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00:00:09.000Very important news item that benefits our country and our right to free speech.
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00:01:51.000So I want to lead today with a question, which is, how should elites treat their country?
00:01:58.000How should the people in charge of their country, in the economic elites or in cultural institutions or in the movies or in any form of power, how should they treat their country?
00:02:09.000Well, 100 years ago, Carnegie, Mellon, and Chase, they were some of the wealthiest people ever in the history of the planet.
00:02:17.000Now, there is no doubt that they were powerful and that they had wealth, but they used that wealth largely to try and preserve America, build hospitals, libraries, build YMCAs, build things that actually helped the well-being of the nation.
00:02:35.000Now, over the last couple years, a common lament from this program has been the fact that the people who are in charge of our country, the wealthiest people, are involved in this pattern of self-hatred.
00:02:49.000They're engaged in this relentless pattern of not doing what's best for the country, of engaging in ideas for the World Economic Forum, the suppression of free speech, woke ideology, the suffocation of the individual.
00:03:06.000We have talked about how people like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos and George Soros and the Google people and the Louis Vuitton guy, they seem to be so fixated on using their unlimited wealth to do things that actually hurt the cause of liberty, not help the cause of liberty, that hurt the strength of America and weaken America.
00:03:28.000This has seemed to be almost overwhelming, especially the last couple years.
00:03:32.000We've been complaining about how AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Johnson Johnson, and Moderna, they cooperate with Fauci and the FDA and Bill Gates.
00:03:41.000And it seems like the elites have it all figured out, that they always have each other's back.
00:03:46.000And basically, the only thing that we have left is the truth, which matters, and common everyday people fighting for that.
00:03:53.000We felt outnumbered and for good reason.
00:03:56.000We turn around and we say, why is it that the people that are worth $100 billion are so concerned about crushing the plumber in Marshallton, Iowa?
00:04:07.000Now, in the last 24 hours, this has now changed.
00:04:10.000There has been a seismic shift in how the elites, or let me say an elite, engages and treats his country.
00:04:21.000Free speech is essential towards any country that wants to embrace economic freedom or private property.
00:04:27.000If you do not have freedom of speech, then you're not even able to have bad ideas be challenged.
00:04:33.000Tyranny is not able to be cross-examined if you do not have freedom of dialogue or free expression of ideas.
00:04:44.000Free speech is the first freedom for a reason.
00:04:48.000It's because we as human beings are the speaking beings.
00:04:53.000It's who we are, dialogue, which means through reason.
00:04:56.000In the beginning was the word, and the word was God, and the word was with God.
00:05:00.000That word is logos, our ability to make sense of the world by associating terms or labels or names to certain things.
00:05:14.000And for most of human history, the few, the leaders or the elites, are able to silence the many.
00:05:21.000The founding fathers decided to change all of that.
00:05:24.000And a lot of our wealth and a lot of our prestige and a lot of our greatness as a country is largely responsible to our ability to have free speech be a fundamental and unquestioned American value.
00:05:40.000Now, the courts still allow free speech.
00:05:43.000If you want to go get a poster board and show up in front of a state capitol, no one's going to arrest you.
00:05:48.000Now, of course, that wasn't the case if you didn't wear your mask correctly during the virus, but that's a separate issue.
00:05:55.000But instead, the fight for free speech is less whether or not you could take a poster board and go in front of your state capitol, but whether or not you're able to speak freely on the internet, online, and whether or not corporate America will actually allow you to speak freely.
00:06:11.000The fight for free speech is no longer whether or not you could take a poster board and challenge your leader, which no one will take seriously.
00:06:18.000It's whether or not you're allowed to say those things where they can spread instantaneously, publicly, and virally.
00:06:25.000The fight for free speech, of course, has been happening on platforms like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube.
00:06:38.000Now, I'm not taking credit for anything, obviously, but it was the Babylon Be, then it was us, then it was Tucker Carlson, which seemed to be part of a movement that broke, that was kind of the straw that broke the camel's back.
