Sam Bankman Freed has been arrested in the Bahamas. Elon Musk takes on Anthony Fauci to the consternation of the White House, to the delight of the National Security Agency, and the Biden administration announces a massive celebration of same-sex marriage at The White House. Today's show is brought to you by The Ben Shapiro Show, a Parcast Original. Ben Shapiro is the host of the popular podcast "The Empty Bowl" and host of Parcast's New York Times bestselling podcast, "The Information." He's also a regular contributor to the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal, and is a frequent contributor to The Huffington Post. He is the author of several books, including "The Dark Side of Bitcoin: The Inside Story of Bitcoin's Collapse" and "The Art of Perspicacity: How Bitcoin s Collapse Reveals the Truth About Bitcoin's Most Powerful Man in the Most Disturbing Business Case Ever." He was the founder of FTX, the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, and was due to testify before Congress on Tuesday about the collapse of his company, but now he's been taken into custody and is facing criminal charges in the United States. Meanwhile, Elon Musk continues to roll out more information about what happened to his missing $5B fortune, and why he's running out of money and what he's going to do to get it back and why it's so important to protect your data. This is a must-listen to this week's episode of the Ben Shapiro show. . Subscribe to the show to get exclusive access to all the latest breaking news and insider tips, breaking the latest in Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and much more! Links mentioned in the show: 1. The Dark Side Of Cryptocurrency 2. 3. How Elon Musk is a better Elon Musk? 4. What's next? 5. How much money is left in the vault? 6. What are you missing? 7. What s going to happen to your BTC? 8. What do you think of Bitcoin? 9. What will you be getting back? 10. 11. What is a day in the future of Bitcoin and FTT? 13. What kind of crypto? 14. What would you like to know about it? 15. What should you be looking for? 16. Where's your money? 17. Is it safe?
00:00:00.000Elon Musk takes on Anthony Fauci to the consternation of the White House, FTX scamster Sam Bankman-Fried is arrested, and the Biden administration announces a massive celebration of same-sex marriage at the White House.
00:00:23.000Well, the big news of the morning is that FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried has now been arrested in the Bahamas.
00:00:28.000There are some people who suspected that he actually would not be arrested because he gave tens of millions of dollars to Democrats in the last election cycle.
00:00:34.000But the actual strategy here apparently is he can give tens of millions of dollars to the Democrats in the last election cycle.
00:00:40.000After the election, we will arrest him, as it turns out.
00:00:43.000According to the New York Times, Sam Bankman Freed, the disgraced founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was arrested in the Bahamas on Monday after U.S.
00:00:51.000Quote, SBF's arrest followed receipt of formal notification from the United States that it has filed criminal charges against SBF and is likely to request his extradition, the government of the Bahamas said in a statement.
00:01:01.000The arrest was the latest stunning development in one of the most dramatic falls from grace in recent corporate history.
00:01:05.000Bankman Freed was scheduled to testify in Congress on Tuesday about the collapse of FTX, which was one of the most powerful firms in the emerging crypto industry until it imploded virtually overnight last month after a run on deposits exposed an $8 billion hole in its accounts.
00:01:19.000Prosecutors for the Southern District of New York confirmed that Bankman Freed had been charged and said in an indictment that it would be unsealed on Tuesday.
00:01:25.000Separately, the Securities and Exchange Commission said in a statement it had authorized charges relating to Mr. Bankman Freed's violations of our securities laws.
00:01:33.000Now, the criminal charges against Bankman Freed included wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, securities fraud, securities fraud conspiracy, and money laundering, said one person with knowledge of the matter.
00:01:41.000Hilariously, there was apparently a WhatsApp group chat that included Sam Bankman Freed and his girlfriend, who ran Alameda Capital, which was the hedge fund connected to FTX, and it was called wire fraud, which is like...
00:01:56.000I'm sorry, that's like the person whose password on their computer is still password.
00:02:42.000It did a good job of allowing people to exchange, buy and sell crypto, but people were not taking their money out of crypto and then putting it in their crypto wallets.
00:02:52.000They're just leaving it in the exchange.
00:02:53.000They're letting it sit there on the exchange.
00:02:55.000And then Sam Bankman Freed was apparently taking that money and handing it over to Alameda Capital, which was this associated hedge fund.
00:03:01.000Alameda Capital was using that money to buy up FTT, which was the cryptocurrency issued by FTX.
00:03:08.000So they were artificially inflating the price of FTT, and then Sam Bankman-Fried and company were taking their shares of FTT, this cryptocurrency, and they were borrowing against those in terms of real money.
00:03:23.000And then he was going around and doing like full New York Times deal book seminars with folks afterward.
00:03:29.000It's just amazing, the gall of Sam Bankman-Fried.
00:03:32.000It is also amazing that regulators had nothing to say about this until it all collapsed overnight.
00:03:37.000When the largest cryptocurrency exchange, which owned a share, a large share of the second largest cryptocurrency exchange, basically spurred a run on the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, in which everybody said, I want my money out.
00:03:46.000And Sam Bankman-Fried was like, well, your money isn't here anymore.
00:03:50.000And it turns out that billions and billions of dollars went missing.
00:03:53.000So Sam Bankman-Fried is going to face criminal charges in the United States.
00:03:56.000Meanwhile, in other tech news, Elon Musk continues to roll out more and more information about how Twitter was run.
00:04:03.000We now have a fifth part of the exposure of old Twitter.
00:04:08.000Musk has handed it over to my friend, Barry Weiss.
00:04:11.000Barry is, I think it's fair to say, a political centrist.
00:04:14.000She's certainly no conservative, despite the best attempts of the media to paint her as such.
00:04:19.000Barry has more details on Donald Trump's banning from Twitter.
