On this bonus episode of the show, we discuss the recent ban from YouTube, why you should be worried about your favorite streaming app, and why it's a good thing you don't have to be a streamer on YouTube anymore. We also discuss the latest in the Hunter Biden laptop saga, and how much power big tech companies have over our elections.
00:00:28.000So look, what would help is if you like, share the show, leave a comment, because obviously the algorithms act as though you don't exist after a week.
00:00:35.000But I wanted to talk with you about something.
00:00:37.000Before we start, and we have an intro here for you that you haven't seen in a long time.
00:02:01.000They've just been very hospitable to us and allowed us to stream so that when we get banned from YouTube, we have a place to go.
00:02:07.000But, this is proof, you, for the first time, that it is possible for you to migrate and actually help determine the market If you go somewhere else off of YouTube.
00:02:21.00095,000 people of you at any given second, and that's not including Mug Club, were watching somewhere other than you.
00:02:28.000Nothing would make me happier than eventually to be able to never have to talk to you through YouTube ever again.
00:02:35.000We didn't have that option, and we have to be here for a while longer, but this is a big step, and it is a step.
00:02:43.000You are the one who, you hold the power in determining What amount of power big tech wields over you and elections.
00:02:51.000And we're going to get into that here today.
00:02:53.000Zuckerberg, Anjo Rogan, talking about the FBI, throttling the Hunter Biden laptop story.
00:02:57.000And of course, we were banned, just to be clear, because of Carrie Lake discussing issues in the election in Arizona that she won.
00:03:05.000But let me just say this, even if there is and there has never been any cheating whatsoever, of course, as we all know, in any election since the beginning of this country, we would never imply otherwise.
00:03:19.000If they can throttle, if they can control the information, like shadow banning the Hunter Biden laptop story, which we now know occurred, and we now know that alone changed the outcome of the election.
00:03:32.000I'll get into that number by number, state by state in today's show.
00:03:36.000They don't even need to cheat because of the lobbyists and because of the power that only a handful of organizations wield.
00:03:45.000And for the first time, you, Are making them sweat.
00:03:50.000We're not there yet, but I am telling you, this is a big step, and it's one that I'm really, really happy to report.
00:04:00.000Of any time we've ever streamed somewhere else, and I thank you for following us over, and if ever we get suspended here again, when we get suspended here again, I ask that you do the same, and I look forward to seeing you wherever it is that we land.
00:04:14.000But the good news is, we can now land somewhere else.
00:04:17.000Chin up, and it's time to fight like hell.
00:04:20.000Figuratively, figuratively, we'll get into that too.
00:10:19.000The CNN is freaking out now because Lindsey Graham said that if there's this investigation, prosecution of Donald Trump, that it could result in riots in the streets.
00:10:27.000Of course, he didn't condone it, but they're trying to act as though it's a call to violence.
00:10:30.000I think we're a little bit familiar with that.
00:10:33.000And then not really telling is that the Facebook, the book of the faces, Worked with the FBI.
00:10:57.000If you control the flow of information on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, I guess YouTube, Google, and maybe TikTok, you can throw it in there.
00:11:06.000You control the information there, you can control elections.
00:11:09.000And boy is it good that there are going to be some alternatives.
00:11:12.000But before we move on with anything else, Gerald A., how are you?
00:11:38.000There's like a hundred tickets left, and I don't want to advertise it because there aren't more than like a couple seats that are, you know, you can sit with one person, but that's it.
00:12:03.000Before I move on, we have so much to get to here today, and it's weird because it's kind of, you would assume a slow news day, but it's a slow news day because the media really doesn't want to cover what has taken place, really, from Friday to now.
00:12:16.000And some of it, I hate to use the term nuance, but there's some subtext that has been missed.
00:12:19.000But before that, let's start with something a little bit on the nose.
00:12:24.000Drew Barrymore, I don't know if you know this, people were complaining she was trending.
00:12:55.000You've just cosigned at least 3 million 8.5 by 11 front and back people who just go out of their way To disrespect and dismiss the boundaries that black creators have set.
00:15:54.000Gosh, this is where we, when it's beyond parody, like you notice we don't even say anything during, everyone here, you could have heard a pin drop in the studio at that lady who was furious with Drew Barrymore because there's nothing to add to that.
00:16:07.000I was trying to figure out why she was angry.
00:16:10.000I don't know what boundaries were set by black creators like she said that we crossed.
00:16:15.000And you find some write-ups if you search us because climate change disproportionately affects people in poverty and minorities and blah blah blah.
