EZRA LEVANT | The liberal meltdown over Trump's Twitter return is incredible ... and he hasn't even tweeted yet!
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Elon Musk reinstates many banned conservatives on Twitter, and we'll talk to Dr. James Lindsay, who was sent to a cyber-siberia prison. Plus, a look at why the phrase "ok groover" was banned by Elon Musk.
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Hello, my friends. It's great to be back in the chair today. I'm sorry I was away a few
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days last week. I'm going to go deep on the subject of Twitter banning conservatives and
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then reinstating some of those conservatives. We'll have a feature-length conversation with
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Dr. James Lindsay. I really like this guy. We've talked to him a few times before. Really
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smart, really goes deep into the intellectual history behind wokeism. I won't try and explain
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who he is. I'll just get straight to the conversation. I think you'll get a kick out
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of it. We talk about everything from Donald Trump to the midterm elections to Elon Musk
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and why the phrase OK Groomer was banned by Twitter. That's ahead. But first, let me invite
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take any money from the government. All right. Here's today's podcast.
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Tonight, Elon Musk reinstates many banned conservatives on Twitter.com. We'll talk to Dr. James Lindsay,
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who was sent to a cyber, a Siberia. It's November 21st. And this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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Hey, great to see you again. I'm sorry I was away a few days last week. I couldn't avoid it. But,
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you know, I got right back into it on the weekend. I don't know if you know this, but in the greater
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Toronto area, we had something called Rebel News Live. We used to do these a lot in the before times.
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We had over 750 people buying tickets for a day-long Rebel News conference. Now, some of those tickets
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were virtual tickets where people could join online and Zoom. But we had about 500 people
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in the room physically, which is a great pleasure. Because if you're like me, you're still remembering
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what it's like to go to conferences and meet with lots of people after we were atomized and forced
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apart from each other. It was great. And all your favorite Rebel News personalities gave talks and
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took questions, but also interesting newsmakers, too. Two of my favorites included Arthur Pavlovsky,
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the Alberta pastor who was jailed. And speaking of political prisoners, Tamara Leach, the trucker,
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spiritual leader, I'm going to call her, was there, too. It was a wonderful event. Other
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great speakers, including our friend Palminder Singh, who also came to prominence during the
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trucker convoy. Just a great time was had by all. Now, that was in the Toronto area. We are doing it
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again this coming weekend in Calgary. There are still tickets available. Go to rebelnewslive.com.
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And there's different tickets if you want to come for the whole day, if you want to add on a VIP dinner
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with the guests afterwards. That's pretty fun. Or you can join by Zoom if you're not able to make
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it to the Calgary location. Of course, we'll serve breakfast and lunch. You know, we will because
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we're always hungry for knowledge and hungry for snacks. So it's been a busy time at Rebel News.
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But in the back of my mind, and by the way, today the trucker commission, holy mackerel, I was watching
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Sheila Gunn-Reed's live tweeting. Senior government officials were there, including Bill Blair. Very
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soon, Justin Trudeau himself will take the stand. One of the things we saw today was how this false
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allegations, this literal government disinformation about the truckers being violent extremists was
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planted in the media by the government. They were colluding with journalists like Rachel Gilmore and
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Glenn McGregor. Just absolutely atrocious. We always sensed it in our bones, but the truth came out
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today. I'm so proud of our team in Ottawa. You can follow them at truckercommission.com. As you know,
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we've rented an Airbnb in that city that we've turned into a TV studio. I'm glad Sheila was down
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there on this very important day. So we're doing lots of stuff in Canada, but in the back of my mind
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is twitter.com. Recently bought and turned private by Elon Musk. And he is following through and he is
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allowing some formerly censored voices to come back. The most important, of course,
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being Donald Trump. Elon Musk put up a Twitter poll. 15 million people voted in a day. And it was
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close, 52 to 48. But he claimed it was that poll that made him say, Vox Populi, Vox Dei. That's Latin
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for the voice of the people is the voice of God. And with that, he reinstated Donald Trump's tweets. Now,
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Trump himself has not yet availed himself of that. You may recall after Donald Trump was banned from
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Twitter, which was outrageous. He was a sitting U.S. president, banned from Twitter. The Ayatollahs
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of Iran, the communist leaders of China, they're on Twitter, but not the American president. It was
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deeply disturbing. In fact, other countries around the world, including Angela Merkel, who was the
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leader of Germany at the time, and the president of Mexico. Neither of them were fans of Trump. But both
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of those leaders in particular said it is a dangerous thing when woke bureaucrats in Silicon
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Valley can simply wave the wand and silence the leader of a sovereign country. Very interesting.
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Trump has not yet tweeted yet. I hope he will. It would be absurd if he didn't. If you had 100 million
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viewers who were tuned into you, you'd be foolish not to use that. Trump used social media to great
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effect in 2016. We'll see if he returns to it. But interesting to me, is the reaction by the
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liberals. Just incredible. Here is one of the regular talk shows. I think this was on Face the
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Nation yesterday, saying, oh, you know, this election, this vote on Donald Trump, it was rigged
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by the Russians. Take a look at this. Just hilarious.
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So I think these polls are mostly a gimmick. And I would argue the people haven't spoken.
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The GRU has spoken. These Twitter has become... Russian intelligence, you mean?
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A hundred percent. Twitter has become a playground for bad actors and fake bots.
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This poll is meaningless. This decision is meaningless. No evidence provided, of course. But
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I guess a Twitter poll, you can say, is rigged by the Russians. You're just not allowed to say
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that Joe Biden's win was rigged by anyone. Anyhow, I want to tell you that today we're going to speak
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with a political pundit, scholar, public intellectual on the right, Dr. James Lindsay. We've spoken with
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him before. I really like talking with him. He's really smart. And he was one of those banned in the
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last year by the Twitter censors. And he has now been unbanned. I wanted to show you two photos side by
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side. Here's a picture of Twitter staff in the time before Elon Musk bought the company.