00:04:22.000Again, this is highly relevant because, as we discussed yesterday, the big tech companies have largely been run by people of the left, and they've been using technology as a way to obscure the biases that they've been implementing in policy.
00:04:34.000So Barry Weiss has an entire thread that she put out yesterday talking about exactly how Donald Trump was banned from Twitter, and the answer is it's really, really ugly.
00:04:42.000We'll get some more on this in just one second.
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00:06:56.000So here's what Barry White says, quote, On the morning of January 8th, President Donald Trump, with one remaining strike before being at risk of permanent suspension from Twitter, tweeted twice, First, he tweeted, the 75,000 great American patriots who voted for me, America first, and make America great again, will have a giant voice longing to the future.
00:07:11.000They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape, or form.
00:07:15.000And then he tweeted again about an hour later, to all those who have asked, I will not be going to the inauguration on January 20th.
00:07:20.000Barry White says, for years, Twitter had resisted calls of both internal and external to ban Trump on the grounds that blocking a world leader from the platform or removing their controversial tweets would hide important information that people should be able to see and debate.
00:07:32.000They said, for example, quote, our mission is to provide a forum that enables people to be informed and to engage their leaders directly.
00:07:46.000Pressure grew both inside and outside of Twitter to ban Trump.
00:07:48.000There were dissenters inside of Twitter.
00:07:50.000In fact, one of the dissenters was from China and said, quote, I deeply understand how censorship can destroy the public conversation, but voices like that one appeared to have been a distinct minority within the company.
00:07:59.000Across Slack channels, many Twitter employees were upset Trump hadn't been banned earlier.
00:08:03.000After January 6th, says Barry Weiss, Twitter employees organized to demand their employer ban Trump.
00:08:07.000There's a lot of employee advocacy happening, said one Twitter employee.
00:08:10.000And again, there's this inside-outside game that gets played at a lot of corporations these days, where you have Left-leaning corporate executives who still feel bound by corporate dictates and by the dictates of the market, but they get pressure from the bottom, from their employees.
00:08:25.000And they say, well, we have to please our employees.
00:08:27.000The purple haired intern with seven earrings and nose ring and a face tattoo.
00:08:30.000We have to, we have to make sure that that person is very pleased with us.
00:08:34.000Here's the way a normal company works.
00:08:36.000If my employees here at Daily Wire decided that they did not like the editorial direction of the company, and decided that they were going to be very angry and yell about it, well, they have two choices.
00:08:46.000They can either come to work and do their work, or they can leave.
00:08:49.000There's no third choice where they get to run the editorial direction of the company.
00:08:53.000But apparently, at a lot of these big tech companies, they decided, and this is because, again, they sympathize with their own employees, that they use the whining of their employees as an excuse to do what they wanted to do in the first place, which is to ban Trump.
00:09:05.000One staffer said, we have to do the right thing and ban this account.
00:09:07.000Quote, it's pretty obvious he's going to try to thread the needle of incitement without violating the rules.
00:09:11.000In the early afternoon of January 8th, Barry Weiss reveals, The Washington Post published an open letter signed by over 300 Twitter employees to CEO Jack Dorsey demanding Trump's ban.
00:09:19.000We must examine Twitter's complicity in what President-elect Biden has rightly termed insurrection.
00:09:23.000Now again, if my employees decided that they were going to write a letter, like an open letter, and sign it, with their names, to the New York Times, criticizing the editorial policy of this company, the door is right there.
00:09:33.000They can leave at any time they choose.
00:09:35.000But that's not what Jack Dorsey on Twitter did.
00:09:38.000The Twitter staff assigned to evaluate tweets quickly concluded Trump had not violated Twitter's policies.
00:09:42.000Quote, I think we'd have a hard time saying this is incitement, wrote one staffer.
00:09:44.000It's pretty clear he's saying the American patriots are the ones who voted for him, not the terrorists.
00:10:06.000She says, safety has assessed the tweet above and determined there is no violation of our policies at this time.
00:10:10.000Later, Navarroli would testify to the House January 6th Committee, Then, Twitter's safety team decided that Trump's tweet is also not in violation.
00:10:27.000It's just to say he's not attending the inauguration.
00:10:28.000Barry White says to understand Twitter's decision to ban Trump, we must consider how Twitter deals with other heads of state and political leaders, including in Iran, Nigeria, and Ethiopia.
00:10:38.000So for example, in June 2018, Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tweeted, quote, Israel is a malignant cancerous tumor in the West Asian region that has to be removed and eradicated.
00:10:47.000Twitter did not delete the tweet and they didn't ban the Ayatollah.
00:10:50.000In October 2020, the former Malaysian prime minister said it was a right for Muslims to kill millions of French people.
00:10:55.000Twitter deleted his tweet for glorifying violence, but he remained on the platform.
00:10:59.000Mohammed Buhari, the president of Nigeria, incited violence against pro-Biafra groups.
00:11:04.000In October 2021, Twitter allowed Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to call on citizens to take up arms against the Tigray region.
00:11:08.000Twitter deleted that tweet, but they didn't ban Buhari.
00:11:11.000In October 2021, Twitter allowed Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to call on citizens to take up arms against the Tigray region.
00:11:17.000Twitter allowed the tweet to remain up and didn't ban the Prime Minister.
00:11:19.000In early February 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government threatened to arrest Twitter employees in India and to incarcerate them for up to seven years after they restored hundreds of accounts that had been critical of him and Twitter didn't ban Modi.
00:11:31.000But Twitter executives did ban Trump, even though key staffers said Trump had not incited violence, not even in a coded way.
00:11:36.000Less than 90 minutes after Twitter employees had determined that Trump's tweets were not in violation of Twitter policy, Vijaya Gaddy, Twitter's head of legal policy and trust, asked whether it could, in fact, be coded incitement to further violence.
