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00:02:27.000We're going to start today with a story that might not be top-line news.
00:02:32.000We will dive into what I believe is the growing good news for Donald Trump.
00:02:37.000We will go into the story around Hunter Biden.
00:02:42.000We'll also talk about big tech and my fight and my struggle with Twitter and the decision that we will reluctantly make.
00:02:51.000However, I want to start with a story that I think impacts our entire civilization, our entire culture.
00:02:57.000Something that we take for granted that really no longer exists as much in 2020 as it did in 2019 or 2015.
00:03:08.000There's a story out today that says that Facebook has demonetized the satire site Babylon B, and it claims that Monty Python spoof incites violence.
00:03:19.000So the Babylon B is probably the premier satire site in the country.
00:03:28.000The Babylon B is the best website when it comes to mocking and making fun of the ruling class and the leftist political intelligentsia.
00:03:45.000There is no website that is more effective and better at poking fun at the absurdity of the left.
00:03:56.000I encourage all you guys, you guys go to BabylonB.com.
00:03:59.000It's hilarious content, to be perfectly honest.
00:04:03.000For example, one of the stories is: Biden offers anyone who votes for him a seat on the Supreme Court.
00:04:08.000Perfect satire is when it is almost believable, where you're almost questioning whether or not the story is true.
00:04:18.000That is where satire is at its very best.
00:04:21.000And in times like these, with the absurd being abundant, in times like these, where the left and the cultural elites are pushing the boundaries of what we consider to be normal and right in our world so unbelievably far.
00:04:38.000Now is the time where we need comedy, where we need satire more than ever.
00:04:44.000Comedy, from a utilitarian standpoint, pushes boundaries.
00:04:49.000Comedy is what allows us to have a reprieve from the ever declining culture that we live in.
00:04:59.000Comedy is the only mechanism that gives us a capacity to question those in charge.
00:05:06.000Put simply, comedy keeps the ruling class humble.
00:05:11.000And so Facebook has now demonetized the satire site Babylon B, because they claim that the Monty Python spoof incites violence.
00:05:22.000They think that this clip that comes from the great Monty Python movie, which is of witches and ducks, one of the greatest scenes of the Monty Python film, is inciting violence.
00:05:35.000In fact, let's play tape cut five of this exactly.
00:06:15.000Bread, apples, very small rocks, cider, a great gravy, cherries, mud, a trenches, church, lead, lead, a duck.
00:06:28.000One of the most famous scenes in movie history has now, according to Facebook, been saying they're inciting violence.
00:06:36.000Now, Facebook doesn't say that, or Twitter doesn't say that, when they're coming after us Trump supporters, where they're calling for our death or they're following us to the streets.
00:06:44.000But a civilization that does not allow comedy, which is exactly what's happening with these big tech elites, a country that does not allow mockery of the people in charge, is a civilization that is getting towards creeping totalitarianism.
00:07:00.000Comedy allows us to challenge the absurd.
00:07:04.000And by the way, liberals and the left, they loved comedy when George W. Bush was president.
00:07:11.000They used comedy to try to get more power.
00:07:13.000They constantly made fun of how George W. Bush spoke.
00:08:49.000Good comedy requires the capacity to make fun of yourself.
00:08:53.000And this is exactly why the left hates comedy.
00:08:56.000Because they have no tolerance to make fun of yourself, to make fun of themselves, or to have any sort of space to not take themselves very seriously.
00:09:08.000You understand what we're doing is very serious, don't you?
00:09:11.000We're trying to save the world from fascists and conservatives.
00:09:16.000And this makes perfect sense when you start to see the late night hosts like Jimmy Fallon, to a lesser extent, Jimmy Fallon, but Jimmy Kimmel, I should say, Stephen Colbert.
00:09:27.000Do you notice that the audiences of these late night comedians no longer laugh, they clap?
00:09:37.000Do you notice that they're not laughing at what they're saying?
00:09:43.000This is a tragic death of American comedy.
00:09:45.000And we see it here through Facebook demonetizing the satire site Babylon Bee, because they claim it incites violence.
00:09:54.000What's really going on here is a full push to restrict speech that is incredibly effective in debasing the credibility of the power class in our country.
00:10:13.000The people in charge need to make sure that the comedians and the critics are shut up.
00:10:20.000It's exactly why 20th century dictators like Benito Mussolini and Joseph Stalin and Mao Cedong always locked up the comedians that made fun of them.
00:12:05.000And when you read the real news and you're wondering if it's the onion or Babylon B, then you're in trouble.
00:12:12.000By the way, the onion, which is left-wing comedy, left-wing satire, never gets demonetized.
00:12:17.000It's only comedy that they don't like.
00:12:20.000Health experts now recommend maximum social distancing by attending a Biden rally.
00:12:26.000If you are unable to challenge people in charge, which is what comedy does, what comedy is supposed to do, then you do not have a civil or decent society.
00:12:45.000Truth and the pursuit of truth is what built Western civilization.
00:12:53.000And this is exactly why we are seeing the death of comedy.