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And here's a picture of Twitter staff now. I think they have fewer, you know, touchy-feely
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censorship activists and a lot more rock-hard engineers. At least that's what it looks like.
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I got to play this video for you again. This is a day in the life of a Twitter manager. I'm not
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kidding. This is real. This was uploaded to TikTok by a Twitter worker. You can see what kind of place
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it was. It was not about tech. It was not about computer science. It was about democratic politics.
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Hey guys, come to work with me at Twitter and Atlanta. This was my first time going into the
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office in such a long time, but it was nice to have a change of scenery from my apartment.
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Look at my co-worker, Brie. She's so cute. For lunch, we decided to go downstairs to Bar Vegan. If you
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haven't tried it before, it's a black-owned restaurant inside of Ponce Market. We ordered the
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quesadillas with tots and then also got a fancy pants cocktail and they were all really good. So I'll
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definitely be back. After lunch, we came back upstairs to an extremely empty office, but
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honestly, we were just so proud of our productivity. After work, we went back downstairs to Monero's
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to reward ourselves with some after-work margaritas. We stated happy hour until around 7 p.m. and
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then I finally headed home to enjoy a well-deserved bubble bath. Bye guys.
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It's easy to see why our next guest was banned by the likes of that Twitter worker who I presume
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is no longer there. So when we come back, a feature conversation with Dr. James Lindsay.
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You know, we have an enormous social media account on youtube.com. In fact, until Global News bought
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artificial subscribers, we were the largest news channel in Canada on that forum. We lost
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our monetization. That is, they refused to sell ads on it and they de-boosted us. They pushed us down
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their search rankings for a sin. Now, we didn't do anything illegal. We didn't publish any gratuitous
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violence or any obscenity. We certainly broke no law, but we violated their interpretation of their
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community guidelines. What did it was we showed a brief clip of President Donald Trump in an official
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video released by his office talking about the January 6th so-called insurrection. We didn't show
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it to endorse it or to cheer for it, but rather to document it as a prosecutor might put a piece of
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evidence to a jury. Here's what Trump said. Here's what they said. Here's what they said. But merely for
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showing that video, and not endorsing it, but just showing it as a historical artifact, an official
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communication by the President of the United States, the hall monitors of YouTube use that as the
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justification to rip out about a million dollars a year from Rebel News, and they have never given it
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back to us since. I tell you that because that obviously violated no norm in a liberal democratic
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society. Rather, it violated the political tastes of the tastemakers who now dominate these big tech
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companies. Once upon a time, a long time ago, they were basically run by nerdy guys who loved computer
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science. It was, I suppose, like NASA was in the 1960s, but that's not NASA today, and that's not big tech
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today. As I showed you earlier, Twitter is the home of woke millennial women, and they're not there to
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do computer programming, at least not in the main. They're there to say what you can and can't say about
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transgenderism, to say what you can and can't say about the election in 2020. Was it reliable or not?
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And that's how we ourselves were demonetized. And I tell you this because our next guest
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was canceled on Twitter. His account was suspended for what? Was he doing something atrocious like
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promoting child pornography? No, in fact, he was doing the opposite. He was condemning
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what he called child groomers, which is adults who target young children of tender years to sexualize
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them. And by calling them groomers, which is standard parlance for that tactic, he was suspended from
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Twitter for being against child pornography. Well, Dr. James Lindsay was reinstated on Twitter yesterday,
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shortly after Elon Musk reacquired the company and took it private. And joining us now via Skype
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from Tennessee is Dr. James Lindsay. He's a scholar and the head of the New Discourses Institute.
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What a pleasure to have you back on the show. We love having you. We always get into the good stuff,
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you and I. I'm really grateful for your time and your smarts. But today I want to talk about you and
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your story a little bit and what it can teach us about Twitter and the censorship they're in. And if
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Elon Musk is to be trusted even just a little bit, I'm delighted that you're back on and able to
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communicate in that public forum. Well, I don't know if I'm delighted yet or not. It feels a bit
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like I got kicked out of an insane asylum and now I've been let back in and a little hesitant to go
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back, but all my friends are there. So I don't really know what to think about that. But, you know,
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I do think it will be effective. I unfortunately did notice some drop in my effectiveness, which I had
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hoped would not be the case. I think somebody told me that I was exiled from Twitter land for
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something like 105 or something, 106 days or something. And unfortunately, that was long
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enough to notice a dip in my reach. And so it's good to get back for professional reasons, at least.
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Well, and that's the thing. And to hear the language of the left and the media party, as I call it,
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or I'm calling it the regime media in Canada now because we're learning how they colluded with
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Trudeau in in the martial law imposition. It's really shocking to hear how they squawk when they
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leave Twitter and try and create a new colony on on rival social media platforms like one's called
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Mastodon. And I've got nothing against these rival sites. It's just to see them ache at losing their
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social status and their social connection and their audience. That pain, which is which is true.
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It's what you just described, how you lost your social status and your connections.
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They were punishing wrong thinkers with a kind of intellectual exile. You say you were exiled from
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the insane asylum. And I take your point because Twitter can be rambunctious and it can be addictive
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and it can be a time waster and there's a lot of garbage on there. But it is. But that's just a
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reflection of people. And you were really banned from people who talk and think and watch and observe
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and comment. And and that is like if you were a factory worker, it really would make no difference
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to your life. But you're a you're a dealer in ideas. You're in the intellectual trades.
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And for you to be banned from the public square, it really it is an attack on who you are.
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I'm not trying to build you up. I'm just saying Twitter is the public square, like it or not.
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And and that is why they wanted to they wanted to banish you from life. They wanted to send you to
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Siberia. They really did. I mean, I do get that. As a matter of fact, I reflected a number of times
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and no one can can quite copy the eloquence of Christopher Hitchens. But before he died,
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he obviously wrote quite a bit famously about mortality. And he said that with death, it's it's
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not so much that the party will end, but more that it most assuredly will go on without you in it.