00:16:59.000They hosted what they called a family-friendly drag show with children, and we sent our team out there.
00:17:07.000I don't want to reveal too much yet, but we were on the ground, both behind the scenes and reporting, and many of these people don't know that we were behind the scenes, but it's going to be released on Thursday.
00:17:18.000Here's a sneak peek at the family-friendly drag show.
00:18:58.000This is something that is happening all across the country.
00:19:00.000So when the left says, you're not allowed to say pedophiles or sexualization of children... I think Media Matters ran a clip where it said there's a disproportionate number of sex offenders in the transgender community.
00:19:12.000Specifically, we were talking about the Drag Queen Story Hour.
00:19:42.000Wanted to see if you guys had watched this and maybe if you missed some subtext, comment.
00:19:47.000My question to you, you can comment below.
00:19:49.000If the hair on the back of your neck stood up when you watched Zuckerberg on Joe Rogan, And what's funny is I remember one time when I was on with Joe talking about Zuckerberg at length, making fun of him for seeming robotic and like a sociopath.
00:20:37.000Zuckerberg just plain out revealed that Facebook censored the Hunter Biden laptop story specifically because of someone who's been in the news quite a bit lately, the FBI.
00:20:52.000How do you guys handle things when they're a big news item that's controversial?
00:20:58.000Like, there was a lot of attention on Twitter during the election because of the Hunter Biden laptop story, the New York Post.
00:21:06.000Yeah, so you guys censored that as well?
00:21:09.000So we took a different path than Twitter.
00:21:12.000Basically, the background here is the FBI, I think, basically came to us, some folks on our team, and was like, hey, just so you know, you should be on high alert.
00:21:22.000Doesn't even realize what he just said.
00:21:27.000We have it on notice that basically there's about to be some kind of dump of Uh, that's similar to that.
00:21:44.000What we do is if something is reported to us as potentially, um, misinformation, important misinformation, we, we also have this third-party fact-checking program because we don't want to be deciding what's true and false.
00:21:58.000And for the, I think it was Five or seven days when it was basically being determined whether it was false, the distribution on Facebook was decreased, but people were still allowed to share it.
00:22:13.000So you could still share it, you could still consume it.
00:22:16.000So when you say the distribution has decreased, how does that work?
00:22:20.000Basically, the ranking in News Feed was a little bit less.
00:24:09.000See, okay, people talk about, for example, sometimes in the Bible, if you look at it, they talk about, in Revelations, like giant metal screaming birds, and now you go back and go, oh, maybe someone was trying to describe a plane.
00:24:20.000How would you describe it if the word plane didn't exist?
00:24:23.000For the longest time, the term that we used as conservatives, right, was shadow band.
00:25:09.000Everything that shows up in the news feed is meaningful.
00:25:12.000That's where people go to get updates on what's happening in society after they've scrolled through their page for a little bit and get bored.
00:25:18.000Hey, Kevin Lane Gunnarsson, get that number for me, how many people are on Facebook and the number of people who consume their news from Facebook.
00:25:41.000And then what happens is shadowban becomes a trigger word so that they throttle your content claiming that there's no shadowbanning.
00:25:47.000To be completely clear, before you fact-check us now, the FBI did respond saying that they can only inform private entities of threats, not require them to take action.
00:25:57.000Now that may be, but of course given what we've discussed before here, the political leanings of people at Meta, it used to be Facebook when this happened, it's 6.9 million to Democrats in 2020 compared to under 600,000 to Republicans.
00:26:09.000And there are a lot of ways to hide the money as well.
00:26:11.000But they overwhelmingly give to Democrats.
00:26:12.000They overwhelmingly support Democrats.
00:26:14.000And by the way, the shadow banning, how can all of the mistakes only go one way?
00:29:39.000According to the polls, 17% of Biden voters said they would have changed their vote or not voted had they known about the Hunter Biden laptop story.
00:29:51.000It's not just about the fact that he was smoking crack and sexting his niece.
00:29:54.000It's about the fact that he was directly involving his dad in foreign business deals with governments who do not have Americans' best interest at heart.
00:30:30.000Wisconsin, Donald Trump would have won.
00:30:33.000Minnesota, Donald Trump would have won.
00:30:34.000If you cut the number in half by the people who answered the poll saying they would have changed their vote, It still would have been a Ronald Reagan-like landslide through the Electoral College.
00:30:59.000Do you still believe they're a private company when they are removing a story that has a direct effect on the election outcome based on the suggestion by the FBI?
00:31:10.000This is not some private business doing what private business do.
