The Ben Shapiro Show - Elon Musk Drinks Leftist Tears | Ep. 1481

00:00:00.000 Twitter accepts Elon Musk's offer to buy, and we examine all the panic and all the possibilities.

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00:01:36.000 Well, in one of the most dramatic business moves in modern American history, Elon Musk has now bought Twitter.

00:01:42.000 There was a lot of talk last week that Elon Musk had offered $56.40 or $54.20 a share for Twitter stock, and that Twitter had figured out how to avoid this.

00:01:52.000 That they had put a bunch of poison pills in the deal, that they had attempted to avoid Musk making some sort of hostile takeover bid.

00:01:58.000 And now it appears that Twitter is going to sell itself to Elon Musk and the company will be taken private, which means it is no longer subject to governmental oversight in the same way as any publicly traded company.

00:02:08.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Twitter accepted Musk's bid to take over the company and go private in a deal that would give the world's richest person control over the social media network, where he is among its most influential users.

00:02:19.000 The $44 billion deal marks the close of a dramatic courtship and a change of heart at Twitter, where many executives and board members initially opposed Musk's takeover approach.

00:02:26.000 The deal has polarized Twitter employees, users, and regulators over the power tech giants wield in determining the parameters of discourse on the internet and how those companies enforce their rules.

00:02:36.000 The two sides worked through the night to hash out a deal in which Musk plans to take Twitter private in a deal that values the company at $54.20 A share.

00:02:44.000 The takeover would mark one of the biggest acquisitions of a tech company and will most likely affect the direction of social media.

00:02:49.000 Musk will bring a commitment to a more hands-off approach on speech moderation to a company that has struggled to reconcile freewheeling conversations with content that appeals to advertisers.

00:02:57.000 So this was always the lie, by the way, that Twitter used when it would stranglehold content.

00:03:01.000 The idea was that if you allow people to speak freely, advertisers won't want to advertise anymore.

00:03:07.000 Or, alternatively, if you allow people to speak freely, then advertisers can pick and choose where they wish to advertise, and maybe everybody will stop harassing advertisers about where they choose to advertise.

00:03:18.000 The simple fact is that Twitter, as it was operated, was a leftist organ.

00:03:22.000 And you can see that by the freakout that Musk's takeover is now engendering in the left.

00:03:26.000 It is incredible to watch the left lose its absolute mind.

00:03:29.000 Because here's the thing.

00:03:31.000 Musk has not announced that he is going to be making any massive changes to Twitter.

00:03:35.000 The user experience is going to be very similar.

00:03:37.000 All he has said thus far.

00:03:40.000 Is that he is going to be in favor of more free speech on the platform.

00:03:43.000 He tweeted, quote, free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy.

00:03:46.000 Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated.

00:03:50.000 I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots and authenticating all humans.

00:03:58.000 Twitter has tremendous potential.

00:04:00.000 I look forward to working with the company and the community of users to unlock it.

00:04:04.000 Now that sounds.

00:04:05.000 Pretty above board, right?

00:04:07.000 He's saying that he wants to make the algorithms open source, so you can actually see how the algorithms work.

00:04:11.000 He's saying that he wants more free speech on the platform.

00:04:14.000 That's it.

00:04:14.000 More transparency and more free speech, and the left is freaking out, which shows you two things.

00:04:18.000 One, the left really hates transparency and they really hate free speech, especially on these social media platforms.

00:04:23.000 And this has really been true since 2016.

00:04:25.000 I have been making this point for years on end, that up until 2016, social media was seen as an unmitigated blessing for the left.

00:04:32.000 The left loved social media.

00:04:34.000 After all, Barack Obama had effectively manipulated Facebook in 2012 in genius ways to achieve his own re-election.

00:04:40.000 Then, Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 and social media became the enemy to the left.

00:04:45.000 Social media had to be brought to heel.

00:04:47.000 Social media had been taken over by Russian spam bots and evil right-wingers.

00:04:51.000 And therefore, we needed governmental oversight.

00:04:54.000 You saw people like Kara Swisher constantly complaining at the New York Times that there just wasn't enough oversight.

00:04:59.000 There just wasn't enough censorship at places like Twitter and YouTube and Facebook.

00:05:04.000 You saw folks over at CNBC and MSNBC complaining routinely about how terrible it was that social media had allowed too many people to speak freely.

00:05:12.000 You saw Dianne Feinstein, the senator from California, openly say to Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook that unless you crack down on content, we will find a way to punish you.

00:05:19.000 The left has hated free speech on these platforms for years, specifically because that free speech allowed alternative viewpoints to get out there.

00:05:28.000 And they successfully cudgeled places like Twitter and Facebook into doing their bidding, which is why at the end of the 2020 election, one month before the 2020 election, you saw the Hunter Biden story completely shut down on social media in coordinated fashion.

00:05:41.000 It's why you saw all of these social media outlets begin to coordinate in who they would ban.

00:05:46.000 They would wait until one day and then just Alex Jones was gone.

00:05:48.000 No.

00:05:49.000 I think Alex Jones is terrible.

00:05:50.000 That doesn't mean he ought to be banned from social media. 0.93

00:05:52.000 I think Milo Yiannopoulos is awful.

00:05:54.000 I don't think he ought to be banned from social media.

00:05:56.000 All of these outlets would simply, all at once, decide that they wanted these people gone and then they would, in collusive fashion, just ban them.

00:06:04.000 And that was the end of them.

00:06:05.000 You saw them all do this to Donald Trump in the aftermath of January 6th, for the most prominent example.

00:06:10.000 And this is something that the left loved.

00:06:12.000 And then they lied about it.

00:06:13.000 The left would say, you know, we're not anti-free speech.

00:06:15.000 We're not anti-transparency.

00:06:17.000 We just don't want any free speech or transparency.

00:06:19.000 Well, all Elon Musk has said in taking over Twitter is that he wants more free speech and more transparency.

00:06:24.000 And he tweeted out, I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter because that is what free speech means.

00:06:29.000 People on the left lost their ever-loving minds.

00:06:32.000 Why?

00:06:32.000 They've lost their minds.

00:06:33.000 Because they always knew.

00:06:35.000 Their assumption always was Twitter was on their side.

00:06:38.000 Twitter was their outlet.

00:06:40.000 Twitter was their friend.

00:06:41.000 The same thing with Facebook.