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And it definitely felt like there was a that I had been exiled from the ability to participate
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in this kind of rambunctious and kind of Wild West center of discourse. And it is, in a sense,
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at least, you know, the world's newsstand, but also a center of dialogue. I also look upon this
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phenomenon of the the left leaning matriculation off of Twitter to other social media with a bit of
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amusement. I watched a number of of the large accounts yesterday kvetching that they get sent
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that they've sent themselves off to these other platforms and bless them. And they've gone and
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tried to transform them there. You know, it needs content moderation. And this is all these
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problematics. And we need to do this and that. And the CEOs are coming out and saying, if you want
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to change it to Twitter, go complain to Elon, then I can't help but laugh. But yeah, it's it you can
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see with both sides of this, then that unfortunately, maybe or maybe it's fortunate, I don't know,
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these large tech platforms have truly become something like where the public dynamic takes
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place. And so it is in a very significant sense, almost a digital gulag. And you know, I've done
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some recordings talking about what they could do with digital gulags with algorithms, kind of a direct
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application of reeducation through social credit systems or whatever else. But there's also this other
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aspect of having been removed. It's like a negative gulag, you've been removed from society in order
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to teach you a lesson. And while Twitter isn't exactly, you know, the best place on earth, there's
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still that sense. It's also weird to read eulogies for myself. So people perceive it as a kind of social
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death, but I read several of those. Huh. You know, I spoke to our handler at YouTube, obviously, as they
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took us through the marginalization and denormalization process. And I asked a question,
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it was our handler at Twitter that I asked this question. I asked, is there any redemption for
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people who have been suspended? I was thinking of Alex Jones. Is, but for anyone who has a permanent
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ban? Because the left, liberals, the woke folks, they don't believe in lifetime bans for anything,
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for actual real murder. They don't believe in a life sentence. They believe in parole. You could
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look at that in a Christian light and say they believe that there's a possibility for people to
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see the light and repent and redeem themselves. And I think we all want to believe that someone who's
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wrong can become right. But these social media punishments were all life sentences with no
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appeal. And they were often secret decisions too, like a star chamber. I don't know. I find that
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quite something that they were so harsh in dealing with anyone who made word sins. Because isn't that
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the worst crime you can make? Murder, they'll excuse. They have sanctuary cities for murderers. But
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anyone who has a thought crime like the one you committed, calling out adults who target children
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sexually as groomers, simply for using that word, which is not a controversial term, frankly. Your
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word crime was deserving a life sentence, a life banishment to Siberia. These people would have
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been absolutely at home in the Soviet Union or in the East German secret police, the Stasi.
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They really would. I mean, it's in all of us. We like to think that maybe we're morally or
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genetically even different than the generation of Nazis, but we're flesh and bone. In fact,
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I think the kind of compliance and snitch culture that arose during the lockdowns reminds us that,
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God forbid, if we were living under Nazi Germany, there would be plenty of our friends and neighbors
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and academics and police and politicians who would eagerly volunteer to be enforcers.
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Like, I really think that the kind of people who would be drawn to be a censor in social media
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would be the kind of people who were drawn to join the Stasi or the SS or the KGB or the FSB. I really
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do think so. And I'm not exaggerating. I'm not stretching. I'm saying it's that psychology of
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authoritarian control over people you don't like. Yeah, well, I think that if we might allow to get a
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little nerdy for the moment, as you know, I recognize this so-called woke movement, which we
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could characterize all of this within as being, you know, a new manifestation of communism under kind
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of revamped, you know, neo-Marxist or critical Marxist theory. And if you read the literature in
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communism, they're very, very clear that what the people means, everything's supposed to be for the
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people on the side of the people to see from the people's standpoint. But it's very, very clear that
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what they mean by the people are the people who agree with them. And no one else quite qualifies
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as personhood. And so that impulse, that authoritarian impulse, I actually am now the
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research that I'm engaging in now, is starting to point me to conclude that what that comes from
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is, in fact, something far older than communism, something far further back in history than Karl
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Marx or Hegel or Oettinger or any of these kind of German philosophers, if you will, that came up with
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this stuff that we're dealing with today in the modern era, at the end of the modern era.
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It is, in fact, an ancient religion known as Gnosticism. And the Gnostics are literally elevated
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above other people. They have the correct consciousness, and they therefore have the
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capacity to determine who counts as a person and who doesn't, who can get away with crimes because
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they get special permission, and who has to be punished. And as you pointed out, they're
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particularly sensitive because what they're doing is playing word games about being beaten at word
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games. And so they understand that there's much power in language. And I, in fact, didn't get
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canceled from Twitter, just as a small point of fact, for using the word groomer specifically,
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I actually got in trouble for that. And then I deleted all of my OK groomer tweets, knowing that
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the writing was on the wall with that word. And I said, OK child sexualization specialist to one of
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the same people. So I played a bit of a word game myself, and I beat a leftist at a word game and
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found myself, you know, sent to Siberia, if you will, for doing so. And so you can kind of see
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this. This, I think, is exactly how their mentality is. But the most important part is the people who
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aren't part of the ideology don't count as people from the perspective of the ideology, which is
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extraordinarily dangerous and extraordinarily contrary to, you know, broadly liberal societies.
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In fact, it's their exact antithesis in not a good or not any good way that we should take very
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seriously the signs that this ideology is giving off about what it is and what it intends to do,
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which is to claim power and that the ends of them having power justify the means of doing
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whatever they do, destroying liberal societies that stand in their way and the constitutions
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that prevent them from having power and from from controlling people. And we should would look to
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the lessons of history, the 20th century, certainly, and see just what a terrible road that this ideology
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wants to walk us down, thinking that it is benefiting the greater good, which it alone, as Gnostics
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understands. You know, I try to understand what Elon Musk is doing. I mean, by some measure,
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he's the world's richest man. I'm not sure if that's the case on any given day with the stock
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price of Tesla. But he does seem quite unusual. I mean, it's a pretty obvious thing to say.
