The Ben Shapiro Show - Twitter’s Repulsive Censorship | Ep. 1126

00:00:00.000 The heads of the big tech companies get grilled by Republicans, the author of an anonymous article from a high-ranking Trump official finally comes out, and violence continues in Philadelphia.

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00:00:23.000 Well, we are five days away from the national election.

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00:01:34.000 IRA today again text Ben to 474747 text Ben to 474747. Okay so when you look at the Real Clear Politics polling average what you see is that everything seems relatively stable.

00:01:48.000 I mean, there are kind of minor moves in each direction, but overall, things are relatively stable.

00:01:53.000 Biden has been somewhere between 10 and 7 points in the lead, really for probably 6 months, 7 months at this point.

00:02:00.000 In the battlegrounds, you're starting to see a little bit of tightening.

00:02:03.000 In Pennsylvania, Biden is up to about a 3.5% RealClearPolitics poll average lead in Pennsylvania.

00:02:08.000 Pennsylvania is the key state, by the way.

00:02:09.000 Assuming that Trump wins the states that he needs to win in the South, meaning he wins Florida, he wins Georgia, he wins North Carolina.

00:02:16.000 Let's say that he wins Arizona.

00:02:17.000 OK, let's say that he does all of that.

00:02:19.000 He needs Pennsylvania, right?

00:02:20.000 That is the state that he requires in order to win.

00:02:23.000 Right now, it's about a four point race in Pennsylvania.

00:02:25.000 It seems like there's momentum for Trump in Pennsylvania.

00:02:28.000 Seems like there's momentum for Trump in Florida as well.

00:02:31.000 I've been predicting for a while.

00:02:32.000 I think that Trump is going to win Florida.

00:02:34.000 In Georgia, there's new polling that suggests that Joe Biden is super competitive in Georgia.

00:02:38.000 North Carolina is within margin of error.

00:02:40.000 The margin in Arizona seems to have dropped just a little bit in Trump's favor.

00:02:44.000 The latest polls in Arizona put Biden up somewhere between two points and Susquehanna has Trump up one point in the last week.

00:02:52.000 So all of these battleground states are extremely, extremely close.

00:02:56.000 And it'll be fascinating to watch on election night because after all, not all of these states are going to count ballots in the same way.

00:03:02.000 If you have a really, really high count of absentee ballots or mail-in ballots, for example, Well, it takes a long time to count those.

00:03:08.000 If you have a close race and the mail-in ballots are still coming in, we may not know for weeks what exactly happened in Arizona.

00:03:13.000 We may not know for months what happened in Pennsylvania.

00:03:16.000 In fact, The Supreme Court allowed longer deadlines for absentee ballots in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, according to the New York Times on Tuesday.

00:03:25.000 So, Republicans in both states opposed the extensions because they were saying, OK, we should not allow ballots that are coming in a week after the election to be counted because, I mean, what about when they were postmarked?

00:03:34.000 What if somebody claims it was postmarked the day after the election, but they actually voted before the election?

00:03:38.000 All this gets litigated.

00:03:39.000 Why not just solve that problem now, that problem of uncertainty?

00:03:42.000 Well, according to the New York Times, in a pair of decisions welcomed by Democrats, the Supreme Court on Wednesday let election officials in two key battleground states, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, accept absentee ballots for several days after Election Day.

00:03:52.000 In the Pennsylvania case, the court refused a plea from Republicans in the state that it decides, before Election Day, whether election officials can continue receiving absentee ballots for three days after November 3rd.

00:04:02.000 In the North Carolina case, the court let stand lower court rulings that allowed the state's Board of Elections to extend the deadline to nine days after Election Day.

00:04:09.000 Up from the three days originally called for by the state legislature.

00:04:13.000 The court's brief orders in the two cases were unsigned.

00:04:16.000 Judge Amy Coney Barrett did not take part in either case.

00:04:19.000 A court spokeswoman said Barrett did not participate because of the need for a prompt resolution and because she had not had time to fully review the party's filings.

00:04:25.000 Now, this does not mean that there won't be litigation after the election.

00:04:28.000 If these states are very close and the counts continue, and there's an early count and then the counts continue, well then it can be re-litigated at the Supreme Court level.

00:04:36.000 There were no noted dissents in the Pennsylvania case, though three justices said the court might return to it after Election Day.

00:04:41.000 In the North Carolina case, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Gorsuch said they would have granted requests from Republican lawmakers to block lower courts, allowing the longer deadline.

00:04:49.000 Well, that makes sense because in the Pennsylvania case, it was done statutorily.

00:04:52.000 In the North Carolina case, it was done by a lower court.

00:04:55.000 The two cases involved broadly similar issues, but in Pennsylvania, the question was whether the state Supreme Court could override voting rules set by the state legislature.

00:05:03.000 In North Carolina, the question was whether state election officials had the power to alter such voting rules.

00:05:08.000 In Pennsylvania, at least, they say that they may come back to that case after the election, which, of course, is exactly the wrong thing.

00:05:15.000 Chief Justice Roberts, who's just a disaster area.

00:05:17.000 Chief Justice Roberts, in seeking to uphold the legitimacy of the court by staying out of these questions, is actually making it worse.

00:05:24.000 Because now, let's say the thing is really close, you're going to end up with Bush v. Gore.

00:05:27.000 This thing ends up in the Supreme Court again, which is a disaster.

00:05:29.000 This is 2020, which means the Pandora's box could open, right?

00:05:33.000 The mummy's tomb could be unsealed and all members of all sort of manifestations of horrific outcome could be possible here for the country.

00:05:41.000 My favorite, personal, is that there's a 269-269 tie in the Electoral College.

00:05:46.000 This is my personal nightmare scenario.

00:05:49.000 269-269 tie in the Electoral College.

00:05:51.000 By the way, this could very easily happen.

00:05:53.000 This is the case if Donald Trump holds all the states that he held last time except for Wisconsin, Michigan, and Arizona.

00:05:59.000 So he wins Pennsylvania and all the other states he won last time.

00:06:01.000 Plus he wins the Maine 2nd District and the Nebraska 2nd District.

00:06:04.000 If he does that, you now have a 269-269 tie in the Electoral College.

00:06:08.000 So people have been asking, what happens if that happens?

00:06:10.000 Well, then it goes to the House of Representatives.

00:06:12.000 But the House does not vote With all of its members.

00:06:15.000 Instead, they vote by state.

00:06:16.000 So state delegation decides how to vote for the president.

00:06:20.000 Right now, Republicans hold a 26-23 advantage in state delegations.

00:06:24.000 I think there's one that's split, the state delegation split right down the middle.

00:06:27.000 If Democrats were to pick up two of those three and Republicans hold one, then what you end up with is a 25-25 split in the House of Representatives with regard to who gets elected president.

00:06:41.000 Right, so then what happens?

00:06:42.000 Well, then they just keep voting, right?

00:06:43.000 Then you keep voting until somebody's elected president.

00:06:45.000 Meanwhile, the Senate gets to decide who the vice president is.

00:06:49.000 Well, there's only one problem.

00:06:50.000 The Senate could easily be split 50-50.

00:06:52.000 This is my favorite, not going to happen, but it's insane.

00:06:59.000 Election scenario.

00:07:00.000 Biden, obviously, is a little bit worried about some of the states that he's supposed to be winning walking away.

00:07:04.000 According to Mediaite, Biden has been heading to Florida.

00:07:07.000 His campaign is afraid the Democratic turnout is lagging because a lot of the early voting is trending Republican, and Republicans are expected to outpace Democrats on Election Day.

00:07:15.000 So Biden is heading to Florida.

00:07:16.000 In other words, this election is not over yet.

00:07:19.000 And while the statistics from FiveThirtyEight and RealClearPolitics show that Trump is the heavy underdog, this remains a very, very close election.

00:07:27.000 And it remains a close election for a couple of reasons.

00:07:29.000 One is because the media have absolutely 100% refused to cover anything Joe Biden related.

00:07:34.000 And that is just true.

00:07:35.000 That is just a simple fact.

00:07:37.000 It is because the intervention of the media and the social media companies and corporations in this election has been absolutely overwhelming.

00:07:42.000 I mean, it's been like nothing I've ever seen in American politics.

00:07:46.000 Truly, it's a crazy, crazy thing.

00:07:48.000 President Trump yesterday, he said, listen, you know, if there's a story about me being corrupted everywhere in the media, if there's a story about Joe Biden being corrupted is nowhere in the media.

00:07:56.000 He's absolutely right about this.

00:07:57.000 Here's President Trump campaigning yesterday.

00:07:59.000 Tremendous corruption on behalf of the Biden.

00:08:02.000 Tremendous.

00:08:03.000 Do you know you can't find it anywhere in the media other than the New York Post, which I'm very proud of?

00:08:08.000 And they endorsed me the other day, too, by the way.

00:08:12.000 But you can't find it anywhere in the media.

00:08:15.000 Sleepy Joe Biden with all the corruption, all the theft, all the money they took out of these countries that we end up paying for in spades.

00:08:24.000 You can't find it on Big Tech and you can't find it at the Washington Post and New York Times because they're crooked, they're dishonest, and we caught them.

00:08:33.000 OK, and then Trump points out he's not just running against Biden, he's running against the mob and he's running against the media.

00:08:39.000 And again, there's a lot of truth to this.

00:08:40.000 The institutional obstacles to Trump are extremely high.

00:08:43.000 The media have treated Trump with absolute disdain from the time he declared for the presidency.

00:08:47.000 And then once he was president, they decided that they were just going to cover him in the most horrible possible way.

00:08:52.000 Sometimes critical media coverage of Trump is justified.

00:08:55.000 I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I think that every time the media criticizes Trump it's unjustified.

00:08:58.000 I don't think that's right.

00:09:00.000 I've been very much opposed to Trump suggesting that bad stories about him are by definition fake news.

00:09:04.000 I don't think that's correct either.

00:09:05.000 It is also true the overwhelming majority of media coverage has been anti-Trump, and that extends to stories that are overt positives for the United States.

00:09:12.000 When the economy is good, the story is framed as, well, the economy would be better if a Democrat were president.

00:09:16.000 I'm not just running against Joe Biden, I'm running against the left-wing mob and the left-wing media, the big tech giants, and I'm also running against the rhinos.

00:09:23.000 or some such.

00:09:24.000 OK, here is Trump yesterday saying he's not just running against Biden, he's running against the mob and the media.

00:09:28.000 And this, of course, is true.

00:09:29.000 I'm not just running against Joe Biden.

00:09:31.000 I'm running against the left wing mob and the left wing media, the big tech giants.

00:09:39.000 And I'm also running against the rhinos.

00:09:41.000 You know what a rhino is?

00:09:43.000 A rhino may be the lowest form of human life.

00:09:47.000 OK, so he's going after, you know, the Lincoln Project characters there, which, of course, President Trump has his list of enemies and he's going to go down them.

00:09:57.000 But when he says that he is facing overwhelming institutional obstacles.

00:10:01.000 He's not wrong about that.

00:10:02.000 One of those overwhelming institutional obstacles that has utterly come out of the closet in this election cycle is social media.

00:10:07.000 So social media has basically decided to suppress stories that they think are going to benefit Trump.

00:10:11.000 And this is all about 2016.

00:10:12.000 If Hillary Clinton had won in 2016, social media would be happily in favor of the First Amendment. 0.99

00:10:17.000 They'd be happily in favor of allowing all sorts of variant material on social media.

00:10:21.000 But Hillary Clinton lost in 2016. 0.99

00:10:23.000 And so the Democrats decided they had to blame somebody who was not Hillary Clinton.

00:10:26.000 First, they blamed the Russians.

00:10:28.000 Then, they blamed the social media companies for allowing the Russians to skew the election.

00:10:33.000 They suggested that Facebook was responsible for Hillary Clinton losing because, of course, Facebook allowed people to put up dissenting opinions about Hillary Clinton.

00:10:40.000 Because Facebook had not shut down Russian interference.

00:10:42.000 Now, let's be real about this.

00:10:43.000 Russian interference on Facebook did not lose the election for Hillary Clinton.

00:10:46.000 Hillary Clinton lost the election for Hillary Clinton.

00:10:48.000 She was a terrible candidate. 0.91

00:10:49.000 And then James Comey, in the last week of the election, dropped a bombshell suggesting a new laptop had been found with her hidden emails.

00:10:55.000 And so it turns out that lost the election for Hillary, not a bunch of Russian scam artists putting up very poor, by the way, poorly trafficked memes on Facebook. 0.65

00:11:03.000 The social media giants were brought to heel by the Democratic Party.

00:11:03.000 It doesn't matter.

00:11:07.000 They were told it is your fault if Donald Trump wins re-election.

00:11:10.000 And thus, in the lead up to the election, you must prevent Donald Trump from winning by any means necessary.

00:11:16.000 And that means playing up all bad Trump news and playing down any bad news for Joe Biden, up to and including suppressing actual full on stories from the New York Post.

00:11:25.000 We'll talk about that in just a second because the big tech heads were called before Congress yesterday.

00:11:29.000 It didn't go well for them, particularly for Jack Dorsey over at Twitter.

00:11:32.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:12:48.000 Okay, so.

00:12:50.000 The social media companies, most obviously.

00:12:52.000 I mean, there have been a lot of people on the right who have been complaining for a while that social media companies are utterly non-transparent.

00:12:58.000 That many of the social media companies seem to downgrade information they simply do not like.

00:13:03.000 That all broke out into the open over the last two and a half weeks after the New York Post ran the Hunter Biden emails.

00:13:07.000 After the New York Post ran the Hunter Biden email story, suggesting that Hunter Biden's emails made reference to Joe Biden receiving money or interest held in escrow for him in case of a deal with a Chinese company after his vice presidency.

00:13:22.000 When that story originally broke in the New York Post, it was immediately banned on Twitter, like outright banned.

00:13:28.000 You could not tweet the link.

00:13:29.000 The New York Post account was shut down on Twitter, on Facebook.

00:13:33.000 The head of content over there, Andy Stone, put out a tweet saying that the story had been suppressed on Facebook pending a fact check, even though there was no information to suggest that the story was false or that it was Russian disinformation.

00:13:45.000 It was the most obvious example of election interference by the big tech companies I've ever seen.

00:13:49.000 I mean, it's unprecedented.

00:13:50.000 Absolutely unprecedented.

00:13:52.000 So, yesterday, the big tech heads were called before Congress.

00:13:55.000 Now, let's be real about this.

00:13:57.000 There has been a push from the left to curb big tech for a while.

00:14:01.000 I've been very much opposed to that push.

00:14:04.000 The reason is that the left would like to curb big tech by preventing them from posting material.

00:14:09.000 What they would like is a reinstitution of the old fairness doctrine.

00:14:12.000 The idea being that you have bosses at the federal government who tell you what kind of content you can and cannot post.

00:14:16.000 And so I've been very much opposed to the government getting into the regulatory business with regard to big tech.

00:14:21.000 On the right, there have been complaints that these big tech companies are being unfair and that they are not being transparent in their standards.

00:14:27.000 There's particularly an objection to the Section 230 language.

00:14:30.000 Section 230 suggests that platforms are not responsible for the content that is posted on those platforms and that they are allowed to content curate and content moderate in order to prevent the posting of pornographic, violent, Harassing or, and this is the phrase that matters, otherwise objectionable material.

00:14:46.000 That catch-all phrase has been used by the companies to basically say, we can take down anything we don't like.

00:14:52.000 And this has led some people to say, okay, well, now you have basically violated the compact with the American people.

00:14:56.000 You said that we could post whatever we wanted, so long as it wasn't violent or harassment or incitement to violence, but otherwise objectionable is too broad.

00:15:04.000 If you're just taking down my story because you don't like my story, Now you're essentially doing the same job that the New York Times would do, right?

00:15:10.000 You're censoring content on the basis of political persuasion.

00:15:13.000 And that really is not what Section 230 was written for.

00:15:16.000 Section 230 was written in order not to disadvantage companies that wanted to take down violent or obscene material.

00:15:22.000 It was not written in order to provide advantage for publishers masquerading as platforms.

00:15:27.000 Right, that was the basic idea behind Section 230.

00:15:30.000 So right now there's a push in the United States Senate to make clear the otherwise objectionable standard, the otherwise objectionable standard in Section 230.

00:15:36.000 So that's been the push from the right.

00:15:38.000 So all of this comes to a head yesterday in this hearing with Big Tech.

00:15:41.000 Now normally, hearings with Big Tech, they go very poorly for the Congress people.

00:15:45.000 And the reason they go poorly for the congresspeople is because congresspeople tend to be, on average, about 55 to 60 years old, which means that they have to call their grandchildren in order to actually install AOL on their computer, because they still have a dial-up modem.

00:15:56.000 The fact is that, unfortunately, our congresspeople are not particularly in touch when it comes to technology, and so the questions they ask are very often quite silly.

00:16:04.000 However, the questions yesterday were very easy to answer.

00:16:06.000 And they were, why are you downgrading particular political content?

00:16:09.000 What is the excuse for downgrading, for example, that New York Post story?

00:16:12.000 There is no plausible explanation other than a political drive to censor material from the left.

00:16:19.000 Okay, so Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook was asked about this.

00:16:22.000 He was asked specifically, you know, this originally was put on, the article was basically, it was, essentially reduced in its reach because you were suggesting that maybe it was fact-checked false or it would be fact-checked or it was Russian disinformation or something like that.

00:16:39.000 So they asked Zuckerberg, like, do you have any evidence whatsoever that this thing was Russian disinformation or that actually there was that there was anything false in the story? And Zuckerberg was like, no, we don't have any of that information. Is that also your answer, Mr. Zuckerberg, that you have no information at all to indicate that that Russia was the source of this New York Post article? Senator, I would rely on the FBI to make that assessment.

00:17:03.000 But you don't have any such information, do you?

00:17:06.000 I do not myself.

00:17:08.000 Okay, so there is no information to suggest that this story was false or Russian disinformation.

00:17:12.000 It was downgraded by Facebook anyway.

00:17:14.000 Okay, so Zuckerberg took a few licks, but the person who really took some hits yesterday was Jack Dorsey, which makes sense.

00:17:19.000 At least Zuckerberg has paid lip service to the idea of the First Amendment mattering.

00:17:24.000 At least he has a tendency to gravitate toward more free speech rather than less free speech.

00:17:28.000 That doesn't mean I agree with all Zuckerberg's policies on Facebook.

00:17:31.000 I mean, right now, Daily Wire is being dramatically downgraded in traffic For some unknown reason by Facebook in the lead up to the election.

00:17:37.000 This I do not find particularly surprising.

00:17:38.000 It's been happening for weeks on end and we never get any transparency from Facebook.

00:17:42.000 OK, but when it comes to Twitter, OK, Twitter is perfectly obvious in its political bias, like perfectly and clearly obvious in its political bias.

00:17:49.000 So in a second, we're going to get to the testimony of Jack Dorsey.

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00:19:19.000 Straight from the set of Duck Dynasty.

00:19:21.000 I was testifying before Congress and made perfectly clear what social media's agenda is.

00:19:25.000 And the thing is, when you exist in a bubble like Jack Dorsey is, like in a cave in Malaysia being bitten by mosquitoes and smoking dope, and all your liberal friends are telling you you're doing some good for the world by suppressing content, then you literally do not understand why people would be so upset at you.

00:19:38.000 Jack Dorsey did not understand why people were so upset at him.

00:19:40.000 This, by the way, is the same guy who was so apolitical he hired DeRay McKesson at one point.

00:19:45.000 The racial commentator, shall we say.

00:19:48.000 DeRay McKesson as one of the chief voices to decide what kind of content was appropriate for Twitter.

00:19:54.000 So Jack Dorsey acknowledged the problem at Twitter is that Republicans don't trust us.

00:19:57.000 Yes, you think?

00:19:58.000 I can't imagine why Republicans don't trust you when you literally barred the New York Post from posting for three weeks because they put up a story that was true.

00:20:06.000 Here is Jack Dorsey, apparently straight from Treasure Island.

00:20:10.000 Ben Gunn here.

00:20:12.000 Section 230 gave Internet services two important tools.

00:20:15.000 The first provides immunity from liability for users' content.

00:20:19.000 The second Provides good Samaritan protections for content moderation and removal, even of constitutionally protected speech, as long as it's done in good faith.

00:20:31.000 That concept of good faith is what's being challenged by many of you today.

00:20:36.000 Some of you don't trust we're acting in good faith.

00:20:39.000 That's the problem I want to focus on solving.

00:20:42.000 How do services like Twitter earn your trust?

00:20:45.000 How do they earn our trust?

00:20:45.000 Well, let's see.

00:20:46.000 How about this?

00:20:47.000 How about complete transparency?

00:20:48.000 How about you know why you ban material?

00:20:49.000 How about you don't downgrade material and then keep downgrading the material and keep banning the outlet because you don't like the political content?

00:20:57.000 Dorsey himself acknowledged there is no evidence that the New York Post story was disinformation.

00:21:00.000 None.

00:21:01.000 Senator Ron Johnson asked him directly about it.

00:21:03.000 Do any of you have any information whatsoever that they're not authentic or that they are Russian disinformation?

00:21:10.000 Mr. Dorsey?

00:21:12.000 We don't.

00:21:13.000 You know, so why would you censor it?

00:21:16.000 Why did you prevent that from being disseminated on your platform that is supposed to be for the free expression of ideas, and particularly true ideas?

00:21:25.000 We believe to fill a foul of our hacking materials policy.

00:21:28.000 Okay, so it's not their hacked materials policy.

00:21:31.000 Because it was then followed up upon.

00:21:33.000 And it was like, so hold up.

00:21:35.000 You're saying it's the hacked materials policy that this was hacked?

00:21:37.000 You covered the Steele dossier, that was no problem.

00:21:39.000 You covered Trump's tax returns, that was no problem.

00:21:42.000 It's a crime to leak other people's tax returns, you covered that no problem. 0.99

00:21:45.000 So that's obviously crap. 0.98

00:21:47.000 My favorite claim by Jack Dorsey. 0.99

00:21:49.000 Does Twitter have the ability to influence elections?

00:21:51.000 is that Twitter does not affect elections.

00:21:51.000 No.

00:21:54.000 Okay, if they didn't affect elections, then literally they would not have these policies.

00:21:59.000 The whole reason that Twitter implemented these policies is because Democrats claimed they affected elections.

00:22:03.000 Here's Ted Cruz asking Dorsey about it.

00:22:05.000 Does Twitter have the ability to influence elections?

00:22:08.000 No.

00:22:10.000 You don't believe Twitter has any ability to influence elections?

00:22:16.000 No, we are one part of a spectrum of communication challenges people have.

00:22:21.000 So you're testifying to this committee right now that Twitter, when it silences people, when it censors people, when it blocks political speech, that has no impact on elections?

00:22:31.000 People have choice of other communication channels.

00:22:35.000 Okay, that is delicious.

00:22:37.000 It is wonderful that now Twitter is claiming they have no ability to affect elections.

00:22:42.000 Sure, sure you don't.

00:22:44.000 In some cases, algorithms take action.

00:22:45.000 In other cases, achievements do.

00:22:46.000 to affect elections, and they have no standard practice for what they censor.

00:22:49.000 This is something Dorsey also said.

00:22:50.000 He said there's literally no standard.

00:22:52.000 We just kind of censor what we please.

00:22:54.000 Here he was explaining.

00:22:56.000 In some cases, algorithms take action.

00:22:59.000 In other cases, achievements do.

00:23:01.000 In some cases, it's a pairing of the two.

00:23:04.000 There are numerous examples of blue checkmarks that are spreading false information that So, Twitter must have some kind of list of priority accounts that it maintains.

00:23:13.000 You have the blue checkmark list.

00:23:15.000 How do you decide when to flag a tweet?

00:23:17.000 You got into that a little bit.

00:23:18.000 Is there a formal threshold of retweets or likes that must be met before a tweet is flagged?

00:23:23.000 No.

00:23:25.000 So they have no actual standards.

00:23:27.000 Okay, so basically it's all arbitrary, but why don't you trust us?

00:23:30.000 Well, maybe one of the reasons that we don't trust you is because you will ban the New York Post, but then you will suggest that Holocaust denial is not misinformation worthy of banning.

00:23:38.000 That's something Jack Dorsey also said.

00:23:40.000 So again, here's Jack Dorsey.

00:23:41.000 I mean, this guy is in charge of a billion-dollar company.

00:23:46.000 Wow.

00:23:46.000 America's an amazing country.

00:23:48.000 It truly, truly is.

00:23:49.000 Straight from Castaway Island, Jack Dorsey.

00:23:52.000 Somebody denying the murder of millions of people or instigating violence against a country as a head of state is not categorically falling in any of those three misinformation or other categories Twitter has?

00:24:05.000 Not misinformation, but we do have other policies around incitement to violence.

00:24:09.000 So somebody denies the Holocaust has happened is not misinformation? 0.89

00:24:14.000 It's misleading information, but we don't have a policy against that type of misleading information.

00:24:19.000 Ah, there's no policy with regard to misleading information with regard to Holocaust denial.

00:24:23.000 But if the president of the United States put something up about COVID that Twitter doesn't like, then they put a warning on the information. I can't imagine why people don't trust Twitter.

00:24:30.000 Why don't people trust Twitter? My favorite thing here is when Dorsey says that the New York Post is allowed to tweet their story.

00:24:37.000 Okay, first of all, it's not true.

00:24:38.000 People tried to tweet the original link yesterday.

00:24:40.000 It was still banned.

00:24:41.000 Second of all, he says what New York Post has to do is they have to delete their original tweet with the story, and then they'll be reinstated, and then they can retweet the same link over again.

00:24:49.000 Or you could, you know, not ban them.

00:24:52.000 That would be the solution to that.

00:24:53.000 Here's the worst member of ZZ Top explaining.

00:24:57.000 The New York Post is still blocked from tweeting two weeks later.

00:25:01.000 Yes, they have to log into their account, which they can do at this minute.

00:25:05.000 Delete the original tweet, which fell under our original enforcement actions, and they can tweet the exact same material from the exact same article and it would go through.

00:25:15.000 Okay, so the New York Post is supposed to delete its original true tweet and then retweet the same thing so that Twitter will let them back in.

00:25:21.000 It's just Orwellian nonsense.

00:25:23.000 Now, the best part about the Orwellian nonsense is all of our media vetters, the same people who declare that Donald Trump is a threat to the free press, a threat to the First Amendment, the press wants this.

00:25:31.000 The press wants the big tech bros to shut down all other methods of dissemination of information that are not mainstream media.

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00:26:46.000 OK, so it's not just that social media are downgrading conservatives, are suppressing material that's bad for Joe Biden.

00:26:54.000 It's that the media love this.

00:26:55.000 The media are happy with it.

00:26:56.000 The left, generally, is very, very happy with this.

00:26:59.000 There are people like Kevin Roos at the New York Times, and Kara Swisher at the New York Times, and Juglegum, who spend all day just trying to pressure social media into preventing the dissemination of information they don't like.

00:27:11.000 These are quote-unquote free speech activists who spend their day trying to suppress free speech and free dissemination.

00:27:16.000 That is what they attempt to do.

00:27:17.000 It's their goal in life.

00:27:18.000 They love it.

00:27:19.000 Okay, and this is how you end up with a tweet from Charlie Warzel over at the New York Times who covers information wars.

00:27:24.000 He tweeted out yesterday, the New York Post leaving a violating tweet up in order to stay locked out of an account in order to use it as a political cudgel is a classic tactic, but it's usually one you see from individual MAGA influencers.

00:27:35.000 Oh, so what you see here is that the New York Post refuses to take down a true story because they want Twitter to actually just reinstate them.

00:27:46.000 And that's the fault of the New York Post.

00:27:48.000 Incredible journalisming.

00:27:49.000 Tremendous, tremendous journalisming there from Charlie Warzell, who covers the information wars for the New York Post.

00:27:55.000 The Democratic senators, by the way, should scare the hell out of you. 0.99

00:27:57.000 So the Republican senators yesterday were angry at the big tech bros for not allowing more speech on their platforms.

00:28:04.000 They are concerned at the political discrimination on the platforms.

00:28:07.000 And so they would like to see more speech, not less speech on the platforms.

00:28:10.000 The left has no such compunction.

00:28:13.000 Not one Democrat on this Senate committee questioning big tech.

00:28:17.000 Asked for consistent standards on what is banned and what is not banned.

00:28:21.000 Instead, they just sought to ban material they don't like.

00:28:24.000 Make no mistake about it, when it comes to First Amendment values, not First Amendment as a matter of law, which of course is about government compulsion.

00:28:30.000 A First Amendment value system that values free speech, that values free and open debate, the left has no part of it.

00:28:35.000 The mainstream Democratic Party is now rejecting it.

00:28:37.000 Ed Markey, Senator from Massachusetts, he says the problem isn't that you're taking too many posts down over Twitter.

00:28:43.000 The problem is you're leaving too many posts up over Twitter.

00:28:45.000 Ed Markey wants to make sure that everything he doesn't like is taken down over at Twitter.

00:28:50.000 The big tech business model, which puts profits ahead of people, is a real problem.

00:28:55.000 Anti-conservative bias is not a problem.

00:28:59.000 The issue is not that the companies before us today are taking too many posts down.

00:29:05.000 The issue is that they're leaving too many dangerous posts up.

00:29:09.000 In fact, they're amplifying harmful content so that it spreads like wildfire and tortures our democracy.

00:29:18.000 OK, so yes, the left has no interest in free speech.

00:29:21.000 They don't like free speech. 0.97

00:29:22.000 So here's Senator Brian Schatz, Democrat from Hawaii and full-fledged idiot, trying to suggest that these social media companies require more protection from conservatives. 0.95

00:29:31.000 Conservatives are trying to force Twitter to allow material about Hunter Biden. 0.89

00:29:36.000 And that means that they're trying to make all these social media companies into weapons against Joe Biden.

00:29:40.000 And that can't be allowed.

00:29:41.000 That simply can't be allowed.

00:29:43.000 What's happening here is a scar on this committee and the United States Senate.

00:29:48.000 What we are seeing today is an attempt to bully the CEOs of private companies into carrying out a hit job on a presidential candidate by making sure that they push out foreign and domestic misinformation meant to influence the election.

00:30:06.000 Again, I am enjoying the specter of Democrats suggesting that the problem here is conservatives bullying corporations.

00:30:13.000 Literally, the entire Democratic Party right now is trying to bully corporations into doing things that they want.

00:30:17.000 They're trying to bully corporations into putting up black squares. 0.98

00:30:20.000 They're trying to bully corporations into hiring Ibram X. Kendi for $20,000 diversity training sessions.

00:30:25.000 They're trying to bully corporations into not opening... Chick-fil-A isn't supposed to open in Chicago or Boston or a variety of other Democratic cities because the founder, Dan Cathy, supported traditional marriage.

00:30:37.000 I mean, it's amazing.

00:30:38.000 But now apparently they're very much in favor of private corporations being able to run businesses as they see fit, unless you're a baker who just doesn't want to bake a cake for a gay wedding, in which case you should go to jail or your business should be shut down. 0.98

00:30:48.000 The hypocrisy of these folks knows no bounds. 0.98

00:30:51.000 None. 0.99

00:30:51.000 All of this prompted Ted Cruz to finally go off on the big tech bros, particularly Jack Dorsey, saying, you know, who the hell elected you? 0.99

00:30:57.000 Like, who made you in charge of What material the American people can and cannot see.

00:31:01.000 Literally the exemption that is provided to you is dependent on you not being an editorial oversight board for the American people.

00:31:09.000 You can censor the New York Post.

00:31:12.000 You can censor Politico.

00:31:13.000 Presumably, you can censor the New York Times or any other media outlet.

00:31:17.000 Mr. Dorsey, who the hell elected you and put you in charge of what the media are allowed to report and what the American people are allowed to hear?

00:31:27.000 And why do you persist in behaving as a Democratic super PAC, silencing views to the contrary of your political beliefs?

00:31:38.000 That is a good question.

00:31:39.000 But it's not a question that the big tech guys are ever going to have to answer.

00:31:42.000 If the Democrats have their way, the big tech companies will just become an extension of the New York Times.

00:31:46.000 The only links you will be allowed to tweet are links from CBS News, ABC News, NBC News, and the New York Times.

00:31:51.000 Okay, speaking of the New York Times.

00:31:54.000 Remember that time that the New York Times printed an article from Anonymous?

00:31:57.000 Anonymous was a high-ranking Trump official.

00:31:59.000 You recall this?

00:32:00.000 It was very, very important.

00:32:02.000 We were told it was very important.

00:32:04.000 It was an op-ed written September 5th, 2018.

00:32:06.000 I am part of the resistance inside the Trump administration.

00:32:09.000 I work for the president, but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.

00:32:16.000 And this was described as the writer is a senior official in the Trump administration.

00:32:21.000 So for years, there's been speculation.

00:32:22.000 Who is anonymous?

00:32:24.000 Well, Chris Chaliza put out a piece suggesting that perhaps anonymous was Mike Pence.

00:32:24.000 Who's anonymous?

00:32:31.000 I mean, this wouldn't be like a low-level official because the New York Times wouldn't just print some missive from a low-level Trump official and then call them a senior official in order to get at Trump.

00:32:39.000 It would have to presumably be someone very high-level.

00:32:41.000 There was speculation Melania Trump did it.

00:32:43.000 Or Victoria Coates.

00:32:44.000 Or somebody else who had served inside the Trump administration whose name actually might be known.

00:32:48.000 Well, now we know exactly who this was.

00:32:50.000 Apparently, the person is named Miles Taylor.

00:32:53.000 Yes, I know.

00:32:54.000 THE Miles Taylor.

00:32:55.000 The very famous Miles Taylor.

00:32:56.000 Senior Trump official.

00:32:57.000 Who you have never heard of in your entire life.

00:33:00.000 He was chief of staff to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Christian Nielsen, but he was not when he wrote the op-ed.

00:33:06.000 By the time he wrote the op-ed, he actually was just like a consultant.

00:33:10.000 He was a DHS policy advisor.

00:33:12.000 A DHS policy advisor, and they characterized him as a senior Trump official.

00:33:16.000 The New York Times.

00:33:17.000 These are the people you ought to trust.

00:33:19.000 So Taylor has now put out a statement.

00:33:22.000 He says, Much has been made of the fact that these writings were published anonymously.

00:33:25.000 The decision wasn't easy.

00:33:26.000 I wrestled with it.

00:33:27.000 I understand why some people consider it questionable to levy such serious charges against a sitting president under the cover of anonymity, but my reasoning was straightforward and I stand by it.

00:33:35.000 Issuing my critiques without attribution forced the president to answer them directly on their merits, or not at all.

00:33:40.000 Rather than creating distractions through petty insults and name-calling, I wanted the attention to be on the arguments themselves.

00:33:45.000 No, actually, what had started was a mole hunt inside the Trump administration.

00:33:49.000 That was a complete waste of time for everybody involved. 1.00

00:33:51.000 By the way, Miles Taylor's a damn liar. 0.99

00:33:53.000 He went on CNN and overtly denied that he was anonymous not all that long ago on air with Anderson Cooper. 0.99

00:33:59.000 CNN has announced he will retain his slot because lying about this is apparently of no consequence.

00:34:03.000 I mean, if you're in the media and you're in the good graces of the media, you're basically unfireable.

00:34:08.000 I mean, Jeffrey Toobin could literally pull out his There was an op-ed, there was a book by someone calling themselves anonymous.

00:34:13.000 it to New Yorker and the guy was suspended, right? He was not fired. Miles Taylor goes on CNN and lies about him being anonymous and then he reveals on CNN that he is in fact anonymous and they're like, oh, okay, well, all right, no problem. We here at CNN, we know an apple is an apple and a banana is a banana. So here is Anderson Cooper with Miles Taylor, not all that long ago, Miles Taylor denying that he was anonymous. There was an op-ed, there was a book by someone calling themselves anonymous. Are you aware of who that is? I'm not.

00:34:43.000 Look, and that was a parlor game that happened in Washington, D.C.

00:34:46.000 of a lot of folks trying to think of who that might be.

00:34:50.000 I've got my own thoughts about who that might be.

00:34:52.000 But, you know, I'm not a president and I certainly don't want to.

00:34:57.000 I wear a mask for two things, Anderson, Halloweens and pandemics.

00:35:02.000 So, no.

00:35:03.000 So, no.

00:35:04.000 He is.

00:35:04.000 He lied directly to Anderson Cooper and they're just keeping him employed at CNN because he doesn't like Trump.

00:35:09.000 It's amazing.

00:35:10.000 Don't worry, our media are completely unbiased.

00:35:12.000 They're absolutely 100% unbiased, which in a second brings us to the situation in Philadelphia.

00:35:17.000 I understand that our media have a vested interest in not covering what's going on in Philadelphia.

00:35:21.000 It's happening in a swing state, maybe the most important swing state in this election.

00:35:24.000 So they are just going to completely miscover everything that is going on in Philadelphia.

00:35:28.000 It's very important that it not be covered, that there are mass riots and looting going on in America's sixth largest city.

00:35:33.000 Because that city resides in a state that Trump might win and might reelect him.

00:35:37.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:39:01.000 So when President Trump has been saying that he is up against not just Joe Biden, but also up against social media and big tech and the media, he is not lying.

00:39:16.000 The latest indicator of a media that does not wish to cover stories it does not wish to cover is what's happening in Philadelphia.

00:39:21.000 So you've had massive rioting over the past three nights over the shooting of Walter Wallace.

00:39:25.000 Walter Wallace is being portrayed by Democrats as a very nice guy, a very, very nice guy.

00:39:30.000 Here's Bernie Sanders's tweet on Walter Wallace.

00:39:32.000 So Bernie tweeted out, Walter Wallace would be alive today and our thoughts are with his loved ones.

00:39:38.000 The police responsible for murdering him in front of his mother, instead of getting him the medical attention he needed, should be arrested, investigated, and prosecuted by the Justice Department.

00:39:46.000 Okay, so Bernie Sanders says this guy was murdered.

00:39:50.000 like in cold blood, like they should be prosecuted federally by the Justice Department, says Bernie McSanders.

00:39:55.000 Okay, there's only one problem.

00:39:56.000 He was holding a knife.

00:39:57.000 They told him to put down the knife many times.

00:39:59.000 It was then 10 feet of them.

00:40:00.000 He kept approaching them.

00:40:01.000 They shot him.

00:40:02.000 Also, it turns out that Walter Wallace was not the world's nicest man.

00:40:06.000 I know that we have this duty every time a black man is killed by the police to portray that black man as the font of all good, innocence and wonder. 0.90

00:40:16.000 We got this with Jacob Blake, who turns out was an alleged rapist. 0.59

00:40:20.000 We got this with George Floyd, and it turns out that George Floyd literally held a gun to the stomach of a pregnant woman a few years prior.

00:40:25.000 So that does not mean that what happened to George Floyd should have happened to George Floyd.

00:40:29.000 It does mean that it does not require you to treat people who are shot by the police or killed by the police or die in police custody.

00:40:35.000 As wonderful, wonderful people in order to make your point about police brutality with regard to George Floyd.

00:40:40.000 It certainly means in the case of Jacob Blake that.

00:40:43.000 You know the Democratic candidates calling up Jacob Blake personally.

00:40:47.000 to offer their condolences to him on being shot after he resisted arrest, went for a knife in his car, and had been called to the scene by a woman who alleged rape against him previously.

00:40:55.000 It makes for a weird narrative.

00:40:58.000 Well, it turns out that Walter Wallace was not world's nicest human being.

00:41:01.000 According to 6abc.com, right, local news covering this, Wallace was an aspiring rapper with social media accounts filled with videos.

00:41:07.000 That sounds nice, doesn't it?

00:41:08.000 Well, oh, well, oh, yeah.

00:41:10.000 Guns are a central theme as he rhymes about shooting people, including police.

00:41:13.000 But his videos also include songs about social causes and police injustice.

00:41:17.000 See, this has always been weird to me.

00:41:19.000 If you cut a song about how you're shooting the police, and then you're like, but the police are mean to me! 0.95

00:41:24.000 I feel like the police might have a reason to be mean with you if you're talking literally about how you want to shoot them and murder them.

00:41:30.000 In any case, it's not just about his rap, obviously.

00:41:33.000 People rap about a variety of topics.

00:41:34.000 Many of them rap fictionally.

00:41:36.000 Walter Wallace has a criminal record.

00:41:38.000 Court records show Wallace was currently awaiting trial for allegedly threatening to shoot a woman and her house up.

00:41:43.000 In 2017, he pled guilty to robbery, assault, and possessing an instrument of crime after kicking down the door of another woman and putting a gun to her head.

00:41:51.000 He was sentenced to 11 to 23 months behind bars.

00:41:54.000 In 2013, he pled guilty to assault and resisting arrest after punching a police officer in the face.

00:41:59.000 So, yeah, that's not great.

00:42:02.000 Okay, but all of this resulted in massive riots in Philadelphia, And our media covered it in exactly the way you have become accustomed to our media covering riots.

00:42:02.000 That's not great, Bob.

00:42:12.000 They decided to downplay it, pretend that it was the looting, was the language of the oppressed.

00:42:17.000 When you're that oppressed, like in Philadelphia, where Democrats have been in charge for almost literally ever.

00:42:23.000 Well, that means that you're oppressed enough that you gotta steal the TV.

00:42:26.000 So, New York Reporter tweeted out.

00:42:27.000 New York Times Reporter.

00:42:28.000 Reporter tweeted out.

00:42:29.000 Why are you even covering this?

00:42:30.000 Eric Lipton.

00:42:31.000 Watching my Twitter feed since last night.

00:42:33.000 Very notable, the intensity of tweets from conservative voices looking to amplify, draw attention to looting in Philadelphia.

00:42:39.000 Yes, it happened.

00:42:40.000 New York Times covered it as well.

00:42:41.000 Just remarkable how conservatives want to elevate it.

00:42:44.000 I feel like it's more remarkable how the media want to downplay it.

00:42:48.000 Massive riots in which a thousand people loot a Walmart.

00:42:51.000 After the justified shooting of a person trying to attack police with a knife, it seems to me like that should be more newsworthy than the top story that the New York Times and everybody else was covering yesterday, which was Trump held a rally in Omaha, and the transportation was not good, and some old people were stuck in the cold.

00:43:07.000 That was literally the top story on Twitter all day yesterday.

00:43:10.000 All day!

00:43:10.000 Right, so there's massive rioting, which is an act of mass criminality in Philadelphia.

00:43:16.000 And the local authorities look the other way or cater to it.

00:43:19.000 That's not a story.

00:43:20.000 It's a story that the transportation plans in Omaha were not very good.

00:43:24.000 Huge, huge break.

00:43:25.000 Yes.

00:43:26.000 There is no media bias, Virginia.

00:43:26.000 Don't worry.

00:43:28.000 There's no media bias whatsoever. 1.00

00:43:30.000 Then there's the idiots like Wolf Blitzer. 1.00

00:43:32.000 My favorite is when Joe Biden talking points just sort of wander their way in via the media. 1.00

00:43:36.000 So here's Wolf Blitzer saying, I don't understand why the Philadelphia officers didn't just shoot to wound. 1.00

00:43:40.000 The reason you don't shoot to wound, idiot, is because you're not that good with a gun. 1.00

00:43:44.000 No one is that good with a gun. 1.00

00:43:46.000 Nobody is Jack Bauer.

00:43:47.000 Other reasons.

00:43:48.000 You shoot for center of mass because if you shoot to wound, there's a better shot that you miss and hit an innocent bystander.

00:43:54.000 There are many reasons to shoot.

00:43:56.000 Other reasons to shoot, not to wound.

00:43:58.000 Because sometimes you wound the person and they keep coming after you.

00:44:01.000 Let's say they shot this guy in the leg and he is now within three feet of them with a knife because he's approaching them.

00:44:05.000 Is that going to work out well?

00:44:07.000 I think not. 0.92

00:44:07.000 But here's Wolf Blitzer being a complete dunderhead because this is what we do in the media now. 0.92

00:44:11.000 Walter Wallace had a knife as we saw. 0.99

00:44:13.000 One witness said though he had mental health issues.

00:44:16.000 The district attorney said a report this was a medical call was consistent with what they know so far.

00:44:24.000 So could these officers have escalated the situation?

00:44:28.000 They obviously could have used tasers if they had tasers, but they didn't have tasers.

00:44:32.000 But why shoot to kill as opposed to shoot to injure and just prevent anything from going further? 1.00

00:44:39.000 OK, because you're an idiot, Wolf Blitzer. 1.00

00:44:41.000 I mean, the answer is because that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. 1.00

00:44:43.000 But again, more important to cover the evils of cops who didn't actually do anything wrong than to cover what's actually happening in the city. 0.99

00:44:49.000 So the Pennsylvania governor, Tom Wolf, he called the rioting peaceful protests.

00:44:54.000 He literally said this.

00:44:55.000 OK, so here is Governor Wolf.

00:44:57.000 I'm and my staff have been in constant communication since last night with the folks in Philadelphia and the hope is that that doesn't escalate into anything more than the peaceful protests that I think this kind of situation brings out.

00:45:14.000 Oh, well, you know, we all have hopes, don't we?

00:45:16.000 We all have hopes.

00:45:17.000 But those hopes were not justified.

00:45:19.000 Also, as it turns out, it turns out the police were told to let the looters loot.

00:45:23.000 According to Jazz Shaw, writing over at Hot Air, the mayor of Philadelphia imposed a curfew last night in an attempt to quell the ongoing rioting and looting.

00:45:29.000 Shockingly, many of the people who were already in the process of breaking any numbers of laws did not follow the orders and set out to continue the mayhem.

00:45:35.000 So why would the looters continue emptying the shelves of all the city stores after they'd been put on notice by the municipal government?

00:45:42.000 Perhaps it's because they'd heard that the cops had been ordered not to arrest any looters.

00:45:46.000 Yes, you heard that correctly.

00:45:47.000 The cops were told to simply disperse the looters and not take them into custody.

00:45:51.000 This comes from one of the local Fox News reporters who heard it directly from multiple police sources.

00:45:56.000 Steve Keeley reporting.

00:45:57.000 Obtained by Fox 29 News.

00:45:59.000 Directive from Philly Police Executive Team.

00:46:01.000 Extremely frustrated officers, both patrol and commanders, told me overnight they were ordered not to arrest looters, just disperse them.

00:46:08.000 Okay, that is incredible.

00:46:10.000 That is incredible.

00:46:11.000 Hey, as you may recall, Daniel Outlaw, who is the current Philadelphia police chief, took the office of police commissioner on a promise to put an end to the incarceration nation that we all supposedly live in.

00:46:21.000 She's been one of the biggest proponents of the Empty the Jails movement in the country.

00:46:24.000 In case you weren't aware of her history prior to coming to Philadelphia, she was prior the chief of police in Portland, Oregon.

00:46:30.000 So, yes, it turns out that these major cities being left to the predations of local officials who do not care about rioting and looting, or see the rioting and looting as justified response to the systemic evils and racism of America, that is a big story, and it's a big story in its swing state, so naturally the media don't want to cover it.

00:46:45.000 And Joe Biden will be asked no tough questions about it.

00:46:47.000 So Joe Biden, the basic part that Joe Biden is being asked by the media is, will you condemn rioting and looting?

00:46:53.000 Sure, he'll condemn rioting and looting.

00:46:55.000 Now, ask him if he'll condemn Antifa.

00:46:56.000 No.

00:46:57.000 Ask him if he'll condemn Black Lives Matter.

00:46:58.000 No.

00:46:59.000 Ask him if he'll condemn the end to the incarceration movement that calls for the non-arrest of people who are engaged in rioting and looting.

00:47:05.000 No.

00:47:05.000 He's never going to ask.

00:47:07.000 My favorite is that they just assume this is sufficient.

00:47:10.000 Joe Biden announces he's against bad thing.

00:47:12.000 Oh, well, big news there.

00:47:14.000 I'm sure he's going to be a bulwark against that bad thing happening.

00:47:16.000 Here is Joe Biden saying he doesn't like rioting and looting and everybody cheering.

00:47:19.000 Yay! 0.99

00:47:20.000 Simpson style.

00:47:22.000 There is no excuse whatsoever for the looting and the violence.

00:47:27.000 None whatsoever.

00:47:28.000 I think to be able to protest is totally legitimate.

00:47:32.000 It's totally reasonable.

00:47:34.000 But I think that the looting is just as the victim's father said, do not do this.

00:47:41.000 It's not what my son.

00:47:42.000 You're not helping.

00:47:44.000 You're hurting.

00:47:44.000 You're not helping my son.

00:47:46.000 He's not the victim.

00:47:47.000 He's the alleged victim.

00:47:48.000 And that allegation is extraordinarily weak, considering he was carrying a gun and refusing to put carrying a knife and refusing to put it down while approaching police officers.

00:47:57.000 It's a bad time for the country.

00:47:59.000 I mean, what we're watching right now is a bad time for the country.

00:48:00.000 It's not a bad time for the country specifically because of Donald Trump.

00:48:03.000 It is a bad time for the country because we have a media that is utterly compliant in a narrative that suggests that America is so systemically racist that we ought not cover actual newsworthy events.

00:48:12.000 We have to downplay newsworthy events simply to stop Trump because everybody on the right is just that bad.

00:48:17.000 The social pressure not to back anything remotely conservative is extremely heavy.

00:48:24.000 Very, very heavy right now.

00:48:25.000 It's why there are a lot of people who are doubting the polls.

00:48:26.000 We'll see if it materializes or not.

00:48:28.000 It may not materialize in support for Trump, but the pressure is there.

00:48:32.000 There is going to be a backlash at some point to the social pressure that suggests that if you want to stand up to this stuff in any serious way, you're a bad person.

00:48:39.000 Because the social pressure is becoming overwhelming.

00:48:41.000 Just a slight example over the last 24 hours.

00:48:43.000 The Girl Scouts put up a social media post congratulating Amy Coney Barrett.

00:48:51.000 It said, And then they put up a picture of female Supreme Court justices that included all of the various Supreme Court justices who have been female.

00:49:01.000 Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonia Sotomayor, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Elena Kagan.

00:49:06.000 This drove a bunch of Democrats to immediately start yelling at the Girl Scouts. 0.96

00:49:11.000 Ayanna Pressley, who's a delight.

00:49:12.000 She's the Ringo Starr of the squad.

00:49:13.000 She tweeted out, Amy Coney Barrett is now the antithesis of justice. 0.99

00:49:22.000 So what did the Girl Scouts immediately do?

00:49:24.000 They took it down and they apologized.

00:49:26.000 They took down the tweet and they apologized.

00:49:29.000 Because it is very, very important that they apologize for such things.

00:49:33.000 They cannot be allowed to say a nice thing about Amy Coney Barrett, such as that she is a female who is on the Supreme Court. 0.84

00:49:39.000 This is where the social pressure is.

00:49:40.000 See, this is why.

00:49:41.000 The claim is that Joe Biden is going to restore an era of normalcy.

00:49:44.000 That Joe Biden is going to bring things back under control.

00:49:46.000 That things are bubbling out of control because of Trump, and Joe Biden is going to put back a sense of normalcy.

00:49:50.000 I don't think that's going to happen at all.

00:49:51.000 I don't think that's going to happen at all.

00:49:53.000 And the reason I don't think that's going to happen at all is because too many liberals have decided to make common cause with the radical left rather than simply assuming that they can win a majority on the basis of their own ideas, on the basis of their own policies.

00:50:05.000 See, liberals in America, they have a choice right now.

00:50:07.000 The choice is they can stand for open conversation, whether it's big tech, whether it's on social platforms, whether it's in the media.

00:50:13.000 They can stand for more information being disseminated, not less information.

00:50:17.000 They can stand for having discussions with people on the right, or they can make common cause with the folks on the radical left.

00:50:23.000 The folks who are on the right may share with them certain presumptions, the liberals, about freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

00:50:30.000 The folks on the left share political presumptions about what they want utopia to look like.

00:50:34.000 Liberals have to decide whether they prefer a country where they may not always get their way in terms of policy, but at least don't undermine fundamental principles they supposedly believe in, like freedom of speech and tolerance for others' opinions, or whether they are so attached to the policy agenda of utopian democratic socialism that they would rather make common cause with a censorious left that hates everybody on the right so much they'll just call them racist.

00:50:54.000 And it's pretty obvious which way the liberals are moving.

00:50:57.000 They're not moving in the direction of open conversation.

00:50:59.000 They're not moving in the direction of having open discussion with people with whom they disagree.

00:51:04.000 They're overtly moving against that.

00:51:06.000 Excellent indicator of this yesterday from Jonathan Chait.

00:51:08.000 So people have asked me before, who are people who are liberal, who I enjoy reading sometimes, and I've said from time to time Jonathan Chait.

00:51:13.000 I've actually cited Jonathan.

00:51:14.000 Jonathan Chait would never say anything similar about me.

00:51:16.000 This is the rule on social media, which is that if you're a person on the right and you're nice to somebody on the left, That's basically OK.

00:51:24.000 But if you're a person on the left and you are you're nice to somebody on the right, you are immediately excoriated.

00:51:28.000 If you're the Girl Scouts and you say something nice about Amy Corny Barrett, then you are immediately excoriated.

00:51:32.000 You've done something deeply wrong.

00:51:33.000 OK, so Jonathan Chait, I think, can fairly be assumed to be a mainstream Democratic liberal.

00:51:38.000 He's somebody who supposedly believes in the evils of cancel culture.

00:51:41.000 He's somebody who supposedly believes in the First Amendment and freedom of the press and freedom of speech.

00:51:46.000 He wouldn't be somebody who would just make common cause with the radical left, right?

00:51:49.000 He would be somebody who is for free and open discussion, except that he is now engaged, Shade, in a campaign to basically call everybody he disagrees with a racist, which is a way of endorsing the program of the left.

00:51:59.000 Once you have labeled somebody as a racist, there is no reason to have a conversation with them.

00:52:03.000 Now they are in the untouchable class.

00:52:05.000 Now they have been put in the basket of deplorables with whom you may never have a conversation.

00:52:10.000 This is the goal.

00:52:12.000 This is what they are attempting to do.

00:52:13.000 So yesterday, Jonathan Chait tweeted out, conservatives like Charles Cook, who's the editor of National Review, and Ben Shapiro used to find Trump's racism embarrassing.

00:52:21.000 Then they concluded they like it.

00:52:23.000 Okay, this is an amazing statement.

00:52:25.000 It's an amazing statement.

00:52:27.000 So, he argues that Charles Cook, who, by the way, didn't even say that he's voting for Trump, and I, because I say that I'm voting for Trump, even though I didn't vote for Trump in 2016, we now embrace and love Trump for being a racist.

00:52:37.000 Now, there's not a statement Trump has made that I think is racist that I have defended.

00:52:41.000 In fact, I've called him out on any statement that I think that he has made that is racist.

00:52:45.000 So, for example, when he suggested that a Mexican judge was incapable of judging a case on Trump University because of his Mexican heritage, He was not, in fact, Mexican.

00:52:53.000 He was born in the United States.

00:52:55.000 I said that is a racist comment.

00:52:57.000 I've ripped Trump up and down when I think he has said something that it doesn't matter.

00:53:00.000 According to Jonathan Chait, anybody who is going to vote for Trump, anybody who disagrees with Jonathan Chait that Trump overall is a racist, anybody who disagrees with any of that stuff is, in fact, a racist.

00:53:11.000 The liberals in this country, the people like Joe Biden, they're not going to make common cause with people on the center right.

00:53:15.000 They're not going to make common cause with people who are in favor of free speech.

00:53:18.000 They're not in favor of strengthening the protections of the First Amendment.

00:53:21.000 They're not in favor of strengthening the ability to disseminate information.

00:53:24.000 They're very much in favor of the social media campaigns that turn every corporation, every press outlet, into an instrument for their utopian goals.

00:53:33.000 That's the choice that's been put to mainstream liberals and mainstream liberals are failing that choice.

00:53:36.000 And Joe Biden is a great indicator of a person who is failing that choice.

00:53:39.000 Do I think that Joe Biden is going to defend the rights of conservatives to be heard on social media? 0.69

00:53:44.000 No, I damn well don't.

00:53:46.000 I can name off the top of my head a thousand conservatives who are going to defend the right of liberals to disseminate their informations on Twitter.

00:53:52.000 But I can't name a single Democrat who right now is willing to actually stand up and say anything about this in a position of power.

00:53:58.000 Not one.

00:53:59.000 This is the problem in the country.

00:54:01.000 The woke have taken over the party, not because the woke represent a majority of the Democratic Party, but because all it takes is a radical minority that is willing to sit out elections, a radical minority that is willing to use its power in concerted ways to convince the liberals that they ought to side with that radical minority rather than building some sort of bridges with people with whom they disagree and getting half a loaf rather than the entire loaf.

00:54:23.000 That is the math that the liberals are doing right now, and it's an ugly, ugly, ugly math.

00:54:27.000 Okay, meanwhile, there is a piece of good news for the Trump administration going into the election five days out from the election.

00:54:33.000 The GDP...

00:54:35.000 The GDP statistic is great this quarter.

00:54:40.000 GDP was up 33%.

00:54:41.000 Now we are still down net on the year, but that is a very, very good number, right?

00:54:46.000 I mean, the GDP stat jumping 33%, it's the highest jump in GDP in the history of the United States.

00:54:51.000 That is because as lockdowns began to alleviate, people started to go back to work, people started to go back to business, people started to live their lives again.

00:54:58.000 And as people start to live their lives again, infections start to spread.

00:55:02.000 The best way to limit infections is to socially distance from people, not to be in a room for 15 minutes, in an air-conditioned room for 15 minutes with people.

00:55:09.000 And if you are going to be in close contact with people, then wear a mask, right?

00:55:12.000 We know all of this.

00:55:13.000 We know all of this.

00:55:15.000 But the new push is obviously we have to shut everything down, apparently forever, right?

00:55:19.000 This is the new push.

00:55:20.000 Everything must be shut down until the end of time is the new goal.

00:55:25.000 Now, I understand, and I've said before, that I think COVID is dangerous.

00:55:29.000 Of course, COVID is dangerous.

00:55:30.000 It is more dangerous than the flu.

00:55:31.000 It is not more dangerous than the flu for young people.

00:55:34.000 It is less dangerous than the flu for young people.

00:55:36.000 But it is more dangerous than the flu, particularly for the elderly.

00:55:39.000 But COVID does not justify the kind of actions that we are seeing across Europe.

00:55:42.000 It does not justify the kind of actions that we are seeing proposed in the United States.

00:55:45.000 We have to bring the hospitalization rates down.

00:55:47.000 There is good news.

00:55:48.000 We have some therapeutics that are now being trotted out.

00:55:51.000 There's a good study that came out on Regeneron today.

00:55:53.000 That study shows that the rate of hospitalization has been reduced by around 50 to 60% for people who take Regeneron early.

00:56:01.000 That's the monoclonal antibody treatment that you've heard Dr. Mari Makkari talk about on this program from Johns Hopkins University.

00:56:08.000 So there are therapeutics that are being used.

00:56:09.000 They're bringing down the death rate fairly radically.

00:56:11.000 Still, we have to get the hospitalization rate down.

00:56:14.000 That means that young people cannot infect old people, so we have to be careful.

00:56:17.000 But what we are seeing now, in Britain, there's talk about literally having the police break into people's homes and break up family gatherings.

00:56:25.000 We've heard the same thing about Thanksgiving gatherings from Gavin Newsom in the state of California.

00:56:29.000 We are treating COVID like it is airborne Ebola.

00:56:31.000 It is not airborne Ebola.

00:56:33.000 The current statistics on COVID from the CDC.

00:56:36.000 The latest CDC estimates of infection fatality rate by age.

00:56:40.000 If you are age 0 to 19, your chance of dying from COVID is 3 in 100,000.

00:56:43.000 For every 100,000 infections for people under the age of 20, there will be 3 people who die.

00:56:50.000 If you're between the ages of 20 and 49, by the way, this is for all populations, right? 0.65

00:56:53.000 This is not separating off the healthy from the unhealthy.

00:56:55.000 So if you're healthy, your chances are way lower than this, right?

00:56:58.000 If you're unhealthy, if you have clinical obesity, if you have diabetes, if you have serious heart issues, obviously your chances are much higher.

00:57:04.000 So this doesn't striate by health condition, it's just by age.

00:57:09.000 If you're between the ages of 20 and 49, then your death rate, your infection fatality rate from COVID is one in 5,000.

00:57:17.000 Right?

00:57:17.000 Two in 10,000 infections.

00:57:18.000 So for every 10,000 people in your age range who are infected, two will die.

00:57:22.000 If you're between 50 and 69, every 995 out of 1,000 infections you'll survive.

00:57:26.000 Five deaths per 1,000.

00:57:30.000 Once you hit above the age of 70, everything kills you, right?

00:57:33.000 Once you hit above the age of 70, then there'll be 5.4 deaths per 100 infections.

00:57:37.000 Because basically, once you're above the age of 70, then the flu can kill you also, right?

00:57:40.000 I mean, there's very, like, it's more deadly than the flu for people who are above the age of 70.

00:57:44.000 But actually, there's less of a differential between death rates from flu and COVID between the ages of 70 and death than there is between the ages of 50 and 69, for example, because you're just more vulnerable when you are of that age.

00:57:56.000 Nonetheless, we are talking about full-scale lockdowns nearly everywhere on Earth.

00:58:00.000 So this shows a couple of things.

00:58:01.000 One, Donald Trump is not actually responsible for the spread of COVID.

00:58:05.000 It turns out that France is having a massive, massive breakout of COVID.

00:58:08.000 Germany is having a massive breakout of COVID.

00:58:10.000 Italy is having a massive breakout of COVID.

00:58:12.000 The EU is getting walloped right now.

00:58:13.000 It turns out, the heavier you locked down in the first place, the more you're getting a spike in COVID right now.

00:58:18.000 France is now going to reimpose a nationwide lockdown.

00:58:20.000 Germany will close bars and restaurants and impose other restrictions for a month in a last-ditch effort to protect hospitals from becoming overwhelmed with virus patients as Europe battles a second wave of the pandemic.

00:58:29.000 Remember, Germany was the big success story.

00:58:31.000 It turns out COVID comes for everybody sooner or later.

00:58:34.000 For months, according to the New York Times, European countries have tried to slow the spread of the virus through targeted restrictions aimed at avoiding the tough nationwide lockdowns imposed in the spring.

00:58:42.000 But the measures have not succeeded at halting the surge in cases and hospitalizations, putting more drastic limits on daily life back in play.

00:58:49.000 Officials are prioritizing keeping schools and some economic activity open in stark contrast to the spring, when movement was severely limited.

00:58:56.000 President Emmanuel Macron argues that officials had no choice but to impose another lockdown in the face of limited hospital capacity.

00:59:02.000 He says much of Europe is facing a similar situation.

00:59:05.000 He says that Europe is being overwhelmed by a second wave we now know will probably be harder and more deadly than the first.

00:59:10.000 Most non-essential businesses will be closed again, including bars and restaurants.

00:59:13.000 Movement outside the home will be strictly limited.

00:59:15.000 Private and public gatherings will be banned.

00:59:17.000 Universities will pivot to online classes.

00:59:20.000 Some jobs will remain open, but the lockdowns are going to be in effect through at least December 1st.

00:59:25.000 This is in France.

00:59:27.000 So obviously this is Donald Trump's fault.

00:59:29.000 Also, it shows that lockdowns are exactly what you thought they were.

00:59:31.000 They're just a delay tactic.

00:59:33.000 That's all they are.

00:59:35.000 So you can either lock down forever, or you can acknowledge that there is a risk to living daily life, and then you can go out and live your life, and you can take precautions that are responsible.

00:59:43.000 In the UK, they're going absolutely wild.

00:59:45.000 In the UK, a police commissioner now says that officers may break into Christmas family dinners if they flout lockdown rules, which seems like a pretty grave violation of personal privacy for a disease that is extremely unlikely to kill people who are under the age of 50.

01:00:02.000 Right now, the United States is experiencing a surge as well.

01:00:05.000 Three dozen states have reported the average number of people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 rose by at least 5% over the past week.

01:00:12.000 Admiral Brett Giroir, Assistant Secretary of Health, says we are at another critical point in the pandemic response.

01:00:17.000 And of course, he encouraged people to avoid crowded gatherings and wash your hands a lot.

01:00:21.000 The United States reported 73,000 new cases on Tuesday, bringing the seven-day average of new cases up to about 71,832.

01:00:30.000 Right now, there's worry about hospitalizations, which are starting to climb pretty significantly.

01:00:34.000 This is actually the third wave of hospitalizations that we've seen.

01:00:36.000 We saw a giant wave at the beginning, then we saw that southern wave that happened during the summer when people went into air-conditioned areas, and now we are seeing a third wave.

01:00:44.000 The places where we are seeing the highest rates of newly reported cases are exactly the places that didn't get hit hard the first time, right?

01:00:50.000 Basically, everywhere that avoided it is now getting walloped.

01:00:53.000 So North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, right?

01:00:58.000 States that are actually not getting walloped right now include Florida, which got walloped before, and places like New York, which is not getting hit particularly hard.

01:01:06.000 There's a spike there, but it's not a spike that is anywhere close to the caseload in places like North Dakota.

01:01:13.000 So, bottom line is that this is what everybody thought it was, right?

01:01:17.000 It is going to wave through the United States.

01:01:19.000 It is going to do what it does.

01:01:21.000 You can take mitigating measures, and that's pretty much all you can do.

01:01:23.000 The stock market took a dump yesterday because of all of this as the lockdowns approach.

01:01:27.000 That, of course, is not a great shock.

01:01:29.000 Anthony Fauci, who's been unleashed to be his pessimistic doom and gloom self, he says that it may be the end of 2021 and maybe beyond before we reach a sense of normalcy.

01:01:37.000 By the way, that's not going to happen.

01:01:38.000 It isn't.

01:01:39.000 If you think that the world is simply going to put everything on pause, For a disease that is not killing extraordinary rates of people under the age of 70?

01:01:47.000 I mean it's killing... When I say not extraordinary, I mean like not Ebola.

01:01:52.000 Not MERS.

01:01:53.000 Right?

01:01:53.000 It is killing people at an outsized rate compared to the flu.

01:01:56.000 But you probably don't know that many people if you are under the age of 70 who have died of the flu.

01:02:00.000 Okay, but here's Anthony Fauci saying, we're basically going to, we're going to be in this stasis situation until maybe 2022.

01:02:06.000 And here's the thing, the closer you lock people down, the more you lock people down, the less effect it's going to have.

01:02:11.000 People are just going to start ignoring it.

01:02:13.000 Already, you can see it.

01:02:14.000 Already, you can see that people have basically said, okay, well, if I get it, I get it.

01:02:17.000 And that's just the way it's going to work because you cannot prevent people from living their lives this way.

01:02:21.000 Here's Anthony Fauci promoting Zoom and Gloom.

01:02:24.000 I would imagine, at least in the United States, the way things are looking, that if we get a vaccination campaign and by the second or third quarter of 2021, we have vaccinated a substantial proportion of the people, I think it will be easily by the end of 2021 and perhaps even into the next year before we start having some semblances of normality.

01:02:50.000 And it really depends on what you mean by normal.

01:02:53.000 Okay, well, if by what we mean by normal is normal, that's not going to happen.

01:02:56.000 And nobody's gonna stay home until the end of time by borrowing money from the future in order to stay home for a disease that, if you're under the age of 20, is killing you at a rate of 3 per 100,000, and if you are under the age of 50, is killing you at a rate of 2 per 10,000.

01:03:11.000 That's not going to happen.

01:03:12.000 It just isn't.

01:03:13.000 But at least some folks on the left are acknowledging what is at stake right here.

01:03:16.000 So Eddie Glaude, who is a commentator over on MSNBC, he suggests that to even value freedom is a waste of time.

01:03:23.000 We should just stop it.

01:03:24.000 Stop valuing freedom and liberty.

01:03:26.000 He says that we have to stop explo- You know, it's the talk of freedom and liberty that's killing people.

01:03:29.000 No, you can be free, and you can live a liberated life, and you can also be responsible.

01:03:34.000 These things are not mutually exclusive.

01:03:36.000 But the idea of the left is that freedom itself is the danger.

01:03:40.000 Which ties into freedom of speech and every other thing that the left believes about freedom.

01:03:43.000 Freedom itself is the danger.

01:03:44.000 Here's Eddie Glaude saying that the right keeps using freedom talk as an excuse for irresponsibility.

01:03:49.000 Maybe the right is using freedom talk because I don't think it's appropriate for the government to break into my family Thanksgiving dinner because they want to protect grandma.

01:03:55.000 I just don't think that's appropriate.

01:03:56.000 Grandma is a sentient human being. 0.97

01:03:58.000 We are all sentient human beings.

01:03:59.000 Here is Eddie Glaude, though, saying freedom and liberty, I presume, are bad now under these circumstances.

01:04:05.000 This is the exploitation of an ideological commitment to something called liberty or freedom.

01:04:11.000 And the casualty, the collateral damage, happens to be 227,000 dead Americans.

01:04:18.000 27,000 dead Americans in the name of a certain idea of liberty and freedom.

01:04:25.000 That's just nonsense.

01:04:28.000 It's nonsense.

01:04:29.000 Hundreds of thousands of people have died in other countries with lockdowns, with mandatory masking.

01:04:34.000 And the idea here is that if you like freedom and blame it on freedom and liberty, that's not what's going on here.

01:04:39.000 It isn't.

01:04:40.000 Okay?

01:04:40.000 And freedom and liberty does not mean I have the freedom and liberty to go cough in an old person's face.

01:04:44.000 That's not what we're talking about here.

01:04:46.000 The left is pro-lockdown because the left generally believes that freedom is not Freedom allows the freedom to do wrong, and therefore freedom itself is the threat.

01:04:54.000 That is an ideology that should not sustain contact with reality.

01:04:58.000 But it does.

01:04:59.000 There are a lot of people who believe that government can save you from everything, including yourself.

01:05:02.000 Alrighty.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - October 29, 2020

Twitter’s Repulsive Censorship | Ep. 1126

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