00:06:42.000 The same thing with YouTube.

00:06:45.000 And so the minute that somebody threatens that monopoly, They freak out.

00:06:49.000 The minute somebody says, listen, I'd like more openness and more transparency, they lose their minds.

00:06:53.000 Which shows you again, they were lying the whole time. 0.99

00:06:56.000 They kept saying to all of us on the right, oh, you're crazy. 1.00

00:06:58.000 You're crazy. 0.99

00:06:59.000 Twitter is the town square. 0.98

00:07:01.000 You're complaining about the way that they are manipulating information or strangling off information or bottlenecking things or shadow banning people.

00:07:09.000 You keep saying this sort of stuff, but it's all in your head.

00:07:11.000 It's not real.

00:07:12.000 Okay, well, if it's not real, then why are you freaking out now that Elon Musk has threatened to open up the process a little bit?

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00:08:32.000 So all of this has raised the question as to what exactly Elon Musk is going to do once he takes over.

00:08:37.000 By the way, Twitter shares did rise almost 6% on Monday to close at 51.70 each.

00:08:42.000 The stock, according to the Wall Street Journal, has been an anemic performer in an era of huge returns for technology companies.

00:08:48.000 Its shares jumped on their first day of trading in 2013 to close at $44.90, within a buck of where they were more than eight years later when Mr. Musk made his approach.

00:08:57.000 Okay, so what exactly is Elon Musk committing to do?

00:09:01.000 Well, as I've said, he hasn't actually committed to do much at all at this point other than more free speech and more transparency.

00:09:07.000 There's some speculation as to what he is going to do.

00:09:10.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Musk wants to make substantial changes to Twitter.

00:09:14.000 He reiterated his push to soften Twitter's stance on content moderation.

00:09:18.000 He also promised new features like making algorithms open source.

00:09:21.000 He indicated through regulatory filings, tweets, and interviews at a TED conference how he thinks the company ought to run and what he would do if he were to successfully acquire the social media site.

00:09:31.000 Here's a list of what he said.

00:09:31.000 He said he would soften its stance on content moderation.

00:09:34.000 He is the self-described free speech absolutist.

00:09:36.000 He said that instead of just taking down tweets or permanently banning users, timeouts are better.

00:09:41.000 He says the platform should follow the laws of the countries in which it provides its services.

00:09:46.000 He would create an edit feature for tweets, which presumably would allow you to see the original version of the tweet and then also the edited tweet.

00:09:53.000 He wants to take the company private, because he says that there is no way to make the changes he wants without taking it private.

00:10:00.000 He wants to give users who pay for Twitter Blue authentication checkmarks.

00:10:04.000 So maybe the idea here is that in order to monetize the service, to get your account authenticated, you pay for that pleasure.

00:10:14.000 He wants to rely less on advertising, He says Twitter should shift toward a business model that relies more on subscriptions, which again, makes some sense.

00:10:21.000 He wants to stop spam and scam bots and allow for longer tweets as well.

00:10:25.000 So maybe move toward a more sub-stacky type model so you can actually subscribe and then you can put out longer tweet threads.

00:10:31.000 Okay, all of that is fine.

00:10:32.000 Here is what Elon Musk actually should do.

00:10:35.000 There are four things in particular that Elon Musk really needs to do.

00:10:39.000 Thing number one, a Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

00:10:42.000 So you keep hearing from the left after January 6th, we need a Truth and Reconciliation, like South Africa, a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to see who, who was a supporter of Donald Trump.

00:10:50.000 Okay, what we need in order to restore trust in Twitter is we need to see all the old algorithmic changes and how exactly they impacted user experience.

00:10:59.000 So we need to see who was shadow banned.

00:11:01.000 We need to see which keywords allowed for people to be banned.

00:11:05.000 We need to see the standards that were applied.

00:11:07.000 We need the books open and we need to see the history of what exactly happened with Twitter.

00:11:12.000 How was the decision made to get rid of the Hunter Biden story?

00:11:15.000 How was the decision made to get rid of the Babylon Bee?

00:11:18.000 How was the decision made to shadow ban particular accounts or quash the reach of particular accounts?

00:11:23.000 How did that happen?

00:11:24.000 So we need a truth and reconciliation commission over at Twitter.

00:11:27.000 That is step number one.

00:11:28.000 Step number two.

00:11:29.000 We do need transparency in the algorithmic selection process.

00:11:32.000 So, Musk is already committed to this.

00:11:34.000 He says that he wants an open source algorithm, meaning that we can all see how content is being elevated or how content is being suppressed.

00:11:41.000 That is a very good thing and that promise needs to be fulfilled because how are you going to trust the process if you can't actually see the process at work?

00:11:48.000 If Musk does that, there'll be a major change because that does establish credibility.

00:11:52.000 That does mean, you know, you don't like how it's being run, well, at least you can see how it's being run.

00:11:55.000 Right now, the lack of transparency in Twitter is what has led to the massive distrust.

00:11:59.000 Because your tweet goes down or you're suspended and you have no idea.

00:12:03.000 There's no feedback mechanism.

00:12:05.000 You have no idea what you did wrong.

00:12:06.000 You have to wait for like a week for some Twitter low-level employee doing scut work to get back to you. 0.98

00:12:14.000 Making the algorithmic process more open and transparent at least allows us to know why these things are happening.

00:12:20.000 Whether it's a glitch or whether it's a problem or whether it's an actual concerted attempt to shut down particular points of view.

00:12:26.000 There need to be clear rules of the road.

00:12:27.000 So Twitter has had very, very vague rules of the road.

00:12:29.000 This is also true of Facebook and YouTube.

00:12:31.000 Basically these rules of the road have allowed for bans on anything that Twitter doesn't like.

00:12:35.000 And so you've seen this very inconsistent punishing of things like quote-unquote deadnaming, right?

00:12:41.000 This is why the Babylon Bee got banned because the Babylon Bee made the tremendous mistake of saying that a man is not a woman and a woman is not a man.

00:12:47.000 And so the Babylon Bee had its account suspended despite the fact that it is a satire site.

00:12:51.000 So we need clear rules of the road.

00:12:53.000 And what would that mean?

00:12:54.000 That'd mean no violent threats, no intimidation, no pornography.

00:12:59.000 There's some pretty clear rules of the road.

00:13:01.000 And then everything else goes.