00:11:47.000A few minutes later, Twitter employees on the scaled enforcement team suggested Trump's tweet may have violated Twitter's glorification of violence policy if you interpreted the phrase American patriots preferred the rioters.
00:11:58.000Members of that same safety and trust team came to, quote, view him as the leader of a terrorist group responsible for violence and deaths comparable to Christchurch shooter or Hitler.
00:12:08.000And on that basis and on the totality of his tweets, he should be deplatformed.
00:12:11.000So Donald Trump tweeted out just to get this straight.
00:12:14.000That the American Patriots would not be denied and that he wouldn't be going to the inauguration.
00:12:18.000And this made him comparable to Hitler, according to Twitter employees.
00:12:23.000And so he had to be banned on that basis.
00:12:25.000Two hours after that, Twitter executives hosted a 30-minute all-staff meeting.
00:12:28.000Jack Dorsey and Vijay Gady answered staff questions as to why Trump had not yet been banned.
00:12:35.000Joel Roth, who again is one of the bad guys in this whole story, relayed to a colleague, quote, multiple tweets, that'd be Twitter employees, have quoted the banality of evil, suggesting the people implementing our policies are like Nazis following orders.
00:12:46.000So in other words, allowing Donald Trump to remain on the platform, that is like Nazis following orders.
00:12:52.000Dorsey requested simpler language to explain why Trump would be suspended, and Roth wrote, God help us, this makes me think he wants to share it publicly.
00:13:00.000Oh, you mean you should have to share publicly why you were banning the sitting president of the United States from Twitter?
00:13:09.000One hour later, Twitter announced Trump's permanent suspension due to the risk of further incitement of violence.
00:13:13.000Many at Twitter were ecstatic and congratulatory.
00:13:16.000By the next day, employees expressed eagerness to tackle medical misinformation as soon as possible, because this is the way that it works.
00:13:21.000If you feed the alligator, the alligator continues to eat.
00:13:24.000And so they immediately decided, who can we go after next?
00:13:28.000For the longest time, Twitter's stance was that we aren't the arbiter of truth toward another employee, which I respected, but never gave me a warm, fuzzy feeling.
00:13:35.000It's about giving the left warm, fuzzy feelings.
00:13:38.000Twitter CEO Parag Agarwal, who would later succeed Dorsey as CEO, told head of security Mudge Zacco, who of course later would leave and become a whistleblower, suggesting that the company had become not an engineering company for free speech, but instead had essentially become a left-wing outlet that ignored security concerns.
00:13:55.000Agarwal said, quote, I think a few of us should brainstorm the ripple effects of Trump's ban, and Agarwal added, centralized content moderation, in my opinion, has reached a breaking point now.
00:14:06.000Again, internationally, there are a lot of people who are very critical of the banning of Trump.
00:14:11.000Ultimately, says Barry Weiss, the concerns about Twitter's efforts to censor news about Hunter Biden's laptop, blacklist disfavored views, and ban a president aren't about the past choices of executives in a social media company.
00:14:21.000They're about the power of a handful of people at a private company to influence the public discourse and democracy, which, of course, is exactly the point.
00:14:28.000So Elon Musk parceling out this information obviously is part of a broader attempt by Elon Musk to broaden the Overton window and allow there to be more speech on vital topics.
00:14:39.000As part of that effort, by the way, Elon Musk just disbanded the Trust and Safety Council.
00:14:43.000The Trust and Safety Council was this Orwellian body that essentially decided who could stay and who could not stay on the basis of vague, undefined standards like trust and safety.
00:14:55.000Well, apparently it was if Yoel Roth didn't like you or Vijaya Gady was uncomfortable with you.
00:15:00.000So Elon Musk put out a letter to the Trust and Safety Council members and quote, As Twitter moves into a new phase, we are re-evaluating how best to bring external insights into our product and policy development work. As part of this process, we have decided the Trust and Safety Council is not the best structure to do this. Our work to make Twitter a safe, informative place will be moving faster and more aggressively than ever before. We will continue to welcome your ideas going forward about how to achieve this goal. We will also continue to explore opportunities to provide focused and timely input into our work, whether through bilateral or small group meetings.
00:15:26.000Your regional points of contact will remain the best people to contact to escalate concerns.
00:15:29.000Please let us know if you need reconnecting.
00:15:31.000And so they have now disbanded the Trust and Safety Council, which of course is the right move.
00:15:35.000Musk is moving fast and breaking things.
00:15:38.000He has fired 80% of Twitter's employee base, which dramatically lowers their cost.
00:15:44.000The traffic and engagement on Twitter is way up.
00:15:46.000It should be because it's a much more interesting place now because you're not getting the curated views of Yoel Roth on Twitter.
00:15:52.000Instead, you're actually being able to openly express your views on matters of public concern.
00:15:57.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Twitter's new head of trust and safety said the platform is emphasizing moving swiftly to address problematic content, even if it means figuring out some specifics later.
00:16:05.000Ella Irwin, who joined Twitter in June, said for now, I think we're biasing toward moving quickly and figuring out the details in some of these areas afterward.
00:16:14.000Now, some people are accusing Musk of being arbitrary about this, but the whole point is that Twitter was arbitrary before.
00:16:18.000The difference is that Musk is actually taking credit for the decision.
00:16:21.000So if Musk decides that he's going to ban Ye from Twitter, for example, a decision with which I disagree, despite the fact that Ye is a raging anti-Semite and also a mentally ill person.
00:16:31.000If Elon Musk is going to do that, then Elon Musk is actually taking the hit for that, which is the way that it's supposed to work.
00:16:36.000The head of the company always is where the buck stops, so Musk is at least doing that.
