Ep. 1008 - TikTok Deplatforms Michael Knowles
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Summary
The Democratic Party is still operating at a very high level, despite all the scandals and scandals that have come to light over the past year and a half. Michael notes that the old Tammany Hall Democratic machine would have made Boss Tweed blush.
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Anyone with two brain cells to rub together has known for a long time that BLM is a racket.
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But even I did not appreciate just how much of a racket it is until BLM's latest tax filings came out.
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We just learned that last year, BLM spent millions and millions of dollars buying expensive real
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estate in California. I guess that part we already knew. We called it buy large mansions
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after all that info came out. Now we have learned that BLM paid almost a million dollars
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to co-founder Patrice Cullors' baby daddy, Damon Turner. Turner received $970,000
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to help produce live events and to provide other creative services. The creative service in question,
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I suspect, was co-creating Patrice Cullors' baby. The group also paid $840,000 to Cullors' brother,
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Paul Cullors, for providing security services, presumably securing all of that money in his
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bank account. This kind of political machine would have made Boss Tweed blush. The old Tammany Hall
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Democrat machine had absolutely nothing on BLM. And we can laugh at it. And we can even be outraged
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about it. But guess what? BLM still has about $42 million in net assets on hand. They've still got
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an annual operating budget of $4 million, and they've got no end in sight to their donations.
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The Democrat political machine is still operating at a very high level. The more things change,
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the more they stay the same. I'm Michael Knowles. It's The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. I have two favorite comments from yesterday. It was a total tie.
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I could not pick just one. The first one is from The Greco, who says the fact that Michael has to
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explain why harvesting spinal fluid from the young to give to the elderly is a bad idea
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shows just how far this world has fallen. I totally agree with that. And then second,
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I thought this was a really perceptive comment. Brooke A. Crowe says, I believe Biden was supposed
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to say alt-right MAGA Republicans, but now we have the best new gaffe. Remember the other day,
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Joe Biden said, the real problem in the politics is, hold on, I want to say this right. Hold on,
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I want to say this really clearly. Ultra MAGA Republicans, ultra MAGA. And you thought ultra MAGA,
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first of all, sounds kind of cool. And second of all, you're telling me that the
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Democrat campaign consultants spent six months coming up with ultra MAGA? Ultra MAGA,
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what does that even mean? No, of course not. Biden was not going off of a script here. He was trying
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to come up with it. He even told you, he said, hold on, I want to get this right.
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He was obviously supposed to say alt-right MAGA Republicans. That was a phrase that the Democrats
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had workshopped for years that had been testing very well. So he was supposed to say alt-right MAGA
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Republicans. He couldn't say it. He said ultra MAGA Republicans, stupidly. They didn't want to
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admit that he made a mistake. And so now they're stuck with ultra MAGA. Here we go, baby. We are
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ultra MAGA. The Democrat Party is a machine. Right now I'm reading a wonderful biography of Chester
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Arthur, one of my favorite presidents. He's not the most well-known. He's mostly known for his mutton
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chops. But I'm reading about Chester Arthur. You know, in the 19th century, both political parties
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operated with machines. Patronage, they'd buy votes, they'd shake down the government workers to work
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for the party. And both parties did it. But the Democrats really perfected it. The most famous
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political boss in American history is Boss Tweed. The most famous machine in American political history
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is Tammany Hall. That was the Democrat machine. The machine is still operating. Okay. The machine,
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we like to flatter ourselves that all the bad stuff that people did in the past in politics,
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we've totally cleaned that up. That doesn't exist anymore. And now everything's operating above board.
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And that's our democracy. Our sterling stellar, pristine democracy is operating just as it should.