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He's a serial entrepreneur. He seems to love hard sciences. He seems sort of quirky himself. He seems
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to be awkward, but self-deprecating, which is a wonderful combination. I've seen him talk about
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freedom and authoritarianism in government, and I'm generally impressed with it. I think he's got a
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blind spot when it comes to China. I wouldn't say a blind spot, but he's so exposed, Tesla's so
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exposed to China, and he knows that a false word there could crumple his company. So I think he
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just sort of stops talking honestly when it comes to China or stops talking at all. But other than
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that, I think he's generally, I'd say he's a little bit libertarian. And he constantly points out that
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all the subsidies Tesla got were not requested by Tesla. They were requested by his competitors at
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GM and elsewhere, and he just happily took them. I believe that, first of all. And why a man who's
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such a builder, SpaceX, you know, Skylink or whatever his internet satellites are called, Tesla, would get
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into Twitter? One of my questions is why? Is it because he just really loves Twitter? I think he does.
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He really enjoys the banter. He enjoys the jokes. He enjoys the memes. He's silly. And normally a man
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of such an accomplishment is not silly. I can't imagine, you know, Rockefeller being silly. Why would
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he? And he's obviously spending a lot of time on it. I mean, if I was a shareholder of Tesla or something
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else, I'd be saying, hey, can you come and run the car company? Please, what are you doing messing around
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for yucks? I'm trying to understand his motivation. And maybe he's so clever that he's just playing the
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joker, playing the jester, the entertainer, but there's something deadly. I mean, that would,
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you know, as they say in another context, the first trick of the devil is to make you think he doesn't
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exist. Maybe Elon Musk's first trick is to make you think he's some harmless goofball, but underneath
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it all, he's deadly serious about something. I've come to the conclusion that Twitter was a CIA
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operation or FBI operation, just the same way as TikTok is a People's Liberation Army
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operation. And I don't say that in any conspiratorial way, but rather we know that the FBI,
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for example, had a direct portal at Twitter where they could upload their concerns to Twitter and
00:25:04.280
Twitter would censor their enemies. They had the same thing going on during the pandemic where Fauci
00:25:10.220
would give them lists of, you know, skeptics. We know that other countries use Twitter to spy on
00:25:17.180
dissidents. Saudi Arabia had some staff arrested for that. We know the old Twitter board had,
00:25:23.180
you know, Secretary of State type people like Deep State. Like, what are you doing in a social media
00:25:28.840
tech company? Well, imagine having access to all that data. What politician is looking at what? Who's
00:25:35.840
having a direct message with whom? And of course, under the terms of service, you own it all. Buying
00:25:40.380
Twitter, you're buying the ads, you're buying the business, but you're buying the intel. You're buying
00:25:45.980
everyone's secrets. So maybe he's joking around and having fun, but underneath it, there's something
00:25:53.280
deeper. I don't know. I'd love your theory. Why is Elon Musk buying something that's regarded as a game
00:25:59.620
or an addiction? What's he doing? Well, I mean, we could take his own stated purposes at face value,
00:26:06.540
which seems not to be a losing strategy with Elon Musk from what I've seen throughout the years with
00:26:12.020
him. And his statement was that there should be a place that's not heavily restricted free speech.
00:26:18.220
That's not heavily biased. He said that the furthest right and the furthest left should be
00:26:22.300
equally mad at the company, not one side being outraged and the other side quite happy or mad for
00:26:28.240
funny reasons. I mean, a lot of his decision-making followed, he went on the podcast for the satire
00:26:35.080
site, the Babylon Bee with Seth Dillon and them. And he sat down and he talked to them and he was a
00:26:40.400
big fan of the, or is a big fan of the Babylon Bee. And then the next thing you know, Twitter decided
00:26:44.940
to lock the Babylon Bee out for making a joke about Richard Levine, if I remember correctly, or Rachel
00:26:50.820
or whatever the hell we're supposed to call this person. And in making that joke and getting locked out
00:26:56.780
of Twitter, it's like, you know, Babylon Bee made a beautiful joke about it. They said, you know,
00:27:01.240
the person who locked the Babylon Bee's account now wondering if he's in hot water, because that seemed
00:27:07.040
to have triggered a kind of moment in Elon, if we look kind of again at face value, where he recognized
00:27:13.540
that if you're censoring satire to this degree, something is badly wrong. And it could be that there's
00:27:22.640
no other deeper motivation than that. He believes that this is what needs to be done. If you look
00:27:27.040
at his big projects, whether electric cars, whether this boring company, whether the internet,
00:27:31.720
whether the Starlink, whether the SpaceX, the space travel and maybe colonization of Mars,
00:27:38.280
it seems almost like, and even the Neuralink, it's almost as though he knows the kinds of
00:27:43.320
technological advances that if we might refer to it as the regime that they want to use and take
00:27:48.180
advantage of, his interest in cryptocurrency was another example of this. And it almost seems like
00:27:53.520
he likes to get ahead of them, them controlling all of social media and tech through their,
00:27:58.240
whether it's ESG, Cabal, or whatever, or Davos commitment, or whatever it happens to be.
00:28:04.100
It's something that would fall into a pattern with Elon Musk of not trusting that kind of unipole of
00:28:11.480
all power and panopticon capacity. On the other hand, he's also, you know, you said he's buying
00:28:19.300
access to all of this data, which who knows what he could do with it, all this intel. But he also
00:28:25.000
says that he believes, and it's said for years, that he believes that direct messages should be
00:28:28.920
peer-to-peer encrypted and all of these other kinds of security measures that don't currently exist.
00:28:33.280
So it is possible that he genuinely thinks that we should have a kind of wild, wild west,
00:28:37.880
open marketplace of ideas. And as far as what he's doing, it's fascinating to watch.
