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00:01:41.000This is something that we are anticipating.
00:01:43.000When the people who actually run our country have decided to tell us whether or not a former president of the United States should be able to access an audience of over 228 million people or 69% of the United States population.
00:02:02.000I'm, of course, talking about Facebook, a company valued at over $900 billion.
00:02:19.000Facebook is not a participant in the promise of the consent of the governed.
00:02:25.000We are going to walk through what's really happening when it comes to this company and all the tech companies.
00:02:33.000So this was a day that we've been waiting for.
00:02:34.000They said on Cinco DeMayo that they were going to come out and happy Cinco de Mayo, by the way.
00:02:40.000They were going to come out and announce whether or not Donald Trump will be able to regain access to his Facebook properties, most significantly Instagram and Facebook.
00:02:52.000This came after January 6th, where Facebook decided to ban Donald Trump, but they said they're going to revisit it.
00:03:00.000Facebook's oversight board, which acts as a quasi-court over the company's content decisions, said the social network was right to bar Mr. Trump after he used the site to foment insurrection in Washington in January.
00:03:12.000The panel said the ongoing risk of violence has justified the move.
00:03:17.000But the board also said the indefinite suspension was not appropriate and that the company should apply a defined penalty.
00:03:24.000President Trump has not been charged with any crime.
00:03:27.000President Trump was acquitted by the United States Senate.
00:03:30.000And there's no evidence whatsoever to suggest that anything that Facebook is saying here is rooted in reality.
00:03:38.000So Facebook came out today and they said that Donald Trump will not be able to access the Facebook audience of, again, of over 228 million people.
00:03:51.000So they have this Supreme Court at Facebook.
00:04:08.000Article 3 of the United States Constitution, which we will explore today on this program, says very clearly and simply who the supreme law of the land is.
00:04:20.000Facebook is more powerful when it comes to dialogue and speech and spreading ideas than our own federal government.
00:04:29.000Now, Republicans largely created this situation because Republicans were bought and paid for by these mega corporations for years.
00:05:08.000Nikki Haley says Facebook and Twitter ban a former U.S. president, yet some of the world's worst dictators.
00:05:12.000Okay, that's the new talking point, right?
00:05:14.000That's not even what we're talking about here.
00:05:16.000It's a pretty good point, but it's a very superficial point.
00:05:22.000I'm going to show you what everyone's missing here, which is so much deeper and so much more important.
00:05:30.000Because you have to understand we're dealing with a corporation here and nothing that corporations that are worth $902 billion at the opening bell today.
00:05:46.000And so the Republican consensus is now, this is so terrible.
00:05:50.000Honestly, I don't want to hear their swan song.
00:05:53.000I don't want to hear their complaints.
00:05:55.000Republicans controlled the House, the Senate, and the presidency.
00:05:59.000And you had a chance to challenge the corporate oligarchy into actually listen to your voters when it came to big tech censorship and these monopolies.
00:06:13.000Instead, Republicans decided to go cut the taxes of these very same corporations.
00:06:19.000Do you know Facebook is going to pay a lower corporate tax rate this year than a couple years ago?
00:06:25.000Thanks to Mitch McConnell and thanks to Paul Ryan.
00:06:28.000I think Mitch McConnell did a nice job with judges.
00:06:31.000But it seems Republicans were so short-sighted because they never actually realized that liberty, the pursuit of virtue, absent of tyrannical involvement, might come under threat by a different entity than the government.
00:06:48.000You see, the conservative movement and many think tanks took a lot of money from Google, by the way, and from Facebook.
00:06:56.000They never quite understood something that was so obvious to those of us that actually live in the real world, that live outside of K Street and Capitol Hill, that there were two ways that you could lose your liberties in America.
00:07:10.000You could lose your liberties through the federal government coming through and auditing you and targeting you, maligning you.
00:07:18.000But we do have a constitutional process and judges that we have put in place that can help push back against that government tyranny.
00:07:27.000But Republicans, because Republicans were actually never conservatives, they were economic libertarians.
00:07:33.000This is a very important thing to talk about here.
00:07:36.000By the way, I think libertarians are really, I think they're correct on speech.
00:07:44.000I think they're completely wrong on immigration, drugs, and social degeneracy.
00:07:52.000But I could play nicely with libertarians on lockdowns.
00:07:55.000I think that the lockdowns were one of the biggest mistakes ever made by the American people.
00:07:59.000We led on that while other conservatives were more in a safetyist direction.
00:08:03.000We wanted to open up the country almost immediately.
00:08:05.000So I can play nice with libertarians on those issues.