00:13:02.000 And I think that Musk is likely to re-implement something like that.

00:13:07.000 And then finally, and this is the most important thing, Musk needs to come in and he needs to fire everyone.

00:13:12.000 I mean everyone.

00:13:15.000 Hundreds if not thousands of employees.

00:13:17.000 There have been studies done of the donations, the political donations of the people working at Twitter.

00:13:24.000 98.7% of all donations from the people working at Twitter went to Democrats in the last election cycle.

00:13:31.000 So it doesn't matter what rules Elon Musk sets top down if the so-called Twitter deep state is still implementing its favored policies.

00:13:39.000 Because this is the thing.

00:13:40.000 Donald Trump found this out when he was president.

00:13:42.000 You can name the policy top-down, but if everybody at the State Department hates your guts, they're just going to undermine your policy.

00:13:47.000 You can name the policy top-down, but if everybody at the FBI decides to spend the next four years ginning up nonsense about Russian conspiracy theories, you can't get much done.

00:13:56.000 When Musk takes over the company, he should do what every boss at every company does, and he should review the employee list and figure out who is good and who is bad.

00:14:03.000 Not purely on the basis of politics, but on the basis of performance.

00:14:07.000 So there are a lot of reasons why Elon Musk needs to fire, like, all of his employees at Twitter.

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00:15:14.000 So, in the past several weeks, while there's been talk about Musk taking over, the Twitter employees are going nuts.

00:15:20.000 Nuts.

00:15:20.000 So, for example, Nolan Weinstein is the global head of brand experiences and engagement at Twitter.

00:15:26.000 Ariel Adkins is the curator of art, culture, and community at Twitter.

00:15:30.000 Here's an exchange that they had just a few days ago, demonstrating that they're not going to go along with anything that Elon Musk has to say.

00:15:40.000 Ariel Adkin says, is it too early for wine?

00:15:42.000 This was yesterday.

00:15:43.000 Nolan Weinstein said, no.

00:15:44.000 It's time to drink, guys, because Elon Musk is taking over.

00:15:48.000 Well, you can also drink on the unemployment line.

00:15:51.000 So why don't you head on over there?

00:15:54.000 Other Twitter employees freaking out.

00:15:56.000 Chloe Barnes, for example.

00:15:58.000 She, her.

00:15:59.000 She's the curation lead at Twitter.

00:16:01.000 I don't know what the curation lead means.

00:16:03.000 Presumably she curates tweets.

00:16:04.000 Totally understand that this is entertainment for some.

00:16:06.000 But please know, this is certainly not entertainment for me.

00:16:10.000 Wow.

00:16:11.000 Okay, well, you know what else might be entertaining?

00:16:14.000 You're not working here anymore.

00:16:15.000 Addison Hauenstein.

00:16:17.000 He, him.

00:16:18.000 Software engineer at Twitter.

00:16:20.000 He tweeted, point of view, you asked me why Elon Musk buying 9.2% of Twitter and getting a board seat is bad, and I'm explaining why this was clearly not his end goal, and things will certainly get worse and potentially be dangerous for democracy and global affairs.

00:16:32.000 Well, um, I hope that you enjoy working somewhere else.

00:16:36.000 Geraint Davies, real-time media infrastructure at Twitter, currently working on Twitter Spaces audio engineering.

00:16:42.000 This person tweeted out, anyone in need of a software engineer with 40 years of experience?

00:16:45.000 Asking for a friend.

00:16:47.000 Well, I mean, I hope that your resume is ready, Geraint.

00:16:50.000 Jay Holler.

00:16:51.000 He, him, his.

00:16:52.000 Engineering manager at Twitter.

00:16:54.000 Hashtag.

00:16:54.000 Until we all belong.

00:16:55.000 Hashtag Black Lives Matter.

00:16:58.000 He tweeted, okay, I'm radicalized now.

00:17:01.000 Says it's broken me.

00:17:03.000 Said the problem with Elon Musk is that he has demonstrated a pattern of harmful behavior consistently that disproportionately impacts marginalized people.

00:17:09.000 So maybe let's not give him any more power than he already stole.

00:17:13.000 Um, well, again, the nice thing about Elon Musk being your boss is that he doesn't have to make you his employee.

00:17:20.000 Haraldur Thorleifsson, something-something director at Twitter from San Francisco, California.

00:17:24.000 Elon Musk just temporarily leased, made me a lot of money, and I still dislike him.

00:17:29.000 Well, I hope that, um, I hope that money is enough to pad you through retirement.

00:17:33.000 Kramit Dekasi, astrophysicist, lady, feminist, demisexual, genderqueer, trans woman.

00:17:40.000 A lot of words to say, Biological Man.

00:17:43.000 A prominent transphobe buying a large stake in Twitter is not at all funny.

00:17:50.000 This is from April 4th.

00:17:51.000 I mean, it's a little funny.

00:17:53.000 And he's not a transphobe, Elon Musk.

00:17:55.000 He just says that men and women exist.

00:17:56.000 So, here's the thing.

00:17:58.000 Elon Musk, note to you.

00:18:00.000 When you take over Twitter, Everybody over there who is deeply opposed to the kinds of changes that you are making, they're free to use Twitter.

00:18:07.000 They should not be running Twitter.

00:18:09.000 You can fire them.

00:18:10.000 And you should.

00:18:12.000 Do not leave people inside your company who are going to try to thwart everything that you do on behalf of their own political priors.

00:18:19.000 Again, the confusion reigning at Twitter right now is pretty astonishing.

00:18:23.000 So, there was a Twitter all-hands meeting last night, according to Alex Heath, who is a senior reporter at The Verge.

00:18:29.000 He says it seems clear who will be CEO after the deal closes hasn't been decided.

00:18:33.000 A board chair did confirm the board would cease to exist once the deal closes in roughly six months.

00:18:38.000 The current CEO, Parag Agrawal, said no plans for layoffs, quote-unquote, at this time.

00:18:43.000 Apparently, Parag Agarwal said he will stay as CEO until the close.

00:18:46.000 He didn't address what happens after.

00:18:48.000 He said the plan is to bring Elon Musk in for a Q&A.

00:18:51.000 As far as the possibility of President Trump coming back on Twitter, Parag Agarwal says once the deal closes, we don't know which direction the platform will go.

00:18:57.000 It's a question we should address with Elon Musk.