00:12:56.000People that I grew up listening to, people that I thought that were funny growing up, they've just become political mouthpieces and they complain the entire time.
00:13:04.000And you can see this in the overuse of expletives and swearing with late-night comedians.
00:16:56.000I was at an event last evening in Huntington Beach, California.
00:17:01.000We had a great time, Calvary Chapel of the Harbor.
00:17:04.000Somebody asked me privately, they said, Charlie, what do you think is lacking in America right now?
00:17:11.000And I said, I don't think we have enough people making fun and making light of what's happening in our country.
00:17:20.000And the deeper point of that is that comedy is a mechanism of how we are able to communicate truth to the masses and actually be able to view the madness in a way that is palatable.
00:17:37.000If you do not have comedy, you don't have speech.
00:17:40.000If you don't have comedy, you can't pursue truth.
00:17:42.000And if you do not have comedy, you have totalitarianism, which is exactly what the left wants.
00:17:48.000This is exactly why the major comedians in our country, like Sarah Silverman, who I don't think has ever been funny, they don't even try to engage in humor anymore.
00:17:59.000They are nothing more than MSNBC hosts that swear a little bit more and use some canned, reused jokes from the 1980s and then say, Orange Man Bad, and they get standing ovations and applause, but nobody laughs.
00:18:15.000No one laughs throughout the entire performance that they are doing.
00:18:20.000And Jerry Seinfeld has articulated this very well.
00:18:23.000We played in the previous segment how Jerry Seinfeld was talking about, I don't care what you look like.
00:19:54.000Because when you hyper-focus and hyper-fixate on just people's skin color and not actually on their character or their worldview, then you are racializing America.
00:20:06.000And the reason we're talking about this is how Facebook has demonetized the satire site, The Babylon Bee.
00:20:12.000And every major totalitarian movement in the last hundred years always suppresses comedy, always, especially comedy that makes fun of what they're trying to do.
00:20:24.000The ruling class, the power class, there's so much hypocrisy.
00:20:29.000There's so much wrong with what they're trying to do to our country that humor is one of the only mechanisms that we have left to hold them accountable.
00:20:37.000This is one of the reasons why they hate Donald Trump.
00:20:45.000And if you are a country where you can't make fun of yourself, where you are a person that cannot engage in self-deprecation, and you take yourself so incredibly seriously, then you do not live in a free society.
00:21:00.000And that's what's happening with these tech companies.
00:21:02.000These tech companies have now made it a position of their policy engagement that mockery, self-deprecation will not be tolerated if you go after the left.
00:21:18.000Now, The Onion, which is pretty funny, goes after mostly conservatives and Republicans, 90% of it.
00:21:22.000They do not get demonetized by the tech companies.
00:22:08.000Comedy is supposed to push the boundaries of what is allowed to be discussed.
00:22:15.000And then within that space, you're able to differentiate between what is good, what is bad, what is true, what is not, and maybe a little reprieve from the seriousness and the madness that is happening around us.
00:22:28.000One of the reasons why the totalitarians and the collectivists and the ruling class don't want this is because it's incredibly effective in challenging their power.
00:22:39.000Is that when you have a string of comics that engage in that line of cross-examination, that engage in being able to bring a light-hearted approach to things, all of a sudden, it's a lot harder to take those people in power as seriously as they want you to take them.
00:22:59.000Saturday Night Live is not funny anymore because Saturday Night Live is just making fun of Republicans and conservatives.
00:23:04.000And again, some of their jokes are funny every so often.
00:23:07.000I think they had a skit about a year ago that I think they did a pretty good job of.
00:23:10.000But SNL is nowhere nearly as funny as it was 15 or 20 years ago, 15 or 20 years ago, where they had their core cast where they would make fun of everyone at all times, where they would go through the news cycle.
00:23:22.000I mean, Seth Myers used to be a legitimately funny person, and then he turned into a political mouthpiece.
00:23:28.000Some of the greatest American comic talent has gone through SNL, Will Farrell, for example.
00:23:35.000And so, what is the broader point of this?
00:23:38.000And what does it actually have to do with the election that is just coming in 13 days?
00:23:43.000That the fact that the American comedian class, the fact that most of these comics have been completely silent, and in fact, they have been supportive of not just the silencing of opposing ideas is so unbelievably telling, and it is a warning sign, everybody.
00:24:31.000I don't agree with him on everything, but he's very good at what he does, and he is a stand-up comic, one of the last.
00:24:37.000And yet, the entire American comic class, from even Chris Rock to Dave Chappelle, the stand-up comedian class, they have decided that they hate Trump more than they actually want to make people laugh and question.
00:24:56.000And that's what comedy is supposed to do.
00:24:59.000It's supposed to ask the questions and be inquisitive towards the people in power.
00:25:08.000And the left did this unapologetically and relentlessly during George W. Bush.
00:25:13.000That's where when I grew up, I remember every Saturday Night Live episode, every late night comic would go after George W. Bush and Republicans, and it was very effective.
00:25:27.000And to a lesser extent, many comics went after Bill Clinton in the 1990s.