00:16:40.000When Jack Dorsey was running the place, he was off vacationing in malaria-ridden caves.
00:16:44.000And meanwhile, his middle management, Yoel Roth and Vijaya Gaddy, were deciding who would get banned and then pretending it was the algorithm that was doing all of this.
00:16:52.000So again, the new management at Twitter is changing the way that big tech sees itself.
00:16:59.000And that's going to make for a major change in Silicon Valley.
00:17:01.000So much of Silicon Valley is now run by the diversity, equity, and inclusion hires.
00:17:06.000In the same way that the administrative diversity hires over at the major universities have completely skewed how our university system works.
00:17:18.000And now it's mostly about avoiding HR problems by feeding the diversity, equity, inclusion beast, which is why the administrative costs at universities have risen dramatically.
00:17:27.000And while the number of teachers actually has not risen all that dramatically at major American universities, the same thing has happened in Silicon Valley.
00:17:33.000Silicon Valley used to be about engineering solutions, which is why they made their money.
00:17:37.000And then it turned into a place where a bunch of people fresh from the universities were to come in and basically structure how all of society was going to run.
00:17:45.000They decided that if the chief good of these companies was not being a public square, then the chief good would be quote unquote doing good, which is always incredibly, incredibly dangerous.
00:17:54.000Well, this has made Musk unpopular in some circles of the left, because again, there's a radical left perspective, and this does separate sort of mainstream liberals from the radical left.
00:18:03.000It's a distinction that I always make on the show.
00:18:04.000People will say, oh, you're being too broad in how you paint the left.
00:18:07.000Well, I've always made the distinction between the left and liberals.
00:18:10.000Liberals are people who disagree with me about taxes, abortion and same-sex marriage, but who also agree that there ought to be open discussion of these things.
00:18:16.000And then there is the left, and the left believes there should not be open discussion of these things, and that the very institutions of the republic are the problem.
00:18:23.000The left believes that things like free speech are inherently biased toward power structures in the United States that have the ability to speak.
00:18:29.000And therefore, we have to shut down free speech, or at least we have to rejigger free speech so as to benefit the people at the bottom.
00:18:36.000Well, a lot of those people showed up to a Dave Chappelle comedy event in San Francisco.
00:18:41.000It was supposed to be non-film, but apparently somebody sneaked a cell phone in.
00:18:46.000So Dave Chappelle introduced Elon Musk to a mixture of boos and cheers.
00:19:21.000Again, there is a widespread perspective in places like San Francisco that broadening the boundaries of free speech is inherently dangerous and inherently problematic.
00:19:30.000Meanwhile, the White House is denying that they have ever asserted pressure on social media to censor content, which is insane.
00:19:40.000Mark Zuckerberg has publicly admitted that they have.
00:19:42.000Mark Zuckerberg said that the FBI basically approached him in the run up to the 2020 election and suggested that disinformation was a major concern.
00:19:48.000It was on that basis that the Hunter Biden story was censored.
00:19:51.000Now, John Kirby, propagandist on behalf of the Biden administration, that's literally his job.
00:19:55.000He says that the Biden administration, federal agencies, they really don't work with social media to censor, which is obviously untrue.
00:20:03.000You said this, we aren't in the business of telling private companies how to execute their initiatives.
00:20:08.000But it appears from these revelations from inside of Twitter, there were regular meetings between executives there, the FBI, DHS, the DNI.
00:20:16.000So, you know, flagging tweets, expressing their concerns, it seems trying to drive certain conversations.
00:20:23.000So, should or shouldn't the federal government, federal agencies, in your words, be directing private companies on how to execute their initiatives?
00:20:32.000We aren't directing private social media companies on how to manage their content.
00:20:37.000These are decisions that they have to make.
00:20:41.000Okay, but what they are doing is providing broad layers of guidance to make sure that these people make the quote-unquote right decisions, which is really bordering if not violative of the First Amendment itself.
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00:22:46.000Meanwhile, all of this is bleeding over into the public health sphere.
00:22:48.000So as that, that Barry Weiss thread demonstrates.
00:22:51.000There are people at Twitter who obviously wanted to use the model of banning Trump for no actual violation to ban people for no actual violations when it came to spreading information about COVID or COVID vaccines.
00:23:01.000So, for example, Twitter had suspended the account of Dr. Robert Malone, who is an mRNA vaccine researcher and has been very critical of many of the claims that were made about the COVID vaccine.
00:23:10.000Twitter on Monday unsuspended his account.
00:23:13.000Twitter had never specified which of Malone's tweets had actually violated any of their policies.
00:23:18.000In one of his last tweets before he was banned, Malone shared a link to a video from a Canadian COVID care alliance titled, The Pfizer Inoculations for COVID-19, More Harm Than Good.
00:23:25.000A description of that video said, Pfizer's six-month data shows that Pfizer's COVID-19 inoculations cause more illness than they prevent, plus an overview of the Pfizer trial flaws in both design and execution.
00:23:35.000Twitter slapped a misleading label on Malone's tweet and restricted likes, retweets, and replies to the post, and then they suspended him.
00:23:41.000It was right about the same time that Robert Malone became a very famous voice because he was on Joe Rogan's podcast and was highly critical of the COVID vaccines and then YouTube censored the podcast.
00:23:53.000Again, it turns out that you can't stop the conversation.
00:23:55.000All you can do is generate more heat on the issues that you're attempting to ban.
00:24:00.000Shutting down free speech rarely achieves its actual goal.
00:24:03.000Well, Elon Musk has now started a firefight with Anthony Fauci and the White House because Elon Musk put out a tweet Suggesting that Fauci had essentially perjured himself by denying that his agency had funded gain-of-function research.