00:18:59.000 He said he wants Twitter to be a powerful force in the world, just like all of us.

00:19:02.000 He said there's indeed uncertainty about what will happen after the deal closes.

00:19:05.000 We'll hear directly from Elon, and I'll continue to spend time with him.

00:19:10.000 And then he said, we don't have all the answers.

00:19:11.000 This is a period of uncertainty.

00:19:13.000 Yeah, well, I mean, first of all, Parag Agarwal should go the way of the dodo bird.

00:19:18.000 And Parag Agarwal recently suggested That his role was not to be bound by the First Amendment. 0.99

00:19:24.000 So, anytime he wants to leave, the door can, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, Parag. 0.99

00:19:29.000 So, all these people are freaking out. 0.99

00:19:31.000 And again, Elon Musk's core mission here is pretty simple.

00:19:34.000 Open up Twitter, make it more transparent, and the left is freaking out.

00:19:37.000 And the people inside his company are the first who needs to go.

00:19:40.000 Those are the people who need to go first.

00:19:43.000 And if I were taking over a company, and I knew that the company was hostile to me, that the huge number of the people inside the company hated my guts, That's fine.

00:19:52.000 They can all go work elsewhere.

00:19:53.000 There are plenty of jobs in America right now, thanks to that booming Biden economy.

00:19:56.000 So go enjoy yourselves out there, gang.

00:19:59.000 Meanwhile, the White House is freaking out.

00:20:01.000 So, Jen Psaki suggested that Joe Biden was concerned, concerned about Section 230.

00:20:06.000 Suddenly, He's very concerned about social media.

00:20:10.000 Weird, weird how the minute that Elon Musk takes over Twitter, suddenly their concerns grow.

00:20:15.000 Almost as though government has acted as a behind-the-scenes sponsor of social media on behalf of left-wing causes, bullying and cuddling social media into doing what they want social media to do.

00:20:26.000 And Elon Musk might not do what they want Elon Musk to do, and now they are very mad.

00:20:32.000 What I can tell you as a general matter, no matter who owns or runs Twitter, the president has long been concerned about the power of large social media platforms, the power they have over our everyday lives, has long argued that tech platforms must be held accountable for the harms they cause.

00:20:50.000 Yeah, so they're going to ratchet up the pressure on Elon Musk.

00:20:52.000 The good news for Elon Musk is that he doesn't care.

00:20:54.000 Dude doesn't care.

00:20:55.000 Even though the government has been attempting to crack down on him, the use of the Securities and Exchange Commission to go after Elon Musk has been a frequent feature of the relationship between this administration and Musk's companies.

00:21:05.000 Meanwhile, over on MSNBC, the fully delusional are in charge of the asylum over there.

00:21:11.000 So Ari Melber, over at MSNBC, he dropped what I thought was the funniest comment.

00:21:15.000 So yesterday, after it became clear that Musk was going to take over Twitter, he said, this is really scary stuff.

00:21:20.000 You might secretly, like, ban one party's candidate or something.

00:21:24.000 Does anyone have a mirror for Ari Melber?

00:21:26.000 Mirror anyone.

00:21:27.000 We need a mirror.

00:21:27.000 Write a stat.

00:21:28.000 Mirror stat on aisle nine.

00:21:31.000 You own all of Twitter or Facebook or what have you.

00:21:33.000 You don't have to explain yourself.

00:21:35.000 You don't even have to be transparent.

00:21:36.000 You could secretly ban one party's candidate or all of its candidates, all of its nominees, or you could just secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of something else and the rest of us might not even find out about it till after the election.

00:21:52.000 Elon Musk says this is all to help people because he is just a free speech Well, that'd be so scary.

00:22:04.000 I mean, if they, if they like turned down the reach of particular politicians just before an election, that wouldn't, I mean, now that Elon Musk took over, that might, wait, that's exactly what happened right before the 2020 election.

00:22:14.000 Kayleigh McEnany got knocked off of Twitter.

00:22:16.000 The Trump team got knocked off of Twitter.

00:22:18.000 The Hunter Biden story got completely knocked off of Twitter.

00:22:21.000 So yeah, Ari, that's that's sort of the problem that Elon Musk is trying to solve.

00:22:27.000 So the left continue to lose their minds.

00:22:30.000 And the simple fact of the matter is one of the reasons is they do not understand tech properly.

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00:23:35.000 Meanwhile, again, the entire left is losing their mind over this because again, they were lying to you.

00:23:40.000 They were lying to you for years.

00:23:41.000 You kept saying, wait a second, isn't social media run by a bunch of people who hate the right?

00:23:45.000 I was like, no, no, no, no.

00:23:47.000 It's a town square.

00:23:48.000 It's all in your mind, guys. 1.00

00:23:49.000 It's just because you're crazy.

00:23:51.000 And then, the minute Elon Musk comes in, he's like, you know, I'm gonna open up the books, and I'm gonna open up the algorithm, and I'm gonna let people talk. 0.94

00:23:56.000 They're like, no!

00:23:57.000 We can't do that, no!

00:23:58.000 No!

00:23:58.000 Okay, right.

00:24:00.000 Because we know this was a left-leaning outlet, staffed by leftists who hate people on the right.

00:24:05.000 We know that.

00:24:06.000 And the fact that you are protesting demonstrates this fact very, very clearly.

00:24:10.000 It's fun to watch some of Elon Musk's and these kind of jealous billionaires going after one another.

00:24:14.000 So Jeff Bezos, who owns the Washington Post.

00:24:17.000 Democracy dies in time.

00:24:18.000 Jeff Bezos, he tweeted, interesting question, did the Chinese government just gain a bit of leverage over the town square?

00:24:25.000 The idea being, of course, that because Tesla has parts that are made in China, then it must be that Elon Musk is going to allow Twitter to be run by the Chinese.

00:24:33.000 Okay, Jeff, I have a couple of problems with this.

00:24:36.000 First of all, according to Beckett Adams over at the Washington Examiner, the Washington Post published Agiprop produced by China Daily.

00:24:46.000 The official propaganda arm of the Chinese Communist Party, as disguised as legit news.

00:24:50.000 Between 2016 and 2020, the CCP paid the Washington Post $4.5 million.

00:24:56.000 Bezos purchased the Washington Post in 2013.

00:24:59.000 Honestly, Bezos complains a little too much here.