00:31:13.000No, and the interesting part to me is, you know, all the flack that Donald Trump has been given for maybe, you know, being soft on Russia, doing business deals with Russia, the two people that were implicated or two countries implicated in this laptop were Ukraine and China.
00:31:26.000We've been really, really soft on China, trying to take every step that we can to take away a lot of the provisions that Donald Trump put in place economically, a lot of the sanctions, not sanctions, sorry, the tariffs.
00:31:36.000And we're sending over billions and billions and billions of dollars to where?
00:31:41.000I'm not saying anything, I'm just saying.
00:31:43.000It's very weird to me right now that that's the claim, those are the two places, and those are the two places right now, and nobody's making that argument that I'm seeing at all.
00:31:52.000Other than not liking their money going to Ukraine.
00:31:54.000I think you following logic in a straight line is the wrong way to go.
00:31:57.000It makes me feel like I'm starting a conspiracy on accident because it's like, oh well that makes sense.
00:32:02.000Just A, B, and C is not the way to do it.
00:32:05.000You've been spending too much time in the rain.
00:32:07.000There's a Reddit thread for me somewhere.
00:35:41.000So Beto is sick, but now he's actually contracted an infection that has knocked him off the campaign trail for a while, according to O'Rourke.
00:35:49.000He said, I'm sorry I've had to postpone events because of this, but I promise to be back on the road with you as soon as... Do you notice that O'Rourke and Zuckerberg and like Elizabeth Holm, they all talk that same way?
00:36:00.000That talking this way as though it makes me seem articulate.
00:36:48.000He tweeted out, the extraordinary team there, from custodians to nurses and doctors, gave me excellent care and attention, including IV antibiotics.
00:36:59.000So okay, I understand the thanking doctors and nurses.
00:40:01.000Here's something else now, again for double standards, while we're talking about CNN and we're talking about FBI, we're talking about Facebook.
00:40:07.000This morning this happened and it is as predictable as can be.
00:41:19.000This is something where people are deliberately subverting the truth.
00:41:23.000trying to present, they can be colloquialisms, they can be just sort of, they can be terminology,
00:41:29.000abbreviations, they can be expressions that these people use themselves, but they want
00:41:33.000to hold you accountable for them as though they are literal comments when you make them.
00:41:40.000The same can be said here when they actually call for riots, they actually call for violence,
00:41:44.000they've done so, and we'll get into that in just a second here. We have other clips from Maxine
00:41:48.000Waters. I feel like we almost run her clips too often because she's just a gift that keeps on
00:41:52.000giving violently, but they want to act as though when someone else on your side is simply commenting
00:41:59.000on or observing what's happening in this country that you are of course making an active call to
00:42:04.000So here's CNN's New Day trying to do this with Lindsey Graham's comments.
00:42:08.000Senator Lindsey Graham says people would take to the streets if former President Trump is indicted for mishandling classified documents.
00:42:18.000If there's a prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling classified information, after the Clinton debacle which you presided over and did a hell of a good job, there'll be riots in the streets.
00:42:30.000With us now, CNN political commentator and host of CNN's Smirkonish, Michael Smirkonish.
00:42:42.000Someone told me who told someone else who saw Ferris' best friend's girlfriend's sister's cousin's boyfriend who knows this guy.
00:42:48.000I think there is a perception of a double standard that was fueled in part by Mark Zuckerberg in the last couple of days talking about how Facebook was approached by the FBI in the 11th hour of the last campaign saying, be on the lookout for Russian misinformation or disinformation.
00:43:03.000Whether these are apples and apples, we can debate, but there is a perception that when it was Hillary, when it was Hunter Biden, it gets handled differently than when it's Donald Trump.
00:43:13.000So, I'm worried about what Lindsey Graham is saying.
00:44:04.000One is the President of the United States who controls what's classified and what's not, and didn't have his documents hacked or taken by foreign entities.
00:44:12.000The other was not the President of the United States, did not have rights to have those documents on a private server at home, that was hacked by foreign entities, that was then scrubbed, and then she said, no problem.
00:44:22.000And also, Hillary Clinton has no power to declassify documents, period.
00:44:48.000Michael Smermerkermish, this piece of sh... went on to discuss the...
00:44:54.000Possibility that Graham was trying to actually also, not only implicitly, call for violence.
00:44:59.000You notice how they always say, someone else told me, someone else said that this seemed like a call to violence, or a blatant threat was the term they used from Lindsey Graham.
00:45:07.000None of them want to hang their hat on it and say, this sounds like a threat to me.
00:45:11.000They say, someone else, one of our reporters said this, and they'll go to that reporter later and that reporter won't say it, they'll blame somebody else.