00:25:34.000And Jay Leno, before he retired, and boy, do we need Jay Leno back into kind of the American cultural landscape, he would make fun of everyone.
00:25:45.000And has there, there has never been a greater opportunity or a greater need for comics to stand up and challenge the madness in our country.
00:25:58.000The double standard of the virus and the lockdowns.
00:26:03.000The ruling elites that say it's perfectly fine to celebrate the Los Angeles Lakers winning the NBA Finals and BLM Incorporated to march through the streets, but there's something wrong with you going to church.
00:26:18.000There's endless material for these very talented comedians to engage in this space right now, but they're one of two things.
00:26:27.000They're cowards and they're afraid, or they're being held hostage by the scriptwriters, by the future movie deals, by the Netflix deals, by if anyone dares speak out against the power class, they might not get that next deal.
00:26:45.000They are being held hostage by the people in charge that if you actually question the Democrat Party and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and every single one of them, you are considered to be on the other team.
00:27:00.000You're considered to be opposition media.
00:27:04.000You play this out over a couple years and a decade, eventually, you will have an entire generation of people that is incapable and unprepared to question anyone in power.
00:27:22.000You have the most powerful people in our country that control the multi-trillion dollar corporations with the most talented comedians partnering together, all as one in lockstock unison.
00:27:34.000Being we no longer believe in a pluralistic society, we no longer believe in neoliberal free speech.
00:27:41.000Instead, we take ourselves so unbelievably seriously that we're going to make America in our image.
00:27:46.000And if you get in the way of us doing that, we are going to insult you, we are going to follow you, we are going to punish you.
00:27:55.000And so, as we see the demonetization of the satire site Babylon B, as we see comedians self-censoring or being censored by others, this is a fire alarm because this is the first step towards cultural tyranny.
00:28:15.000If you cannot have the most talented people that engage in the space of questioning via humor, like every great comedian has in the last 40 to 50 years, then other speech will disappear like that.
00:28:34.000The great comics of the last couple decades were unapologetic in speaking out against the decisions of the political and governing elite.
00:28:48.000Now, the left takes themselves so seriously because they do not believe in self-deprecation, which is the root and the heart of all humor.
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00:29:48.000The left will not tolerate anyone that does not agree specifically with everything that they deem to be important.
00:30:00.000Chris Pratt, who, of course, is from many different movies and TV shows, Guardians of the Galaxy, Parks and Recreation, Jurassic World, and more, has been deemed by the internet, whatever that means, according to Foxnews.com, that he is the worst Hollywood Chris.
00:30:55.000And people have come to Chris Pratt's defense just because of all this nonsense.
00:31:01.000Mark Ruffalo says that Chris Pratt is as solid a man as there is.
00:31:07.000And all of a sudden, there's this sudden push to try and cancel Chris Pratt, all because he does not agree with every single point of whatever secular left-wing position that is deemed to be the current theological belief of Hollywood.
00:31:31.000And what's really fascinating to me is that we, as conservatives, We are perfectly okay with the presence of people that disagree with us within our, in our planet, in our world.
00:31:45.000You see here that the left is not okay, not that even someone disagrees, But that someone might have even a slight skew of a different worldview within a position of leadership or authority within Hollywood, And so this story is gaining traction.
00:32:01.000Has come to his defense, and there's a great threat that if you dare disagree in Hollywood, that you will not be listed to movies, you will not be able to continue your career, and that is exactly how the collectivists operate now.
00:32:19.000They have never believed in freedom of Expression.
00:32:24.000They definitely do not believe in disagreement.
00:32:26.000And we see this all the time at Turning Point USA, where young people who speak out in any sort of disagreement, any sort of opposition to the dogmatic, predominant view of the academic intelligentsia or the people in charge, the power class, you can get kicked out of class.
00:32:50.000Just got another message from a young lady yesterday that she said she's getting kicked out of her sorority because she wore a Trump shirt.
00:32:55.000Does not surprise me at all whatsoever.
00:32:57.000And so the question for many people that are on the sidelines witnessing this is what will it take for you to engage against the people that wish to silence and destroy anyone that they disagree with?
00:33:17.000And this is exactly why if we do not get back to being able to challenge the people in charge via comedy, because comedy is rooted in truth.
00:33:29.000In fact, standupcomedyclinic.com, I never heard of it before.
00:33:33.000I was just kind of doing this in preparation of the show.
00:33:36.000It says, quote, I always tell my students when they sit down to write comedy, don't sit down to write something funny, but sit down and try to write something true.
00:33:53.000And as Dennis Prager often says, truth is not a left-wing value.
00:33:57.000Therefore, comedy is no longer a practice that the left enjoys.
00:34:03.000The only comedy that they will use is not so funny, expletive-filled attacks towards conservatives, Christians, and Republicans that they don't like.
00:34:14.000That's the only sort of speech that they feel comfortable interfacing on.
00:34:20.000And so to answer the question to the person who asked me privately yesterday in Huntington Beach, what do we need more of?
00:34:26.000We need more truth tellers and we need more comedians.
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