00:25:04.000 It's just...

00:25:06.000 Well done, Jeff Bezos.

00:25:07.000 Meanwhile, Donnie Deutsch over on MSNBC says, this is just not great, guys.

00:25:11.000 It's just not great.

00:25:11.000 What are we going to do?

00:25:12.000 It's just not great.

00:25:13.000 Man, the leftist tears, this Tumblr right here, let me tell you.

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00:25:18.000 This thing, it's been overflowing all morning.

00:25:21.000 I mean, we need Cardi B back here with a bucket and a mop.

00:25:23.000 That is what we need.

00:25:24.000 It's just been flowing everywhere.

00:25:26.000 The tears, the tears, they are rich and salty.

00:25:28.000 Here's Donnie Deutsch on MSNBC in a state of panic.

00:25:32.000 To me, when the richest guy in the world takes over the most important social media platform, that's just not a winning formula to me.

00:25:39.000 It reminds me of old Bond movies where Dr. Evil and guys like that, or Goldfinger, were going to take over the media.

00:25:47.000 My tummy meter says there's something just not great about this.

00:25:52.000 Oh man, his tummy meter says there's something not great about this.

00:25:54.000 Wow.

00:25:55.000 I mean, wow.

00:25:57.000 If Donnie Deutch opposes it.

00:25:58.000 But it's not just Donnie Deutch.

00:26:00.000 I think the funniest group to oppose this, this is really funny.

00:26:02.000 The funniest group to oppose this is the ACLU.

00:26:05.000 So the ACLU, the American Civil Liberties Union, is now raising hate speech concerns over Elon Musk.

00:26:12.000 It's so good.

00:26:14.000 It's so good.

00:26:16.000 So the ACLU is very, very concerned.

00:26:19.000 So is the NAACP.

00:26:21.000 To the ACLU, which is designed, as I say, to preserve civil liberties.

00:26:26.000 They've offered a statement by Anthony Romero, quote, while Elon Musk is an ACLU card carrying member and one of our most significant supporters, there's a lot of danger having so much power in the hands of any one individual.

00:26:36.000 Weird because I don't see you guys complaining about Mark Zuckerberg all that often.

00:26:40.000 In today's world, a small handful of private tech companies, including Twitter, play a profound and unique role in enabling our right to express ourselves online.

00:26:47.000 Social media is a critical tool used to share ideas, express opinions, and consume information that has real-life impact and discourse in the offline world.

00:26:54.000 We should be worried about any powerful central actor, whether it's a government or a wealthy individual, even if it's an ACLU member, having so much control over the boundaries of our political speech.

00:27:03.000 No, much better that you should have Parag Agrawal or Jack Dorsey or some other left-winger in control of this mechanism of distribution of information in the Nilan Mosque. 0.80

00:27:13.000 Oh, slow clap for the ACLU.

00:27:16.000 Amazing.

00:27:17.000 The reason that they're worried, of course, is because he is going to broaden out the speech protections and the ACLU long ago stopped worrying about civil liberties and started worrying about equity.

00:27:27.000 They made this very clear.

00:27:28.000 I mean, they put out a press release a few years ago where they basically said, we have to balance the needs of civil liberties with equity concerns, which means you're no longer the American Civil Liberties Union.

00:27:37.000 You also have Human Rights Watch very concerned.

00:27:39.000 Any human rights group who's putting out a statement about Elon Musk taking over Twitter because, oh my God, now people might be able to say things we don't like.

00:27:45.000 It just demonstrates they never cared about human rights.

00:27:48.000 You know, like the rights of humans, like the right to free speech.

00:27:50.000 They don't care about any of that stuff.

00:27:52.000 It makes no difference to them at all.

00:27:54.000 Meanwhile, leaving Twitter trended.

00:27:56.000 So you remember after George W. Bush won in 2000, there was all this talk by leftists about how they're going to move to Canada.

00:28:02.000 So the new move to Canada movement is, I'm leaving Twitter.

00:28:05.000 I'm taking my tweets and I'm leaving.

00:28:07.000 Okay, well, you know, as I have been told many times, go build your own.

00:28:11.000 Go build your own Twitter.

00:28:13.000 It's fine.

00:28:14.000 You know, it's a private company.

00:28:16.000 Go build your own Twitter.

00:28:17.000 It's fun to watch the left flip in real time on most of the things they've been saying over the past several years.

00:28:22.000 So they kept saying, we need more transparency into social media, more transparency, guys, radical transparency.

00:28:28.000 We just don't know what's going on behind the scenes.

00:28:29.000 And then Musk is like, I'm gonna give you transparency.

00:28:31.000 They're like, no, not like that.

00:28:32.000 No, it can't be Elon Musk.

00:28:34.000 It's gotta be Elizabeth Warren doing it. 0.98

00:28:36.000 And then it was, Jeff Bezos buying the Washington Post.

00:28:38.000 Well, it's probably fine.

00:28:39.000 It's probably okay.

00:28:40.000 And then it's like, no, Elon Musk is endangering democracy.

00:28:44.000 And then it was, you know what?

00:28:45.000 If you don't like it, you can always go build your own Twitter.

00:28:47.000 What, you want to regulate them?

00:28:48.000 Go build your own Twitter.

00:28:49.000 After all, it's a private company.

00:28:50.000 They can do what they want.

00:28:51.000 And then Elon Musk's like, okay, I will buy that private company.

00:28:53.000 Like, no!

00:28:54.000 Can't be like, no!

00:28:56.000 No, I'm not gonna.

00:28:56.000 No, that's fascism.

00:28:59.000 My favorite is that literally yesterday, literally yesterday, the idea was that Ron DeSantis was brutally assaulting Disney's speech rights by getting rid of a special tax dispensation for Disney in the state of Florida.

00:29:13.000 And now it is, we need the government to step in and stop Elon Musk from taking over Twitter and broadening free speech rights. 0.98

00:29:19.000 Slow clap for all you hypocritical jackasses, really slow clap for you. 0.98

00:29:24.000 But don't worry, I mean, the list goes on and on of the people on the left who have lost their ever-loving minds. 0.99

00:29:28.000 So Elizabeth Warren, of course, she tweets, this deal is dangerous for our democracy.

00:29:33.000 Billionaires like Elon Musk play by a different set of rules than everyone else, accumulating power for their own gain.

