On this week's show, the boys talk about their favorite Thanksgiving foods, the latest in the Elon Musk vs. Joe Biden debate, and much, much more. Plus, a special bonus episode of This Week in Biden.
00:02:15.000This is our last show before Thanksgiving, and so we talked a little bit about some of the Thanksgiving food and traditions that we all had yesterday, but we're gonna do Chat Tuesday today for Mug Club, and we also have a story That there's no way that we could cover on this.
00:02:30.000But let me go through the rest of the rundown for today's show.
00:02:33.000So we have a This Week in Biden for you because he tends to say really stupid things almost every single week.
00:02:39.000Really we could do this segment every week but we choose not to do that to you.
00:02:43.000Also Napoleon's in the movie is premiering I guess tomorrow and so we're
00:02:46.000going to talk about their revolution versus our revolution and their revolution sucks compared
00:02:51.000to ours and just letting you know why.
00:02:53.000Also Elon Musk is being accused of being an anti-semite and he went a bit nuclear,
00:03:00.000his words thermonuclear, which I didn't think was necessary to say it like that but he did so fine
00:03:05.000you're Elon Musk I guess you can do it.
00:03:07.000But he dropped a lawsuit last night, I believe, or yesterday afternoon, and a number of people joined him, and I think the tide is turning.
00:03:14.000And do me a favor, that's my question of the day for you right now.
00:03:18.000Do you think the tide is turning with all of the, I guess, pro-free speech platforms and groups, and really with some of the attorneys general, and that's how you say the plural of attorneys general.
00:05:07.000You're doing, you know, you like mashed potatoes.
00:05:09.000So look, if you're in the Tacoma, Washington area and you want to come out to the Comedy Club on Wednesday, November 22nd, Josh has a free show.
00:05:16.000Do me a favor, bring him some mashed potatoes.
00:05:39.000I'm not bringing your Tupperware back to you, though.
00:05:43.000We're throwing Tupperware away at this point.
00:05:46.000Yeah, but you can put them in one of those, like, things that, like, you know, holds the heat in, that restaurants give you, you know, the to-go containers that have, like, the foil look to them.
00:07:51.000All right, well, since it is Thanksgiving on Thursday, and we are very thankful here at Ladder with Crowder, we're thankful for you, we're thankful for our Mug Club audience, and the ability to have crazy people have a voice.
00:08:04.000We don't want to cancel them, but we do want to point them out and make fun of them, and here's a woman on TikTok claiming that Thanksgiving is racist.
00:08:12.000If you are thinking about not celebrating Thanksgiving for the very first time this year, hi, welcome.
00:08:18.000I don't think younger people under 25 know that in our schools, every single November, we dressed up as pilgrims and Indians and sat around and had a Thanksgiving feast.
00:09:12.000I noticed you didn't say, we sit around and talk about indigenous peoples and their contributions to society, their inventions, their leaders that changed the world.
00:09:22.000No, you talk about their stories, and look, fine, I have respect for people who are on this land, and I don't hate any people group that were here, I just think that we won, and we took the land.
00:09:32.000Now if you want to get mad at us for not honoring an agreement or something like that, fine, we can talk about that.
00:10:57.000And we might have to hit this little thing right here.
00:11:00.000So if you see this, just head on over to Rumble.
00:11:03.000I don't know why you're on YouTube anyway.
00:11:05.000It shouldn't be a thing at this point.
00:11:07.000We've given you, I don't know, two years to kind of figure this out.
00:11:09.000But we love Rumble and we're going to get into some stuff about Rumble and X and True Social and all kinds of great stuff.
00:11:16.000But before we do that, It's always fun to get to make fun of Joe Biden.
00:11:20.000We had to actually cut a few things out of this because there were too many things that we could say, but he had a really busy week in San Francisco kowtowing to Xi and running out of meetings so that he could go to the restroom.
00:12:54.000For where he goes with his creepy conversations, other than his brain is no longer able to, with like these lucid thoughts, to go, ooh, can't say that out loud, and now it just all comes out because he's so old and senile, and you're like, wow, that's the real Joe Biden coming out every single day.