00:28:43.960
I don't honestly believe he fully knows what he's doing. This makes Elon Musk fans very upset. But I
00:28:50.540
do also think that he is a very quick learner. And he's very savvy at picking up on a game as he's
00:28:57.940
playing it, and then playing it to win and doing very well at that. So it may come out to be this
00:29:03.220
kind of uncontrolled or, you know, limited control kind of environment for free speech
00:29:09.540
that we haven't had in a number of years. That would be a tremendous mark outside of the broad
00:29:17.340
regime. What his ultimate goals with that are, though, I shouldn't guess and couldn't guess.
00:29:22.060
You know, Elon Musk is big in wealth and big in ideas and big in a network of friends, I suppose.
00:29:28.880
But there's always someone bigger. And in terms of money, you know, BlackRock, Soros,
00:29:40.960
and his networks, there's always someone bigger. And you'd think a fellow who can muster 44 billion
00:29:48.620
or whatever it is, is pretty impervious. But we saw that the head of censorship at Twitter,
00:29:55.600
who Elon Musk kept around. His name is Yoel Roth. Elon Musk kept him around for a bit. But then he
00:30:03.340
quit. And he wrote sort of a catty op-ed in the New York Times. And one of the things he alluded to
00:30:08.940
was, you know, most apps that you download on your phone come from one of two places, Android,
00:30:16.520
which is the Google App Store, or the iPhone App Store. And that's the choke point. And if you want
00:30:24.700
to kill Twitter, ban it from the app stores on both systems. And of course, you could go deeper
00:30:32.340
than that. Who hosts the servers? I mean, maybe Twitter has their own stuff, or maybe they're
00:30:37.420
using Amazon Web Services, as so many companies do. Like, there's always a deeper level of
00:30:43.160
infrastructure. Like, your house is built on a foundation, and the foundation are built on perhaps,
00:30:48.320
you know, some sort of pillars. Like, in the internet, there's always a deeper backbone.
00:30:51.960
And so however big Elon Musk is, there are bigger people out there. The CIA is bigger. Maybe even the
00:30:59.260
KGB is bigger. The State Department is bigger. The U.S. government is bigger. The Department of
00:31:02.860
Justice is bigger. I saw this clip the other day, just outrageous. A reporter for Bloomberg,
00:31:10.120
in an obvious setup, asking Joe Biden if Elon Musk should be investigated for colluding with
00:31:17.240
foreigners. They asked this of the father of Hunter Biden. Remember this clip? Take a look.
00:31:21.580
Mr. President, do you think Elon Musk is a threat to U.S. national security? And should
00:31:26.440
the U.S., and with the tools you have, investigate his joint acquisition of Twitter with foreign
00:31:34.600
I think that Elon Musk's cooperation and or technical relationships with other countries is worthy of
00:32:03.360
being looked at. Whether or not he is doing anything inappropriate, I'm not suggesting that. I'm
00:32:10.540
suggesting that it's worth being looked at. But that's all I'll say.
00:32:20.020
Just absolute scripted setup question. By the way, Michael Bloomberg himself, the boss of that
00:32:26.160
reporter, praises Xi Jinping, actually said that Xi Jinping is not a dictator. He's a kind of Democrat.
00:32:32.420
I think that Elon Musk is as powerful as you can get as an individual, but there is always a bigger
00:32:40.780
force. And I'm worried if he takes on the deep state or if he takes on wokeism. Woke capital is
00:32:47.880
bigger than Elon Musk and woke CIA and woke Pentagon is more powerful. And I'm just worried that no one's
00:32:57.100
big enough to fight the man. What do you think?
00:33:00.240
I am not worried about that. I don't lose a minute of sleep about that. And the reason isn't because I
00:33:05.920
don't think the concern is real. It's because I would love to see the mask come off to that degree.
00:33:11.500
I would love to see the I think would be up to a category 11 hurricane of red pills that would fall
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from the parlor maneuver where the the play store and the I store or whatever it's called on Apple
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Apple store. The app stores get rid of Twitter or the servers are cut out from under. I would love
00:33:32.420
to see them crush Twitter and just watch people stare in wide eyed amazement at how scary the world
00:33:38.440
that they live in currently actually is and let it come to the point. I would prefer that that doesn't
00:33:42.920
happen. But I win either way. Either we have a space that enables at least ostensibly more free
00:33:50.380
speech that is kind of the bedrock of what this nation or this kind of liberal experiment throughout
00:33:56.960
the world is is is built on or the regime reveals itself in a way that again is so unambiguous that
00:34:04.740
they frighten and awaken and possibly even radicalize people by the tens or maybe hundreds of
00:34:12.400
millions as to what they really are. I think that that's they're not as strong. They may have power,
00:34:20.200
but they're not in a strong position because they can't use the power that they have ethically.
00:34:24.760
And I think that the the executive from Twitter who wrote that the the censorship czar at Twitter
00:34:31.040
that wrote that just reveals who he is. He's a tyrant. He's an evil person by having written that
00:34:36.800
with kind of this little grin. And The New York Times reveals itself yet again to be a pile of
00:34:43.300
garbage, a failing enterprise that's kept aloft because of its use to the regime, not because of
00:34:48.800
its its utility in delivering news or honesty or opinion or information to people.
00:34:54.100
I just find those. I mean, I think that would be called a pyrrhic victory.
00:34:57.980
Uh-huh. Yes, I told you it was that bad. And now you see how bad it is. I take your point. A lot of
00:35:04.540
people would see it. But it reminds me of the Jeffrey Epstein case. I mean, we know that the
00:35:12.040
story was suffocated. We know that the likelihood of the official line that he committed suicide
00:35:17.460
is laughably implausible. We know the security guards who were sleeping, the cameras that weren't
00:35:22.600
working, and the fact that we still don't know the list of his customers. Like, I think the Jeffrey
00:35:29.060
Epstein crisis revealed that so many conspiracy theories were real, including international
00:35:37.300
sex trafficking of billionaires and everyone's in. Like, it revealed everything. The fact that Bill
00:35:42.840
Gates, his own wife, divorced him over it. I mean, here's just a quick reminder. Here's Melinda Gates
00:35:49.020
speaking about as plainly as she can to make sure she's not Jeffrey Epstein. Remember this?