00:29:38.000 We need a wealth tax and strong rules to hold big tech accountable.

00:29:41.000 So again, she had no problem whatsoever with Disney injecting itself into politics in Florida.

00:29:48.000 Disney is one of the wealthiest and most powerful companies on planet Earth.

00:29:51.000 But Elon Musk is bad.

00:29:53.000 He plays by a different set of rules than everyone else.

00:29:56.000 No, he plays by the same set of rules.

00:29:58.000 He just wins.

00:29:59.000 That would be the difference right there.

00:30:00.000 And I love that she thinks that a wealth tax would solve all of this.

00:30:03.000 They've tried a wealth tax in Europe.

00:30:04.000 They had to revoke the wealth tax because it turns out everybody who had the money just went away.

00:30:08.000 The deal is dangerous.

00:30:09.000 Elizabeth Warren talking about democracy is always a laugh because this lady hates democracy more than pretty much anybody else in the Senate. 1.00

00:30:17.000 All she wants is regulatory agencies like her cherished Consumer Finance Protection Bureau to simply run how the economy works without any sort of democratic input. 1.00

00:30:28.000 There's Elizabeth Warren.

00:30:29.000 Genius.

00:30:30.000 Oh, but the list goes on.

00:30:31.000 There are so many of you.

00:30:32.000 Charles Blow.

00:30:33.000 He aptly named Charles Blow because his columns blow.

00:30:37.000 He writes for the New York Times.

00:30:38.000 This one is pretty funny.

00:30:39.000 So he tweets out, looks like I'm about to say goodbye to Twitter as well.

00:30:42.000 I've been pulling back a bit from social media anyway.

00:30:44.000 This will be just the push I need to go all the way on this app.

00:30:48.000 By all the way, as it turns out, he doesn't mean all the way.

00:30:52.000 He's still gonna use Twitter, as it turns out.

00:30:54.000 He says, well, I'm out.

00:30:55.000 I will now use Twitter like I use Facebook, only for promo purposes, to post my columns, TV and speech appearances, and book info.

00:31:01.000 No content specifically for it or created on it.

00:31:04.000 Because after all, every time you post, Elon Musk makes money.

00:31:07.000 We wouldn't want to make more money.

00:31:09.000 So instead, Charles Blow is only going to post his columns from the New York Times in order to maximize his own engagement and also make more money for Twitter.

00:31:17.000 By the way, he used to trend like every single time in a sort of astroturfed campaign for his column.

00:31:23.000 This was about 2019, 2020.

00:31:25.000 Meanwhile, Tim Jacob Wise tweeted out, F Elon Musk, apartheid baby.

00:31:32.000 Because he has no evidence that Elon Musk is a racist, but you know, he's from South Africa.

00:31:35.000 You, your company, and everyone who stands for you.

00:31:37.000 I'm saying this on your platform now, and we'll keep saying it. 1.00

00:31:39.000 Let's see how committed you are to free speech when we start roasting your ass. 1.00

00:31:43.000 I have a feeling that... 1.00

00:31:45.000 Elon Musk doesn't care.

00:31:47.000 That feeling is reinforced by the fact that Elon Musk does not care, because he is worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

00:31:51.000 Tim Weiss tweeted, we're going to have to deal with Nazis like our grandparents did, because Elon Musk is going to let them say whatever they want in the name of free speech.

00:31:58.000 There are other options.

00:31:58.000 Cool.

00:31:59.000 Okay, well, we will catch you later.

00:32:00.000 Also, Tim Weiss ain't dealing with Nazis.

00:32:04.000 No way, no how.

00:32:05.000 I mean, like, really, all these, all these guys who are announcing on Twitter, they're about to charge the beaches of Normandy by logging off Twitter.

00:32:12.000 Uh-huh.

00:32:14.000 You are unconvincing. 0.96

00:32:15.000 Meanwhile, Wajahat Ali, who's a garbage columnist for the New York Times, he tweeted, I love how you notice this only when it's rich people you don't like. 0.96

00:32:25.000 When it's rich people you do like, then you're rooting for Disney. 0.89

00:32:27.000 You're rooting for Abigail Disney, the heiress.

00:32:29.000 You're rooting for Jeff Bezos.

00:32:31.000 Pramila Jayapal doing the same routine.

00:32:33.000 Just a reminder that from 2014 to 2018, Elon Musk paid an effective tax rate of 3.27%.

00:32:38.000 The average working family pays an average tax rate of 13%.

00:32:40.000 It's time for a wealth tax in this country.

00:32:42.000 Okay, stop on this one for a second.

00:32:44.000 I just want to point out that she's lying.

00:32:45.000 That's not true.

00:32:46.000 From 2013 to 2018, Elon Musk paid an income tax rate of about 27%. 0.98

00:32:51.000 The only way that you get to that number, 3.27%, is if you are going to tax his unrealized capital gains, which as we have discussed before, that's stupid.

00:33:00.000 That's like I own a stock and I don't sell the stock and now you're going to tax me on the increase in the value of the stock.

00:33:04.000 Are you going to give me a tax rebate when the stock goes down?

00:33:08.000 But you have to lie.

00:33:09.000 You have to lie in order to make it seem like Elon Musk has unfairly benefited here.

00:33:14.000 Elon Musk, honest to goodness, the man may be the greatest living American, Robert Reich says, when oligarchs talk about freedom, beware, says Robert Reich, who wants the government to run everything.

00:33:24.000 By the way, oligarchy is where the government is run by the richest people in the land, meaning that government and industry are fused.

00:33:32.000 What I'm seeing right now is the government is very opposed to Elon Musk.

00:33:35.000 Robert Reich says, for Jeff Bezos, it means his freedom to set prices.

00:33:38.000 I love this.

00:33:38.000 So I just have to point out here that Robert Reich is not contending with Jeff Bezos owning the Washington Post.

00:33:44.000 That was not a threat to freedom of speech.

00:33:46.000 He's only worried about Jeff Bezos setting prices.

00:33:48.000 By the way, the prices set by Amazon Prime are way below anything else, which is why it is great for the consumer.

00:33:55.000 So, Robert Reich doesn't like that Jeff Bezos has freedom to set prices, even if those prices are better for consumers.

00:34:00.000 For Jamie Dimon, it means his freedom to consolidate the banking industry.

00:34:04.000 For Elon Musk, it means his freedom to set the terms of political debate.

