Louder with Crowder - Elon Musk Declares All Out WAR On Media Matters!

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00:01:03.000 All right, Mug Club and all of you. 0.98

00:01:33.000 I know what you're thinking right now.

00:01:34.000 Don't.

00:01:35.000 Don't leave.

00:01:38.000 It's okay.

00:01:38.000 Everything's going to be fine.

00:01:39.000 We're going to have a fantastic time here.

00:01:41.000 I have other people in the studio that are going to make sure of that.

00:01:44.000 But look!

00:01:45.000 Look what we did to the set here.

00:01:46.000 We've got all the Christmas stuff up.

00:01:48.000 We've got the... I don't know why we have the one thing like right here.

00:01:51.000 It's always like that every single year.

00:01:53.000 Is that supposed to be like a nod to... Well, that's the Charlie Brown Christmas.

00:01:55.000 Yeah, Charlie Brown.

00:01:56.000 Okay, that makes sense.

00:01:57.000 I guess that makes some sense, I guess.

00:01:59.000 By the way, before you say it, I know the Rumble thing's out of focus.

00:02:01.000 It's called Depth of Field.

00:02:02.000 I mean, come on.

00:02:04.000 Well look, we have a fantastic show.

00:02:15.000 This 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.

00:02:30.000 But let me go through the rest of the rundown for today's show. 0.98

00:02:33.000 So we have a This Week in Biden for you because he tends to say really stupid things almost every single week. 0.97

00:02:39.000 Really we could do this segment every week but we choose not to do that to you. 0.91

00:02:43.000 Also Napoleon's in the movie is premiering I guess tomorrow and so we're

00:02:46.000 going to talk about their revolution versus our revolution and their revolution sucks compared

00:02:51.000 to ours and just letting you know why.

00:02:53.000 Also Elon Musk is being accused of being an anti-semite and he went a bit nuclear,

00:03:00.000 his words thermonuclear, which I didn't think was necessary to say it like that but he did so fine

00:03:05.000 you're Elon Musk I guess you can do it.

00:03:07.000 But 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.

00:03:14.000 And do me a favor, that's my question of the day for you right now.

00:03:18.000 Do 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.

00:03:30.000 They're chiming in as well.

00:03:32.000 So far, I think we have Texas, maybe some other ones, hinting that they're going to join us.

00:03:35.000 Do you think the tide is turning, finally, on corrupt media?

00:03:38.000 Not just not doing a good job of reporting, but actively trying to take out free speech advocates.

00:03:44.000 Comment and let me know what you think.

00:03:45.000 But, when you hear one of the best... Let's go that way first.

00:03:51.000 One of the best songs ever, if you're a game fan.

00:03:54.000 There we go.

00:03:56.000 You know that Ginger Snap, Mr. Lane the Brain, is sitting in my chair.

00:04:00.000 How are you, sir?

00:04:01.000 Good.

00:04:02.000 Loving the new camera angles over here.

00:04:03.000 Loving the vibes, the studio.

00:04:05.000 It's a good mood.

00:04:06.000 You don't have the fisheye lens anymore over there.

00:04:09.000 I have a very bulbous forehead, so it really wasn't doing me any favors.

00:04:13.000 Is that why you would always slouch over there?

00:04:15.000 You're like, I just want to be as far away from the camera as possible.

00:04:17.000 That makes sense.

00:04:18.000 We're good.

00:04:20.000 Well, and if you hear this music, you know Mr. Josh Firestein.

00:04:25.000 Hey, hey, what's up, boys?

00:04:26.000 How are you?

00:04:27.000 Good, good.

00:04:28.000 You ready for some mashed potatoes?

00:04:28.000 Doing well?

00:04:30.000 Oh, yeah.

00:04:31.000 I've been prepping all week.

00:04:34.000 I haven't eaten a potato in six days.

00:04:36.000 Really?

00:04:37.000 Yeah.

00:04:39.000 You just want it to be amazing.

00:04:39.000 Why?

00:04:40.000 What's a normal potato interval for you?

00:04:43.000 Oh, yeah, like three hours, probably.

00:04:45.000 You said mashed potatoes were your favorite, right?

00:04:48.000 I love that.

00:04:49.000 It's my favorite Thanksgiving food.

00:04:50.000 Perfect!

00:04:51.000 It's the best!

00:04:51.000 It's perfect, yes!

00:04:52.000 You could have it all the time, though.

00:04:53.000 Especially if you have somebody, if you go to somebody else's place and they're cooking the meat.

00:04:57.000 Yeah.

00:04:58.000 Just bring the mashed potatoes?

00:04:58.000 Don't trust it.

00:04:59.000 Yeah, bring your own taters.

00:05:02.000 B-Y-O-T, got it. 1.00

00:05:04.000 B-Y-O-T and G. Nice! 0.99

00:05:07.000 You're doing, you know, you like mashed potatoes.

00:05:09.000 So 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.

00:05:16.000 Do me a favor, bring him some mashed potatoes.

00:05:18.000 Yes, bring some mashed potatoes.

00:05:20.000 I don't know if you should do that though.

00:05:21.000 Maybe have somebody else try them first.

00:05:23.000 There's like four or five other comedians on the show and they would love that too, I'm sure.

00:05:27.000 They would?

00:05:27.000 Oh yeah.

00:05:28.000 What if somebody poisons it?

00:05:31.000 Zach Summerfield's on the show, and I could deal with that.

00:05:35.000 Maybe don't bring them.

00:05:36.000 They're not very portable.

00:05:38.000 They're portable!

00:05:39.000 I'm not bringing your Tupperware back to you, though.

00:05:43.000 We're throwing Tupperware away at this point.

00:05:46.000 Yeah, 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.

00:05:53.000 Maybe that's the best way to do it.

00:05:53.000 I don't know.

00:05:54.000 Yeah, most people just have those stashed away in their kitchen, I think.

00:05:57.000 They do, I think.

00:05:57.000 I mean, it's just, you just, whatever.

00:05:59.000 You'll figure it out.

00:06:00.000 Hey, Ginger's never looks good. 0.86

00:06:01.000 You look good with the light behind you and whatever that thing is next to you.

00:06:04.000 I don't know what that is.

00:06:05.000 You mean the depth of field?

00:06:06.000 Yeah, it's out of focus behind him, so... You have to do that, by the way.

00:06:09.000 I'm not sure if you're aware.

00:06:11.000 Looking like Macaulay Culkin over there.

00:06:14.000 One of the first things that I did was...

00:06:16.000 Macaulay Culkin.

00:06:17.000 Macaulay Vulkin.

00:06:18.000 I don't know if I like either of those things.

00:06:18.000 Vulkin.

00:06:20.000 I don't know that it matters.

00:06:23.000 One of the first things that I did, though, was I gave Toolman a hard time.

00:06:25.000 I'm like, hey, Tim, the Rumble sign's out of focus.

00:06:27.000 And he goes, yes, Gerald.

00:06:29.000 I know.

00:06:31.000 Because if it were to be in focus, you would... But I'm the CEO.

00:06:34.000 Can we make it in focus?

00:06:35.000 He's like, that's not how it works.

00:06:37.000 It doesn't matter that you're CEO.

00:06:38.000 And I was like, oh, fine.

00:06:39.000 I was like, hey, maybe we can one day have everything in focus money.

00:06:43.000 I don't know.

00:06:44.000 And then he's like, well, actually, this looks better.

00:06:44.000 We'll see.

00:06:46.000 And I said, oh, fine.

00:06:47.000 You do your job and I'll do poorly mine.

00:06:49.000 The CEO stuff.

00:06:52.000 So that's why I had to lead the show.

00:06:53.000 And by the way, I do have a cough drop in my mouth, so if you hear that every once in a while, I apologize.

00:06:57.000 I'm still recovering.

00:06:59.000 I thought it was a dip.

00:06:59.000 I thought you had a Copenhagen in there.

00:07:01.000 No.

00:07:01.000 No, man, I ain't dippin'.

00:07:02.000 Little long cut.

00:07:03.000 I ain't doin' that.

00:07:05.000 A bunch of my friends did in high school, and I just saw one of my buddies, this was the last time he dipped, just sprinting in.

00:07:10.000 We're sitting in the restaurant, and he's running from the back parking lot around.

00:07:13.000 He had swallowed his dip on accident, and he was sprinting towards the toilet to vomit so that he could eat.

00:07:19.000 That's gross.

00:07:21.000 I wouldn't even eat at that point!

00:07:25.000 Don't you do it!

00:07:28.000 I'm getting hot mouth.

00:07:31.000 Alright, so if you dip, don't swallow it.

00:07:34.000 Doesn't turn out well.

00:07:35.000 One time at a party, I thought I was drinking whiskey.

00:07:37.000 It was a dip spinner. 0.57

00:07:37.000 Oh, it was a dip spinner. 0.57

00:07:40.000 I can't drink whiskey now.

00:07:41.000 No, you can't do that.

00:07:43.000 I can't drink dip spin anymore, man.

00:07:45.000 Maybe I went to the bathwater.

00:07:51.000 All 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.

00:08:04.000 We 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.

00:08:12.000 If you are thinking about not celebrating Thanksgiving for the very first time this year, hi, welcome.

00:08:16.000 I've never celebrated Thanksgiving.

00:08:18.000 I 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.

00:08:30.000 No you didn't.

00:08:32.000 Bombastic side-eye.

00:08:34.000 Why bombastic? 0.99

00:08:35.000 Anyway, so that shit is obviously not happening anymore. 0.99

00:08:37.000 It's a lie. 0.99

00:08:37.000 Nope, we won. 0.99

00:08:38.000 They lost.

00:08:39.000 Instead, we talk about, with our children, we talk about indigenous people.