00:08:08.000Where I will not play nice with libertarians on, as they have taken over most of the conservative movement economically, is this idea that corporations should never be touched, that they're always right, voluntary exchange, creative destruction, or this other phrase that is always so perplexing to me, spontaneous order.
00:08:31.000Now, some of this comes from very thoughtful literature, of which I have read almost all of the major books, from Rothbard to Mises to Friedman.
00:08:42.000And I think they make some phenomenal points.
00:08:43.000And I will also give a little bit of an olive branch to libertarians.
00:08:47.000I think that they're right on the money supply issue.
00:08:49.000Inflation is a very big, it's a massive threat against workers.
00:08:53.000And playing games from the Federal Reserve is a danger to decent society.
00:08:59.000But something they cannot answer, and the establishment Republicans are still hand-wringing over this because they can't quite figure out why this is happening, is what if I told you that a private company is more of a threat to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution than our government?
00:09:18.000What if I told you we have a Soviet Union in America that's downloaded in your child's phone?
00:09:27.000So we're going to continue to explore this, and then I'm going to tell you what's really going on here.
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00:10:44.000Should a company worth $902 billion with a 12-digit valuation and 228 million users be treated like the local body shop?
00:10:54.000Does the local coffee shop with six employees that's barely making it be treated the same as a company worth $902 billion?
00:11:04.000If you say yes, then you are more interested in whiteboard or chalkboard college-style idealism than what's good for humanity.
00:11:15.000There's a big difference between Sal's body shop with nine workers that does maybe a couple hundred thousand dollars in revenue a year, barely making it, and a company worth $902 billion.
00:12:04.000I mean, the decision is very clear insofar as, you know, the board has found that the suspension of former President Trump was necessary to keep people safe, that the actions of the former president encouraged and legitimized violence and constituted what the board has termed a severe violation of the Facebook rules.
00:12:26.000So he's more powerful than Neil Gorsuch.
00:12:29.000No one voted for this person, Thomas Hughes, but now he gets to make a decision.
00:12:33.000He makes a decision whether or not 228 million users get to see President Trump's content.
00:12:41.000Cut 57, Mark Meadows' immediate reaction to Trump remaining banned.
00:13:09.000It's a sad day for Facebook because I can tell you a number of members of Congress are now looking at do they break up Facebook?
00:13:16.000Do they make sure that they don't have a monopoly?
00:13:19.000And I can tell you that it is two different standards, one for Donald Trump and one for a number of other people that are on their sites and suggesting that more nefarious things than what the president has been accused of actually go unnoticed often.
00:13:41.000To listen to Facebook's response, which I'm sure was fascinating on the phone call, Doni, explain it to our viewers.
00:13:48.000Yeah, this is basically, I think, a nightmare situation for Facebook.
00:13:52.000They set up this oversight board, purportedly independent, to basically make the difficult decisions for them.
00:13:59.000But what has happened here now is that the board has said, well, you guys were right to suspend Trump at the time in the immediate aftermath of the insurrection, but we're not so sure you were right to suspend him forever and has now given the company six months, so until November, to figure out if Trump should be suspended or not.
00:14:21.000It's all back on Zuckerberg and it's going to create a public debate.
00:14:24.000I'm sure we'll hear from Trump saying that he should be allowed back on, from Democrats saying he shouldn't be.
00:14:29.000But all the pressure and the decision is now on Zuckerberg.
00:14:33.000Two years ago, I gave a speech in front of a bunch of business types and I said that the Menlo Park government is more powerful than our own government.
00:14:44.000They said, oh, these are just private companies and they'll be disrupted and they won't have this much power.
00:14:51.000Have we ever in American history had this much news and attention on a decision a private company makes about whether or not another private citizen or a former president is allowed to use their product or service?
00:15:09.000This is an unprecedented amount of power.
00:15:14.000I want you to think what we're talking about here.
00:15:15.000We're not talking about the United States Supreme Court or the Florida Supreme Court saying whether or not Donald Trump is able to host a rally.
00:15:24.000No, we're talking about a private company.
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00:16:38.000President Trump has been indefinitely banned from Facebook, 228 million users.
00:16:50.000More people use Facebook than watch the National Basketball Association, which is not saying much.
00:16:55.000Major League Baseball, again, not saying much.
00:16:58.00070% of the U.S. population is on Facebook.
00:17:03.000And so Facebook put together this board of oversight, which was nicely exposed by my friend Brendan Carr, who is one of the FCC commissioners.
00:17:14.000One of their other Supreme Court board members, Alan Russbridger, he's a left-wing campaigner who wanted to take President Trump's coronavirus briefings off air.
00:17:28.000Or how about Nicholas Suzor, who said that Twitter should deplatform the president?