00:06:54.000As that happened, Twitter decided to ban me and to ban Tucker and to ban the Babylon Bee because of things we did not do wrong, and we refused to press delete, we refused to bend the knee.
00:07:05.000And this created kind of a revival of interest of people saying, what is Twitter good for anyway?
00:07:14.000Now, a man who very well had no reason to be interested in this.
00:07:18.000For example, he had every excuse to kind of just do the Jeff Bezos thing.
00:07:27.000Jeff Bezos is a perfect example of a self-interested, unpatriotic billionaire who gives the minimum amount to charity, who just kind of cares about space exploration and his unlimited power, owning the Washington Post, getting government contracts.
00:07:41.000He doesn't actually care about the well-being of the country that he lives in.
00:07:47.000But one elite, in fact, the richest elite, was very disturbed, especially recently, with what Twitter has been doing.
00:07:57.000So last week, on March 25th, Elon Musk asked his Twitter followers a very simple question, which is, do you think Twitter respects freedom of speech?
00:08:10.000Do you think that Twitter is a place where speech and ideas can spread freely?
00:08:15.000He said, quote, Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy.
00:08:19.000Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?
00:08:23.00070% of people said no with 2 million votes on Twitter.
00:08:27.000He also asked, quote, should the Twitter algorithm be open source?
00:09:03.000Now, there were a lot of theories floating around, but we no longer have to live in mystery.
00:09:08.000This morning, the news came out of an elite, the world's wealthiest man, who has decided to come into the fight that all of us are engaged in on a day-to-day basis.
00:09:27.000Earlier, it is up 21% after Tesla CEO Elon Musk disclosed a 9.25% stake in the company, potentially making him the largest shareholder.
00:09:36.000People on Twitter have been pushing him to buy the company as he's been vocal about some of its recent policies, and in particular, censorship.
00:10:04.000He's mad that people can't speak freely on the internet anymore, and he wants to do something about it.
00:10:09.000Elon is on a crusade to restore freedom of speech.
00:10:12.000And we're going to get into the significance of this in great detail because this is more than just a wealthy guy buying a company.
00:10:18.000No, this has societal, civilizational implications.
00:10:22.000And dare I say, this is one of the first examples of the people that were always on the top crest of human society coming down into the trenches of what matters most for us as human beings.
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00:11:49.000I know a lot of you have been watching this and say, there's no way every billionaire believes what Klaus Schwab and what Bezos and what Bill Gates believes.
00:11:57.000There's no way all of them are on this program.
00:12:01.000Is that all it takes is one or two or three to defect from this monolithic way of thinking and then do something about it.
00:12:10.000Now, it's a big deal to do something about it.
00:12:12.000So if you go to the world's wealthiest people, the list of the world's wealthiest people, there isn't a long list of people who could potentially come in and change the game in Twitter because not only does it take the resources, it takes the willingness.
00:12:26.000And also, you have to be willing to basically upend the entire apple cart of what the regime wants.
00:12:31.000So Bezos isn't going to do it, obviously.
00:12:33.000He's too concerned with going to Mars.
00:12:36.000I think he thinks there's a lower tax rate on Mars or whatever.
00:12:42.000He's too worried about getting your children addicted to wearing goggles all day long in the metaverse.
00:12:46.000The Google people aren't going to do it.
00:12:48.000Larry Page or Sergey Brin, they're retired and too busy skiing or doing whatever they do.
00:12:53.000And plus they must protect their own interests at Google so they can't do a power violation there.
00:12:58.000The Louis Vuitton guy isn't going to do it.
00:13:00.000He's bought by the European socialist elite and he can't upset that entire power dynamic.
00:13:06.000So you go through the list of people, who is there really to do it?
00:13:11.000And then the Walton family isn't going to do it, obviously, because way too intertwined with government contracts, really kind of left Elon.
00:13:19.000And Elon is such an interesting story.
00:13:22.000And whenever he has a success, he takes a bigger risk.