00:08:43.000 And I'm so glad.

00:08:44.000 My oldest son's school, all they do all month of November is talk about indigenous peoples and their stories.

00:08:50.000 No math or science?

00:08:52.000 Oh, this is what I'm thankful for.

00:08:53.000 This is what I'm grateful for.

00:08:54.000 It's a little too close to the faux holiday of Thanksgiving for me.

00:09:02.000 You know, maybe I am pro-censorship.

00:09:03.000 I don't know.

00:09:04.000 I'm changing my mind every single day.

00:09:07.000 That's sad.

00:09:08.000 You sit around and talk about indigenous people and their stories.

00:09:11.000 Yeah.

00:09:12.000 That's great.

00:09:12.000 I 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.

00:09:22.000 No, 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.

00:09:32.000 Now if you want to get mad at us for not honoring an agreement or something like that, fine, we can talk about that.

00:09:37.000 That was such a long time ago.

00:09:38.000 Who has the time?

00:09:39.000 To be fair, indigenous studies is fun.

00:09:40.000 It's fun to learn about how the Kanachis raped and pillaged and wiped out the Apaches. 1.00

00:09:44.000 The Apaches, yes.

00:09:45.000 Probably my favorite part of indigenous studies.

00:09:47.000 I think so too, how they were just kind of fighting each other the entire time and doing it in completely barbaric ways.

00:09:53.000 Didn't even domesticate the horse.

00:09:54.000 Gosh.

00:09:55.000 You know, wheels were around and were a thing.

00:09:58.000 It's a failed civilization.

00:09:59.000 It really is. 1.00

00:10:00.000 We're going to boot lick them rather than spend time with our family. 0.97

00:10:02.000 Which civilization though? 0.97

00:10:03.000 There was like 70 to 100 civilizations.

00:10:05.000 It is a failed group of civilizations.

00:10:07.000 They all failed equally.

00:10:09.000 Not the Seminoles.

00:10:10.000 Seminoles were pretty nice.

00:10:11.000 Seminoles were cool.

00:10:13.000 Yeah, we don't know.

00:10:14.000 Pocahontas, I guess it was fine. 1.00

00:10:16.000 Everything was fine until you guys decided to be jerks. 1.00

00:10:18.000 She wasn't hot though. 1.00

00:10:19.000 No, she was ugly. 1.00

00:10:20.000 That's why everybody said she was hot. 1.00

00:10:22.000 Totally.

00:10:23.000 She looked like a bumblebee. 1.00

00:10:24.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:10:27.000 There's real pictures of her.

00:10:28.000 She was busted.

00:10:29.000 She's a babe. 1.00

00:10:30.000 She was busted?

00:10:31.000 Yeah, she was busted.

00:10:32.000 I don't even know what to think about the words that are coming out of that man's mouth over there.

00:10:35.000 Let's see if we can find a picture.

00:10:36.000 Yeah, so by the way... What did John Smith look like?

00:10:39.000 Was John Smith a killer?

00:10:41.000 A handsome dude?

00:10:42.000 He was a Chad.

00:10:43.000 Chad A. Yeah.

00:10:44.000 Okay.

00:10:45.000 He just knows too many of those, like, Gen Z words.

00:10:48.000 I don't even want to get into that game.

00:10:50.000 But look, we're going to talk about a number of things.

00:10:53.000 Including some things about Pocahontas that are not very flattering. 0.92

00:10:55.000 Let me tell you that.

00:10:57.000 And we might have to hit this little thing right here.

00:11:00.000 So if you see this, just head on over to Rumble.

00:11:03.000 I don't know why you're on YouTube anyway.

00:11:05.000 It shouldn't be a thing at this point.

00:11:07.000 We've given you, I don't know, two years to kind of figure this out.

00:11:09.000 But 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.

00:11:16.000 But before we do that, It's always fun to get to make fun of Joe Biden.

00:11:20.000 We 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.

00:11:32.000 That's always fun.

00:11:32.000 But he pardoned some turkeys and, you know, made some mistakes there as well.

00:11:36.000 So that brings us to this week in Biden.

00:11:38.000 If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black. 0.98

00:11:44.000 You could say even this harder than getting a ticket to the Renaissance Tour or... or... or... Rip Ridney's Tour.

00:11:53.000 She's down in... It's kind of warm in Brazil right now.

00:11:57.000 Look!

00:11:58.000 You had dinner last night.

00:12:00.000 You sat next to my wife. 0.99

00:12:00.000 I told you. 0.99

00:12:01.000 You were so captivating.

00:12:03.000 I was worried she liked you more than she likes me now.

00:12:06.000 I don't know.

00:12:07.000 What a beautiful name.

00:12:09.000 That's my mommy's name.

00:12:10.000 Nice to see you.

00:12:11.000 How old are you?

00:12:12.000 Seventeen?

00:12:14.000 Six. 0.96

00:12:15.000 If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black. 0.98

00:12:20.000 Biden also said, well, that's too many for me.

00:12:24.000 Also.

00:12:24.000 What are you doing later?

00:12:28.000 Yeah.

00:12:29.000 You gonna come to my hotel room?

00:12:30.000 Got sprinkles.

00:12:31.000 I thought 17 sounded pretty good.

00:12:33.000 Yeah.

00:12:34.000 That's legal in like 13 states.

00:12:35.000 At least, right?

00:12:37.000 He's just so weird.

00:12:38.000 We were talking about it.

00:12:39.000 It looked like a sweet grandpa moment for a second, but with Joe Biden, nothing's a sweet anything moment, right?

00:12:44.000 And he's like, gosh, he's got ear things on, and that's fantastic.

00:12:47.000 He's like, how old are you?

00:12:48.000 17?

00:12:48.000 Yeah, because I want to talk about dating with a six-year-old.

00:12:52.000 I don't have a chip in my brain.

00:12:52.000 I don't understand.

00:12:54.000 For 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.

00:13:09.000 I think that's what's really going on.

00:13:10.000 By the way, because, you know, he's really old, he had a birthday cake yesterday that had the flames of hell, apparently, on it.

00:13:22.000 That's gotta be a fire hazard, right?

00:13:24.000 But what he really wanted was a cake that reminded him of his youth.

00:13:29.000 Oh, I see that.

00:13:29.000 Oh, wow.

00:13:31.000 Hadn't seen that one.

00:13:37.000 Okay, so, burning a cross on a cake, that's...

00:13:41.000 That's a whole new level of KKK stuff. 0.65

00:13:43.000 Pretty popular on CNN though, you can tell.

00:13:43.000 Okay, got it.

00:13:45.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:13:46.000 Well, yeah, it's 31% if you vote for Biden against Trump.

00:13:49.000 Ooh, wow.

00:13:50.000 Wow.

00:13:50.000 Geez, that's, uh, yeah.

00:13:52.000 Not looking so good.

00:13:53.000 Well, 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.

00:14:01.000 Where the people that vote for Trump are actually big Trump supporters.

00:14:04.000 Yeah, yeah, exactly.

00:14:04.000 And that's so interesting.

00:14:05.000 They're the, he's the, I guess I have to vote for this guy because he's not Trump candidate.

00:14:10.000 I think next year we're going to have a lot of people the opposite.

00:14:13.000 I really do.

00:14:13.000 You think?

00:14:14.000 By this time next year.

00:14:15.000 I think holiday season's going to end, we're going to get into the spring, inflation's going to go back up again, or it's not going to.

00:14:20.000 Oh no, this is good.

00:14:21.000 This is still good.

00:14:22.000 He has a much lower percentage of people that actually like him as a human being.

00:14:24.000 No, that's what I'm saying.

00:14:25.000 I think it'll be a lot of people voting for Trump because they don't want to vote for Biden.

00:14:25.000 I think it'll be opposite.

00:14:28.000 Well, okay, that suits me.

00:14:29.000 I think so.

00:14:31.000 I mean, people are already at a point right now where they can't imagine it getting much worse.

00:14:37.000 Joe Biden, how many birthdays do you think this guy has left, by the way? Do me a favor,

00:14:41.000 comment on that because for him I feel like that's worse. I feel like at a certain point,

00:14:47.000 and I feel this way personally, I think you should just be done.

00:14:52.000 You know?

00:14:52.000 I would like to not just kind of languish.

00:14:54.000 I've had, you know, grandparents that kind of stayed around and were not the same person.

00:14:58.000 I'm kind of being somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but they kind of stayed around.

00:15:00.000 They weren't the same person that they were over the last couple of years.

00:15:04.000 That's kind of existing, not living.

00:15:05.000 Right 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.

00:15:12.000 But look, his family's doing fine. 0.87

00:15:14.000 They are doing fine. 0.80

00:15:15.000 Making a fool of us. 0.99

00:15:15.000 Making fools of themselves. 0.99

00:15:17.000 That too! 0.99

00:15:20.000 No, they don't. 0.97

00:15:20.000 They're making fools of the American people right now. 0.97

00:15:22.000 He should be kept comfortable on a bed somewhere. 0.97

00:15:24.000 He should be enjoying whatever, you know, neurons connecting and firing, however those things work in your brain.

00:15:33.000 He 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.

00:15:39.000 No, he should be eating ice cream cones and sitting at Chuck E. Cheese and watching the kids play.

00:15:42.000 And mashed potatoes.

00:15:43.000 Absolutely.

00:15:43.000 What?

00:15:44.000 Wait, Chuck E. Cheese?

00:15:46.000 How did I end up agreeing with that statement that just came out of your mouth?

00:15:50.000 It's just the way I say it.

00:15:50.000 Oh my gosh.

00:15:53.000 Well look, hey, thank you so much to all the Mug Club supporters out there. 0.93

00:15:56.000 We had so many of you join Mug Club when we did release the Nashville Manifesto, and we really appreciate it.