00:24:18.000In fact, later he admitted that there had been quote-unquote modest gain-of-function research funding from the NIAID to a Chinese lab, the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
00:24:26.000That is where many people suspect that COVID-19 originated.
00:24:30.000What he originally testified, in a very Clintonian way, he was suggesting that gain-of-function research really is only a very narrowly defined term.
00:24:38.000That gain-of-function research is, within a species, you make a disease more virulent.
00:24:43.000And that if you take a disease and you make it now applicable to a new species, that is not gain-of-function research.
00:24:47.000So he says the United States only funded the first, but they didn't fund the second.
00:24:52.000Like making a virus that jumps from bats to humans.
00:24:55.000He says, that's not actually gain-of-function research.
00:24:57.000That's the kind of stuff that we funded.
00:24:59.000We didn't actually make the research within bats more virulent.
00:25:04.000Well, that's not really a question, dude.
00:25:07.000I mean, a lot of people had a lot of questions about how gain-of-function was being funded.
00:25:13.000He described it as, quote, taking a virus that could infect humans and making it either more transmissible and or pathogenic for humans.
00:25:19.000He says that categorically was not done.
00:25:23.000But again, making any of these pathogens more virulent in any way is what people tend to think of as gain-of-function research, or literally gaining function.
00:25:32.000Fauci traced the NIH's interest in bat coronaviruses to the SARS outbreak from nearly two decades ago.
00:25:36.000This is in his testimony a little bit earlier this year.
00:25:40.000He said, we had a big scare with SARS back in 2002-2003 where that particular virus unquestionably went from a bat to an intermediate host to start an epidemic and a pandemic that resulted in 8,000 cases and 800 deaths.
00:25:51.000It would have been a dereliction of our duty if we didn't study this.
00:25:53.000The only way you can study these things is you have to go where the action is.
00:25:56.000He says, you don't want to study bats in Fairfax County, Virginia to find out what the animal-human interface is that might lead to a jumping of species.
00:26:03.000NIH did fund the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
00:26:05.000Okay, so because of Fauci's comments about gain-of-function research, Elon Musk had tweeted that he thinks that Fauci essentially perjured himself and also believes that it was American money funding the Wuhan Institute of Virology that allowed for the Wuhan Institute of Virology to essentially create COVID-19.
00:26:25.000Now, Fauci still says that it was not gain-of-function research and it was not even the Wuhan Institute of Virology that was the source of the COVID-19 infection.
00:26:31.000He does admit the possibility, but he says that it wasn't me.
00:26:35.000Elon Musk, however, had tweeted out that his pronouns were quote unquote, prosecute Fauci.
00:26:40.000And this drove the White House to new states of apoplexy.
00:26:45.000World's worst press secretary, Kareem Jean-Pierre, slammed Musk's tweet as quote, disgusting and incredibly dangerous.
00:26:51.000What's your response, first of all, to specifically to the attacks on Dr. Fauci?
00:26:58.000And second, how is your view of Twitter as a sort of public forum and a forum for yourself and for the president and many other officials here? How are those views evolving?
00:27:10.000So look, we've been very clear about this.
00:27:12.000These attacks, these personal attacks that we have been seeing are dangerous on Dr. Fauci and other public health professionals as well.
00:27:21.000They are disgusting and they are divorced from reality.
00:27:26.000It's disgusting and dangerous when you attack somebody by name and it's terrible if you malign them.
00:27:32.000Also, any Republican who didn't vote for Joe Biden's team in the last election is a member of the evil contingent and an enemy of the Republic.
00:27:42.000So just a few things happening at the White House level.
00:27:45.000Again, setting up people as though they are infallible and that criticism of them must be banned.
00:27:52.000is really dangerous stuff because actually what it leads to is the feeling that those people kind of deserve to be criticized.
00:27:57.000The fact is that Fauci does deserve a lot of criticism for how he handled this pandemic.
00:28:02.000We have yet to find out the full story on what exactly was funded at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
00:28:07.000Dr. Fauci has not been honest about a wide variety of subjects throughout his tenure during COVID-19.
00:28:14.000And yet the White House is very exercised about all of this.
00:28:17.000The White House thinks that it's just terrible, and they use the key word here, which is dangerous.
00:28:21.000When they use that key word, when they say dangerous, this is a way of shutting down speech.
00:28:24.000Because when you say that speech is dangerous, what you mean is that speech actually ought to be curbed in some way.
00:28:29.000And so it's not a surprise that you see major publications like the Washington Post, they're now attempting secondary boycotts of Twitter.
00:28:35.000You have actual columnists at the Washington Post suggesting that advertisers should pull their money from Twitter because Elon Musk is so personally dangerous.
00:28:42.000It's the same game that they play with shows like this one.
00:28:44.000It's the same game that they play with all the social media outlets.
00:28:47.000What they do is they try to find an advertiser who has nothing to do with anything Elon Musk is actually saying on Twitter, but who advertises on Twitter.
00:28:53.000And then they say, you can't advertise on Twitter because if you do, you're putting money in Elon Musk's pocket.
00:28:58.000And if you do that, then you are complicit.
00:29:02.000The politicization of the advertising space, the attempt to cudgel corporations into doing the will of the left by browbeating them into not supporting neutral spaces, spaces where people agree with them and disagree with them, is really amazing.
00:29:16.000And the White House forwarding that narrative is quite dangerous, actually.
00:29:19.000It is dangerous when the White House is bordering on violation of First Amendment principles by essentially pressuring people not to associate with other people based on the things that they say in the private sphere.
00:29:32.000And this has been a problem throughout.
00:29:34.000Well, meanwhile, the White House continues its own social media trolling and trolling generally.
00:29:41.000So the White House has decided that this is nothing new.