00:13:09.000I think that's what's really going on.
00:13:10.000By the way, because, you know, he's really old, he had a birthday cake yesterday that had the flames of hell, apparently, on it.
00:13:53.000Well, no, it's saying the difference there is 31% of people that would vote for Biden are voting for him and 57% are voting just to vote against Trump.
00:14:01.000Where the people that vote for Trump are actually big Trump supporters.
00:15:05.000Right now it just seems like he's existing and making a fool of himself and his family, but I guess, you know, they get to, you know, be in power just a little bit longer.
00:15:20.000They're making fools of the American people right now.
00:15:22.000He should be kept comfortable on a bed somewhere.
00:15:24.000He should be enjoying whatever, you know, neurons connecting and firing, however those things work in your brain.
00:15:33.000He should be enjoying whatever he has left of that, not sitting in the White House having his diaper changed and going to bed at 4 o'clock.
00:15:39.000No, he should be eating ice cream cones and sitting at Chuck E. Cheese and watching the kids play.
00:16:03.000It's the only way that any of this exists.
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00:16:21.000And we really, really do appreciate it.
00:16:22.000It is the season for being thankful, and we're thankful for you, so it's also the season to give, so you know, maybe do that.
00:16:28.000So we do have something coming up in here.
00:16:30.000By the way, ReleaseTheManifesto.com, I'll talk about that a little bit more and give you an update.
00:16:34.000We're still working on stories related to this right now.
00:16:39.000Yeah, look, every time I hear somebody go, well, I can't say, make sure you tune in, bro, and like, get onto the show, and then you're like, well, you don't really have anything.
00:16:49.000I'm not talking about any person in particular.
00:16:53.000What I'm saying is that it's done a lot, most notably recently, but it's done a lot, and I don't want you to think that's what we're doing.
00:17:00.000We actually have something that If it's true, and if we can kind of connect all the dots for you guys with our undercover team, we'll absolutely shock you and probably make you more pissed off about this than you already are, which is hard to do.
00:17:14.000I understand that, but I really do think so.
00:17:15.000We'll see if this actually comes together, but we have people that are, you know, honest-to-God journalists, not like Media Matters, where they actually go out and try to confirm things and not contrive things.
00:18:02.000And then we were talking about this thing and I'm like, oh, well, that makes a whole lot of sense.
00:18:05.000But the Napoleon movie is going to premiere and it talks about the French Revolution and this guy being really short, which is obviously funny.
00:18:12.000You know, we thought we would talk about it for you and here's our Ladder to the Crowder Entertainment Minute.
00:22:13.000That's when they went scorched earth on Moscow and they fled it.
00:22:15.000So it was abandoned by the time Napoleon got there.
00:22:17.000But Napoleon, I think, basically just made the... He had that thing that dictators do where they think they can never be wrong and they have nobody that will give them wise counsel and tell them, hey, look, marching on this place in winter when people can just, you know, I don't know, freeze to death or die of disease is probably a bad idea.
00:22:39.000However, I think if you want to see a short French guy with a chip on his shoulder, you can go and watch Ellen DeGeneres' reruns and save the box office prices.
00:22:48.000Do me a favor though and like if you plan on seeing this movie.
00:22:53.000You may not have the funny sounding mallet, but you know.
00:22:57.000Do your best impression when you actually do it.
00:22:59.000So just, I think we're going to go into a little bit more depth here and kind of give you a bit of history about what's going on here.
00:23:07.000Because a lot of people, when you start talking about wars and you start talking about these kind of iconic figures and revolutions, like we tend to understand our American Revolution.
00:23:17.000We understand how that happened and unfolded.
00:23:19.000We don't really talk much about France's revolution or really anything in In Europe pre-World War II, it's almost like World War II was the beginning of history for a lot of people in Europe, meaning us thinking about Europe.
00:23:31.000And we talked about World War I the other day and we're like, man, most people don't know much about that either.
00:23:36.000So let's jump into a little bit of this.
00:23:37.000So Napoleon led France from 1799 to 1815.
00:23:42.000It was a very tumultuous time in France's, uh, after, you know, kind of following France's revolution of 1789 and the subsequent kind of quote unquote reign of terror.
00:23:51.000Uh, but you, you had a couple of points here, Lane, that you wanted to kind of talk about that kind of encapsulate that time.
00:23:57.000Yeah, I mean, you quote-unquote, I guess because there's different periods of when that might have been, but this is the guillotine era.
00:24:03.000So when you hear the Reign of Terror and you associate the guillotine and all the executions of Frank Sinatra... The good old days!
00:24:26.000And it's important to understand how these things kind of happen throughout history, but this was a very kind of stark contrast between their revolution and our revolution, right?
00:24:35.000Both of the revolutions were products of the Age of Enlightenment with birthed ideas like classical liberalism, socialism, Marxism.
00:24:42.000Not the best ideas sometimes, but they're big ideas.
00:24:46.000You can't take that away, but also reforms within Judeo-Christian religions as well, right?
00:24:51.000So let's start off with the American Revolution.
00:24:54.000uh and we the kind of the philosophies that undergirded these revolutions so we have the declaration of independence which famously proclaims this that we hold these truths to be self-evident sounds corny not a joke think about it we hold these truths to be self-evident all men and women created by go you know the you know the thing Most of his voters don't know the thing.
00:25:35.000We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
00:25:39.000This is an important thing, by the way.
00:25:41.000All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain Unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of the thing.
00:27:08.000I can understand forgetting something in a moment and you're like, man, I know this and I can't believe that I'm forgetting this right now.
00:28:10.000What we really need to set up with this is just how diametrically opposed these two ideas are and kind of the two camps that they've created in the world that we're seeing today.
00:28:18.000That's why we're covering it, because it's just as tangible today as it was when these revolutions were taking place.
00:28:23.000It's where all of these And I say it's where all of these terrible ideas kind of originate.
00:28:32.000Where they come together in formation.
00:28:33.000Yeah, they kind of come together and they really start to infect culture and civilization in a way that is incredibly negative.
00:28:39.000Saying that God created us with rights that are not given to us by man is fantastic, because those are not rights that can ever be taken by man, because they're given to us by God.
00:28:58.000As a human being, those rights, I possess them.
00:29:01.000With the rights that are outlined in other important kind of founding documents or declarations, they are rights given to you by the state, which means that they can be taken away on a whim, right?
00:29:13.000That's the huge difference here and what that will lead to.
00:29:15.000So French Revolution Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
00:29:20.000It talks about liberty, equality, and fraternity.
00:30:20.000And I understand being kind of in the feudal system where your birthright basically determined what your life was going to be like.
00:30:27.000So if you were born into a high family, then, you know, fantastic life was going to be much better for you than it was going to be for somebody who was born as a peasant or some kind of serf, right?
00:30:52.000Let's imagine that you're right now in a society where birth is more important than, let's say, achievement or skill or anything else that you can contribute to society.
00:31:02.000You would probably think, like, okay, yeah, privilege, let's get rid of that.
00:31:38.000It always reduces it to the lowest common denominator because that's the only way that you can have equality of all outcomes for people is if you say, hey, I have high performers.
00:31:48.000So instead of taking people and making sure that they can compete with the high performers and get up to this level of achievement, I need to lower the level of achievement so that everybody kind of equally is mediocre.
00:31:58.000That's what you see in these societies around the world.
00:32:00.000And, you know, speaking of mediocre, here's AOC explaining what it means to her today.
00:32:05.000Our access and our ability and our guarantee to having a home comes before someone else's privilege to earn a job.
00:32:19.000The French and the Americans at the time were in very similar situations where the monarchs and the kind of the bourgeoisie or whatever class you want to refer to them were living very large and they're living very by very poor means they don't have a lot going on so they look and say we need to change this.
00:32:36.000The difference is the French said we need to change by destroying And not really worrying about what comes next.