00:34:06.000 Don't get it confused.

00:34:08.000 Well, hold up.

00:34:09.000 It seems like you're confused because Jeff Bezos, again, owns a major media outlet and you have no problem.

00:34:13.000 It's only Elon Musk you have a problem with.

00:34:16.000 It's just amazing, amazing stuff there from a mentally underdeveloped former Secretary of the Treasury.

00:34:23.000 Anand Jurathardis, who writes sometimes for CNN, he says, what Elon Musk is doing is what plutocrats have been doing, using money to buy power and power to protect their money, taking control of media to rig the discourse and hedge against resentment and branding themselves the solution to the very problem they are.

00:34:40.000 So I have a question.

00:34:43.000 How is him opening up debate on Twitter being the problem?

00:34:49.000 How?

00:34:51.000 And how exactly is him saying that he wants more dissent on the platform the big issue?

00:34:56.000 Meanwhile, Ibram X. Kendi, grifter extraordinaire, he went on Twitter to quote Robert Reich saying, when billionaires like Musk justify their motives by using freedom, beware!

00:35:05.000 They want to use their vast fortunes to do whatever they please, unconstrained by laws or regulations, shareholders, or even consumers.

00:35:12.000 Well, I mean, isn't that the nature of freedom? 1.00

00:35:16.000 I thought that freedom was being unconstrained by stupid laws and stupid regulations. 1.00

00:35:21.000 And as far as shareholders, Elon Musk is currently paying Twitter shareholders like way above market value. 0.99

00:35:26.000 Sean King, or as he's known online, Talcum X, because he's probably not actually black.

00:35:32.000 Sean King tweeted, at its root, Elon Musk wanting to purchase Twitter is not about left versus right.

00:35:36.000 It's about white power. 0.86

00:35:38.000 Well, Sean King should know something about that.

00:35:40.000 The man was raised in apartheid by a white nationalist.

00:35:43.000 He's upset that Twitter won't allow white nationalists to target and harass people.

00:35:46.000 That's his definition of free speech.

00:35:49.000 Is it, though?

00:35:50.000 Has he said that from now on, the N-word will be totally allowed?

00:35:55.000 Also, we will see you later, Sean.

00:35:58.000 Bye.

00:35:59.000 Don Winslow!

00:36:01.000 Who actually is a pretty fun author, but awful on Twitter.

00:36:04.000 He tweeted, even if Musk takes over, I urge people, especially resistors to remain on Twitter for a very simple reason.

00:36:09.000 Facebook is an aggressive propaganda machine for the far right and the beliefs and ethics of Donald Trump.

00:36:13.000 We cannot concede Facebook and Twitter in this war.

00:36:15.000 This is so delusional.

00:36:16.000 It's so delusional.

00:36:17.000 The idea that Facebook and Twitter are propaganda machines for the right, that Facebook is a propaganda machine for the right.

00:36:23.000 If by that you mean that we write headlines on Facebook that people click on, that is true.

00:36:28.000 Also, it happens to be true that the left still represents the majority of clicks on Facebook, and that Facebook will routinely change its algorithm, disproportionately damaging the right.

00:36:38.000 It happens all the time.

00:36:40.000 Yvette Nicole Brown tweeted, how many Russian oligarchs are propping up this Elon Musk Twitter bid right now, do you think? 0.96

00:36:44.000 Man, it is amazing how much the left sounds like paranoid John Birchers circa 1954.

00:36:49.000 It's amazing.

00:36:50.000 Everything is the Rooskies now.

00:36:52.000 The Rooskies are hiding under their bed, the Rooskies are in the telephone booth next door, and the Rooskies are backing Elon Musk.

00:36:58.000 By the way, I would just like to note at this point that Elon Musk His net worth is supposedly about $265 billion.

00:37:07.000 The complete GDP of Russia every year is about $1.3 trillion.

00:37:11.000 In other words, Elon Musk's total wealth is worth approximately one-fifth of the entire Russian economy.

00:37:17.000 So I'm pretty sure he doesn't need Russian money, Yvette. 0.64

00:37:21.000 It sure would fix everything for Putin, Tang, and the rest of the complicit super-rich if this platform was run by them.

00:37:26.000 After the takeover, I wouldn't DM anymore if I were you.

00:37:29.000 Nailed it.

00:37:30.000 Nailed it.

00:37:31.000 Probably Elon Musk is only buying it so he can be used as a cutout by the Russians. 0.98

00:37:36.000 That is genius.

00:37:38.000 Genius stuff.

00:37:39.000 Rob Reiner.

00:37:41.000 The director, who hasn't made a good movie in quite a while, he says, now that Elon Musk is buying Twitter, the question for all of us is, will he allow a criminal who used this platform to lie and spread this information to try to overthrow the U.S.

00:37:51.000 government to return and continue his criminal activity?

00:37:55.000 And if he does, how do we combat it?

00:37:57.000 Well, I mean, you would just sound off on, I assume you're talking about Donald Trump, you would just sound off on the stuff that Donald Trump is saying, you know, like in regular life, like when somebody says something you disagree with and then you, and then you disagree with them.

00:38:09.000 Like that's, that's a, that's a thing.

00:38:12.000 So it's, um, it's pretty impressive to watch how the left is having an absolute, absolute freaking meltdown over this entire thing.

00:38:21.000 insane to watch. But again, indicative of the fact that the left always knew that Twitter was their favorite outlet and now they are super mad that their favorite plaything might be taken away from them. So yes, a toast to Elon Musk with all of the leftist tears that fit in this mug. And again, they are consistently overflowing the Tumblr at this point.

00:38:39.000 So in one second, we'll get to Hollywood's attacks on Elon Musk because they're about to begin.

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00:39:54.000 Alrighty, if you haven't heard, Matt Walsh is now a very important voice in the transgenderism conversation.

00:39:59.000 He's also a best-selling children's LGBTQ plus IA minus divided by sign author.

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00:40:33.000 Well, meanwhile, Hollywood has announced its intention to go after Elon Musk, because this is the way that it works.

00:40:43.000 Harvey Weinstein rapes everyone in Hollywood for like 30 years and Hollywood has nothing to say about it. 0.99

00:40:47.000 Elon Musk buys the company where they all spend their free time tweeting stupid nonsense to one another. 1.00

00:40:53.000 And now they're super angry about it. 1.00

00:40:54.000 They have the angers about it.