00:35:54.860
You know, it was also widely reported that Bill had a friendship or business or some kind
00:36:00.460
of contact with Jeffrey Epstein and that you were not, that that was very upsetting to you. Did that
00:36:05.380
play a role in the divorce at all in this process? Yeah. As I said, it's not one thing. It was many
00:36:12.400
things, but I did not like that he'd had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein, no. And you made that clear
00:36:19.780
to him? I made that clear to him. I also met Jeffrey Epstein exactly one time. Did you? Yes,
00:36:26.440
because I wanted to see who this man was. And I regretted it from the second I stepped in the door.
00:36:33.820
He was abhorrent. He was evil, personified. I had nightmares about it afterwards. So,
00:36:40.420
you know, my heart breaks for these young women because that's how I felt. And here I'm an older
00:36:45.540
woman. My God, I feel terrible for those young women. It's awful. You felt that the moment you
00:36:50.380
walked in. He was awful. Yeah. And you shared that with Bill and he still continued to spend time with
00:36:56.100
him? Any of the questions remaining about what Bill's relationship there was, those are for Bill
00:37:02.220
to answer. Okay. But I made it very clear how I felt about him. So Melinda Gates effectively said,
00:37:08.240
I divorced my husband because he wouldn't stop visiting with a child rapist again and again and
00:37:14.040
again and again and again. I think it was Engadget or Gizmodo who said that they visited dozens of
00:37:21.600
times. His own wife divorced him and is saying so publicly. And yet Bill Gates was the hero of the
00:37:27.660
pandemic. He's the toast of every establishment. Jeffrey Epstein is dead, but all his handlers or
00:37:34.300
customers have impunity. So these Pyrrhic victories, aha, I revealed how the world is a
00:37:39.940
stitch up. I find them, I find no comfort in that. Well, the comfort isn't, I mean, the comfort isn't
00:37:48.760
where you're looking at it directly. I would like to just kind of point out that my fundamental
00:37:53.460
belief about what's going on, having kind of trudged through this muck for quite a while,
00:37:58.240
is that it's getting into late 1943 and we're three quarters of the way to Berlin. And we know
00:38:05.020
that Hitler is gassing people by the hundreds of thousands per unit time. We know that he holds
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all the territory. We know how bad the war machine is. Everything looks like it's hanging by a thread
00:38:18.320
and we're still, we are three quarters to Berlin. We're almost there. And I think that we may find
00:38:26.420
a brighter spring through these kind of series. We can call them Pyrrhic victories for the regime,
00:38:32.220
or we can call them tripping over their own feet in many cases. And so I don't think it's something to
00:38:38.080
be comfortable about. I think it's a feature of the ugliness of war. And, but I do also think that we
00:38:44.780
are, like I said, about three quarters of the way to Berlin and everything looks very, very dark.
00:38:49.140
Um, but I also think that, uh, things are coming apart for them much more quickly than, um, they can
00:38:59.160
sustain. Huh? I, I, I'm very grateful for your time. I know we only asked you for a few minutes and
00:39:05.040
we've taken up half your afternoon, but it's great to talk with you. It's so good to catch up. And I
00:39:08.680
have to tell you, I'm delighted that you're back on Twitter, not just for your own sake, but for the
00:39:13.020
reaction that's causing the bad guys. And that's, that's even more delicious. If I may say, I want
00:39:18.700
to ask you at the moment. I don't know if you saw, I tweeted a picture of myself. I visited the UK last
00:39:24.480
week. I actually, they'll be quite upset when it comes out. I was invited to debate whether what
00:39:28.860
culture has gone too far at the Oxford union. And, uh, but while I was in the UK, I've paid my visits
00:39:34.060
to Karl Marx's grave and took a picture pretending to urinate on it. And they're just losing their
00:39:40.600
marbles over this. Well, I mean, uh, at least you didn't tear down the statue. That's the,
00:39:46.120
that's the move of the left. Oh, I did was stand there with my hands near my waist. I didn't even
00:39:50.200
do anything. So, um, Donald Trump was a very powerful and effective and admiral, admirable
00:40:00.140
character in my mind, because he, although he was a billionaire who was powerful and he used the system,
00:40:08.080
I mean, Dave Chappelle's, um, monologue the other day was, was spot on that rather than deny it,
00:40:15.760
Trump said, yeah, I can tell you how bad it is. Cause I use the real, here's a quick clip of Dave
00:40:21.420
Chappelle. I think Dave Chappelle is secretly a conservative. He really protests every time.
00:40:26.600
Oh, I'm a Democrat. I got to remind you, I'm a Democrat. He says that, but I actually don't think
00:40:31.640
he is. Um, I think he's a radical, uh, in his own way, he's conservative. I think the fact that he
00:40:37.440
doesn't live in Manhattan, he lives in a small town in Ohio. Um, here's that clip of Dave Chappelle
00:40:42.680
grokking Donald Trump in a second. Take a look. I get it. Cause I hear it every day. He's very loved.
00:40:50.160
And the reason he's loved is because people in Ohio have never seen somebody like him.
00:40:54.820
He's what I call an honest liar. Well, I'm not joking right now. He's an honest liar. That first
00:41:02.940
debate, that first debate, I've never seen anything like it. I've never seen a white male billionaire
00:41:09.400
screaming at the top of his lungs. This whole system is rigged, he said. And across the stage
00:41:16.620
was a white woman, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama sitting over there looking at him like,
00:41:20.160
no, it's not. I said, now, wait a minute, bro. It's what he said. And the moderator said,
00:41:26.380
well, Mr. Trump, if in fact the system is rigged, as you suggest, what would be your evidence?