00:13:25.000And look, there's plenty I could criticize Elon for, his work in China, some of the crony capitalist deals he's done.
00:13:33.000But I'll be very honest, and I say this publicly.
00:13:35.000I have a soft spot for entrepreneurs that are trying to make the world a better place.
00:13:50.000And what you've seen today is one of the most admirable and bold and unexpected developments that I think we have seen in the last couple decades.
00:14:00.000And dare I say, the last 50 or 60 years, of someone who was in the celebrity-protected Oscar invitational front row of the Grammys ruling class who comes down and says, I want to help you guys.
00:14:21.000Every noble cause requires a benefactor.
00:14:27.000The American Patriots in the Revolution required the French government to come in with assistance.
00:14:32.000Even the book of Luke and Acts in the Bible, the first thing that is said in the book of Acts is dear Theophilus, who was the underwriter, literally the benefactor that wrote most of the New Testament.
00:14:45.000In fact, Luke and Acts together is more words than all of Paul's writing in the New Testament.
00:14:53.000And for the last couple years, I have felt, and many others, that we've had some amazing support, but nothing on the size or the scale of Elon.
00:15:01.000I mean, we have some amazing supporters at Turning Point USA that keep us going and keep us growing.
00:15:06.000But when we're up against Twitter and Facebook and Google and we're up against the World Economic Forum and we're up against Disney, we kind of put our hands up and say, how does one fight answer one defector and one person who decides to upset the billionaire balance of power?
00:15:22.000And this noble cause, which is the fight for speech, the fight for freedom of expression, the fight for liberty, now all of a sudden the game has changed this morning.
00:15:33.000And it's changed for a variety of reasons.
00:15:36.000Because this is a rounding error for Elon Musk.
00:15:41.000What is Elon Musk net worth as of today?
00:16:39.000He lives in like a pseudo-RV in rural Texas, right outside of Austin.
00:16:43.000No, no, what motivates him is improving humanity.
00:16:48.000And he understands that if you're not able to speak, then it doesn't matter if you got electric cars and you could put things in your brain and you got solar panels everywhere.
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00:20:04.000Now, here's the interesting thing about the left that is losing their mind now that Elon Musk is taking over Twitter and there's a lot of leftists that are just scrambling and Elon Musk is too wealthy, too rich to cancel.
00:20:19.000And here's something to think about, is that the very same leftists that are pushing for electric vehicles everywhere have only made Elon Musk more powerful.
00:20:31.000The very same leftists, the very same Democrats that want subsidies for electric-run vehicles, they've created Elon Musk.
00:20:44.000So the world's wealthiest people goes Elon Musk, Bezos, Bernardo Anault, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Larry Page, Larry Ellison, Sergey Brin, Gautam Adani, Indian billionaire, and then Mukash Ambani, another Indian billionaire, and then Steve Ballmer from Microsoft, and then Carlos Slim from Mexico.
00:21:04.000Out of that list, no one's going to do anything consequential except Elon, and he has.
00:21:09.000So he's speaking out and he's saying that wokeism is a mind virus.
00:21:15.000He's deploying 1% of his net worth, not because he thinks he's going to get magically rich, but he's done some deep thinking.
00:21:21.000He says, wait a second, if I'm really in the mission of trying to improve humanity, which he believes is through driverless cars and through electric vehicles and through Neuralink and through all of this, and I have plenty of problems with some of that stuff, trust me, especially Neuralink.
00:21:36.000I think it's wrong and it's creepy and it's a violation of the human sovereignty, but whatever.
00:21:41.000Elon is deciding, though, to use his resources in a moral and courageous way.
00:21:47.000What is the point of being rich if you can't live in a free country?
00:21:53.000What's the point of being fabulously wealthy over an unfree nation?
00:21:58.000I personally would rather have $1 million and live in a totally free country versus $5 or $10 million and live in some sort of authoritarian regime and be in charge.
00:22:21.000They control things, but they're not free.
00:22:23.000I want to live in a country where my fellow countrymen is empowered to speak their mind first and foremost.