00:32:43.000The Americans always knew, once they took down the monarch class, that there was something else and there was just as much... there were just as much... A problem?
00:32:51.000There was going to be just as much danger in the new state that they created if they weren't to check themselves.
00:32:57.000They would just become a new monarch class.
00:33:15.000The fundamental difference between a free market having the ability—with all of its faults, by the way.
00:33:20.000Sometimes the free market takes a little while to self-correct, but it does.
00:33:24.000That's why we talk about letting businesses fail.
00:33:26.000We're like, oh, that would be terrible for the banking system.
00:33:28.000For a little while, but it would actually correct and for the long run be much better for everybody here because we're like, oh, that's a really bad way to trade.
00:33:36.000That's a bad way to do business and we have to stop doing that.
00:33:39.000Otherwise, we will go out of business.
00:33:41.000The market is fine as long as the government doesn't come in and try and correct the issues that naturally should work themselves out.
00:33:54.000But when the government comes in And they say they will be the force that takes care of everything.
00:34:00.000They will be the force that smooths out all of the rough edges and also brings down these billionaires who don't have a right to have the money.
00:34:24.000Are they offering an inferior service that nobody wants?
00:34:27.000No, a lot of people want their service, and it's actually pretty nice to have everything delivered by Amazon anywhere on the planet right now, essentially, if you'd like it.
00:34:34.000But we just don't like the fact that they're doing such a good job in getting all the business.
00:34:40.000I don't understand that kind of argument because it presumes that taking Jeff Bezos as the guy who did Amazon and putting Jeff Bezos as the President of the United States who's controlling everything that you do and you have no rights Is not the same.
00:34:58.000Just be clear, it's different people, so Bezos is going to stay over here and be the Amazon guy, but the equivalent is going to come over here, maybe not as bright as Bezos, because he actually had to build a business and make a living.
00:35:07.000The equivalent is going to come over here and say, hey, we know everything to do for you.
00:35:20.000It's not really called a profit, it's just called taxes.
00:35:22.000Right? That's the equivalent that you don't get to see that as clearly.
00:35:26.000But that's what it means. So you get to see this in France's Declaration of the Rights of Man,
00:35:30.000like we talked about just a second ago. Here, let me just read some quotes here.
00:35:33.000Social distinctions may be founded only upon the general good. No body nor individual may
00:35:41.000exercise any authority which does not proceed directly from the nation.
00:35:46.000Law can only prohibit such actions as are hurtful to society.
00:35:51.000And you had a point here about Rousseau's General Will versus, this would be John Locke?
00:35:56.000Yeah, so here's where you really see the main influences of the two revolutions, where the Americans were influenced mostly by John Locke and his His preeminent desire to see the rights of the individual upheld, those inalienable rights, you know, life, liberty, and property.
00:36:19.000The French got most of their inspiration from Rousseau, which was kind of on board with Locke in a lot of ways, but at the end of the day he really put forward this idea called the general will, which is, yes, those rights need to be protected from government until they violate the general will.
00:36:34.000With all that is, is the idea that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
00:36:43.000And that's what Locke saw, and that's what the American founders saw, but the French and Rousseau had a totally different idea of how societies should operate, and it is the greater good theory.
00:36:52.000There's just... Josh, is this something that...
00:36:57.000It feels like this is so obvious, this truth is so obvious, that left to our own devices we're inherently evil and lazy.
00:37:04.000Those are two things that you're pretty much going to find throughout society.
00:37:08.000It doesn't mean every person, it doesn't mean every civilization is full of people like that, but typically speaking, And I would say, I would make the argument as a Christian that we're all left to our own devices.
00:37:20.000We tend to only look out for ourselves and not seek the common good by sacrificing, which is a different thing, by giving charity to people.
00:37:27.000That's a different thing than taxes or being forced to do things.
00:37:32.000And if you just have a society where people don't have the ability to go out and freely participate in commerce and the government is going to take care of them, it's just going to lead to more?