00:41:34.160
Remember what he said, bro? He said, I know the system is rigged because I use it. I said,
00:41:43.160
God damn. I think that is Trump. He knows where the bodies are buried and he's still got sort of a
00:42:00.400
blue collar sensibility that he says, I'm against it. He really did stop the wars. He really, his
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unpredictability scared a lot of bad actors, whether it was North Korea, China or Russia.
00:42:14.160
And he really did take on the deep state. Now, he lost that. He lost his battle with the deep state.
00:42:20.660
My number one thing I like about Trump is he fights that hidden hand and he proves that it exists,
00:42:28.180
but he lost to it. I don't know if Trump in 2024
00:42:32.980
is the same Trump that we loved in 2016. I don't know if he's fighting for the people so much or if
00:42:41.460
he's fighting to relitigate his own election battle. I don't know if he's, I don't know. I mean,
00:42:47.320
there's so many things I love about him and admire about him, but what are your thoughts on Trump
00:42:52.320
today versus Trump six years ago? Well, I mean, I generally like Trump, but I think he's hilarious,
00:42:58.680
not least of all. But I also, again, to invoke the Babylon Bee, they put out, and I'll butcher the
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wording, it's unfortunate. They put out a joke a couple of days ago that America nostalgically
00:43:11.560
remembers when one election ends before another one begins. And so I'm not putting a lot of thought
00:43:16.920
into 24 yet, and I'm trying to kind of just sit back and watch, see how people behave, see where
00:43:24.000
their mind is. There is certainly the mind that Trump will have to get revenge on the people who
00:43:30.180
did him wrong or to beat the people who beat him, have his comeback story that should be brought into
00:43:35.340
calculation. I don't know that his commitment to the people has wavered much. From what I understand,
00:43:41.860
he's still very much of the people. His base at least sees that or feels that from him. So again,
00:43:49.900
I hesitate to make any claims on this because I think it's a time for watching and waiting and
00:43:55.100
thinking and not jumping to conclusions when there's just so much runway still ahead of us
00:44:00.340
on the issue. Give me one minute on the midterms before we let you go. I mean,
00:44:06.780
I think a lot of people on the right thought that it would be a more dramatic pendulum
00:44:11.680
shift to the Republicans. I mean, for heaven's sakes, you've got an 80-year-old president with
00:44:16.440
obviously cognitive decline. You've got inflation shortages. You've got shortages of things. Gas
00:44:23.540
prices high. You've got war or the rumors of war around the world. And yet they're going to hold the
00:44:32.380
Senate and the Republicans just slouched across the finish line in the House. They missed races they
00:44:43.540
should have won, whether it was in Georgia or even New York. I think there was a possibility that
00:44:51.540
the governorship could have gone to the Republicans. I don't know how you lose to a victim of a stroke
00:44:59.000
like John Fetterman in Pennsylvania. Like it's laughable that someone who has been brain injured
00:45:04.840
can win a Senate seat. But what's more laughable is the man who would lose to such a man.
00:45:10.140
I left dispirited. What did you think of the midterms?
00:45:14.100
I mean, if I would have been on Twitter, you would have known. I was one of the few people
00:45:17.560
saying all along this summer that there would be no red wave. I had no such aspirations or hopes.
00:45:23.880
It came in a little thinner than I thought it would. To be honest, I didn't I didn't think that
00:45:30.600
the the result in the House would be quite so close. But I think that, you know, even without
00:45:38.640
invoking the the obvious concern, like when you have a stroke victim winning in Pennsylvania or you
00:45:47.060
have also in Pennsylvania, a literal dead person winning over some over Republican, you know,
00:45:53.780
there are obvious things when you look at what just took place in Maricopa County and throughout
00:45:57.960
Arizona, there are obvious eyebrow raising moments that are going on here. When you see the same states
00:46:04.480
exactly as in 2020, having the exact same kinds of delays for exactly the same kind of turnarounds.
00:46:10.760
It's a little little it raises some questions. But even if you set aside that issue, the left has
00:46:18.820
created a ballot harvesting machine that it is incredibly effective at using in broadly illegal
00:46:25.100
sense, probably almost entirely illegal sense. So you don't even have to invoke something like
00:46:30.040
election fraud in order to get them across these finish lines if they have a month long ballot
00:46:35.760
harvesting project where they can have before, say, Oz and Fetterman even debate, they can have a big
00:46:42.400
enough electoral sandbag where Fetterman essentially can't lose. And so the Republicans and Democrats are
00:46:48.900
playing two electoral games, which puts them in a very ugly choice, which is either to try to abolish
00:46:55.540
the ballot harvesting game and go back to a voting system, which is what we're supposed to have,
00:47:00.160
or to reify that corrupt system by joining in and participating in it. Without doing one or the other, it will not be
00:47:08.740
possible to win. Reifying the system creates a tremendous possibility for being stuck in this kind of very
00:47:18.040
corrupt, months long ballot harvesting battle throughout various, you know, political districts that are of some
00:47:26.900
consequence. And so I don't know that that's the Republicans best strategy. But at the same time, it may be their
00:47:31.940
only strategy in some places. And so having a principled solution to that, should they take up the temptation to use the
00:47:39.200
ring, rather than to destroy it, they better have a plan for its ultimate destruction that's that that doesn't rely on
00:47:47.280
on it for long. I think that that ultimately, is the name that the game, this is the big thing, I think that we learned that
00:47:53.400
Republicans in the United States in particular learned coming out of 2022, is that the Democrats have created a ballot
00:47:59.280
harvesting program that is largely legal in most of the states that it's happening in, and that it is a
00:48:04.720
catastrophe. It is a way to completely subvert what our electoral system is supposed to be in the name of
00:48:12.260
improving suffrage, which is the typical kind of nasty trick that leftists do in order to get themselves into
00:48:20.000
power. And so I think it ultimately, my opinion is that it needs to end and it needs to end everywhere.