00:22:30.000And Elon knows, and this is one of the reasons why I think he's a fan of the Babylon B, that one of the most effective ways to go after wokeism is comedy and freedom of speech.
00:22:41.000So when the Babylon B got censored from Twitter, you could just start hearing the screaming from Menlo Park right now.
00:24:34.000Time magazine Man of the Year, 2021, Elon Musk.
00:24:38.000Now, here's another interesting part of this, is that Elon taking over Twitter, Elon challenging all these orthodoxies, he's now keeping the elites guessing.
00:28:31.000This is the first defection from the ruling class that we have seen to substantially try and rebalance the corporate hierarchy in the fight for freedom of speech in my lifetime.
00:28:47.000This is the world's wealthiest man who's deciding that your concerns actually matter.
00:28:53.000This is the world's wealthiest man who's deciding that freedom of speech online is just as important as freedom of speech with the poster board in front of your state capitol.
00:29:02.000And I believe this is going to start a movement of other billionaires doing the same in lesser increments, smaller increments, I should say.
00:29:14.000It's going to take not just the everyday people rising up, but it's going to take some people with some significant resources to start to challenge this garbage that we are seeing.
00:29:24.000And if nothing else, just be neutral and take over these companies and take them away from the woke, tyrannical garbage that is plaguing our society.
00:29:35.000I think it's very admirable for someone that has more money than any other person ever to exist in the history of the world, not just to spend it on themselves, but to help us out.
00:30:25.000I think Elon, at a fundamental level, knows that he has a moral obligation to do this.
00:30:32.000Finally, someone with power is stepping up.
00:30:35.000The current regime is so dependent right now on censorship.
00:30:41.000Their entire power structure, the equation on how they're able to rule, is based on their ability to shut up voices like mine, shut up voices like Tucker Carlson, shut up voices that dare question their decisions.
00:30:58.000So this is bigger than just Elon helping out the commoner.
00:31:02.000This is bigger than an elite defecting.
00:31:04.000This is bigger than a person of power finally getting into the game.
00:31:07.000All of that is awesome, and all of that is good.
00:31:09.000And again, I'm making no judgments on Elon's business activities.
00:31:13.000I think some of what he's doing is fine.
00:31:50.000If Musk is able to get a free Twitter ahead of the midterms, if Musk is able to rebuild Twitter for what it was, I mean, you're talking about if you think that they have come after Musk before, I guarantee you this.
00:32:09.000You'll be able to play this tape back just with my fertilizer prediction and many other things, which is they are going to call for the suspension of government contracts with SpaceX.
00:32:32.000I think he's so innovative, so visionary, so smart, so creative.
00:32:36.000I think he'll be able to do it no matter what.
00:32:39.000But you have to understand that if you under, and I've listened to a lot of Elon and I've studied him for a while.
00:32:45.000By no means an expert, but I've probably listened over 200 hours of his interviews, and I have a pretty good idea kind of how he views the world.
00:32:51.000He believes through all these different kinds of pieces, the solar panels, the electric vehicles, the Neuralink, the boring company, that all of these will kind of work in harmony to try to improve humanity.
00:33:03.000I think that's overly simplistic, idealistic, somewhat dangerous at times, but that's the way he views the world.
00:33:09.000But he's justifying this now 1% asset transfer to take over Twitter as none of that will matter.
00:33:17.000The electric vehicles, the solar panels, the boring company underneath the surface, all of that will be irrelevant if millions and tens of millions and hundreds of millions of people are not able to speak their mind.
00:33:30.000If creativity is stunted, if people are not able to communicate the way they want, if comedy is dead, then what good are all of those engineering and mechanical breakthroughs if we are actually becoming less free and digressing, or should I say, regressing on the other side?
00:33:53.000I think Elon wants to leave a positive legacy.
00:33:57.000I think Elon realizes that speech is a first freedom, that we are the speaking beings.
00:34:03.000And if you cannot speak freely online, then it puts the entire program at risk.