00:45:16.000But then they did try and say that Lindsey Graham in saying this, in stating something, That is a very real possibility that he was trying to influence the outcome of the election.
00:45:27.000I think the harder issue here is how is Merrick Garland supposed to evaluate that information?
00:45:34.000And what I mean is that, traditionally, a prosecutor takes a look at a case and decides, is there sufficient evidence for me to prosecute a crime?
00:45:44.000In this set of circumstances, there's an additional criteria, it seems.
00:45:48.000In fact, the New York Times, in that huge editorial that they ran this weekend, said Merrick Garland also needs to determine whether it would be wise to bring a prosecution.
00:45:57.000If there's a fear of civil unrest, should that enter into Garland's decision-making?
00:46:04.000I would argue no, because we can't have prosecutors making decisions based on polling data or the prospect of civil unrest, because then the rule of law disintegrates.
00:48:22.000Before you guys jump in, I don't want to do what CNN does and say that she meant fight literally, even though at that point they had been fighting literally throughout the streets the entire summer.
00:48:32.000And I don't want to say when she answered very clearly what we need to do is get more confrontational as though she meant that literally.
00:48:39.000And I don't want to say that correlation equals causation, but of course, regardless of the verdict, her constituents did this anyway.
00:49:44.000There's always a fight over these documents.
00:49:46.000Well, what he's trying to argue, too, is he's trying to say, this is unprecedented, right?
00:49:51.000And the left is trying to say, no, this is business as usual.
00:49:53.000Well, let me tell you, let me give you some examples here really quickly as to what is unprecedented.
00:49:56.000Okay, the Espionage Act has not been used against presidents in the past, okay?
00:50:01.000There have not been any presidents who have been rated for documents.
00:50:05.000This idea that presidents are not allowed to have documents that they've declassified, that is unprecedented.
00:50:11.000What's unprecedented is, of course, the prosecution of political opponents when you look at what the IRS, when you look at what the FBI is doing, when you look at what the FBI did with major media outlets.
00:50:20.000Let's just call Facebook and Twitter what they are now.
00:51:02.000So a lot of people aren't even informed on that, and I bet if you run a search right now on Google, you won't actually find out the Supreme Court case.
00:51:09.000I think Ted Cruz actually played a part in that.
00:51:11.000So while we're talking about precedent and what's unprecedented, something else I want to say.
00:51:15.000I was about to make a comment, and I think it's kind of lazy, but I think it matters.
00:51:18.000What you just saw, that riot, whatever they were burning there, but billions of dollars in damages, right?
00:51:26.000And a lot of people say, look at that versus January 6th.
00:51:29.000I don't even think we need to make that comparison.
00:51:31.000When people talk about January 6th as though it was completely unprecedented, you don't even need to go so far back to the riots.
00:51:39.000There is a direct apples-to-apples, to use Michael Stromer's comparison there.
00:51:46.000They burned down a church right across from the White House and stormed the gates, and the President of the United States, Donald Trump, was hidden in the White House, and everyone mocked him, saying, oh, the coward's going to his bunker.
00:51:58.000That was way worse than... They burned a church down!
00:52:01.000You don't even need to go to the riots.
00:52:04.000Right there, a stone's throw away from what happened on January 6th.
00:52:10.000There was violent felonies that happened, and people attempting to breach the White House and kill the President, and they mocked the President.
00:52:18.000And we call January 6th the greatest act of terror in American history?
00:52:23.000We don't even need to go macro with the examples of the billions of dollars and the thousands of casualties and dozens of officers who were shot or killed.
00:54:06.000Good point to that is they point to discussing any election irregularities as dangerous misinformation, right?
00:54:14.000And so that's the only example they can point to, and they try to point to.
00:54:18.000I would argue, while we're doing apples to apples, dangerous misinformation Claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop story, which of course directly involves his father, the former Vice President of the United States, and deals with Ukraine and China, I would say having that labeled misinformation is far more damaging than people saying, hey, you know what?
00:54:39.000I would say the story that went out that said Ashley Biden, where she talked about being molested, And being at least fondled by and showering with her dad, maybe nothing sexual, in her own diary, saying that that was fraudulent and Russian misinformation?
00:54:53.000I would say that's more dangerous than people questioning the election.
00:54:56.000And do you know how I know you believe that too?
00:55:00.000You allowed Hillary Clinton and Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren and Jimmy Carter and Al Gore to do it for years.
00:55:07.000So while we're doing apples to apples comparison, I think the dangerous misinformation is that which is verifiable, which has changed the outcome of our country.