00:16:02.000 But make sure you join Mug Club. 0.84

00:16:03.000 It's the only way that any of this exists.

00:16:05.000 $89 a year, you get the Alex Jones Show, you get the Hodge Twins Uncensored, Nick DiPaolo Show, Off Limits with Brian Callen, where everything is Off Limits, and Mr. Guns and Gear, plus the Friday Show, plus the Undercover Unit.

00:16:17.000 You get all of those things, so make sure you guys go out and join.

00:16:21.000 And we really, really do appreciate it.

00:16:22.000 It 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.

00:16:28.000 So we do have something coming up in here.

00:16:30.000 By the way, ReleaseTheManifesto.com, I'll talk about that a little bit more and give you an update.

00:16:34.000 We're still working on stories related to this right now.

00:16:37.000 I can't say.

00:16:38.000 Stuff coming down the line.

00:16:39.000 Yeah, 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.

00:16:47.000 That's why you couldn't say.

00:16:48.000 Who are you talking about?

00:16:49.000 I'm not talking about any person in particular.

00:16:53.000 What 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.

00:16:59.000 We're not.

00:17:00.000 We 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.

00:17:14.000 I understand that, but I really do think so.

00:17:15.000 We'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.

00:17:24.000 So we'll keep you updated on that.

00:17:26.000 We do have a time of year.

00:17:27.000 And I didn't know this, Lane.

00:17:28.000 Like, I didn't think about this.

00:17:29.000 For some reason, it didn't connect in my brain that I like this time of year for more than just, like, the holidays.

00:17:35.000 I love Christmas.

00:17:36.000 I love Thanksgiving.

00:17:37.000 I love colder weather, snow, family, like, you know, the birth of Christ and celebrating...

00:17:43.000 Yeah, dreidels.

00:17:43.000 Fine.

00:17:44.000 I don't have any problem with that at all.

00:17:46.000 I love all of it.

00:17:47.000 Not Kwanzaa.

00:17:48.000 We've been very, very clear on that.

00:17:49.000 No Kwanzaa here.

00:17:51.000 But I also love that you typically have some great movies that come out this time of year, right?

00:17:55.000 And so that's this season.

00:17:57.000 This week kind of officially kicks it off.

00:17:59.000 I just thought it kind of happened and I just loved it.

00:17:59.000 I didn't realize that.

00:18:02.000 And then we were talking about this thing and I'm like, oh, well, that makes a whole lot of sense.

00:18:05.000 But the Napoleon movie is going to premiere and it talks about the French Revolution and this guy being really short, which is obviously funny.

00:18:12.000 You know, we thought we would talk about it for you and here's our Ladder to the Crowder Entertainment Minute.

00:18:18.000 That's a good beat.

00:18:18.000 Peace out.

00:18:31.000 I know.

00:18:31.000 That's pretty much the only thing people know about Napoleon and also that he went into... Where was it?

00:18:36.000 What's the city he went to in Russia?

00:18:38.000 It starts with an M. An M?

00:18:40.000 He didn't go to Moscow.

00:18:41.000 He was trying.

00:18:42.000 No, he went south.

00:18:43.000 He went the other way.

00:18:44.000 He went through Ukraine over to like Stalingrad, Leningrad.

00:18:46.000 They keep changing the name.

00:18:47.000 It's one of the grads.

00:18:48.000 He went there and died just like Hitler did in World War II. 0.90

00:18:51.000 I don't know.

00:18:51.000 Unless he did try to march on Moscow.

00:18:53.000 Maybe he did.

00:18:53.000 I don't know.

00:18:54.000 You just don't be going into Russia in the winter.

00:18:54.000 I don't know my history.

00:18:56.000 He went to Russia in winter and it really didn't work out and everybody's tried to do it since.

00:19:00.000 But, anyway, you're going to find out a little bit more about that and we're going to watch the entire trailer.

00:19:05.000 What is this, Toolman?

00:19:06.000 Two and a half minutes long?

00:19:07.000 Two and a half minutes.

00:19:08.000 So here is the new Napoleon biopic.

00:19:10.000 Prepares tomorrow.

00:19:11.000 Take a look at the trailer.

00:19:18.000 Oh, Apple original.

00:19:25.000 Here we go.

00:19:26.000 No doubt you've seen the chaos in the streets.

00:19:31.000 We must make an example of France.

00:19:33.000 Joaquin Phoenix is ugly enough for the role.

00:19:36.000 He's a great actor. 0.98

00:19:36.000 Hideous! 0.98

00:19:37.000 What would you do if this assignment of defense was transferred?

00:19:39.000 He's voiced, too.

00:19:43.000 Yeah.

00:19:45.000 He pumps his ears.

00:19:46.000 That's funny.

00:19:47.000 I don't know why.

00:19:48.000 Can we see brilliant successes?

00:19:52.000 He was dripped out, though.

00:19:55.000 I hate your words.

00:19:57.000 All of them. 0.98

00:19:58.000 Drip!

00:20:01.000 What is this costume you have on?

00:20:03.000 This is my uniform.

00:20:05.000 Are you a trode? 0.98

00:20:08.000 I live for $15, you know?

00:20:14.000 What is your name?

00:20:15.000 Napoleon.

00:20:16.000 Has the course of my life just changed?

00:20:19.000 Riveting.

00:20:19.000 Napoleon.

00:20:23.000 Oh, no wonder they don't look the same.

00:20:25.000 But those in power will only see me as their sword. 0.97

00:20:25.000 Jerk. 0.97

00:20:30.000 I suggest you take the throne as a king.

00:20:35.000 Shall we vote?

00:20:42.000 Obliviate her! 0.99

00:20:45.000 Obliviate her! 0.99

00:20:48.000 This vermin has held the world hostage. 0.99

00:20:52.000 No.

00:20:53.000 This is a great trailer.

00:20:54.000 It is.

00:20:54.000 It's not bad.

00:20:54.000 I think the tyrant part is what we'll focus on.

00:21:03.000 I think the tyrant part is what we'll focus on.

00:21:06.000 You are just a tiny little bird.

00:21:08.000 There is nothing without me.

00:21:11.000 All of Europe is uniting forces against me.

00:21:16.000 What's the outcome of this if you don't succeed?

00:21:20.000 Death for everyone!

00:21:21.000 Your Majesty, we are discovered. 0.81

00:21:23.000 Good.

00:21:26.000 It's a trap!

00:21:29.000 I'm the first to admit when I make a mistake.

00:21:31.000 Very cold.

00:21:36.000 I simply never do.

00:21:36.000 Wonderful.

00:21:38.000 Oh! 0.60

00:21:43.000 That's a fantastic trailer.

00:21:44.000 Alright, look, I will give it to you.

00:21:45.000 That is a really cool looking trailer.

00:21:48.000 I like it.

00:21:49.000 That quote didn't age well, though.

00:21:52.000 I don't have a problem admitting when I make a mistake.

00:21:55.000 I just never do.

00:21:58.000 Whoops.

00:21:59.000 Apparently there wasn't enough ice for you to sink the enemy into.

00:22:03.000 It's like one of the worst defeats in history.

00:22:06.000 Everybody refers to that march.

00:22:08.000 I believe it was a march on Moscow, right?

00:22:10.000 They made it to Moscow.

00:22:13.000 That's when they went scorched earth on Moscow and they fled it. 0.89

00:22:15.000 So it was abandoned by the time Napoleon got there.

00:22:17.000 But 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.

00:22:33.000 We can just wait till spring.

00:22:35.000 It's going to be sunnier, a little easier for everybody.

00:22:38.000 And he just chose not to do that.

00:22:39.000 However, 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. 0.91

00:22:47.000 I don't know, maybe that's just me.

00:22:48.000 Do me a favor though and like if you plan on seeing this movie.

00:22:53.000 You may not have the funny sounding mallet, but you know.

00:22:57.000 Do your best impression when you actually do it.

00:22:59.000 So 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.

00:23:07.000 Because 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.

00:23:16.000 We understand where that came from.

00:23:17.000 We understand how that happened and unfolded.

00:23:19.000 We 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.

00:23:31.000 And we talked about World War I the other day and we're like, man, most people don't know much about that either.

00:23:36.000 So let's jump into a little bit of this.

00:23:37.000 So Napoleon led France from 1799 to 1815.

00:23:42.000 It 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.

00:23:51.000 Uh, but you, you had a couple of points here, Lane, that you wanted to kind of talk about that kind of encapsulate that time.

00:23:57.000 Yeah, I mean, you quote-unquote, I guess because there's different periods of when that might have been, but this is the guillotine era.

00:24:03.000 So when you hear the Reign of Terror and you associate the guillotine and all the executions of Frank Sinatra... The good old days!

00:24:09.000 That's this time.

00:24:10.000 And they're off with their heads, Robespierre, this is the time that we're talking about, and it kind of is what... Who's Robespierre?

00:24:15.000 You just said it like everybody knows it.

00:24:17.000 Well, he would have been kind of the leader of this revolution at its beginning.

00:24:21.000 Right.

00:24:21.000 So we're gonna learn more about kind of what he did, but it's this that set the path for Napoleon to take power.

00:24:26.000 Right.

00:24:26.000 And 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?

00:24:35.000 Both of the revolutions were products of the Age of Enlightenment with birthed ideas like classical liberalism, socialism, Marxism.

00:24:42.000 Not the best ideas sometimes, but they're big ideas.

00:24:45.000 They are ideas.

00:24:46.000 You can't take that away, but also reforms within Judeo-Christian religions as well, right?

00:24:51.000 So let's start off with the American Revolution.

00:24:54.000 uh 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.