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But that's not the case. The Democrats are still, especially the Democrats. Republicans don't really
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have a very well-functioning machine right now. But the Democrats do. And that would be BLM. And it's
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a shakedown racket. And they shake down the big corporations. And they raise $90 million. And they
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pay off their cronies. And they pay off the stormtroopers on the street. And they pay off just about
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everybody. And it all operates in a way that you have the entire society working in concert to advance
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a political message. The media, the news media, Hollywood, big tech, the universities, the bureaucratic
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government, the elected government, they're all working together. The corporations, the way they're
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working together is because of a coordinated, very effective machine. The sort of thing you would
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have seen 150 years ago in American politics, you're still seeing it today. It makes me think
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in a slightly separate way, but go with me for a second. It makes me think of the CIA. It makes me
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think of some of the intelligence agencies. We today, we all look back and we remember all the shady
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things that the intelligence agencies have done. They were invading foreign countries, toppling foreign
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governments, performing all sorts of experiments on American citizens. Oh my, MKUltra, all these crazy
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experiments. Gosh, can you believe they did that in the past? I bet they don't do any of that anymore
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though. Right? That's what people will say. Yeah, you know, all of these institutions, they did a lot
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of shady, dodgy things in the past, but they totally don't do any of that anymore. And it's all completely
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cleaned up and different now. Why? What would ever make you think that, that these institutions that
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have been doing things for a very long time, just suddenly overnight stopped doing all the bad
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things entirely? I don't buy that. And if we don't buy that with, I don't know, an intelligence agency
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or something like that, why would we buy it with a political party? The more things change, the more
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they stay the same. So the way a machine works is you got a carrot and you got a stick. The carrot is
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when you grease the wheels. The carrot is when you pay people off. The carrot is when you give people
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favors and patronage. The stick is when you punish people for, for crossing your machine. And you're
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seeing that right now. The new Democrat stick is accusing any conservative, anyone who in any way
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calls out their plans of being a racist. The worst thing that you can possibly be called in America
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today is a racist. And so they wield this very effectively and very loosely. One of the most
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important strategies for the Democrats is mass migration. They have relied on mass migration
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because statistically speaking, new immigrants and their kids and their grandkids are much more
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likely to vote for Democrats than Republicans. And Republicans are making huge inroads with Hispanic
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voters. That's true. And Republicans maybe in the future can make even more inroads. And Republicans
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have long told ourselves that Latinos are, are Republican. They just don't know it yet. And we
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say all these sorts of things, but the numbers just don't bear it out. Okay. Even with the massive
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shift from Hispanic voters to the Republican party in recent years, it still gives a huge advantage to
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Democrats. And if you, if you say that now, if you say that Democrats are obviously using immigration
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policy to, to change the electorate, change the demographics of the country in a way that they
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think will give them an advantage, you're called a racist, awful conspiracy theorist. This is what
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Joy Reid just said the other day. They are, they are exploiting the shooting in Buffalo to attack
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Tucker Carlson in particular, because he's the most prominent conservative television host, but really
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all of us, everyone who has a conservative podcast, everyone who has a conservative radio show,
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everyone who's an elected conservative or, or, or just down there at the grassroots level,
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go into your local Republican meeting. You are being called a racist, terrible, evil, awful person
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who's responsible for a shooting in Buffalo because you're calling out their strategy.
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No singular voice in right-wing media has done more to elevate this racist conspiracy theory than
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Tucker, who even with a new head writer spends night after primetime night injecting the rot from
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the dregs of the internet directly into the veins of Republican voters. Are Tucker's writers
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sourcing his show from 4chan? These are just questions. As the New York Times analysis last
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month found in within 400 episodes, Tuckums has amplified the idea that a cabal of elites want
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to force demographic change through immigration. That is replacement theory. Tucker's not some deep
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thinker. He's clearly just channeling the gross stuff his viewers could easily find online,
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then feeding it to Republican voters and Republican politicians as infotainment. And that feedback loop has
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terrifying reach. That murderous lowlife in Buffalo wouldn't even have to listen to Tucker. He
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wouldn't have to watch him at all to get it if they are essentially pulling from the same source
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material. It's terrible, disgusting, evil, false lies, propaganda, the lowest of the low kind of
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disinformation trash. This idea that elite people in our ruling class are using immigration policy to
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change the electorate so that they can get political. Who would ever suggest such a thing?