00:55:17.000This is going to sound like I'm a prick, and sometimes I am.
00:55:22.000I think the best case scenario is that conservatives, people like you right now watching, that you've been responsible fiscally, and that you can wait it out, and that the next couple of years hurt like hell for the people who voted for it.
00:55:35.000I want the people who voted for this shit to say, God, I can't afford to drive to work.
00:55:41.000I can't afford to buy chuck roast, let alone to buy top sirloin.
00:56:55.000And I don't think that that is an acceptable result under any circumstances, despite what the threats or the conflagration or the public outrage might be.
00:57:04.000Those are all things that we need to be able to manage.
00:57:06.000Like you just explained it, and then they just did it.
00:57:09.000I'll tell you exactly why they're doing this right.
00:57:10.000Well, I want to hear what the Ben Kingsley Mr. Peabody has to say.
00:57:16.000If he'd go in and say, give me the reverse Botox under my chin.
00:58:10.000Had handed over documents, said, okay, great, just let us know what you need.
00:58:13.000Instead they decided to go in there and of course they blamed Donald Trump, saying the only reason you know about it is because Donald Trump tweeted about it.
00:58:20.000Well, he was tweeting, he was posting it on Truth Social because you violated the law and didn't actually allow them to read the warrant, and this was concerning.
00:59:20.000So nobody can actually see what's going on.
00:59:23.000And no one can know if this is actually justified at this point.
00:59:27.000And if they prosecute him, people are going to be pissed, and they probably are going to take to the streets.
00:59:32.000Now, knowing conservatives, knowing people on the right, it'll be almost entirely, I would assume, if not completely, entirely non-violent.
00:59:40.000They certainly won't be waging war against their fellow citizens, like the Black Lives Matter protesters, or Maxine Waters herself.
01:00:06.000We know zero more about the justification for the raid today than we did back then.
01:00:12.000But we've had at least a dozen promises that we were going to be given the information.
01:00:18.000And it was going to be the final nail in the coffin.
01:00:21.000We know nothing more than we knew back then.
01:00:25.000Now, imagine today goes into tomorrow and they decide to prosecute the man who we know would beat the shit out of Joe Biden in an election.
01:00:37.000Not because of systemic racism that can't be described and people using it as an excuse to go and steal a Westinghouse.
01:00:45.000But because people are saying, you told us that you would let us in on why you are doing this.
01:00:51.000There were crimes so egregious it threatened the security of our nation state.
01:00:57.000We know nothing more today than we did the day the raid happened.
01:01:00.000Well, you wouldn't think that from watching CNN, because what they've been putting out there is, oh my gosh, nuclear information that maybe could fall into the wrong hands.
01:01:08.000By the way, so far, maybe he's selling it into the hands.
01:01:11.000And there's other stories and timelines out there where he asks for this information about informants, and then we start losing informants around the world being killed.
01:01:17.000I wonder if Donald Trump is paying off business favors.
01:01:54.000What should happen next, the next president of the United States, if they are Republican, and if Republicans, if they take the House and Senate, what needs to happen next is, because people before were saying, hey, it can be used against you.
01:02:05.000We need to start using it against them.
01:02:07.000There needs to be prosecution to the fullest extent of the law, insider trading.
01:02:11.000Any kind of election meddling that's happened or any kind of irregularities, any changing of the election laws that violate the state constitutions?
01:02:18.000Any type of international relationships like we see with Joe Biden in Ukraine, that requires an investigation.
01:02:24.000There should be full investigation and prosecution of everyone, and it should happen with complete transparency and no redactions.
01:02:31.000That's what the next Republican needs to do, and I won't vote for anyone or support anyone who doesn't promise to do it.
01:02:44.000There's only one road right now, and they're driving like assholes on the fast lane, slowing the rest of us down, because the rest of us just actually want to get back on the road to freedom, and we can't, because we have an 87,000% increased IRS force.
01:02:57.000We have the FBI, who now have more power over the American public than ever before.
01:03:01.000And instead of paying for, I don't know, border security?
01:03:04.000Instead of paying for, I don't know, ensuring that we have the most effective military in the world?
01:03:09.000Instead of ensuring that we have elections with integrity?
01:03:12.000Instead of spending money on those things, what are we doing?
01:03:15.000Well, we're forgiving student loans for people who got gender studies degrees.
01:03:43.000If this continues to go on completely unchecked, we cannot have a country where the FBI can selectively prosecute, can selectively enforce the law, and selectively tell all major media and big tech outlets what they're allowed to cover.