00:17:35.000Or how about Afia Asana Tiawaya Asari Kai, who is a board member or a program manager on the George Soros Open Society Foundation?
00:17:50.000She's a board member for Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook.
00:18:17.000Jamal Green has more power than Clarence Thomas.
00:18:21.000No one ever voted for this guy, nor should they, because he fantasized publicly about Trump getting shot and killed.
00:18:28.000And he called Trump's election an unacceptable outcome and failure of American politics, and he pressed for impeachment.
00:18:34.000Or how about Nigat Dodd called Trump evil, wanted to build a wall around Trump, and said that it's sad to see the kind of country America has become and endorsed Bernie Sanders, perfectly unbiased.
00:18:50.000Or how about Julio Owanu, who says that federal workers were willing to commit inhumane acts for President Trump at U.S. airports?
00:19:07.000Or how about Cato Institute's John Samples thinks that people voted for Trump because like Flight 93 passengers on 9-11, they thought they were going to die anyways.
00:19:18.000And removing incompetent Trump, quote, may well be justified.
00:19:23.000So these are Supreme Court members that were never voted for, that were put into power and put into place.
00:19:31.000But we would be fooling ourselves if we thought that Mark Zuckerberg and the other people at Facebook were not directly involved in this decision, that there wasn't some private door meeting, closed door meeting where they really got done what they wanted to get done.
00:19:47.000So the question is, why would Facebook, a $900 billion company, let me say that again, they're a $900 billion company.
00:20:02.000The answer is so clear and it's so obvious.
00:20:06.000They think Republicans have no backbone at all.
00:20:11.000They know that if they just bully and push Republicans around, we will sue for peace.
00:20:15.000We will embrace our inter Neville Chamberlain and we will be decent and complain, but nothing will get done.
00:20:23.000You see, there's an old story from the Greeks.
00:20:28.000It's a phrase you'll hear on television every so often when people want to sound a little bit cutesy, but it's actually true, called the sword of Damocles.
00:20:38.000The sword of Damocles was this idea that when you came and visited the king or the emperor or whomever, if there was something he disapproved of, there would be a sword dangling above and it could go down and kill you at any moment.
00:20:52.000You see, the Democrats, they mean business now.
00:20:58.000You have to understand we're dealing with corporate types here.
00:21:02.000The people that run Facebook, they are trained to be risk averse.
00:21:06.000The people who run these mega corporations, they're always going to try to make a decision to their best of their ability to maximize their profit.
00:21:16.000Now, I think Delta and Coca-Cola obviously didn't do that.
00:21:22.000But Facebook here sat in a private meeting, and here's the conversation that they probably had.
00:21:28.000And I think almost everyone is missing this.
00:21:30.000Facebook said, hey, what happens if we bring Trump back on the platform?
00:21:38.000And someone in the boardroom, probably wearing four masks, said, well, Mr. Zuckerberg, the Democrats might break us up.
00:21:47.000If we do not pander to the Democrats and their demands, they are going to use antitrust action against us.
00:21:55.000And they mean it, because the Democrats right now are not talk, they are action.
00:22:02.000In fact, the Democrat Party tweeted today that Facebook should permanently ban Donald Trump from its platform.
00:22:09.000So then someone else in the room and Mark Zuckerberg in this private room with his counsel and his top aides asked, well, what happens if we ban Donald Trump?
00:22:34.000So Zuckerberg had to make a decision, and then he obviously conveyed that through whatever channels he could to the Facebook Oversight Board.
00:22:41.000If we think this is really an independent board, you're being played as a fool.
00:22:45.000It's as independent as the Venezuelan Supreme Court.
00:22:51.000But instead, Zuckerberg was left with a choice, and Facebook was left with a choice.
00:22:58.000Alienate Republicans who are experts at complaining or alienate Democrats who have become experts at action.
00:23:08.000What decision would you make if you were in the best interest of Facebook?
00:23:13.000Quite honestly, I would keep Trump off the platform because I know Republicans are weak.
00:23:32.000They see how Republicans go do ribbon-cutting ceremonies to bring Amazon and Google into their states like we have in Arizona, AM960, the Patriot.
00:23:41.000They see how these governors embrace the tech companies coming in as if it's some good thing for your state.
00:23:46.000They're just bringing in more apparatchiks to infiltrate your school system and artificially inflate property value so you pay more in property taxes.
00:24:41.000Everything in corporate life, the way these people think, is to balance risk-reward, and they are always risk-averse, especially when you're running a $900 billion company.
00:24:57.000So when Zuckerberg had to make this decision and quietly probably influence the Facebook board, this ridiculous Supreme Court board full of people more powerful than our own government, he was surrounded by a platoon of attorneys.