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It seems harder and harder to ignore that the echoes of replacement theory
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and other racially motivated views are increasingly coming out into the open.
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In a few years, we're going to be a majority brown country. White people will not be the majority in
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the country anymore. This will be the first generation ever in American history in which
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whites will be a minority of the generation at some point. As of 2007, every year, babies being
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born in this country, whites now are the minority. In 2044, everyone is going to be a minority. As the
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demographics change, as white people become the minority in the country, which is coming.
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Demographics is destiny. Demographics is destiny. Demographics is destiny, right? The country is
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changing. I've been saying it here. Other people have been saying it here for years now, even before
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Donald Trump. The demographics is destiny. The white population is declining for the first time
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in history in America, while the number of multiracial Americans have more than doubled.
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So we live in a country where the demographics are changing. It's becoming less white.
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Correct. Okay. You'll be announcing that we're calling the 38 electoral votes of Texas for the
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Democratic nominee for president. It's changing. It's going to become a purple state and then a blue
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state because of the demographics, because of the population growth.
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So this goes on for like another minute. Okay. This goes on and on. And you see Julian Castro,
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he's like, look, and it's going to totally give us the win. It's going to give us Texas, which was
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one of the red estates. And it's because of people outside of Texas, by which we mean Mexico,
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by which we mean Latin America. And then Joe Scarborough, he says, demographics is destiny.
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Whoa, cool it with the racist great replacement theory there, Joe. All right. I don't need this much
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racism in my morning. It's all the Democrats who have been spreading this, bragging about it for
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years. Those are just the people on TV. I could pull up countless articles from left-wing think
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tanks, from left-wing newspapers, not only observing this fact, but explaining how this fact is due to
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mass migration, which is a very specific policy from very specific lawmakers who are Democrats for a
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very specific purpose. They're cheering it on because they think that it will give them an electoral
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advantage. And it's our fault because they told us what they were doing. They're doing a thing
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to put themselves in power, they think, permanently. Then they're telling us that they're doing that
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thing. And then when we repeat to them the thing that they just told us, they call us racist for
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the carrot, which is the machine on the left pays you off and they give you all sorts of patronage.
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Then there's the stick, which is they call you a racist and they ostracize you when they threaten you
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and they can run you out of your job and run you out of your school. And the most basic way they do
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it is they de-platform you. If you say things that contradict the prevailing orthodoxies of the ruling
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class, you can be censored and de-platformed. That's what this fight on Twitter is all about.
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That's why Elon Musk is potentially going to buy Twitter. He's either going to buy Twitter or destroy
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Twitter because he says conservatives are not being permitted to speak in the public square.
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Big tech is the new public square. Self-government only works when people can speak to one another.
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That's how we govern each other. So this is an existential threat to our republic. This has hit me
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personally. I have not lost my Twitter yet. I have not lost my YouTube channel yet, although people have
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tried. Although there have been some strikes on my channel when I say things that are true. But if those
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true things contradict Dr. Fauci or contradict Joe Biden, this becomes a big problem on Facebook also.
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But it's not any of those platforms that I've lost. I have been kicked off of TikTok. I barely
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knew that I was on TikTok. I started a TikTok. I would occasionally post clips from my show
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to TikTok. I did not use it because I am a grown man. But sometimes I would have members of the team
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post clips to TikTok because that's where the youth are. I have not accessed my TikTok in weeks.
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And just the other day, a member of my team comes running into my office and says,
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Michael, you've been deplatformed on TikTok. Why is that? What have I done? Little old me,
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me whom everyone loves so. I had not posted anything. There could not have been any new
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offending content on there. I didn't receive any message as to why I was kicked off.