00:25:18.000 They don't know the thing, though.

00:25:21.000 He didn't even have the thing on, like, a quote you could read.

00:25:25.000 I do!

00:25:27.000 Because I don't want to go, you know, the most important thing, the thing.

00:25:32.000 You gotta tell people the thing.

00:25:34.000 Here, I'll tell you the thing.

00:25:35.000 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

00:25:39.000 This is an important thing, by the way.

00:25:41.000 All 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.

00:25:50.000 Happiness.

00:25:51.000 Right?

00:25:51.000 That's the first time that people had bothered to write that stuff down in the same place and use it as a founding document for a country.

00:25:58.000 And it's just the thing!

00:26:01.000 We'll talk about some of the key points in this, but obviously this is one of the most important things that has ever been written down.

00:26:08.000 You don't want to bumble through it.

00:26:09.000 Just, you know, give yourself a little bit of a pass.

00:26:12.000 By the way, Is anybody else surprised at how spry he seemed in that clip?

00:26:17.000 Like, his mental faculties weren't quite all there, I understand what you're saying right now, but he had a lot of energy.

00:26:21.000 What was that?

00:26:22.000 That was, uh... That was 2019.

00:26:24.000 Or 2020, sorry.

00:26:24.000 2020.

00:26:25.000 2020, so... He's quickly degrading.

00:26:28.000 He's, yeah.

00:26:29.000 Wow, they found this... Do you know the hockey stick curve that they talk about?

00:26:32.000 His is the age hockey stick curve, and it's just falling off a cliff right now.

00:26:36.000 Oh, that's what happens when they find your coke in the West Wing.

00:26:38.000 Yeah.

00:26:39.000 Take it away from you.

00:26:39.000 That's true.

00:26:41.000 How do you think he was functioning?

00:26:43.000 This is an important document.

00:26:45.000 You don't want to screw around and mess it up.

00:26:46.000 Look, I get it.

00:26:47.000 People make mistakes, but this is a bad one to make.

00:26:49.000 It's like messing up the words to the National Anthem, like if you're a singer, and you just do it right through.

00:26:54.000 I mean, you would just have to make sure you don't mess that one up.

00:26:57.000 If you're ever going to quote, don't mess this quote up. 0.99

00:26:59.000 How big of an asshole do you have to be to be in that office and not know that line? 1.00

00:27:05.000 Especially after preparing for the speech. 1.00

00:27:07.000 Yeah.

00:27:08.000 I 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.

00:27:13.000 I get it.

00:27:14.000 That's not one of those moments.

00:27:15.000 And you're the person that can't do that.

00:27:18.000 Thomas Jefferson rolling over in his grave.

00:27:20.000 Exactly.

00:27:21.000 Even if you have to pull it out on a piece of parchment and go, you know what?

00:27:25.000 And read it?

00:27:26.000 That's fine.

00:27:27.000 We would have given you a pass.

00:27:27.000 Just do that.

00:27:28.000 We would have made fun of you a little bit for having to do that, but we would not be making fun of you the same way that we are now.

00:27:33.000 Okay, so, French Revolution.

00:27:34.000 There are people outside the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, sleeping on the sidewalk, that know that preamble.

00:27:42.000 They do.

00:27:42.000 The Declaration of Independence.

00:27:44.000 You almost did it.

00:27:44.000 See?

00:27:45.000 You almost did it.

00:27:46.000 And we were going to be making fun of you for years and years to come.

00:27:49.000 But we won't now.

00:27:49.000 You know the thing.

00:27:50.000 Thank you for your thing, Josh.

00:27:56.000 That's what she said.

00:27:59.000 On second thought.

00:28:02.000 Anyway, French Revolution.

00:28:05.000 Not that thing.

00:28:05.000 You know, the other thing.

00:28:06.000 The other thing.

00:28:07.000 With the guy and the place and the god thing, right?

00:28:07.000 Oh, yes.

00:28:10.000 Okay, so.

00:28:10.000 What 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.

00:28:18.000 That's why we're covering it, because it's just as tangible today as it was when these revolutions were taking place.

00:28:23.000 It's where all of these And I say it's where all of these terrible ideas kind of originate.

00:28:30.000 Not originate, but maybe close to.

00:28:32.000 Where they come together in formation.

00:28:33.000 Yeah, they kind of come together and they really start to infect culture and civilization in a way that is incredibly negative.

00:28:39.000 Saying 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.

00:28:50.000 I have them no matter what.

00:28:52.000 Black, brown, Asian, American, anywhere else.

00:28:56.000 I have those rights no matter what.

00:28:58.000 As a human being, those rights, I possess them.

00:29:01.000 With 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?

00:29:13.000 That's the huge difference here and what that will lead to.

00:29:15.000 So French Revolution Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

00:29:20.000 It talks about liberty, equality, and fraternity.

00:29:25.000 A little bit different, right?

00:29:26.000 So the big difference here is that word equality.

00:29:28.000 Equality is not a part of our revolution.

00:29:33.000 It is not a part of the American idea.

00:29:36.000 Now, you may say, well, you want some equality.

00:29:38.000 No, no, no.

00:29:39.000 What I'm talking about is equal outcomes.

00:29:42.000 That's equality, right?

00:29:44.000 You want everybody to have the same outcome in life.

00:29:46.000 You want everybody to have the same kind of end result.

00:29:50.000 You have to- You could switch it with equity in this situation.

00:29:52.000 Sorry?

00:29:53.000 You could just switch it with the word equity.

00:29:54.000 Yes, that's what- And that's what the French were really-

00:29:55.000 That's where they, exactly.

00:29:56.000 That's what they're really meaning here, right?

00:29:58.000 We're talking about equal opportunity.

00:30:00.000 We want everybody to have the same footing as a human being that is endowed

00:30:06.000 by their creator with rights.

00:30:08.000 That's a huge, huge difference, right?

00:30:11.000 So on the other hand, when you talk about the French Revolution,

00:30:14.000 they were really getting at, and this is not something that I knew,

00:30:18.000 they were really attacking privilege.

00:30:20.000 And I understand being kind of in the feudal system where your birthright basically determined what your life was going to be like.

00:30:27.000 So 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? 0.99

00:30:34.000 I get it.

00:30:35.000 But here's the thing.

00:30:37.000 They made a mistake.

00:30:39.000 They made a mistake in their correction, in my opinion, right?

00:30:42.000 So let's just talk about the first part.

00:30:44.000 It says, all men are born equal and free of privilege.

00:30:49.000 That sounds good on the face.

00:30:52.000 Let'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.

00:31:02.000 You would probably think, like, okay, yeah, privilege, let's get rid of that.

00:31:05.000 That's fine.

00:31:06.000 So this is the pendulum swinging back.

00:31:08.000 And it doesn't necessarily work well for everybody.

00:31:10.000 And so here's Napoleon talking about it.

00:31:12.000 So liberty is a necessity felt only by a not very numerous class.

00:31:16.000 So not a lot of people experience liberty.

00:31:18.000 It can therefore be restricted with impunity.

00:31:21.000 Equality, on the other hand, pleases the multitude.

00:31:24.000 That's what I was getting at.

00:31:25.000 The multitudes look at the word equality and go, yeah, I want that.

00:31:29.000 The problem is every time we see a society trying to shoot for equality, it never lifts society.

00:31:36.000 It always suppresses society.

00:31:38.000 It 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.

00:31:48.000 So 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.

00:31:58.000 That's what you see in these societies around the world.

00:32:00.000 And, you know, speaking of mediocre, here's AOC explaining what it means to her today.

00:32:05.000 Our access and our ability and our guarantee to having a home comes before someone else's privilege to earn a job.

00:32:15.000 Oh.

00:32:16.000 That's entirely derivative of the French thinking at the time.

00:32:19.000 It is.

00:32:19.000 The 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.

00:32:36.000 The difference is the French said we need to change by destroying And not really worrying about what comes next. 0.69

00:32:43.000 The 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?

00:32:51.000 There was going to be just as much danger in the new state that they created if they weren't to check themselves.

00:32:57.000 They would just become a new monarch class.

00:32:59.000 Exactly.

00:32:59.000 Right?

00:33:00.000 And the equality of outcome, it can't, like I said, be achieved by anything other than oppression, but it's not just that.

00:33:06.000 It's top-down government.

00:33:08.000 Right?

00:33:09.000 You need a top-down government to be able to achieve that kind of end result.

00:33:14.000 I mean, think about this.

00:33:15.000 The fundamental difference between a free market having the ability—with all of its faults, by the way.

00:33:20.000 Sometimes the free market takes a little while to self-correct, but it does.

00:33:24.000 That's why we talk about letting businesses fail.

00:33:26.000 We're like, oh, that would be terrible for the banking system.

00:33:28.000 For 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.

00:33:36.000 That's a bad way to do business and we have to stop doing that.

00:33:39.000 Otherwise, we will go out of business.

00:33:41.000 The market is fine as long as the government doesn't come in and try and correct the issues that naturally should work themselves out.

00:33:49.000 You should have pain.

00:33:50.000 There should be pain when people make mistakes.

00:33:52.000 It's the only way you learn.

00:33:54.000 But when the government comes in And they say they will be the force that takes care of everything.

00:34:00.000 They 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.

00:34:08.000 I don't understand it.

00:34:09.000 Like, it doesn't make any sense to me because they're like, oh, well they have too much money.

00:34:13.000 They didn't get this money by normal means.

00:34:15.000 Okay, well are you saying they broke the law?

00:34:16.000 Well, no, maybe they didn't break the law, but we'll find a law potentially that they could have broken.

00:34:20.000 We just don't like the fact that they have a lot of money.

00:34:22.000 It's anti-competitive.

00:34:23.000 Why is it anti-competitive?

00:34:24.000 Are they offering an inferior service that nobody wants?

00:34:27.000 No, 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.

00:34:34.000 But we just don't like the fact that they're doing such a good job in getting all the business.

00:34:38.000 I don't understand, guys.

00:34:40.000 I 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.

00:34:57.000 Because that's what they want to do.

00:34:58.000 Just 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.

00:35:07.000 The equivalent is going to come over here and say, hey, we know everything to do for you.

00:35:10.000 Let us take care of everything.

00:35:11.000 We're going to have all of the power.

00:35:13.000 We're basically a monopoly in government, just not in business.

00:35:17.000 Because business, ooh, bad.

00:35:18.000 They make a profit.

00:35:19.000 Government, I just steal your money. 0.88

00:35:20.000 It's not really called a profit, it's just called taxes.

00:35:22.000 Right? That's the equivalent that you don't get to see that as clearly.

00:35:26.000 But that's what it means. So you get to see this in France's Declaration of the Rights of Man,

00:35:30.000 like we talked about just a second ago. Here, let me just read some quotes here.

00:35:33.000 Social distinctions may be founded only upon the general good. No body nor individual may

00:35:41.000 exercise any authority which does not proceed directly from the nation.

00:35:46.000 Law can only prohibit such actions as are hurtful to society.

00:35:51.000 And you had a point here about Rousseau's General Will versus, this would be John Locke?

00:35:56.000 Yeah, 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.

00:36:17.000 You know the thing!

00:36:19.000 The 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.

00:36:34.000 With all that is, is the idea that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

00:36:38.000 Right.

00:36:39.000 Which in turn becomes your pure democracy, which becomes your mob rule.

00:36:42.000 Right.

00:36:43.000 And 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.

00:36:51.000 Yeah.

00:36:52.000 There's just... Josh, is this something that...

00:36:57.000 It feels like this is so obvious, this truth is so obvious, that left to our own devices we're inherently evil and lazy.

00:37:04.000 Those are two things that you're pretty much going to find throughout society.

00:37:08.000 It 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.

00:37:16.000 Without God, we are all evil.

00:37:18.000 We tend to be selfish.

00:37:20.000 We 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.

00:37:27.000 That's a different thing than taxes or being forced to do things. 0.81

00:37:29.000 But we're typically evil and lazy.

00:37:32.000 And 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?

00:37:44.000 Is that not obvious to everybody?

00:37:46.000 Yeah, I mean, kinda.

00:37:49.000 I don't know.

00:37:49.000 I think it's hard to tell now because we already know that, you know, it's already in our heads.

00:37:54.000 That knowledge is already there.

00:37:55.000 So it's hard to kind of theorize if it wasn't there.

00:37:58.000 No, I mean, but now.

00:38:00.000 People are still calling for this today.

00:38:02.000 Like, we don't have one example of a utopian kind of paradise that worked.

00:38:06.000 We have countless examples of people trying to set this up.

00:38:10.000 There was a Netflix documentary about one up in, like, Washington, Oregon, or maybe Idaho.

00:38:15.000 I can't remember exactly where it was.

00:38:16.000 They tried to set up like this guy was supposed to be like a guru.

00:38:20.000 And he said, it was wild.

00:38:22.000 Maybe wild was actually in the title of the name.

00:38:23.000 It's like wild country.

00:38:24.000 Yeah, something like that.

00:38:25.000 It was crazy.

00:38:27.000 And 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.

00:38:33.000 Everybody other than that's equal.

00:38:36.000 And then they bust in all these people to vote out the towns.

00:38:40.000 That definitely happens.

00:38:41.000 That cult type thing, what happens is there's always at least one person who's headstrong and willing to, you know, fight for the power.

00:38:49.000 Yeah, you have like a charismatic leader.

00:38:51.000 Yeah, and then they can just kind of mold the... I wouldn't say evil and lazy.

00:38:55.000 I think people are... Evil and lazy, Josh. 0.98

00:38:57.000 Lazy... I wouldn't say evil and lazy. 0.99

00:38:59.000 I would just say ignorant and... 1.00

00:39:02.000 Manipulatable. 1.00

00:39:02.000 Manipulative. 1.00

00:39:03.000 Manipulatable?

00:39:04.000 Manipulative.

00:39:06.000 Manipulative.

00:39:07.000 Yeah, I know what you mean.

00:39:08.000 Easy to manipulate.

00:39:09.000 Very Hobbesian, the Leviathan, right?

00:39:11.000 People are lazy, and that's where the social contract has to come from. 0.65

00:39:15.000 And that's the idea that Locke and Rousseau had that was totally different on what that social contract was.

00:39:19.000 With 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.

00:39:30.000 Where 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.

00:39:41.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:39:42.000 Freedom.

00:39:43.000 Freedom didn't exist.

00:39:44.000 Freedom inherently doesn't exist at the end of something like this.

00:39:47.000 Right, especially if your freedom gets in the way of the prosperity of the many.

00:39:50.000 Now, it's fantastic when you're a part of the many.

00:39:53.000 Because 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.

00:40:00.000 That's why a lot of people are in the many.

00:40:02.000 That's the whole reason.

00:40:02.000 I know!

00:40:03.000 Do you see why I have an electoral college now?

00:40:04.000 Well, 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?

00:40:13.000 Some people like it!

00:40:13.000 Maybe they don't like it, I don't know, I won't use that word, some people say that.

00:40:13.000 Some people love it!

00:40:18.000 I would say they're comfortable with it.

00:40:19.000 I've got a few bus riders.

00:40:22.000 Yeah, but they're comfortable with it.

00:40:23.000 You're giving them just enough to be comfortable.

00:40:25.000 I had a job one time at a country club, and I was poor.

00:40:29.000 Very poor at the time, and it was pretty soon after college, after I'd started a business up in Ohio and moved back here.

00:40:34.000 And you were around wealth.

00:40:37.000 You 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.

00:40:45.000 Like, oh, you want these tickets?

00:40:46.000 Awesome.

00:40:46.000 Here you go.

00:40:47.000 You were wealth-adjacent, but you were not wealthy.

00:40:51.000 And it sucks you in because it gives you this feeling of actually being where they are and you're not.

00:40:58.000 You'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.

00:41:18.000 Like, other than being in that group.

00:41:20.000 And not everybody.

00:41:21.000 If 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.

00:41:27.000 They're just doing that, and you're adjacent to it.

00:41:29.000 And that's what I feel like this is.

00:41:31.000 It's like the government gives you just enough to feel like you're okay.

00:41:34.000 Just 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.

00:41:43.000 There's no way to look at that and say, I'm fulfilling my purpose, right?

00:41:47.000 So, 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?

00:42:03.000 And make sure they don't get in the way of your rights and your ability to go out and pursue happiness, right?

00:42:10.000 Their 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.

00:42:18.000 It's going to exist over here in the government now in a much more consolidated way.

00:42:22.000 And so everybody's going to be slightly better off, actually probably worse off.

00:42:26.000 But don't worry, we'll provide for you.

00:42:28.000 It wasn't just that difference.

00:42:30.000 It was a difference in religion, right?

00:42:32.000 So in the American Revolution, we had Christian origins.

00:42:35.000 You ask me how I know that?

00:42:37.000 Let's go back to the thing again and see what it says.

00:42:37.000 I don't know.

00:42:40.000 Declaration of Independence.

00:42:41.000 We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men... Yeah, we'll go through that. 1.00

00:42:46.000 ...are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights.

00:42:48.000 Okay, very good.

00:42:49.000 We go with the creator.

00:42:51.000 I love that.

00:42:52.000 Fantastic, right?

00:42:53.000 Yes.

00:42:54.000 Why do you love that?

00:42:55.000 Because we have a freedom of religion here.

00:42:56.000 And you can worship whatever deity or god you want to.

00:42:56.000 We do.

00:42:59.000 Whatever creator, whether they be fake or real.

00:43:02.000 Yeah.

00:43:03.000 Yeah, whether they be fake or real.

00:43:05.000 You have your creator and you're given unalienable rights.

00:43:14.000 It 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.

00:43:24.000 They say those kinds of words a lot.

00:43:25.000 Let'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.

00:43:43.000 Well, I understand that.

00:43:45.000 They want to get some of that land back and the church owned a lot of it.

00:43:47.000 No, that's a really bad idea.

00:43:49.000 1793, the Law of Suspects.

00:43:50.000 They had good names.

00:43:52.000 Not their declaration, though. 1.00

00:43:55.000 That one's pretty stupid. 1.00

00:43:56.000 It sounded like off-brand cereal. 1.00

00:43:58.000 What is it?

00:43:59.000 The Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

00:44:02.000 Thomas Jefferson helped write that.

00:44:03.000 Did he?

00:44:04.000 Yep.

00:44:05.000 He saved the best for us.

00:44:05.000 You know what?

00:44:06.000 Let's just put it that way.

00:44:08.000 Well, it was a sequel.

00:44:09.000 Ah, that's right.

00:44:10.000 You can always go back and correct your mistakes.

00:44:11.000 You're like, I'm going to try it out on you first, France.

00:44:14.000 I didn't quite nail that.

00:44:16.000 So in 1793, the law of suspects that was passed, all priests and all persons protecting them are

00:44:22.000 liable to death on the spot, or, you know, potentially if you have time,

00:44:27.000 maybe you can make it into an event. 0.97

00:44:34.000 Yeah, guillotine.

00:44:46.000 Not so much fun.

00:44:46.000 So, destruction of all crosses, bells, and other external signs of worship, destruction of statues, plaques, and iconography.

00:44:54.000 I almost said it.

00:44:54.000 Iconography?

00:44:55.000 What's going on with us today?

00:44:56.000 From places of worship.

00:44:57.000 I can't do it!

00:44:59.000 Taking down of statues.

00:45:00.000 That sounds a little bit familiar to me.

00:45:02.000 Like, that's the thing that we should be doing is taking down statues.

00:45:04.000 Yeah, I remember that.

00:45:05.000 It's a BOM.

00:45:06.000 Take a whole bunch down.

00:45:07.000 They did, yeah, but don't worry about that.

00:45:11.000 For equality.

00:45:13.000 Yes, exactly.

00:45:14.000 In 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.

00:45:24.000 Disney originally had the rights, and we obtained what their poster of the film was actually going to be.

00:45:32.000 Well, okay.

00:45:32.000 Looks Netflix-y.

00:45:34.000 I don't think so.

00:45:39.000 I don't think so.

00:45:40.000 Kathleen Kennedy was heavily involved in that.

00:45:45.000 Oh my gosh.

00:45:46.000 Well, Josh, you actually were telling me a little story about Napoleon and his thing.

00:45:53.000 Yeah, when Napoleon died on that island, St. 0.99

00:45:56.000 Helena or whatever it's called, the coroner cut off his penis. 1.00

00:46:01.000 In the autopsy. 1.00

00:46:03.000 Did he think he was a woman?

00:46:05.000 No.

00:46:05.000 Oh, okay.

00:46:06.000 So different surgery.

00:46:07.000 No, no.

00:46:07.000 I think it was just he was taking it for personal reasons.

00:46:12.000 Did they have taxidermy?

00:46:14.000 I don't know.

00:46:15.000 I don't think it's stuffed.

00:46:16.000 I don't think that it's mounted and stuff. 1.00

00:46:18.000 But yeah, cut off his penis. 1.00

00:46:20.000 Is this real? 1.00

00:46:20.000 No, this can't be real. 1.00

00:46:22.000 I read it on NPR. 0.99

00:46:24.000 Napoleon's Penis Radio. 0.99

00:46:26.000 Napoleon's Penis Radio? 0.99

00:46:28.000 I don't think that's true. 0.93

00:46:29.000 Yeah, it is true.

00:46:30.000 It is true and it's been passed from private collection to private collection.

00:46:34.000 I'm sorry, what?

00:46:36.000 Yeah, they cut it off and then they took it to Europe and there's a whole thing.

00:46:39.000 They had it on display in New York in 1927.

00:46:42.000 Yes, it was on display.

00:46:42.000 No!

00:46:44.000 Come on! 0.61

00:46:44.000 Yes! 0.61

00:46:45.000 Is that what was responsible for Black Friday?

00:46:47.000 The economy crashes soon after?

00:46:49.000 They said it looks like a shriveled up, uh, something.

00:46:52.000 I can't remember what they called it, but it looks shriveled and small and... They were like, he was short!

00:46:56.000 And that's the, yeah, that's the, uh... They should do that to every tyrant. 1.00

00:47:00.000 They should! 0.99

00:47:00.000 Cut off your member and... Yeah, anybody that was a tyrant. 0.99

00:47:03.000 Unless you had a hog! 0.99

00:47:04.000 I gotta be like... 1.00

00:47:07.000 You know, I don't want Kim Jong-Un's giant Korean penis just making us all look bad and defying stereotypes. 0.99

00:47:16.000 Yeah, it's a contradiction of terms there. 1.00

00:47:17.000 Giant.

00:47:19.000 But yeah, the rumor is that's where Napoleon Complex comes from.

00:47:22.000 Really?

00:47:23.000 Well, I made that part up.

00:47:24.000 But the rest of it is complex.

00:47:26.000 And it makes men in their middle ages buy Porsches.

00:47:29.000 Oh yeah.

00:47:30.000 It does. 1.00

00:47:30.000 Penis! 1.00

00:47:32.000 Got it. 0.99

00:47:34.000 Look, I hope you go and see the movie.

00:47:36.000 Go see the movie. 1.00

00:47:36.000 Not the penis. 1.00

00:47:37.000 I don't know where the penis is. 1.00

00:47:38.000 Can somebody do some research and find out where Napoleon's penis actually is? 0.99

00:47:42.000 He's gotta know. 0.99

00:47:43.000 It's like an infinity stone.

00:47:47.000 Only not.

00:47:48.000 The infinity bone.

00:47:53.000 Oh, we just made the French Revolution fun. 0.52

00:47:55.000 All right, there we go.

00:47:57.000 So, look, go see the movie.

00:47:58.000 I think it's actually going to be a good movie.

00:48:00.000 I like Joaquin Phoenix.

00:48:01.000 He's a great actor.

00:48:02.000 It should be good.

00:48:04.000 We'll see how it goes.

00:48:05.000 But 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.

00:48:16.000 American 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.

00:48:25.000 French 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.

00:48:35.000 They build, well, imagine a line, and then, you know, Hitler just goes around. 1.00

00:48:39.000 They're idiots. 1.00

00:48:40.000 I think it's easy to see which one of these is the best and it's not even close. 1.00

00:48:46.000 Toolman, what do you got? 0.99

00:48:47.000 Research chimed in and said that Napoleon's penis is in the armpit of North America aka New Jersey. 1.00

00:48:56.000 Jersey has Napoleon's penis? 1.00

00:48:58.000 Chris Christie sitting on Napoleon's penis! 1.00

00:49:02.000 Listen, 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. 0.99

00:49:09.000 You have to keep fighting because there always needs to be a target.

00:49:13.000 And you're always going to end up losing, no matter how pure you are.

00:49:16.000 Robespierre started this with his Reign of Terror, he eventually got his head cut off by the guillotine.

00:49:20.000 You see this on the left, eventually you're not going to be pure enough for the ideological cause.

00:49:24.000 You're going to be Kevin Hart.

00:49:26.000 Even if you're popular at the time with them.

00:49:28.000 It doesn't matter.

00:49:29.000 You are never going to win this kind of ideological battle.

00:49:32.000 There will always be pink hair out there.

00:49:34.000 There will.

00:49:35.000 To keep you in line.

00:49:36.000 There'll be a pinker head of hair out there. 1.00

00:49:39.000 There's always a pinker head of hair. 1.00

00:49:42.000 Somebody can always put their penis on display in Jersey 2. 1.00

00:49:48.000 Posthumously. 0.99

00:49:49.000 Not, you know, at the time.

00:49:50.000 Anyway, whatever.

00:49:51.000 So hey guys, look, it's been a couple of weeks since we released the three pages of the Nashville Manifesto.

00:49:57.000 One of the biggest, if not the biggest story of the year.

00:50:00.000 Still no action has been taken by the police department yet to release the rest.

00:50:05.000 We're pushing as hard as we can and this is not, again, this is not something where we're doing this for no reason.

00:50:09.000 We actually want to apply as much pressure as we can to make them release this information.

00:50:15.000 So we are collecting signatures to demand that release of the Nashville Covenant School Shooters Manifesto. 0.85

00:50:20.000 So go to ReleaseTheManifesto.com right now.

00:50:24.000 Do it for me.

00:50:25.000 Just 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.

00:50:32.000 Repeatedly, because there's a lot of sheets of paper because we have so many people doing that.

00:50:37.000 Many, many, many, many people have signed up right now and we want you to do that again.

00:50:41.000 Go to releasethemanifesto.com and just sign it for us.

00:50:45.000 And look, Mud Club Undercover, we're already investigating some explosive leads that I talked to you about off the top.

00:50:51.000 Tons and tons of tips coming in from all corners of society.

00:50:54.000 It's not just about this particular case that we're talking about, but there are so many things coming in.

00:50:59.000 So if you have a tip, send it to lwctipsatprotonmail.com.

00:51:03.000 We will get our team on it and we will get to the bottom of it.

00:51:06.000 To be clear.

00:51:06.000 Okay.

00:51:07.000 To be clear.

00:51:08.000 These are...

00:51:10.000 Investigative journalism tips.

00:51:11.000 Yes.

00:51:12.000 Not Napoleon tips.

00:51:13.000 Not, well, not those tips.

00:51:16.000 Just the real tips.

00:51:16.000 Okay.

00:51:17.000 Okay.

00:51:18.000 If you want those tips, go to New Jersey.

00:51:20.000 Yeah, go easy.

00:51:21.000 I want to know where in Jersey this is.

00:51:23.000 I want to send some business their way. 0.99

00:51:24.000 Like, look, we want to go look at Napoleon's small penis. 0.99

00:51:27.000 I don't know why I did Italian. 0.99

00:51:29.000 That's all I really know.

00:51:30.000 It's in his personal collection.

00:51:30.000 He does.

00:51:32.000 Why would you keep a man's penis? 1.00

00:51:33.000 Anyway. 0.99

00:51:34.000 I mean, if somebody was like, if somebody was like, hey, I, uh, you know, the Mona Lisa, it's already bought.

00:51:41.000 But, uh, I got this. 0.99

00:51:42.000 I got Napoleon's penis. 1.00

00:51:43.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:51:44.000 It just doesn't make any sense.

00:51:45.000 Fifteen bucks.

00:51:46.000 All right.

00:51:47.000 Hey, did you hear that Elon Musk is being accused of being an anti-Semite?

00:51:50.000 I heard he was an anti-Semite.

00:51:52.000 Oh no, that's true!

00:51:53.000 According to media, Elon Musk, the worst anti-Semite we've ever known, right?

00:51:57.000 But 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.

00:52:06.000 I had you guys comment on it a minute ago, because I think what happened is they finally overreached.

00:52:11.000 There'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.

00:52:18.000 But Elon Musk just exposed something about media matters that I think we've all known. 0.99

00:52:23.000 They're pieces of crap, right? 0.99

00:52:24.000 We've known that for a long time. 1.00

00:52:25.000 We've talked about them on the show.

00:52:26.000 But 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.

00:52:34.000 They filed a lawsuit against 20 different media companies.

00:52:38.000 But also Ken Paxton, the Attorney General for Texas, he's jumped on this.

00:52:43.000 And I think you'll see more people start to jump on this.

00:52:45.000 I know Rumble has started to jump on this as well.

00:52:49.000 And it's not just about people saying bad things about you.

00:52:51.000 That's not the issue.

00:52:52.000 If they're reporting accurately, fine.

00:52:55.000 You have to deal with it.

00:52:56.000 If 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.

00:53:03.000 But before we get to all of that, let's just take a look at a little bit of how we got here.

00:53:08.000 The 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.

00:53:24.000 He retweeted a post, a highly offensive anti-Semitic post.

00:53:28.000 Tech billionaire Elon Musk is under fire for spreading anti-Semitic and racist hate.

00:53:33.000 As for Elon Musk, well he's under fire for stoking, specifically right now, anti-Semitism.

00:53:38.000 Elon Musk is taking fire for agreeing with anti-semitic posts on X. Elon Musk openly endorsed this anti-semitic conspiracy theory.

00:53:46.000 X owner Elon Musk is now under fire for agreeing with anti-semitic comments.

00:53:51.000 I love the soundboard there.

00:53:53.000 Thank you very much.

00:53:54.000 Jake Tapper is pushing... I'm very...

00:53:57.000 I have a lot of issues with Tapper.

00:53:58.000 Maybe we'll do a What a Piece of Poop. 1.00

00:54:00.000 I can't see it.

00:54:01.000 Let's make a note.

00:54:02.000 Did we already do one on him?

00:54:03.000 On Jake?

00:54:03.000 I don't think we did.

00:54:04.000 If we did, I don't remember it.

00:54:05.000 Maybe we did.

00:54:06.000 But anyway, he discussed white replacement theory on Sunday.

00:54:06.000 It's possible.

00:54:10.000 I actually listened to this live on Sunday, unfortunately.

00:54:12.000 And the replacement theory basically alleges that left-wing elites are trying to replace whites in Western nations with non-white populations.

00:54:19.000 Like they said they are trying to do?

00:54:21.000 Well, other than that.

00:54:23.000 Look, just so you have an understanding of what that is, here's the actual series of tweets that led to these accusations, right?

00:54:30.000 So 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. 0.90

00:54:45.000 I'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. 0.99

00:54:57.000 You want truth said to your face, there it is. 0.98

00:55:00.000 And so, okay, that's out there a little bit, right? 0.98

00:55:03.000 He's basically saying that these people don't give a crap about what you think. 0.50

00:55:06.000 Now, do me a favor and go into some of these European countries that have had uncontrolled, unmitigated immigration from wherever, whenever, whyever. 0.97

00:55:15.000 And see if they would say, hey, this maybe was a bad idea for a lot of different reasons.

00:55:19.000 They don't care about our culture.

00:55:20.000 They don't care about who we are.

00:55:22.000 They just want to come in and do their thing, right?

00:55:23.000 So here's what Elon said.

00:55:25.000 You have said the actual truth.

00:55:27.000 Now, if he'd have left it at that...

00:55:30.000 People can have an argument and say, what did Elon mean by that?

00:55:33.000 What exactly was the truth there?

00:55:35.000 I don't like what he said.

00:55:36.000 Okay, but Elon didn't just say that, right?

00:55:39.000 But 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.

00:55:51.000 But buried in these articles, Are when Elon Musk himself gave the context and furthered the conversation, right?

00:55:59.000 So here's that same conversation.

00:56:01.000 The ADL unjustly attacks the majority of the West despite the majority of the West supporting the Jewish people of Israel.

00:56:08.000 Really quickly, just pause right there.

00:56:09.000 The ADL.

00:56:10.000 He specifically calls out a group that he's talking about and then talks a little bit more about it later.

00:56:15.000 This is because they cannot, by their own tenets, criticize the minority groups who are their primary threat.

00:56:21.000 It is not right and needs to stop.

00:56:23.000 You write that this does not extend to all Jewish communities but it is also not limited to the ADL.

00:56:29.000 So he's saying it's not all communities but it's not just limited to the ADL.

00:56:33.000 He's pointed out the ADL is one of the biggest problems, right?

00:56:36.000 And 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.

00:56:46.000 I'm sick of it.

00:56:47.000 Stop now.

00:56:49.000 That sounds a whole lot like he's not for racism.

00:56:53.000 That's what you got from that?

00:56:54.000 Yeah.

00:56:55.000 Interesting.

00:56:56.000 I mean, it almost seems like there's context, right?

00:56:59.000 But yeah, you know unfortunately for him the the latest SpaceX launch didn't really didn't really help his case

00:57:04.000 I missed that in the original launch I had no idea.

00:57:23.000 My feed cut out before that.

00:57:25.000 Yeah, mine too.

00:57:26.000 Gosh, how do you do the smoke rings like that?

00:57:28.000 That's pretty impressive.

00:57:29.000 He trolls on a whole new level.

00:57:30.000 He does!

00:57:31.000 I 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.

00:57:39.000 I mean, Elon's pretty anti-Semitic.

00:57:40.000 He probably did that. 0.94

00:57:41.000 I 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.

00:57:52.000 Yeah. 0.92

00:57:53.000 Obviously being pro-Israel. 0.83

00:57:54.000 And then immediately, anti-Semitic Elon Musk!

00:57:58.000 It's like, how can he be... That's a direct call for genocide, the first one.

00:58:01.000 Against who?

00:58:03.000 Oh, the anti-Semite doesn't like that! 0.87

00:58:03.000 Oh, the Jews. 0.87

00:58:05.000 People are so stupid. 1.00

00:58:06.000 Yeah, 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? 1.00

00:58:14.000 But a lot of people do that, you know, they have to catch flights so they see CNN on in the airport.

00:58:18.000 If you catch those guys, you're like, oh, Elon's anti-Semitic, well that's a shame.

00:58:23.000 And 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.

00:58:31.000 And it's like, oh, hold on.

00:58:33.000 There's so much that you have to get into.

00:58:34.000 And look, he's right.

00:58:35.000 It's not just the ADL.

00:58:37.000 But do me a favor, comment.

00:58:38.000 Do you think Elon, what he said, do you think that rises to the level of anti-Semitism?

00:58:43.000 Let me know.

00:58:44.000 I think I know what the answer is going to be.

00:58:46.000 But, you know what?

00:58:47.000 Just 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.

00:58:57.000 Let me show you what he wrote.

00:58:58.000 This is an important and welcome move by Elon Musk.

00:59:01.000 I appreciate this leadership in fighting hate.

00:59:03.000 That, 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.

00:59:10.000 Already started, yes.

00:59:11.000 So the ADL apparently can kind of see through this, but Jake Tapper, intrepid journalist, can't?

00:59:16.000 Is that what I'm to understand?

00:59:18.000 That every other journalist out there who's covering this and saying Elon Musk is anti-semitic?

00:59:22.000 This 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. 0.91

00:59:30.000 These people can go right to hell because they don't have any principles. 0.90

00:59:33.000 They have no principles and they're just trying to stoke for clicks. 0.99

00:59:36.000 We know this.

00:59:37.000 Their days are numbered.

00:59:37.000 They're done.

00:59:38.000 They are.

00:59:39.000 Well didn't they also say everything was safe and effective and a danger to our democracy and they all have a script.

00:59:46.000 They all get past the script and they repeat the script and that was the script. 1.00

00:59:49.000 It's going to bite them in the ass. 1.00

00:59:51.000 It really is and unfortunately that's what we're seeing right now. 0.99

00:59:54.000 They're writers Put a narrative out there, whoever controls the producers, whoever's controlling what goes out.

01:00:01.000 And apparently Jake Tapper doesn't have time to do his own research?

01:00:05.000 Maybe he's too important?

01:00:06.000 No, none of those talking heads do any research.

01:00:08.000 They don't look at this and go, wait a minute.

01:00:09.000 Nope.

01:00:10.000 Elon Musk.

01:00:10.000 They just go, ah, I don't like Elon Musk.

01:00:12.000 Fantastic.

01:00:13.000 Let's run with he's an anti-semi because who's going to check us because we're the media.

01:00:17.000 We said it, so it must be true.

01:00:19.000 Well, this actually...

01:00:21.000 After 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.

01:00:33.000 They posted an article with this headline.

01:00:36.000 Basically just tying the knot themselves.

01:00:38.000 As Musk endorses anti-semitic conspiracy theory, X has been placing ads for Apple, Bravo, IBM, Oracle, and Xfinity next to pro-Nazi content.

01:00:49.000 I love the Bravo one, that is hilarious.

01:00:51.000 None of you would exist in Nazi Germany.

01:00:54.000 Come on! 0.61

01:00:55.000 Bravo? 0.98

01:00:56.000 That's mostly homosexual stuff. 0.98

01:00:57.000 Is that the reality? 0.98

01:00:58.000 It's like all the gay reality? 1.00

01:00:59.000 It's a lot of gay reality stuff, yeah. 0.99

01:01:01.000 Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, all that junk that's on there, you remember that? 0.99

01:01:04.000 It's the gay channel. 0.99

01:01:05.000 It is.

01:01:07.000 Is that the Keeping Up with the Kardashians channel?

01:01:09.000 I don't think.

01:01:09.000 Is it?

01:01:10.000 I don't know. 0.96

01:01:10.000 That's pretty gay too. 0.96

01:01:11.000 Oh no, don't care. 0.99

01:01:12.000 So that's what he said.