00:40:57.000 So, according to Variety, Elon Musk's Crash Course is the newest production from FX and The New York Times, as part of their collaborative documentary series The New York Times Presents.

00:41:05.000 These projects provide in-depth looks at prominent people and events, ranging from Janet Jackson to Juul to the 2020 Australian bushfire disasters.

00:41:12.000 The most famous of these documentaries so far were popular documentaries about Britney Spears, framing Britney Spears and controlling Britney Spears.

00:41:18.000 By the way, we did do a critique of those documentaries. 0.95

00:41:21.000 They are garbage. 1.00

00:41:22.000 They are garbage. 1.00

00:41:23.000 The entire documentary is predicated on the notion that Britney Spears is completely mentally healthy and then goes after everybody who had her in a conservative ship and all of that. 0.99

00:41:31.000 The expose will focus mainly on the negative aspects of Tesla, according to Variety.

00:41:36.000 They say that the documentary will explore the future-minded company and the development of self-driving cars.

00:41:40.000 The publication shared, quote, featuring the reporting from Cade Metz and Neil Boudette of the New York Times, the film will dive into how Tesla's autopilot program has resulted in several deaths.

00:41:48.000 And Musk and the company have yet to publicly acknowledge and details Musk's efforts to kill government investigations into the incidents.

00:41:54.000 Several former Tesla employees will be featured in the documentary, speaking out against Musk for the first time.

00:41:59.000 Oh, wow.

00:41:59.000 I can't imagine why they're doing this.

00:42:01.000 What a mystery wrapped in an enigma.

00:42:02.000 Our media, they are completely unbiased.

00:42:04.000 Except when they are unleashed against the world's richest man.

00:42:07.000 Who makes, by the way, a product that I thought was good.

00:42:10.000 I've been told by Joe Biden and company that electric cars are the future.

00:42:15.000 I've been told that getting off of carbon-based emissions is the most important thing that you can do as a human today.

00:42:21.000 And yet the number one electric car maker on planet Earth, Elon Musk and Tesla, they're the bad guys now.

00:42:27.000 Why, it's almost as though your priorities have nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with your own political agenda.

00:42:34.000 The Hollywood Reporter says the deep dive will also examine pressure Elon Musk has put on government officials to quash investigations.

00:42:39.000 By the way, when it comes to, you know, deaths caused by so-called self-driving cars, typically what happens in those situations is human error.

00:42:46.000 But put that aside, it's very obvious what Hollywood is attempting to do right here.

00:42:51.000 Very clear what Hollywood is attempting to do.

00:42:53.000 So they're now going to go after Elon Musk with all of their fury.

00:42:56.000 By the way, Elon Musk is not a Republican.

00:42:59.000 Elon Musk has donated to both sides.

00:43:01.000 He donated to Hillary Clinton, I believe, in 2016.

00:43:04.000 He spread his political donations out.

00:43:05.000 This idea that he's like a hardcore right-winger is just not true.

00:43:10.000 But it's fun to watch.

00:43:11.000 Man, the tears are worth the $44 billion.

00:43:15.000 That is for sure.

00:43:17.000 And again, so much of what is happening right now is just about the bluff of the left being called and them being really, really mad about that.

00:43:24.000 Them saying they love free speech, but don't, whatever you do, no more free speech.

00:43:28.000 Them saying, well, you know, go build your own Twitter, but don't, don't buy Twitter.

00:43:31.000 Don't do that.

00:43:32.000 That would be super, super duper bad.

00:43:34.000 That's really, really bad.

00:43:37.000 And what is happening right here is that the pushback against corporate wokeism is taking place.

00:43:42.000 And it's taking place on a couple of fronts.

00:43:44.000 You have legislative attempts to curb it in places like Florida. 0.53

00:43:48.000 You have market attempts to do so, places like the Daily Wire going into competition.

00:43:52.000 And most importantly, people like Elon Musk actually buying giant companies and then attempting to open them up.

00:43:58.000 And the left doesn't know what to do because this has been their most clever concerted attempt of the last 20 years in the United States.

00:44:06.000 After the era of big government ended under Bill Clinton, the left then apparently decided, you know what?

00:44:11.000 We can't do this directly through government, so what we will do is we will use government threats in order to essentially consolidate corporate America as a left-wing outlet.

00:44:20.000 This is our, this is their plan.

00:44:21.000 They will, they will live in this, in the gray area between public and private.

00:44:25.000 They understand the right doesn't like encroachment on private sector spaces.

00:44:28.000 And so what they will do is they will use unofficial and sometimes official pressure by the government in order to get those private sector actors to do what they want.

00:44:35.000 And then if the right complains, they'll say, Hey, private actors.

00:44:36.000 Okay, but now the pushback has begun.

00:44:40.000 And that pushback is likely to continue unabated.

00:44:43.000 So Musk is part of a broader trend here.

00:44:45.000 He is not the only one.

00:44:46.000 What he's doing is super important.

00:44:47.000 And honestly, what he's doing with Twitter may in fact actually shore up institutional credibility through further transparency.

00:44:54.000 That's a really good thing.

00:44:55.000 Like if you are worried about social media tearing apart the social fabric, you ought to be happy about the fact that now we actually get to see under the hood.

00:45:04.000 And we actually get to see who is controlling what you see and what you hear.

00:45:07.000 You want to get rid of conspiracy theories, transparency is the best disinfectant.

00:45:13.000 But this is part of a broader pushback that has been a very, very long time in coming.

00:45:18.000 And that pushback is happening on a lot of fronts.

00:45:19.000 It's happening again against everything from Walt Disney Company to, for example, the S&P 500.

00:45:27.000 The S&P 500 actually rates companies based on ESG, which stands for Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance, which is the S&P 500's way of basically dinging companies that don't reflect the left.

00:45:37.000 Now places like Utah are pushing back against that.

00:45:40.000 All of this is good.

00:45:41.000 All of it is necessary.

00:45:43.000 So, hats off to Elon Musk, and we look forward to seeing what he does next.

00:45:47.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

00:45:49.000 In the meantime, go check out one of our newest podcasts, Morning Wire.

00:45:52.000 On today's episode, they discuss what France's presidential election means for Europe.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - April 26, 2022

Elon Musk Drinks Leftist Tears | Ep. 1481

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