00:38:27.000And they're like, hey, we're going to set up this, like, everybody's equal except for, you know, this one spiritual leader who's above everybody, gets to sleep with a lot of ladies.
00:39:11.000People are lazy, and that's where the social contract has to come from.
00:39:15.000And that's the idea that Locke and Rousseau had that was totally different on what that social contract was.
00:39:19.000With Locke, it was a social contract with the monarchs or the aristocracy that they are supposed to only, so far as going their responsibilities, to protect inalienable rights.
00:39:30.000Where with Rousseau, he thought the social contract was amongst the sovereign or amongst the people, and as soon as one person's individual needs violated that greater group identity, well, they had to be taken out.
00:39:44.000Freedom inherently doesn't exist at the end of something like this.
00:39:47.000Right, especially if your freedom gets in the way of the prosperity of the many.
00:39:50.000Now, it's fantastic when you're a part of the many.
00:39:53.000Because you can just sit there and the government's going to take care of you, or they're going to try to create a system that will take care of you, but it only takes you so far.
00:40:00.000That's why a lot of people are in the many.
00:40:03.000Do you see why I have an electoral college now?
00:40:04.000Well, yeah, but the welfare system, when people are like, oh, nobody likes, no, nobody likes being on welfare, but do you know how many people are comfortable being on welfare?
00:40:37.000You were around wealthy people and nice things, and you worked in a nice place, and occasionally they would give you tickets to games and stuff like that if they couldn't go at the last minute.
00:40:47.000You were wealth-adjacent, but you were not wealthy.
00:40:51.000And it sucks you in because it gives you this feeling of actually being where they are and you're not.
00:40:58.000You're one of them for a while because you develop relationships with people who are very wealthy, and you look up 20 years later and people that still work there for 10, 20, 30 years making very little money, to be honest, definitely not a high-paying job, and you're like, wait a minute, I've had this feeling like I was around it, but I never actually achieved any success.
00:41:21.000If you work at a country club, there's probably people that run it that make a lot of money, but the servers and other people, like banquet captains and things like that, they're not making a lot of money.
00:41:27.000They're just doing that, and you're adjacent to it.
00:41:31.000It's like the government gives you just enough to feel like you're okay.
00:41:34.000Just to feel like you have enough, but you don't ever really actually have enough, and you certainly don't have any pride in your achievement in life because you're living off of someone else.
00:41:43.000There's no way to look at that and say, I'm fulfilling my purpose, right?
00:41:47.000So, not only is there a difference in understanding of the revolutions about what you're going to kind of found your country on, the idea that the government is not there to give you rights, but necessarily to make sure that the playing field is somewhat level as best as they can, right?
00:42:03.000And make sure they don't get in the way of your rights and your ability to go out and pursue happiness, right?
00:42:10.000Their opportunity really was to say that the government is just going to come in and tell you that, hey, all this privilege that existed over here, yeah, it's not going to exist.
00:42:18.000It's going to exist over here in the government now in a much more consolidated way.
00:42:22.000And so everybody's going to be slightly better off, actually probably worse off.
00:42:26.000But don't worry, we'll provide for you.
00:43:05.000You have your creator and you're given unalienable rights.
00:43:14.000It also references the laws of nature and of nature's God and closes by appealing to the supreme judge of the world, noting that signers' reliance on protection of divine providence.
00:43:25.000Let's contrast that with the French Revolution that sought the removal of religion In 1790, the Civil Constitution of clergy was a law passed that, among other things, made the clergy paid employees of the government, required all members of the clergy to swear an oath of loyalty to the nation, and nullified the church's rights as a feudal landowner.
00:45:14.000In 1793, the Cult of Reason was instituted, and it acted like a church, like congregational services, symbolism, and worship, but they denied the existence of any deity or supernatural forces.
00:45:24.000Disney originally had the rights, and we obtained what their poster of the film was actually going to be.
00:48:05.000But just remember this, and I know, look, we got a little wonky on this on purpose because most of you guys don't understand the French Revolution and the American Revolution and how they were so diametrically opposed in the way of thinking.