00:29:44.000When the Obergefell case happened, the White House was lit up.
00:29:50.000This under Barack Obama during the Obergefell case, which was 2015.
00:29:54.000Barack Obama lit up the White House with a rainbow flag because the idea that same-sex marriage is what is most American about America.
00:30:01.000It is not just a controversial social issue.
00:30:03.000It is not about the fundamental undermining and redefining of a major institution, maybe the major societal institution.
00:30:10.000America is really about the gay pride flag.
00:30:12.000You never, by the way, would have seen an equivalent If, for example, after the case of Jack Phillips and the Masterpiece Cake Shop case in Colorado, you never would have seen the White House lit up with a giant cross.
00:30:26.000Religious freedom is what America is all about.
00:30:28.000But in the aftermath of Obergefell, the White House was lit up in the rainbow colors.
00:30:33.000Well, they're going to do that routine again.
00:30:34.000The White House is now planning a major celebration.
00:30:39.000It is not respect for marriage to redefine the fundamental institution as male-male or female-female.
00:30:47.000The entire basis for the institution is male-female, of course.
00:30:50.000But the White House is holding a major celebration, and this, of course, is an act of trolling.
00:30:54.000This is an attempt to get people upset on the right side of the aisle so that they can point at all those people and say, look at those bigots.
00:31:00.000Why can't they just celebrate along with us?
00:31:01.000Look how terrible they are for not celebrating.
00:31:04.000Why won't those terrible, terrible people bake the cake?
00:31:07.000And you can tell how hard they are trolling by the people that they are inviting.
00:31:10.000So Corinne Jean-Pierre yesterday, she said that, who is a gay woman, she says that the White House is going to have a massive celebration for the Respect for Marriage Act.
00:31:17.000And it's going to be pride, progress flags everywhere because this is what is most American about America.
00:31:22.000This is what the founders fought for, gang.
00:31:24.000The legislation also enjoys support from a majority of Americans across party lines and faiths.
00:31:30.000Tomorrow, the President will be joined by a bipartisan group of lawmakers as well as advocates and plaintiffs in marriage equality cases across the country to sign this critical legislation into law.
00:31:43.000There will be musical guests and performances to celebrate this historic bill.
00:31:52.000Now, I don't remember that for the Inflation Reduction Act, obviously, but this is a major issue because redefining marriage actually is a major thing.
00:31:58.000Now, we were told that it wasn't a major thing.
00:31:59.000We were told that it's just what had to happen because it was already the law, and why not confirm what the law is?
00:32:04.000Now, like, what's the biggest deal in the world?
00:32:05.000We're going to have musical guests at the White House.
00:32:07.000We're going to have full performances.
00:32:08.000They're also inviting some of the world's most important people.
00:32:11.000So, for example, they are inviting a drag artist, Marty, To be a non-binary drag artist invited to the White House is something I never imagined would happen.
00:32:21.000And by the way, this is not because this person is literally of any other importance apparently.
00:32:26.000It is because of this person's identity as a quote-unquote non-binary drag artist.
00:32:30.000That this person is being invited to the White House.
00:32:32.000Thank you, President and Dr. Biden, for inviting me to this historic bill signing.
00:32:35.000Grateful doesn't begin to express the emotions I feel.
00:32:40.000It is the White House declaring that the policy of the United States that we all should celebrate as a unifying American moment is that sex, biological sex, does not matter.
00:32:50.000In fact, biological sex is of no consequence when it comes to marriage and may not exist at all because, after all, non-binary is a category now.
00:32:58.000And drag is the most American thing about America.
00:33:01.000I keep saying the word trolling because that's what this is.
00:33:05.000It's not an attempt to unify, obviously.
00:33:07.000That's why the White House is pushing this so unbelievably hard.
00:33:11.000It turns out that transgressivism, which is a philosophy I've talked about before, the idea that human beings, what we are essentially, we can be boiled down to our sexual identity, our sexual desires.
00:33:57.000And these little platoons form the basis of both community and civil society.
00:34:02.000Community and civil society form the basis of the polity.
00:34:06.000And that's how you get durable societies created from small units.
00:34:11.000Essentially, what has now happened because of the philosophy of transgressivism is that all those institutions are seen as violative of basic human freedoms.
00:34:17.000The family is violative of basic human freedoms.
00:34:19.000Marriage is violative of basic human freedoms because it makes separate demands on men and women.
00:34:23.000It suggests that you owe duties outside of yourself to children, to the rest of your family, and to society at large.
00:34:31.000Now, the only way that you can obliterate the intermediate institutions of life The most basic, intermediate institutions like family, but also civil society and community is by cramming that down from the top.
00:34:42.000Transgressivism can only happen if you have a cultural elite that grabs the levers of power and then shoves down these messages on the rest of society.
00:34:49.000And if they say it often enough, then people start to buy it.
00:34:51.000And this is why it's so important to the left to redefine terms.
00:34:54.000It's why it's so important for the left to grab cultural high ground and then use that cultural high ground in order to intimidate people into silence.
00:35:00.000It's why it's important for the White House to have events like this if you are on the left.
00:35:03.000Because the idea is that if you push message forward over and over and over again, that you're a bigot if you disagree with them, then people will basically give up all of the institutional protections that they have for traditional morality in favor of an unfettered sense of authenticity that the left really pushes incredibly hard.
00:35:19.000You can see how they're doing this not just at the White House, but also this sort of trollery exists in the halls of culture.
00:35:25.000Folks, it's time to kick woke companies out of your man's bathroom.
00:35:29.000Jeremy's Razors is a premium men's grooming company that, shockingly, doesn't actually hate men.
00:35:32.000They've got a full range of men's staples, including a Precision 5 razor with a flip-back trimmer, tea tree, and argan oil shampoo and conditioner, body soap, facial moisturizer, and lots more.