00:48:24.940
And it needs to be a top three priority for Republicans in virtually every district, along with
00:48:30.380
education and energy, which are my those are the three top issues. Elections need to be cleaned up
00:48:36.200
energy and then education, not necessarily in that order, as the top three issues that Republicans need
00:48:41.100
to be facing and focusing on going forward. But I think that's the lesson that we've learned that
00:48:45.620
they're playing a different electoral game, and they're very good at it. And they have certain
00:48:49.500
advantages, they have a whole war machine. And we're now stuck in the decision of having to try
00:48:54.220
to beat it from outside, or to reify it by accepting it and trying to play on its terms, which I'm already
00:49:01.320
hearing a lot of prominent conservative voices calling for. And my prudence alarm is kind of ringing
00:49:07.060
a bit thinking that's not a good idea. I don't know if it's a necessary evil. I don't know if necessary
00:49:13.260
evils are acceptable. You know, I'll end as I began, which is our mighty YouTube channel really
00:49:19.920
was mighty, especially for Canada to have 1.6 million subscribers in a country like ours. It
00:49:25.960
really was astounding. And it was taken away because not only we didn't even agree with or
00:49:33.220
express an opinion about it, we just showed it as an artifact, Donald Trump talking about the 2020
00:49:38.780
election. And because that hinted at a discredited election, YouTube was, I think it was just an
00:49:47.040
excuse to knock Rebel News down. But imagine being so sensitive to questions about election integrity,
00:49:54.380
that that, other than misgendering someone, can knock an entire channel basically off the platform.
00:50:03.360
They're obviously scared of it. They're obviously scared of what will happen if people talk about
00:50:09.240
election rule rigging. Otherwise, why would they censor it so hard? You know, it's okay to be wrong.
00:50:15.760
You're allowed to be wrong. You're allowed to have opinions that are unreasonable. You're allowed to
00:50:19.860
get your facts wrong, except on this one thing where you're not allowed to even hint at. It's very
00:50:25.820
telling to me. Dr. James Lindsay, what a pleasure to catch up with you again. You know, I think your
00:50:32.140
return to Twitter, given the issues you focus on and your tough style, to me was a more important
00:50:41.880
signal. The reinstatement of Project Veritas, very important, but just such an obvious one. They were
00:50:48.040
so obviously doing public interest journalism. It would be shocking were they not reinstated the
00:50:52.900
Babylon Bee, of course, their satire. But to bring you on with the toughness of your political
00:50:59.740
analysis and commentary, to me, that was a sign that the new censorship approach of Twitter genuinely
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has changed because it would have been easy for them to keep you in the intolerable, undesirables
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category, but they didn't. And I find that very hopeful. It's great to join you again. Not that we
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couldn't have joined you a week ago, but this gives us a great opportunity to talk about it. So thanks for
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being with us today. Yeah, well, thank you for having me. It's been great to catch up.
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Right on. I look forward to our next conversation. There you have it, Dr. James Lindsay, the boss of
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newdiscourses.com. What a pleasure to catch up with him. He joined us today from the great state
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of Tennessee shortly after being reinstated on twitter.com. That's our show for today. Until
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tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters to you at home, good night
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and keep fighting for freedom. I can show you data on just how many COVID-19 vaccines the federal
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government purchased before those same vaccines were even approved by Health Canada for human use.
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Quite a gamble. They were on a wing and a prayer. Today's information comes to us by way of an order
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paper question posed to the federal government by Conservative MP Colin Carey. He asked the federal
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government for all the data on the number of vaccines that were purchased by the feds and then
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how many of those purchases were made in advance of Health Canada approval for the vaccine.
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By my estimation, the federal government now has or had purchase orders for nearly 600 million doses of
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COVID-19 vaccine, 585 million actually, with 373 million of those doses purchased in advance of
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Health Canada approval. It's a pretty big gamble, like I said, but it's not their money. And it's
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probably the reason these vaccines keep getting approved regardless of their efficacy. Now, the response
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of Kerry's question was read into the House of Commons official record, Hansard, this week, and it
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goes on and on, 600 million doses worth. But here are just a couple of examples. For Moderna's spike
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vax, the date the initial purchase agreement was publicly announced, November 16th, 2020. The number
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of doses purchased was 44 million in 2021. And then they exercised options to buy more, another 25 million in
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2022, 35 million in 2023, and 35 million in 2024. The initial date of approval from Health Canada,
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though, was December 23rd, 2020. So by my math, that's 104 million doses of just Moderna, that vaccine
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with serious myocarditis outcomes, with about 40% of that contract purchased in advance of Health Canada's
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approval. For Pfizer's jab, the date the initial agreement was publicly announced was July 20th,
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2020. The number of doses was 51 million in 2021. And then they upped it, buying some more for 2022,
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another 65 million, and then another 60 million in 2023, and another 60 million in 2024. However,
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the date of approval from Health Canada was December 9th, 2020. If I'm reading this right, this means
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we purchased 236 million doses of Pfizer, with 51 million of those purchased five months before the initial
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approval of the vaccine. For the Sanofi vaccine, the date the original purchase agreement was announced was
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July 29th, 2020. The number of doses purchased at that time was 72 million. And that vaccine is still under
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review by Health Canada. So 72 million doses were purchased by the federal government of a medicine that is
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still under review two full years later. But I think that one's going to get approved because
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It is a basically biological chip that it is in the tablet. And once you take the tablet and dissolves
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into your stomach, it sends a signal that you took the tablet. So imagine the applications of that
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compliance. I'm not entirely sure what Health Canada is reviewing. We know COVID vaccines don't have to work
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to receive approval. Just ask all the quadruple boosted multiple COVID infection survivors, like Justin Trudeau,
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who are wasting all of our money on these things. For Rebel News, I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed.