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00:01:42.000He's an activist, just like Don Lemon is an activist, just like Anderson Cooper is an activist.
00:01:47.000Chris Cuomo, however, has now been embroiled for months on end in the scandal involving his brother, Andrew Cuomo, the former governor of New York, who was not ousted from his position as governor of New York for killing every old person in New York by shipping COVID-positive elderly people back into nursing homes and then covering it up.
00:02:03.000No, he got ousted from his job because he couldn't keep his hands off ass.
00:02:06.000That's basically why Andrew Cuomo is no longer the governor of New York, and Kathy Hochul, the current governor of New York, continues to just fail upward.
00:02:14.000She only takes positions abandoned by men who get caught in sexual peccadillos of some sort or another.
00:02:21.000There may still be legal liability that attaches to Andrew Cuomo, but Chris Cuomo has been able to sit there despite his myriad failures of coverage during his brother's scandal, and he's been able to just occupy that seat over at CNN.
00:02:37.000Chris Cuomo was actively facilitating his brother's attempted cover-ups of the ass-grabbage.
00:02:43.000According to the New York Times today, Chris Cuomo played an outsized role in ex-Governor Cuomo's defense.
00:02:49.000Who could have suspected that not Fredo would have done this?
00:02:53.000I mean, so remember, Chris Cuomo is the guy so intelligent that he once said that saying that he is like Fredo Corleone, like the dumber brother in the Corleone family, that saying that is an anti-Italian slur on the order of using the n-word.
00:03:05.000That's how intelligent Chris Cuomo is.
00:03:10.000It turns out, was willing to go to the mattresses for his brother.
00:03:14.000According to the New York Times, thousands of pages of new evidence and sworn testimony released on Monday show the extent to which former Governor Andrew Cuomo relied on a group of allies, including his younger brother, CNN host Chris Cuomo, to strategize how to deflect and survive a cascade of sexual harassment charges that eventually engulfed him.
00:03:30.000Beginning last December, with the first public accusation by a former aide, Lindsay Boylan, the records lay out in unvarnished detail how a tight-knit group of advisors discussed a series of increasingly drastic steps to manipulate the press, discredit his accusers, and retain a grip on power that became less and less tenable.
00:03:46.000After debating the legality of the move, they agreed to pass Ms.
00:03:51.000Portraying her as politically motivated and unhinged, they sought and failed to rally dozens of former female aides and supporters to pen an op-ed defending him.
00:03:59.000Now, that in and of itself would be pretty scummy, except for the fact that we've seen that playbook before, and it really is up to the media whether to buy the playbook.
00:04:06.000What I mean by that is that if Bill Clinton was useful, they not only bought the playbook, they just repeated the playbook verbatim.
00:04:12.000If, however, Bill Clinton is no longer useful, then Bill Clinton is a terrible person who never should have been president.
00:04:18.000If this hits in the middle of COVID mania last year, then we just ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist.
00:04:23.000Then, if it outlives COVID mania, then we just feel like it's a good time to get rid of Andrew Cuomo, because he's kind of a liability.
00:04:29.000Anyway, given the fact that, again, he basically just dumped all the elderly in open graves.
00:04:34.000According to the New York Times, Chris Cuomo pressed to take on a greater role in crafting his brother's defense, including phoning into strategy calls and using his media contacts to keep tabs on reporters pursuing stories about the governor.
00:04:45.000At one point, he even ran down a second-hand tip that another woman accusing the governor of unwanted advances at a wedding was lying.
00:04:53.000You need to trust me, Chris Cuomo pled with Melissa DeRosa, the governor's secretary at one point in March, arguing that she should rely on him and other outside advisors like the political consultant Liz Smith and the pollster Jeffrey Pollack.
00:05:04.000By the way, Liz Smith was also a consultant for Pete Buttigieg, and she was texting people that Christine Blasey Ford was Looney Tunes.
00:05:12.000At the same time that Pete Buttigieg was out there, like out front talking about how he believed Christine Blasey Ford, Probably his chief assistant was telling the Cuomos that she was Looney Tunes, which just shows you how politically motivated every single thing is when it comes to the Me Too movement.
00:05:27.000Said Chris Cuomo to Melissa DeRosa, we are making mistakes we can't afford.
00:05:31.000CNN said on Monday that the investigative documents deserve a thorough review and consideration.
00:05:35.000Quote, we will be having conversations and seeking additional clarity about their significance as they relate to CNN over the next several days, the company said in a statement.
00:05:43.000Now remember, CNN has spent every waking moment of the last several years suggesting that Fox News is simply a propaganda outlet on behalf of Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
00:05:51.000Here you literally have one of their anchors, who's the brother of perhaps the most celebrated governor in America by CNN last year.
00:05:58.000He was doing comedy bits, Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour on CNN every night with his brother, governor of New York, while advising him on how to track down women who are accusing his brother of playing grab ass.
00:06:11.000And CNN's like, well, we'll investigate it.
00:06:15.000You know, just like you would anyone else.
00:06:17.000But it doesn't take all that much to keep a job at CNN.
00:06:20.000You don't even have to keep... Honestly, it's not just that you can cover up for your brother's malfeasance or try to help him cover up for his own sexual peccadilloes.
00:06:28.000You don't even have to keep your hands off your own junk on camera.
00:06:32.000I mean, Jeffrey Toobin still has a job over at CNN.
00:06:34.000Like, the standards over there are unbelievably low.
00:06:38.000Even though Brian Stelter will maintain that they remain a very, very trusted name for most Americans.
00:06:42.000We'll get to more on Chris Cuomo Not Fredo over here in just one second.
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00:08:01.000The previously unseen material, according to the New York Times, including video of the former governor answering questions under oath, were produced earlier this year by investigators working for Letitia James, New York's Attorney General, who, of course, issued this report solely in order to clear the path for her own gubernatorial run.
00:08:34.000James had already released transcripts of an 11-hour interview with Mr. Cuomo and interviews with 10 women who had accused him of a range of misconduct.
00:08:41.000In a statement after Monday's release, Richard Azzopardi, a spokesman for the former governor, accused James, who is now running for governor, of acting out of political malice toward Cuomo.
00:09:34.000By way of explaining why she, and not an assistant, was sharing Colin Strad details for a strategy call.
00:09:39.000In another message released by investigators, DeRosa describes berating two people, including one nicknamed Sponge, who is among Mr. Cuomo's accusers.
00:09:50.000In one instance, investigators asked Mr. Azzapardi to say whether or not the governor had ever pelted him with apricots in a fit of rage.
00:09:57.000He claimed the story, which was relayed in the testimony of another unnamed staff member, was false.
00:10:01.000Azzapardi said, but he also testified, he's yelled at me.
00:10:04.000I've yelled back at him, but it was fine.
00:10:05.000First of all, if Andrew Cuomo pelts his lawyer with apricots, that is the best thing I've ever heard about Andrew Cuomo.
00:10:12.000Like, it actually makes me like Andrew Cuomo.
00:10:14.000Anybody who pelts their lawyer with apricots basically deserves to be governor forever, no matter what else they have done, I think.
00:10:20.000One of the people who was very involved was Chris Cuomo, according to the New York Times, who appears to have played a larger role than he has admitted to or has previously been known.
00:10:29.000As the situation started to accelerate, my brother asked me to be in the loop, Chris Cuomo told investigators in a six-hour interview last July.
00:10:35.000He said he saw himself as a satellite of his brother's more formal advisors.
00:10:39.000He insisted to investigators he had never manipulated coverage or spun other journalists to benefit his brother.
00:10:44.000He has told viewers of his show he acted only as a brother to be a sounding board, to listen and to offer my take, advising his brother to tell the truth, whatever it was, and eventually to resign.
00:10:55.000As a working journalist with a vast network of sources in and outside of media, Chris Cuomo proved to be more useful to those trying to help the governor cling to power, according to text messages, emails, and testimony collected by investigators.
00:11:05.000He also argued strenuously against his brother resigning before a full investigation was conducted.
00:11:10.000When Mr. Rosa was trying to keep tabs in early March on journalists working to uncover stories of harassment, she turned to Chris Cuomo for intel.
00:11:17.000On it, he wrote back after one such request.
00:11:19.000A few days later, Mr. Rosa wrote to the governor's brother.
00:11:21.000She had heard Ronan Farrow of The New Yorker was getting ready to move a story.
00:11:26.000Chris Cuomo said he was in a panic over how the governor's team was handling the accusations.
00:11:30.000He pledged to, quote, let me help with prep before drafting his own proposed statements for the governor to read, including one referencing cancel culture.
00:11:37.000He also used his contacts to try to aid the defense in other ways.
00:11:40.000After the New York Times reported in early March that the governor had made an unwanted advance on a young woman at a wedding, Chris Cuomo texted DeRosa to say, quote, I have a lead on the wedding girl, who he believed had potentially been put up to it to hurt the governor.
00:11:53.000The lead turned out to be bunk, he told investigators.
00:11:56.000So, again, Chris Cuomo, deeply involved in the defense.
00:12:18.000In fact, I think there's something kind of nice about it.
00:12:20.000What I will say is that you don't get to be an anchor on CNN covering the news every night while ignoring one of the biggest news stories in the country that you happen to have inside information about.
00:12:33.000You want to be an advisor to your brother in the middle of an investigation into how many butts he was grabbing at wedding parties.
00:12:39.000And you should not be on air at the time.
00:12:42.000But there are really no standards over at CNN at all.
00:12:45.000In fact, last night, Chris Cuomo went on air, had nothing to say about this entire thing.
00:12:49.000And at the end of his show, he always does this weird crossover with Don Lemon, where Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo do a bit of a jokey, hokey routine.
00:12:56.000And Don Lemon talked about how much he loves Chris Cuomo, which makes sense because Don Lemon himself is a political hack.
00:13:55.000It is called Take Up Space, The Unprecedented AOC.
00:13:58.000They should have called it So Fresh, So Face, The AOC Story.
00:14:02.000Apparently, the book will include a series of essays on the wonders of AOC, including an essay on the role her beauty plays in her public perception by Rhonda Gerlach, analysis of her social media greatest hits by Madison Malone Kircher, and an essay on her rare authenticity by Molly Fisher.
00:14:17.000By the way, I love the notion that the AOC machine, which is just a production machine.
00:14:51.000There will be no greater gift this year than steak.
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00:15:49.000Speaking of the media and their untrustworthiness, I'm just going to remind you that last week, a black 39-year-old man ran a car into the middle of a parade of small children and elderly grandmothers and killed a bunch of them, and the entire media have completely forgotten about it.
00:16:05.000These are your trusted institutional sources.
00:16:07.000We're going to tell you what you need to do on a day-to-day level.
00:16:10.000Everything you need to know is going to come from these people, except for how they just obscure facts on a regular basis.
00:16:16.000It's completely disappeared from the news, by the way.
00:16:17.000Waukesha completely disappeared from- Can you- I wonder why.
00:16:20.000Why did Waukesha completely disappear from the news?
00:16:22.000So, you still remember how there was a woman named Heather Heyer who was killed in Charlottesville by a white supremacist driving a car into a parade.
00:16:44.000The person in Waukesha killed six times as many people, and no one seems to care anymore, even though the man's social media is filled with anti-white rage, BLM nonsense, and actual quotes from Hitler.
00:16:59.000And we are supposed to pretend that that doesn't matter at all, because the media have decided it's no longer of issue.
00:17:07.000I thought that those weren't being rolled out completely on American roads for a while, but apparently they are, and they just run people down at parades.
00:17:42.000He's a busy guy sleeping in his basement, drinking insure and mumbling to himself.
00:17:46.000Our hearts go out to this community, to the people in Waukesha, that we've been in touch obviously with officials there, and we're all watching as people are recovering.
00:17:55.000And this is such a difficult time of year for this to happen.
00:18:00.000Obviously any president going to visit a community requires a lot of assets, requires taking their resources.
00:18:06.000And it's not something that I have a trip previewed at this point in time, but we remain in touch with local officials and certainly our hearts are with the community as they've gone through such a difficult time.
00:18:17.000Now, I would take that a little more seriously, except for the fact that your entire campaign decided to descend on Kenosha after a career criminal named Jacob Blake, who's alleged to have raped a woman, showed up at her house.
00:19:34.000If a Bernie Sanders acolyte shoots up a bunch of Republican Congress people, that's a national news story for like a day.
00:19:40.000However, if there are a bunch of people who break into the Capitol building on January 6th, that's a national news story forever.
00:19:48.000Now, I'm not saying that The ones that I just mentioned there that are national news stories should not be.
00:19:52.000I'm saying that many of the ones they call local news stories ought to be national news stories.
00:19:56.000But your media are driven by just as Chris Cuomo acts at the behest of his brother, Andrew Cuomo, so too the left-wing media act at the behest of their brothers in the Democratic Party.
00:20:08.000To suggest that the media and the Democratic Party are somehow unaffiliated is an absurdity piled on top of an absurdity.
00:20:15.000This is a point that was made by Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, who has been taking the lead in fighting the battle against the media here in the state of Florida.
00:20:23.000Here he was doing a presser with a bunch of members of law enforcement because Florida is a fantastic state.
00:20:30.000And here is Ron DeSantis talking about Waukesha.
00:20:47.000This guy was a career criminal, let out on, didn't really have any bail, basically, should not have even been on the street, had clear Anti-white animus.
00:20:59.000And it seems like, you know, for corporate press, they're more apt to characterize a parent who goes to a school board meeting to protest bad policies as a domestic terrorist than somebody who intentionally rams an SUV into a crowd of innocent people.
00:21:49.000So why would you trust these members of the media anywhere along the line?
00:21:53.000By the way, the latest crime story, and it will not be a national story, is the Jussie Smollett trial in Chicago.
00:22:02.000Remember, the entire media jumped to the conclusion, the absurd conclusion that Jussie Smollett was telling the truth, when he said last year that he was walking on the streets of Chicago at 3 a.m.
00:22:11.000in a windstorm and a bunch of MAGA-hatted idiots came up behind him and garroted him.
00:24:29.000File this one under, why would you ever trust politicians to do anything about your life?
00:24:34.000It is a source of constant bewilderment that you look at the institutional players in your life and you think, these people need more authority.
00:25:48.000And if somebody says something mean and nasty about me, eh, that's life.
00:25:52.000But these congresspeople are simultaneously some of the biggest mouth, thin-skinned people I've ever seen in my entire life, and it's so obnoxious.
00:25:58.000So we've had an entire national controversy now over the fact that Lauren Boebert did an event Of course she made a joke about Ilhan Omar.
00:26:06.000A mildly inappropriate joke about how she said that Ilhan Omar was a bomber or something.
00:26:12.000Okay, now, is that a joke that politicians should tell about each other?
00:26:18.000Is it something that you should spend even one iota of energy on today?
00:26:24.000No, and frankly, if we are going to rank crimes by Congress members, I'm going to go with the Congress member who says openly anti-Semitic things routinely, who has expressed support for terror groups, who has written letters to judges attempting to lessen the sentence of people who are being recruited to ISIS.
00:26:39.000I feel like that's a lot worse than Lauren Boebert making a bad joke about that person.
00:26:53.000Democrats have entered into a game that they do not want to play because Congress will be controlled by Republicans come January 2023.
00:27:00.000And when that happens, Ilhan Omar will not be on the Foreign Affairs Committee.
00:27:02.000Eric Swalwell will not be on the Intelligence Committee since he was banging a Chinese spy.
00:27:06.000We are not going to be having a lot of the Democratic members of Congress who are currently sitting.
00:27:10.000Maxine Waters is not going to be on Financial Services.
00:27:12.000That lady is corrupt as the day is long.
00:27:15.000Now, the rule was, it used to be, that parties got to select which of their own members got to sit on which committee.
00:27:20.000That rule is in place because you really didn't want one party dictating to the other party who its prominent members would be.
00:27:27.000But Democrats have broken that rule because they've stripped a bunch of Republican Congress members of their committee assignments.
00:27:33.000Even if I think those members are bad, I don't think it's up to Democrats to strip the opposing party of their committee assignments.
00:27:38.000So if we're going to play this game, because now Democrats want to do this to Lauren Boebert over this joke that we're about to play for you, then Ilhan Omar is likely to find herself out in the cold come January 2023, as she should be.
00:27:49.000So anyway, here is the original joke that Lauren Boebert told.
00:28:51.000Again, does that mean that Lauren Boebert told the world's greatest joke there?
00:28:54.000Is that a joke that she should apologize for?
00:28:56.000You know, on a personal level, the way that this typically should work is she should call up, you know, I don't think she owes the public an apology.
00:29:03.000I think there's this routine in politics now where if you say something mean to somebody, you don't owe them an apology, you owe the public an apology.
00:29:36.000So I told Ilhan Omar that she should make a public apology to the American people for her anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-police rhetoric.
00:29:45.000She continued to press, and I continued to press back.
00:29:49.000And then, Representative Omar hung up on me.
00:29:52.000Rejecting an apology and hanging up on someone is part of cancel culture 101, and a pillar of the Democrat Party.
00:30:02.000So there'll be a lot of words spilled over this, a lot of ink spilled over this, a lot of talk about- Democrats are now seriously considering, again, stripping Lauren Boebert of her committee assignment over this.
00:30:39.000In the hope of receiving a direct apology for falsely claiming she met me in an elevator suggesting I was a terrorist and for a history of anti-Muslim hate, instead of apologizing for her Islamophobic comments and fabricated lies, Representative Boebert refused to publicly acknowledge her hurtful and dangerous comments.
00:30:52.000She instead doubled down on her rhetoric, and I decided to end the unproductive call.
00:30:56.000I believe in engaging with those we disagree with respectfully.
00:31:06.000The dynamic in Congress is that our Congress people have every incentive to be social media stars and very little incentive to actually just do public service.
00:31:26.000And should you spend one, again, one ounce of energy over the offense being taken by members of Congress, that other members of Congress are saying mean things about them?
00:31:34.000Not one shred of energy should you spend today on this.
00:31:40.000So I only wish to point this out because I wish to point out that you, the American people, have decided to give more of these people power over your life, and I don't understand why.
00:31:51.000Speaking of people who have power over your life, and also don't deserve power over your life, there's a new book that is coming out, titled Laptop from Hell, Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide by a New York Post columnist named Miranda Devine.
00:32:04.000She says, while Joe Biden waged war on white privilege from the White House, his own family was the living embodiment of the worst of it.
00:32:10.000Joe has always made sure that Biden's lived a life of unearned privilege and entitlement under his beneficent patronage.
00:32:15.000Like members of a hereditary aristocracy, the Bidens would have access to the best America can give, the most prestigious educational institutions, internships, clerkships, scholarships, directorships, and government sinecures.
00:32:25.000Decades ago, the president decided that Hunter Biden would act as the family's cash cow, says Devine.
00:32:30.000Hunter, who would have preferred to be an artist or a writer, was assigned the role of paying the bills for the rest of the family through lucrative grace and favor jobs and sweetheart deals facilitated by Joe's network of connections in Delaware and later throughout the world.
00:32:42.000In addition to records from his missing laptop showing Hunter held 10% of a Chinese business deal for the big guy, Divine quotes an email Hunter wrote to his oldest daughter Naomi in 2019, quote, I hope you can all do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years.
00:32:59.000Unlike Pop, I won't make you give me half your salary.
00:33:02.000Hunter later allegedly complained to his aunt, who raised him after his mother's tragic death, that although Joe Biden co-signed student loans for Hunter and Bo, he expected Hunter to pay off both loans.
00:33:11.000Dad never paid one dime, Hunter wrote in an email, according to the book.
00:33:14.000Devine says she found evidence that Joe Biden benefited from Hunter's deals in multiple emails, such as one concerning JRB bills.
00:33:20.000In another email, detailed by Divine, dated April 12, 2018, Hunter gets locked out of one of his Wells Fargo accounts because, quote, my dad has been using most lines on this account, which I've through the gracious offerings of Eric Schwerin, a close family advisor, have paid for the past 11 years.
00:33:35.000When Schwerin writes about the amount of money in my account, his scare quotes imply its contents belong to him in name only.
00:33:41.000So, in other words, the Biden family has been engaged in a grift in which they used Hunter as basically their cutout for years and years and years and years.
00:33:49.000And these are the politicians that we trust.
00:33:55.000On all sides of the aisle, by the way.
00:33:57.000But the notion from the media is that you ought to, again, give them more and more and more trust.
00:34:02.000They're not disconnected from the American public.
00:34:04.000By the way, speaking of being disconnected from the American public, just want to note quickly, be Buttigieg, who Democrats are now touting as a possible replacement for Kamala Harris, should Joe Biden go down before 2024.
00:34:16.000Pete Buttigieg yesterday, man of the people, Pete Buttigieg from South Bend, Indiana, who can afford to take two months of paternity leave based on the grave physical harms experienced by him and his spouse during the birth of their child.
00:34:29.000He needed paternity leave for two months in the middle of a supply chain crisis.
00:34:49.000Most of the physical infrastructure work was contemplated in the bill that was just signed, but there is more envisioned in the Build Back Better law.
00:35:35.000These are the folks you have decided to put in charge of your life.
00:35:37.000Already coming up, we'll get to Jack Dorsey, who is now out at Twitter to spend more time with his beard.
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00:37:49.000Meanwhile, over at Twitter, we here on the conservative side of the aisle, we've been bashing Jack Dorsey for a very long time because he's a political hack.
00:38:11.000He's the kind of guy who goes over to Malaysia and just goes to like a Malaysian cave and hangs out with the mosquitoes so that he can demonstrate that he's a spiritualist.
00:38:18.000And also he's grown a beard a la Ben Gunn so he can live on Treasure Island and try to help Hawking and Long John Silver.
00:38:43.000The person who's about to replace Jack Dorsey as the Twitter CEO is the CTO, the Chief Technology Officer, whose name is Parag Agrawal.
00:38:52.000Well, there's only one problem with Parag Agrawal.
00:38:54.000If you didn't like Jack Dorsey because you thought that he was too restrictive, that he had banned too many people who are on the right side of the aisle, Agrawal is worse.
00:39:02.000According to National Review, Twitter's incoming CEO, Parag Agrawal, suggested last year a company should focus less on free speech during an interview with Technology Review.
00:39:11.000Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey announced Monday he is stepping down as CEO and will be succeeded by Agrawal, who is the platform's current CTO.
00:39:18.000Last year, Technology Review Editor-in-Chief Gideon Litchfield asked Agrawal how Twitter balances its efforts to combat misinformation with, quote, wanting to protect free speech as a core value.
00:39:28.000And here's what Agrawal said, quote, Our role is not to be bound by the First Amendment, but our role is to serve a healthy public conversation, and our moves are reflective of things we believe lead to a healthier public conversation.
00:39:39.000The kinds of things we do about this is focused less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed.
00:40:02.000Twitter's role, he said, is moving toward how we recommend content.
00:40:05.000And that sort of is a struggle that we're working through in terms of how we make sure these recommendation systems that we're building, how we direct people's attention, is leading to public healthy conversation that is most participatory.
00:40:17.000In other words, we are going to shift and control exactly the kind of information you see.
00:40:21.000So if you were worried about Twitter before under Jack Dorsey, now you have to worry twice as much about that under the incoming Twitter CEO, Parag Agrawal.
00:40:28.000Again, remember, these are elites who have decided that they are going to make for quote-unquote healthy conversation.
00:40:34.000Their definition of healthy conversation is they get to define the parameters of the conversation.
00:40:38.000They get to define the terminology that they use.
00:40:40.000They get to define the terminology you use.
00:40:42.000They get to define what allows you to remain on Twitter and what does not.
00:40:46.000One of our columnists here at Daily Wire, one of our reporters, Amanda Presti-Giacomo, she was banned outright from Twitter for the great crime of having called a biological male a biological male.
00:40:58.000This is the kind of stuff that Twitter is going to be doing more and more in the future.
00:41:01.000They're simply going to be deciding the Overton window by referencing the Democratic Party's most radical line and then implementing it top down.
00:41:08.000And they will shadow ban people, they will be blocking people, they will be banning people outright.
00:41:14.000Now, that does provide an opportunity for places like Parler, so long as places like Parler are then not de-platformed by Amazon Web Services.
00:41:21.000And this is where you get into the real institutional threat to American life today.
00:41:27.000Very often, it is from corporations working hand-in-glove with democratic institutions and under threat from democratic institutions in order to restrict your ability to disseminate information.
00:41:37.000Because when you have neutral service providers, like Amazon Web Services, deplatforming alternatives to Twitter, like Parler, which is what happened earlier this year, after January 6th, when that sort of stuff happens, what you are basically saying is there is no alternative but to use the sort of language and abide by the rules set by the cultural elites who disagree with you on baseline things about how the world should work.
00:42:00.000It's illegitimate and it's authoritarian.
00:42:02.000And you're gonna see more of that from Twitter with Jack Dorsey gone.
00:42:06.000I'm now forced into- How bad is the left?
00:42:08.000I'm now forced into the position of defending Jack Dorsey as opposed to the person who's about to succeed him.
00:42:15.000So the reason, by the way, that Jack Dorsey said that he was leaving, aside from he has a desperate need to meet insects from other continents, is he said that he needed to leave because he didn't want to get in the way of the company.
00:42:30.000He said, I'm going to serve on the board through my term to help Parag and Brett.
00:42:33.000Brett would be Brett Taylor, who's going to become board chair with the transition.
00:42:50.000Of course, I love this service and company.
00:42:51.000By the way, the actual reason Dorsey is leaving is apparently because he's very into crypto, which So am I. I like crypto as well.
00:42:59.000My deep concern is that I've seen too many freedom-oriented institutions taken over by people who do not actually have freedom at their heart.
00:43:06.000Jack Dorsey took over Twitter, or he founded Twitter, and his original goal was to broaden the capacity for free speech and soon enough he was shadow banning and banning people outright.
00:43:19.000And when it comes to Bitcoin, which was an alternative to centralized government control of currencies, I just have a feeling that a lot of the people who are getting into crypto right now are then going to harness it on behalf of government and use it against you the same way they've done with so many social media outlets.
00:43:35.000If decentralization was the wave of the future, re-centralization is the next step.
00:43:41.000And it seems to me that the Jack Dorseys of the world have been a negative influence in that direction, unfortunately.
00:43:48.000Alrighty, meanwhile, the Biden administration continues to panic over Omicron.
00:43:56.000Omicron, of course, is the new variation of the COVID-19 virus, and we're all supposed to freak out and panic over it.
00:44:05.000There's, of course, only one problem with that, which is that there's no actual reason for the panic at this point.
00:44:10.000Yeah, people, by the way, in free areas are just ignoring this.
00:44:13.000Right down here in South Florida, we have Art Basel, which is the big art festival down here, and no one is not going.
00:44:19.000Everybody's just going to go do whatever they want.
00:44:21.000What's amazing about this is that, again, the scientists who are describing the new COVID variants are saying that the symptoms are mild.
00:44:29.000They're saying that there are more mutations in terms of the spike proteins, which means that it may be more transmissible, but it may also be milder.
00:44:36.000I don't understand why that's not a good thing.
00:44:38.000If I have a choice between slightly less transmissible, but still really transmissible, and kills more people, and more transmissible, but kills fewer people, I care about the latter, right?
00:44:48.000I mean, the former you just call a cold.
00:44:51.000If there's something that's very transmissible and kills virtually no one, that's okay.
00:44:55.000If there's something that's somewhat less transmissible, but still very transmissible and kills a ton of people, that's a bad thing.
00:45:03.000So one of the things that nobody's talking about is the possibility that Omicron, which apparently is more transmissible, might also be milder.
00:45:11.000If that's the case, let's say it becomes dominant.
00:45:21.000Like if I have a choice between being infected with Omicron with a lower death rate and Delta with a higher death rate, why is it bad that Omicron becomes the dominant strain? By the way, that would follow the pattern of viruses.
00:45:31.000Viruses typically get less, less deadly and more virulent over time.
00:45:37.000And when they become endemic, they become easier to get, but they also become less deadly.
00:45:42.000That's something that the world can survive.
00:45:43.000And yet the world is treating this thing with abject, sheer terror and panic.
00:45:48.000And at that point, you start having to doubt motives.
00:45:51.000Again, I always attribute to stupidity rather than malice.
00:45:54.000But at this point in time, I'm having a hard time telling how this is not malice.
00:45:59.000You still have a bunch of people in positions of authority claiming that they know how to shut down the virus when they've spent a year and a half not shutting down the virus.
00:46:05.000And then telling you that you should panic in the absence of data.