00:35:41.000It's got his whole routine covered with hair, body, beard, and skin care products that are made right here in the United States.
00:36:03.000Right now, okay, so when we talk about the media trolling and the social media trolling and the cultural trolling, again, understand transgressivism, the idea that all intermediate institutions in life must be obliterated in the name of individual authenticity.
00:36:14.000But that philosophy requires a cultural cram down.
00:36:17.000It requires cultural elites to cram down their view of society upon you.
00:36:21.000And so it matters when you have cultural arbiters like the dictionary, like the Cambridge Dictionary, redefining the word woman.
00:36:40.000According to the Cambridge Dictionary, quote, a woman is, this is the definition, an adult who lives and identifies as female, though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth.
00:36:48.000Example, she was the first trans woman elected to a national office.
00:36:52.000Mary is a woman who was assigned male at birth.
00:36:55.000Now, if you ask them, what does female mean?
00:36:58.000Then they would say, female is any person who identifies as a woman.
00:37:01.000And so it would be completely circular.
00:37:04.000A woman is a person who identifies as female.
00:37:06.000A female is a person who identifies as a woman.
00:37:08.000Now, if you ask them to define either female or woman without reference to the word female or woman, and to give like an actual objective metric, then they have no idea.
00:37:32.000When Orwell talked in 1984 about how communist societies would redefine terms, literally just make up new terms, or take old terms, rob them of their content, and then reuse them.
00:37:42.000He was talking about how you pervert the minds of millions of people.
00:37:47.000When dictionaries start redefining terms in completely nonsensical ways that are an infinite regress of nonsense, That is an attempt by cultural arbiters to cram down a particular set of morals.
00:37:57.000And then it gets celebrated at the White House and all of this is good.
00:38:00.000And you are supposed to ignore all of this or be considered a bigot.
00:38:03.000You're supposed to pretend that all of this is good and fine.
00:38:06.000After all, what business is it of yours if we redefine the word woman?
00:38:39.000The vast majority of them do not directly affect your life, but they indirectly affect your life because when you reset the standards for a society, that has an impact on every citizen.
00:38:48.000This is a case that could have been made by slaveholders in 1850.
00:38:50.000They could have said, well, sure, I'm down here in the South holding a slave.
00:38:54.000How does that affect your life in Massachusetts?
00:38:57.000But when society tolerates slavery, that is a grave evil that redefines how everyone lives.
00:39:02.000This is true for every public policy issue.
00:39:05.000And the left's little game is to treat everybody as an atomized individual and then say, what we do in terms of public policy, it doesn't really affect you because you're an atomized individual anyway.
00:39:16.000If you obliterate civil society, if you obliterate community, if you obliterate family, and you do all of that in the name of authentic sexual identity.
00:39:24.000If you obliterate language, obliterate reason, obliterate biology in the name of these things, of course that has an impact on how we all live.
00:39:30.000Because it has an impact on how we converse with one another.
00:39:32.000It has an impact on our supposed sense of shared morality.
00:39:53.000Female-to-male transgender ice hockey player is tackled to the ground and concussed by a much larger male-to-female rival at controversial NHL-backed tournament.
00:40:00.000So the headline, by the way, on Twitter was a little bit shorter than that.
00:40:04.000The actual headline on Twitter was, moment trans woman hockey player concusses trans male rival.
00:40:11.000Now you read that, you're like, I don't even know what you're talking about.
00:40:13.000What the hell are you even talking about right now?
00:40:15.000Now I'm going to read that headline in English.
00:40:21.000A male body checked a woman into the boards and she got a concussion.
00:40:24.000Now in a normal society, you'd be like, what in the world is a male doing on the hockey ice with a female and checking her into the boards?
00:40:32.000What sort of decent society allows a male to essentially bludgeon a woman so long as they are pretending that he is a she and she is a he?
00:40:41.000That's a societal question, is it not?
00:40:43.000But we're all supposed to pretend that this is good.
00:40:45.000In fact, this event was sponsored by the NHL.
00:40:48.000According to the Daily Mail, a female-to-male transgender hockey player was left concussed after being knocked to the floor by a much larger male-to-female trans opponent during a controversial NHL-backed tournament.
00:40:58.000Danny Mackey was knocked down and left concussed following what appeared to be an accidental rough hit at the Team Trans Ice Hockey Draft in Middleton, Wisconsin late last month.
00:41:06.000The incident has only just been reported by Quillette magazine, whose journalist Jonathan Kaye suggested the two-day tournament had been subjected to a woke cover-up.
00:41:13.000Mackie was subsequently accused of self-censoring what had happened on Instagram by describing the incident as an odd fall despite himself sharing the video, which clearly shows he was tackled.
00:41:26.000Pretending that a woman who takes male hormones is now a male and that a male who takes estrogen is now a female is absurd on its face.
00:41:34.000But this is the sort of stuff that we're all supposed to pretend along with and the NHL celebrates and then we're all supposed to ignore when stuff like this happens.
00:41:40.000And this also happens in other contexts.
00:41:43.000So, for example, we were told to essentially ignore the alleged rape of a ninth grade girl at a school in Loudoun County.
00:41:51.000We were told that the father, being very angry about this at a school board meeting, was demonstration that parents were effectively domestic terrorists.
00:42:01.000That in Loudoun County, there was a father who was treated as though he was a violent threat because he came to a school board meeting and protested the fact that the Loudoun County School Board was pushing a trans bathroom policy while simultaneously covering up the alleged rape of his ninth grade daughter.
00:42:19.000And he got pretty upset because that seems kind of upsetting, right?
00:42:22.000And then the school board association, National School Board Association, wrote a letter to the FBI and the DOJ asking for prosecution and investigation of members of the general parental community who are angry at school boards.