01:01:13.000 Bruce Jenner's amazing.

01:01:14.000 Now hey, look, if you're IBM, do you want your ad placed next to pro-Nazi content?

01:01:20.000 No, of course not.

01:01:21.000 And so responding to this article, a lot of these companies, they pulled advertising from X, right?

01:01:27.000 Apple, Disney, Paramount, Warner Brothers, IBM.

01:01:30.000 And 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.

01:01:42.000 That's interesting.

01:01:44.000 I didn't know they pulled sponsorships because of this article.

01:01:47.000 Yeah, it's because of this.

01:01:49.000 Now, it's not because Elon Musk put out a tweet that they said was anti-semitic.

01:01:54.000 No, no, no, no.

01:01:55.000 They're totally fine with that, most likely.

01:01:57.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:01:58.000 Unfortunately, what happens is they see this article and go, we can't have our ads next to Nazi content.

01:02:07.000 Who reads Media Matters?

01:02:08.000 Nobody does.

01:02:09.000 Somebody picked it up and put it out.

01:02:12.000 So Musk actually responds and completely destroys or lays the foundation for the destruction of Media Matters.

01:02:23.000 What in his words said he was going thermonuclear and he dropped a laundry list of claims exposing their practices being media matters.

01:02:30.000 To 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.

01:02:42.000 Once they curated this feed, they repeatedly refreshed their timelines to find a rare instance of ads serving next to content they chose to follow.

01:02:52.000 Our 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.

01:03:04.000 That day, less than 50 total ad impressions were served against all of the organic content featured in the Media Matters article.

01:03:13.000 What 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?

01:03:23.000 None of the ads get pushed to it.

01:03:24.000 So they proactively used accounts that they would get ads on, right?

01:03:28.000 They then followed only Maybe some of it was extreme.

01:03:34.000 I'm not even really addressing that.

01:03:37.000 went to see if those ads would show up in their timeline next to the kind of quote

01:03:42.000 unquote extreme content.

01:03:43.000 Maybe some of it was extreme.

01:03:44.000 I'm not even really addressing that.

01:03:45.000 I'm addressing what they did.

01:03:47.000 They couldn't get the result they wanted.

01:03:49.000 And so they constantly refresh, refresh, refresh, refresh, refresh to get those

01:03:54.000 ads to post next to these people.

01:03:59.000 Saying terrible things.

01:04:00.000 So they go, see IBM? 0.90

01:04:01.000 You're right next to this person who hates Jews, right?

01:04:05.000 You can't be next to this comment because that's bad and so you should pull your advertising from X because they're serving up your ads.

01:04:12.000 It was contrived.

01:04:13.000 Two cases that they showed.

01:04:15.000 One case, One human being on the planet saw that ad next to that content.

01:04:20.000 Guess who it was?

01:04:21.000 It was the Media Matters guy.

01:04:23.000 They did it with their Media Matters email?

01:04:24.000 It was the only person that saw the ad on the entire planet!

01:04:29.000 Right?

01:04:29.000 In another case, two people saw the ad.

01:04:32.000 One was the Media Matters guy and one, they don't even know who it was.

01:04:36.000 They don't know if it was just a random regular user or if it was another Media Matters person that saw it.

01:04:40.000 So they basically lied about this.

01:04:41.000 And look, they actually, so Michael Schellenberger, he was one of the guys that did the Twitter files, I believe.

01:04:46.000 He actually, they tried to corroborate these findings and could not, right?

01:04:51.000 Meaning they couldn't replicate what was happening in the Media Matters article.

01:04:56.000 So, Michael's actually saying, yeah, Elon's right.

01:04:58.000 Everything he just said is correct.

01:05:00.000 We couldn't replicate this scenario in real life, but if we tried to kind of, you know, contrive it, Maybelline.

01:05:04.000 So, Maybelline.

01:05:05.000 I almost did the Maybelline thing with Maybe.

01:05:07.000 See what I did there.

01:05:10.000 All day.

01:05:11.000 See what happens.

01:05:12.000 Real 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.

01:05:29.000 Really?

01:05:29.000 Yeah.

01:05:30.000 It's like Hugo Boss saying, not by our ads, no!

01:05:30.000 Wow!

01:05:34.000 IBM's like, we don't want to bring up this again.

01:05:36.000 Get off Twitter.

01:05:38.000 Absolutely.

01:05:39.000 Consequently, Coca-Cola and Adidas still very heavily sponsored.

01:05:41.000 Very heavily.

01:05:42.000 Ford also.

01:05:44.000 Very invested.

01:05:46.000 So, 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.

01:05:46.000 Weird.

01:05:55.000 So here's what the suit says.

01:05:57.000 Media matters knowingly and maliciously manufactured side by side images,

01:06:01.000 depicting ads next to racist posts as if they were a typical X experience.

01:06:05.000 A hundred percent of the accounts media matters followed to generate the side

01:06:08.000 by side images, read their fringe accounts or large national brands.

01:06:10.000 Like I was talking about, even still, they had to engage in excessive

01:06:13.000 scrolling and refreshing to force that situation to generate the ads next to the

01:06:18.000 content, no authentic.

01:06:19.000 So this is the different part for me that I didn't have.

01:06:21.000 No authentic user of X has seen any of the pairings media matters ignorant or

01:06:26.000 inorganically generated, right?

01:06:27.000 Like they're saying, you can't find this in nature on our site.

01:06:30.000 Doesn't happen.

01:06:32.000 So 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.

01:06:47.000 Not because there's hate speech on the site.

01:06:50.000 They hate Elon Musk.

01:06:51.000 That 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.

01:06:57.000 There's still problems that I have with X and we'll get to those here in just a minute.

01:07:00.000 But 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.

01:07:13.000 Which is fantastic because Elon Musk is basically just doubling down, but it's not just Elon Musk.

01:07:18.000 Our very own Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovsky is also calling out media matters for fraudulent practices.

01:07:24.000 Let me read one of his statements.

01:07:25.000 I can also confirm that Media Matters has purposefully misrepresented Rumble.

01:07:29.000 Media Matters claimed that ads for Netflix on Rumble had been placed on videos that violated their content policies.

01:07:35.000 However, before publication of that Media Matters article, there had been zero page views of that video.

01:07:43.000 Nobody had seen it.

01:07:44.000 Nobody!

01:07:44.000 This means that the Media Matters activist who took the screenshot was the first human being to actually view the Netflix ad.

01:07:54.000 Another story left the false impression that it was a widespread problem.

01:07:57.000 It got even spicier because Donald Trump starts to weigh in as well yesterday.

01:08:02.000 Truth Social is suing 20 media companies for defamation.

01:08:08.000 Look, this is huge.

01:08:10.000 You've got massive, massive companies now that are free speech advocates at the very least, even if imperfect in X's case.

01:08:19.000 But you've got Truth and you've got Rumble coming out and saying, hey, we've been targeted as well.

01:08:23.000 This is not just like shadowbanning where you can't prove it.

01:08:25.000 This is people running, hit pieces on us, lying, manipulating results in an effort to try to drive our advertisers away.

01:08:34.000 And it's funny that that kind of stuff should happen.

01:08:36.000 I 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.

01:08:48.000 I 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.

01:08:55.000 Right, yeah.

01:08:55.000 I really just find them incredibly entertaining and the fact that we know they have a Mug Club membership.

01:09:00.000 It's wonderful, they support the show.

01:09:02.000 They clip our videos.

01:09:02.000 They do.

01:09:04.000 It's ironic that they go after spon- to try and boycott sponsors, but they pay for a membership. 0.94

01:09:04.000 Great advertising. 0.94

01:09:10.000 The headline reads, on YouTube, Steven Crowder said, I would like to send out gangs of retarded people to, uh, lynch pedophiles. 0.98

01:09:22.000 I mean, did he- What's wrong with that? 0.91

01:09:25.000 I mean, what did he- what did he- I don't agree with that.

01:09:27.000 Well, he just- I don't- Hey, retarded people deserve to have a gang of friends too? 1.00

01:09:32.000 It's a job? 1.00

01:09:34.000 And pedophiles should die? 1.00

01:09:35.000 What's the problem? 1.00

01:09:37.000 It sounds like a win-win to me.

01:09:39.000 Give these guys jobs, pay them a badge.

01:09:40.000 They thought that was a hit piece.

01:09:42.000 And I'm like... That was a puff piece.

01:09:43.000 Thank you!

01:09:47.000 Media matters?

01:09:49.000 I'm sorry, I was wrong.

01:09:50.000 No, I'm not wrong. 1.00

01:09:51.000 You guys are pieces of crap. 1.00

01:09:52.000 Look, this happens to us and other people so often, we actually have our own stinger made for them. 1.00

01:09:58.000 Should have given him the double though.

01:10:10.000 I couldn't do it. 0.92

01:10:11.000 With 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. 0.92

01:10:20.000 It's huge because they can affect a lot of change, right? 0.96

01:10:25.000 It's a shot across the bow.

01:10:27.000 It's not just about Media Matters.

01:10:29.000 They started with $2 million in seed money from MoveOn.org and the New Democratic Network.

01:10:34.000 They also received a million bucks from George Soros in 2010.

01:10:38.000 I wonder what their motivations could be.

01:10:39.000 Yeah, I wonder what their motivations could be.

01:10:40.000 But look, Media Matters is not the issue.

01:10:43.000 They 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.

01:10:51.000 Rightfully so, I get it.

01:10:52.000 What we need to see though is media held accountable when they actively try and damage a company

01:10:58.000 and they do it, I don't know, in a...

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Louder with Crowder - November 21, 2023

Elon Musk Declares All Out WAR On Media Matters!

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