00:25:12.000And he probably asked, well, it's a counsel, and they probably charge him $3,000 an hour.
00:25:41.000So you got to keep the revolutionaries in check and give voice and credence to the corporate types in the Democrat Party.
00:25:50.000The reason this is all happening is because Republicans and the Republican Party have been pandering for the needs, wants, and interests for corporate America for so long.
00:26:05.000So then the other question that I kind of teased a little bit is: where are the anti-corporate Democrats?
00:26:11.000Remember when Bernie Sanders used to go on a crusade around America?
00:26:21.000You have a former president in Trump who is a racist, a sexist, a homophobe.
00:26:28.000But if you're asking me, do I feel particularly comfortable that the president, the then president of the United States, could not express his views on Twitter?
00:26:51.000Usually he's talking about smashing companies up and putting them into millions of pieces.
00:26:57.000So why are the Democrats, the socialist-type Democrats, so quiet when it comes to Facebook?
00:27:03.000Because they're patiently waiting their turn for Facebook to do what they could never do.
00:27:09.000The government does not have the power to do what Facebook just did.
00:27:15.000It is illegal for the government, according to this beautiful document, the United States Constitution, to do what Facebook just did.
00:27:24.000So Democrats are saying, hey, we might as well control and influence these massive companies instead of actually breaking them up.
00:27:34.000Let's use them as Democrat super PACs.
00:27:37.000And I'm going to tell you what, until Republicans on a state level start introducing bills to ban Facebook from their state, to tax them $5 million a day, which is what I think they should do, and to consolidate with other states, Facebook will keep on chuckling in their private boardrooms, and they will keep on placing their bet on the weakness of Republicans.
00:27:59.000And quite honestly, I would make the same bet because Republicans do not have the spine or the backbone to take on these fights.
00:28:10.000Instead, they're full of bluster, endless platitudes and op-eds, and angry cable news appearances and no action.
00:28:20.000Facebook knows that, and they are betting on the conservative movement's weakness.
00:28:26.000You have to understand, we are dealing with corporate types that are still interested in some form of profit drivers, and they are just playing the table here.
00:28:35.000Facebook is playing the odds, and this is the way that they believe they can make the most money and not get broken up.
00:28:43.000So, the only way that this changes is Republicans have to prove them wrong.
00:28:49.000And so, one of our team members here messaged me, producer Andrew, who's great, who's going to be filling in for me a little bit next week.
00:28:56.000He said, the left has won, therefore they present more of a risk to corporations.
00:29:22.000They're enthusiastic about using political power, media power, and cultural power.
00:29:27.000So we have the Neville Chamberlain Republicans sue for peace, say that it's a threat on the horizon, but don't actually do anything about it.
00:29:36.000It was famously Winston Churchill who talked about the threat of the National Socialist Workers' Party.
00:29:43.000And we have an example, actually, of one courageous Republican, one.
00:29:48.000Ron DeSantis just signed into law a bill that tech companies try to defeat, which would tax the tech companies for banning politicians off of social media.
00:29:57.000It was somewhat of just kind of a little bit of just kind of a public relations bill.
00:30:17.000We are going to spend $45 to $50 million a year donating to candidates, funding think tanks, running television advertisements.
00:30:29.000And we believe that Republicans are so weak, are so interested in their own election, that they will not take the steps to hold Facebook and Google accountable.
00:30:42.000Meanwhile, they are terrified of Elizabeth Warren and Alexander DiCasio-Cortez.
00:30:48.000That's where the real threat to them is.
00:30:51.000So to them, they're going to pander on political censorship and racial politics at all costs.
00:30:59.000Because the worst thing that could possibly happen for these tech companies is all of a sudden if the Republican Party starts to take this seriously.
00:31:10.000So this is where you come in, the voters.
00:31:15.000Why is it that a company worth $902 billion with 228 million users doesn't have to be held accountable for kicking off a former president of the United States?
00:31:28.000Do we no longer have an Article 3 of the United States Constitution that clearly states and defines the Supreme Court of the United States?
00:31:41.000The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court and such inferior courts as Congress may from time to time order and establish.
00:31:51.000The judges of the Supreme and Inferior Courts shall hold their offices during good behavior and shall at stated times receive for their services a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.
00:32:02.000The tech companies know how weak Republicans are.
00:32:41.000Start listening to your voters because the tech companies believe they can execute their own version of the Red Terror, the Knight of the Long Knives, the Purge against Republicans because they think you're too decent.
00:32:55.000They think that your leaders don't care about you.
00:32:57.000And it's time for the voters to start to say to our leaders, if you do not act on these issues, you're no longer Republican.
00:33:04.000We will primary you and we will remove you from office publicly.