00:42:35.000Well, now, as it turns out, the actual criminal activity was not by the father.
00:42:40.000The actual criminal activity was by the transgender girl who was a boy who was apparently serially raping girls.
00:42:49.000And the superintendent and spokesperson for this particular school board.
00:42:55.000Now it's not only covered in the New York Times, not covered in the Washington Post, it is covered by the Daily Wire.
00:42:59.000It is only because Luke Rosiak, our excellent reporter in Loudoun County, actually did the research on this and figured out what happened with this angry father instead of treating him as a pariah.
00:43:09.000And the cultural gaslighting at the top level is, the dad's the bad guy, the superintendent of the school district is good, because the superintendent of the school district buys into the woke nonsense that boys can be girls, girls can be boys, and a boy who pretends to be a girl is actually a girl and should go into the girl's restroom, even if he is then engaging in the alleged anal rape of a girl in the bathroom.
00:43:27.000So here is the latest in that story, and this wouldn't have happened without the investigation of Luke Rozsiak.
00:43:32.000Two top officials of a Northern Virginia public school district were indicted Monday for their roles in the handling of a bathroom rape by a skirt-wearing boy after the Daily Wire revealed the apparent cover-up last year of court documents Unsealed Monday showed.
00:43:43.000Former Loudoun County Superintendent Scott Ziegler, who was fired last week, was indicted on three misdemeanor counts of false publication, conflict of interest prohibited conduct, and penalizing an employee for court appearance.
00:43:53.000Spokesman Wade Byard was indicted on a felony charge of perjury, according to court records.
00:43:57.000A week ago, a special grand jury released a 91-page report that confirmed the findings Of the Daily Wire's October 2021 expose, determining that Ziegler told a bald-faced lie when he dismissed concerns about a proposed transgender policy by denying that there had ever been any bathroom sex assaults, despite knowing that he'd attacked on a 9th grade girl just a month earlier.
00:44:16.000The grand jury said that Ziegler's administration also concealed from the public and even the school board.
00:44:20.000The same boy went on to sexually assault another girl in a classroom with school board members learning about it from a report in the Daily Wire.
00:44:26.000The grand jury pleadings painted a devastating picture and showed that, quote, throughout this ordeal, LCPS administrators were looking out for their own interests instead of the best interests of LCPS.
00:44:35.000When the Daily Wire asked Bayard last week about the Grand Jury's fact-finding report, he sent a statement attributed to School Board Chief Jeff Morse and Vice Chair Ian Sirotkin that said they were pleased that the Grand Jury had not indicted anyone.
00:44:45.000The Daily Wire noted in response to Bayard that Attorney General Jason Mayares had pointedly said the Grand Jury was still running.
00:44:50.000On Monday, Bayard did not return a request for comment on his own indictment.
00:44:53.000The School Board fired Ziegler on Tuesday, a day after the Grand Jury report, but fired him without cause, apparently giving him a $350,000 golden parachute.
00:45:02.000An indictment for the misdemeanor of false publication said, quote, on or about June 22nd, 2021, Ziegler did unlawfully, knowingly, and willfully state, deliver, or transmit by any means whatever to any publisher, a false and untrue statement, knowing the same to be false or untrue concerning any person or corporation with intent that the same shall be published.
00:45:18.000June 22nd was the date of the school board meeting at which Ziegler cited Time Magazine to lecture parents, the quote, we've heard it several times tonight from our public speakers, but the predator transgender student or person simply does not exist.
00:45:56.000Turns out that the control of the commanding heights of culture, handing that over to the transgressors has some pretty devastating side effects, including for individuals like ninth grade girls who get raped in bathrooms by boys who are pretending that they identify as girls, or some such nonsense.
00:46:09.000And by the way, now would be an excellent time to note that Luke Rosiak, our investigative reporter over at Daily Wire, we can only have investigative reporters because people like you subscribe, people like you sign up over at dailywire.com.
00:46:19.000You should become a Daily Wire Plus member so we can do reporting like this as well as you get all the rest of our great material.
00:46:24.000But it is Luke who uncovered this, and it is Luke's action on this that has led to the indictment now of a public official who lied to the public about whether, in fact, it was safe for transgender bathrooms to be established.
00:46:36.000And he did it on the basis of false data.
00:46:38.000Now, I promise you, by the way, that on the other side of the media ledger, let's say that this story had happened in a Catholic school.
00:46:45.000Let's say that what happened in a Catholic school is that a boy was allowed to go into a girl's bathroom and rape a girl.
00:46:50.000And a parish priest had been in there and seen, apparently, part of this happen.
00:46:53.000And then later, there had been a press conference in which they were asked about their bathroom policy.
00:46:57.000And the priest had said, no, you know, we've never seen anything like this.
00:48:11.000A lot of pretending that nothing bad could possibly happen because after all you hold the right perspective.
00:48:16.000If the idea, this is true across the board, if the idea is that any institution is so vulnerable that critique of the institution results in its collapse and thus critique ought to be forbidden, you know that the powerful are attempting to censor.
00:48:31.000Now the Catholic Church, which engaged in a cover-up, now does not engage in cover-ups of those behavior because the Catholic Church has been durable for a couple thousand years.
00:48:40.000The Catholic Church will survive, it will thrive, it will continue to have a billion adherents.
00:48:45.000When it comes to America's secular left, They are so scared bleepless of the consequences of their own philosophy, because that philosophy is deeply connected with sexual liberation and autonomy, that they can't allow stories like this to see the light of day.
00:49:09.000We'll be getting into Kyrsten Sinema declaring that she is an independent and Bernie Sanders declaring that he might back a Democrat against her in Arizona.