00:48:16.000American Revolution, rights given by God, not man, personal liberty, more important than equal outcomes, and they embraced Judeo-Christian values, and you see the natural results of that.
00:48:25.000French Revolution, rights flowed out from government, equality of outcome is more important than personal liberty, and anti-religion in favor of the state and government, and you have seen the results of that.
00:48:35.000They build, well, imagine a line, and then, you know, Hitler just goes around.
00:48:58.000Chris Christie sitting on Napoleon's penis!
00:49:02.000Listen, I know we gotta get out of here super quick on this segment, but the thing to know about the French Revolution and revolutions like this, they're unwinnable.
00:49:09.000You have to keep fighting because there always needs to be a target.
00:49:13.000And you're always going to end up losing, no matter how pure you are.
00:49:16.000Robespierre started this with his Reign of Terror, he eventually got his head cut off by the guillotine.
00:49:20.000You see this on the left, eventually you're not going to be pure enough for the ideological cause.
00:50:25.000Just enter in your email address, your first name, last name, sign that petition so that we can literally walk in and slap these things down.
00:50:32.000Repeatedly, because there's a lot of sheets of paper because we have so many people doing that.
00:50:37.000Many, many, many, many people have signed up right now and we want you to do that again.
00:50:41.000Go to releasethemanifesto.com and just sign it for us.
00:50:45.000And look, Mud Club Undercover, we're already investigating some explosive leads that I talked to you about off the top.
00:50:51.000Tons and tons of tips coming in from all corners of society.
00:50:54.000It's not just about this particular case that we're talking about, but there are so many things coming in.
00:50:59.000So if you have a tip, send it to lwctipsatprotonmail.com.
00:51:03.000We will get our team on it and we will get to the bottom of it.
00:51:53.000According to media, Elon Musk, the worst anti-Semite we've ever known, right?
00:51:57.000But here's the thing, he just dropped an incredible, massive lawsuit against Media Matters, and I really do feel like this is the tide turning moment.
00:52:06.000I had you guys comment on it a minute ago, because I think what happened is they finally overreached.
00:52:11.000There's actual damages that you can attach to this, it's not just reputational damages, which are much, much harder to put a figure on.
00:52:18.000But Elon Musk just exposed something about media matters that I think we've all known.
00:52:26.000But he just exposed something that a lot of people are jumping on, including the guys over at Truth, Donald Trump's kind of social media company.
00:52:34.000They filed a lawsuit against 20 different media companies.
00:52:38.000But also Ken Paxton, the Attorney General for Texas, he's jumped on this.
00:52:43.000And I think you'll see more people start to jump on this.
00:52:45.000I know Rumble has started to jump on this as well.
00:52:49.000And it's not just about people saying bad things about you.
00:52:56.000If it's out of context, or if it's an outright lie and they know it, or if it's contrived, that's a different story.
00:53:03.000But before we get to all of that, let's just take a look at a little bit of how we got here.
00:53:08.000The less-than-perfect launch comes amid a weekend of controversy for SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk, with advertisers fleeing his Platform X, formerly known as Twitter, after Musk replied to an anti-Semitic tweet that accused Jews of hating white people.
00:53:24.000He retweeted a post, a highly offensive anti-Semitic post.
00:53:28.000Tech billionaire Elon Musk is under fire for spreading anti-Semitic and racist hate.
00:53:33.000As for Elon Musk, well he's under fire for stoking, specifically right now, anti-Semitism.
00:53:38.000Elon Musk is taking fire for agreeing with anti-semitic posts on X. Elon Musk openly endorsed this anti-semitic conspiracy theory.
00:53:46.000X owner Elon Musk is now under fire for agreeing with anti-semitic comments.
00:54:10.000I actually listened to this live on Sunday, unfortunately.
00:54:12.000And the replacement theory basically alleges that left-wing elites are trying to replace whites in Western nations with non-white populations.
00:54:23.000Look, just so you have an understanding of what that is, here's the actual series of tweets that led to these accusations, right?
00:54:30.000So on November 15th, BreakingBatBot, I don't know, B-A-H-T posted on X, okay, Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want to stop using, or people to stop using against them.
00:54:45.000I'm deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest crap Now about Western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don't exactly like them too much.
00:54:57.000You want truth said to your face, there it is.
00:55:00.000And so, okay, that's out there a little bit, right?
00:55:03.000He's basically saying that these people don't give a crap about what you think.
00:55:06.000Now, do me a favor and go into some of these European countries that have had uncontrolled, unmitigated immigration from wherever, whenever, whyever.
00:55:15.000And see if they would say, hey, this maybe was a bad idea for a lot of different reasons.
00:55:36.000Okay, but Elon didn't just say that, right?
00:55:39.000But it did spur countless headlines, pushing the narrative that Musk is now an anti-Semite, because he's agreeing with this whole kind of replacement theory ideology, and that's an anti-Semitic thing to say.
00:55:51.000But buried in these articles, Are when Elon Musk himself gave the context and furthered the conversation, right?
00:56:23.000You write that this does not extend to all Jewish communities but it is also not limited to the ADL.
00:56:29.000So he's saying it's not all communities but it's not just limited to the ADL.
00:56:33.000He's pointed out the ADL is one of the biggest problems, right?
00:56:36.000And at the risk of being repetitive, I am deeply offended by ADL's messaging and any other groups who push de facto anti-white racism or anti-Asian racism or racism of any kind.
00:57:31.000I don't agree with it, but, you know, if you just read the articles or listened to the headlines written about him, you'd think, man, that's par for the course.
00:57:41.000I like how a few days ago everyone on Twitter was giving him crap because he tweeted out that if you say, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free, you'll get shadow banned or whatever.
00:58:06.000Yeah, this is completely ginned up, but if all you do is check in on CNN or MSNBC or some other—why would you do that?
00:58:14.000But a lot of people do that, you know, they have to catch flights so they see CNN on in the airport.
00:58:18.000If you catch those guys, you're like, oh, Elon's anti-Semitic, well that's a shame.
00:58:23.000And they don't actually address the substance of what he said, they just make the claim because he tweeted this about this spot that was anti-Semitic.
00:58:47.000Just in case you guys were worried about it, he was defended by prominent Jewish voices on the matter, including Ben Shapiro and Jonathan Greenblatt from the ADL.
00:58:58.000This is an important and welcome move by Elon Musk.
00:59:01.000I appreciate this leadership in fighting hate.
00:59:03.000That, I think, was in response to the From the River to the Sea comment that Elon made saying that that was After this controversy already started.
00:59:18.000That every other journalist out there who's covering this and saying Elon Musk is anti-semitic?
00:59:22.000This same media machine that keeps pushing for a ceasefire, that keeps calling the Israelis war criminals, that keeps saying Netanyahu is trying to commit genocide.
00:59:30.000These people can go right to hell because they don't have any principles.
00:59:33.000They have no principles and they're just trying to stoke for clicks.
01:00:21.000After this, like after, during, kind of in the midst of this fallout from his tweet, Media Matters, and this is what really gets me excited, talking about the demise of Media Matters.
01:00:33.000They posted an article with this headline.
01:00:36.000Basically just tying the knot themselves.
01:00:38.000As Musk endorses anti-semitic conspiracy theory, X has been placing ads for Apple, Bravo, IBM, Oracle, and Xfinity next to pro-Nazi content.
01:00:49.000I love the Bravo one, that is hilarious.
01:00:51.000None of you would exist in Nazi Germany.
01:01:21.000And so responding to this article, a lot of these companies, they pulled advertising from X, right?
01:01:27.000Apple, Disney, Paramount, Warner Brothers, IBM.
01:01:30.000And in a public statement, IBM even noted, IBM has zero tolerance for hate speech and discrimination and we have immediately suspended all advertising on X while we investigate this entirely unacceptable situation.
01:02:12.000So Musk actually responds and completely destroys or lays the foundation for the destruction of Media Matters.
01:02:23.000What in his words said he was going thermonuclear and he dropped a laundry list of claims exposing their practices being media matters.
01:02:30.000To manipulate the public advertisers, Media Matters created an alternate account and curated posts and advertising appearing on the account's timeline to misinform advertisers about the placement of their posts.
01:02:42.000Once they curated this feed, they repeatedly refreshed their timelines to find a rare instance of ads serving next to content they chose to follow.
01:02:52.000Our logs indicate that they forced a scenario resulting in 13 times the number of ads served compared to the median ads served to an X user of the 5.5 billion ad impressions on X.
01:03:04.000That day, less than 50 total ad impressions were served against all of the organic content featured in the Media Matters article.
01:03:13.000What he is basically saying is that Media Matters had accounts that they used that were over 30 days old, because if you don't have an account that's over 30 days old, you don't get ads, right?
01:05:12.000Real quick, from research and something we talked about earlier, of those companies that left, IBM, right, pulled advertising for Musk's anti-Semitism, which is awfully funny, because IBM during the Holocaust actually provided the Nazis with punch cards to keep track of how many Jews were going to the concentration camps from the ghetto.
01:05:46.000So, November 20th, that would be yesterday afternoon or so after the show, Musk officially dropped a lawsuit against Media Matters for the behavior alleged above.
01:06:32.000So that was a huge shoe to drop because Media Matters just did something to try to damage that company to damage the brand to try to make Advertisers flee to try to hurt Elon Musk why because they hate free speech That's why.
01:06:47.000Not because there's hate speech on the site.
01:06:51.000That he's successful and that he's trying to keep X as a place where people can actually speak their mind for the most part.
01:06:57.000There's still problems that I have with X and we'll get to those here in just a minute.
01:07:00.000But on November 20th as well, Texas AG Ken Paxton opens up an investigation into media matters manipulation and in response to Musk tweeted, Fraud has both civil and criminal penalties.
01:07:13.000Which is fantastic because Elon Musk is basically just doubling down, but it's not just Elon Musk.
01:07:18.000Our very own Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovsky is also calling out media matters for fraudulent practices.
01:08:10.000You've got massive, massive companies now that are free speech advocates at the very least, even if imperfect in X's case.
01:08:19.000But you've got Truth and you've got Rumble coming out and saying, hey, we've been targeted as well.
01:08:23.000This is not just like shadowbanning where you can't prove it.
01:08:25.000This is people running, hit pieces on us, lying, manipulating results in an effort to try to drive our advertisers away.
01:08:34.000And it's funny that that kind of stuff should happen.
01:08:36.000I mean, we've They've actually been on that end of media matters as well and they've come after us and they've targeted us but they're not, I mean, they target us and they think they're right, they're not always wrong.
01:08:48.000I don't, I don't typically like addressing media matters because you have a bunch of conservatives who their whole show turns into a back and forth.
01:10:11.000With these clowns though, the truth stuff, the X stuff, the rumble stuff, that's obviously all fantastic, but I think the AG is actually getting involved here, which is really exciting.
01:10:20.000It's huge because they can affect a lot of change, right?
01:10:29.000They started with $2 million in seed money from MoveOn.org and the New Democratic Network.
01:10:34.000They also received a million bucks from George Soros in 2010.
01:10:38.000I wonder what their motivations could be.
01:10:39.000Yeah, I wonder what their motivations could be.
01:10:40.000But look, Media Matters is not the issue.
01:10:43.000They love nothing more than right now people are actually talking about their existence because most people don't know they exist or care that they exist.
01:11:56.000They're helping us get everybody caught up so that the turnaround time going forward before your mug is shipped should be down to days, if not maybe a week before it's shipped.
01:13:34.000If you dare bring me green beans, I swear you'll be kicked out of the city.
01:13:38.000Listen, we'll talk about some green beans in just a second, because green beans are fantastic.
01:13:42.000But look, thank you very much for joining us.
01:13:44.000We hope you all have a wonderful and happy Thanksgiving.
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