pain box before.
00:20:17.000This is something that we haven't really seen Johnson be put in yet.
00:20:20.920He did sort of begin to on the Ukraine spending bill, but he eventually pushed that forward and, you know, essentially got some cover in order to do so.
00:20:30.680But if he were to go up on this, this would really be the first time that the regime would want to put him in the pain box, wouldn't it?
00:20:39.580And so I wouldn't necessarily hold my breath, although if he has a certain degree of heightened ambition, this could really be an opportunity for him to make a name for himself and to redeem against doubts that have accrued as to the substance of his leadership.
00:20:59.380So, really, he could end up, you know, justifying the whole thing of him, you know, replacing McCarthy and becoming the position that he's in.
00:21:11.500This is kind of his moment if he wants to take it, but that goes along with the pain box and he might figure it's just not worth it.
00:21:19.620Or maybe there could be some saving face gesture where it looks like he's opposing it for a little bit and then finds a way out.
00:21:27.620That's another fairly typical approach, so we'll just have to see.
00:21:31.240But, you know, the mechanics of it are interesting, but I have to agree with the email that you just got.
00:21:37.700Just the very concept of there not being a citizenship requirement and verification requirement to be able to vote seems to be on its face totally absurd to the point of negating the very concept of citizenship as such.
00:21:57.560Darren, walk us through for folks who aren't quite familiar with the concept of the pain box or folks who haven't haven't seen Dune or read any of the books.
00:22:09.880What exactly do you mean by the pain box?
00:22:13.340Well, you know, it just is when the entire regime comes down upon you and there are various stakeholders in the regime and they all have their pressure points.
00:22:22.180And those pressure points can be very coordinated, as we all know.
00:22:25.920And we've seen the pain box's evolution depending on who the target is.
00:22:31.820There are different sort of vulnerabilities, but it all clamps down together and you just have to endure it.
00:22:37.820You know, there's no better example of this than Trump, who seems to thrive in the pain box.
00:22:46.360In fact, to the point that it's I don't know even know if you'd call it a pain box anymore just because he deals with it so effectively as though it's nothing.
00:22:57.860But you see it in, you know, various people who've been attacked by the media where the whole thing comes down on them.
00:23:05.480Alex Jones, great example of somebody who's lived in the pain box for a long time.
00:23:10.180Elon Musk is, you know, the kind of popularized that term in reference to Elon purchasing Twitter and how this will change his relationship to the regime.
00:23:22.260And he's starting to see what the pain box could look like, especially with the recent arrest of a fellow ex-CEO.
00:23:32.340That's kind of where the pain box seems to be leading these days.
00:23:36.540It used to be just reputational damage, but precisely because people like Elon now own and control and put forth a kind of free speech agenda on these major platforms, that's really inhibited the regime's capacity to implement the pain box.
00:23:55.540And that traditional mode of getting swarms of people to attack your reputation, basically socially shame you and isolate you.
00:24:02.880That's far more difficult with new management of Twitter.
00:24:06.620And part of the reason why we think we've discussed this in earlier segments, why the doxing attacks have become so much less effective these days.
00:24:16.700The pain box of that variety doesn't function as well when Twitter is free speech and you have a lot of the commissar types who have been neutralized.
00:24:30.080And so the regime has moved to the next stage of that, which is they're not even reputationally destroying people, getting them deplatformed.
00:24:37.860They're just going straight to criminalizing, throwing people in prison, arresting them.
00:24:43.200And you see that with people like Doug Mackey, who have been arrested and tried and convicted, felony for memes embarrassing the regime, specifically Hillary Clinton.
00:24:53.240But now you're seeing that at sort of the tech oligarch level.
00:24:57.920And Elon is very much on the chopping block.
00:25:00.560So in his own way, Johnson, if he actually chooses to make this a fight and make a name for himself in the process, which I think would be it would be a gamble, but I think it would pay off if he sticks with it.
00:25:12.480He would have our support, of course, and the support of many, many American people.
00:25:18.140But, yeah, the regime has pressure points.
00:25:20.640And in this specific kind of context, McConnell, as the appropriator, the appropriations guy, the money guy, he knows how to turn the levers of that pain box in a very specific way.
00:25:33.180And so that's just the nature of the game.
00:25:35.880The higher the stakes, the more difficult the pain box, but also the more valuable and consequential the reward.
00:25:44.180So I'm hoping that Johnson is made of stronger stuff than we imagine, and he proves us all that, you know, he's actually the leader deserving of the position that he holds.
00:25:57.000Peter Thiel said recently in an interview that this is one of the reasons that compromised people are put into positions of power,
00:26:07.200is that the act of being compromised by having some blackmail out there or I think he was talking about Jeffrey Epstein,
00:26:15.560the idea being then that if they knew they all had blackmail on each other, then they could trust each other.
00:26:22.440Because if someone stepped out of line, then they wouldn't even have to put them in the pain box.
00:26:27.540They would just use the threat of the blackmail coming out to be able to control all their all their actions.
00:26:33.520And so this essentially becomes like it's it's sort of like when you pay the dues as the you know,
00:26:38.020to become members of a of a private club in a way that's sort of how Epstein's Island and the activities at Epstein's Island actually functioned.
00:26:47.880Yeah, I think there's I don't know if that's specifically what was going on with Epstein,
00:26:52.620but I think the general logic kind of applies.
00:26:55.300I mean, there is a joke early on that, you know, the best way to ensure one's political prospects in the future
00:27:04.260is to do a bunch of very compromising things, videotape it yourself and send the videotape to,
00:27:12.620you know, George Soros or whomever basically saying, OK, now you have this absolutely devastating leverage on me.
00:27:19.560So now it's in your interest to elevate me to the most, you know, consequential position possible
00:27:26.760because, you know, I'm not going to step out of line.
00:27:28.900And so it's sort of a mutual benefit of thing at this point.
00:27:32.000If you have a ton of leverage on me, it's in your interest that I become president, because why not?
00:27:38.740Wouldn't you rather have a president that you have total control over?
00:27:41.340Sure. So, yeah, I think that that logic makes sense and it does account for a lot of the way these things work,
00:27:51.980probably more so than even people come up to someone and say, oh, we've seen you've been doing this or this.