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I had previously posted videos mocking Dr. Fauci. Not even mocking him personally,
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just mocking the lies that we had been told, the contradictions from the public health
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establishment, from Joe Biden. And then some weeks later, poof, I was kicked off. So you can't find
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me on TikTok right now. If you want to see me twerking and jiggling and whatever else people are
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doing on TikTok, I'm sorry. You're going to have to tune into this show. You're not going to be able
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to get it on TikTok. I'm not so worried. That was not my main platform. Although it does matter,
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actually. I'm sort of being glib about it now. But it does matter because TikTok is where the
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young people are. And people spend a lot of time on TikTok. There was a study that showed that
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on average, Twitter users spend about three to six minutes a day on Twitter. TikTok users who
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are, who skew much younger, spend about 52 minutes a day on TikTok. So if you want to reach people,
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if you want a really powerful platform, you go to TikTok. The fact that one can be censored and
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deplatformed off of TikTok for any reason or no reason at all, just because they don't like the cut
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of your jib or because you're contradicting the ruling class's propaganda of the week,
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that is very scary because that reshapes the way that our political order works. If it reshapes the
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way we can talk, it reshapes the way our political order works. This is why it's so important to
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reassert some control over Twitter. And we're going to do it any way we can. Reassert some control over
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Google any way we can. Reassert some control over Facebook and yes, over TikTok. I think it would
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probably be better if we in the political community, if we conservatives could get together
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and go in and say, no, we're going to assert our rights as Americans and take this power back from
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left-wing Silicon Valley oligarchs. But we can take what we can get, all right? If Elon Musk
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is the best way for us to go in and retake some of this political control, then that's the thing that
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we're going to do. And maybe that means Musk buys Twitter. Maybe that means Musk just destroys
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Twitter. Maybe that means Musk never wanted to buy Twitter in the first place. And this was all
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a long troll to destroy the company, which increasingly it seems like it was. Elon Musk
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tweeted out the other day, quote, 20% fake spam accounts, while four times what Twitter claims
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could be much higher. My offer was based on Twitter's SEC filings being accurate. Yesterday,
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Twitter's CEO publicly refused to show proof of less than 5% bot accounts. This deal cannot move
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forward until he does. So do you see what's happened here? All the while we've been waiting,
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all of Elon's cryptic messages, he's quoting poetry. He's suggesting he'll maybe join the board. He won't
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join the board. He'll make a tender offer. He doesn't need to make the tender offer. He's going
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to go. And what is he doing? They said, if the board rejects your bid, Elon, what are you going
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to do? He said, I've got a plan B. I'm not going to tell you what that is now. Well, plan B or C or D
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might not even be buying Twitter. It might just be destroying Twitter. Because he's saying, look,
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I made my offer of whatever it was, $44 billion or something, based on the idea that Twitter has less
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than 5% bot accounts. Now, does anyone believe that fewer than 5% of the accounts on Twitter are
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bots and spam? I don't. I'm just a regular Twitter user. I think that number is way higher. If you
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use Twitter, surely you're going to think that number is way higher. Elon Musk uses Twitter a lot,
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and he looked into it enough to potentially buy Twitter. You don't think that Elon Musk maybe thought,
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huh, I think Twitter's official filings on the spam bot accounts, they're probably a little low.
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No, I think he probably suspected they were a little low. And so he goes in and he makes the
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offer, and then it goes all the way along here. And then he says, wait a second, I'm looking over
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your Securities and Exchange Commission filings here. And, you know, it's looking to me like you
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might have been dishonest on some of your filings with the government. It's looking to me like you
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might be committing some fraud against your investors here. Prove to me that fewer than 5% of your
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accounts are bots and spam. And the CEO of Twitter, for now the CEO of Twitter, Parag Agrawal,
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said, no, we can't do that. I wish we could, but there's no way. We don't have any access to show.
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And Elon just responded with the little feces emoji right underneath. He said, ah, I'm pretty sure you
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can, but you don't want to because what it's going to show is that you guys are perpetrating a fraud.
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Whatever Elon does here, whether he buys it and opens up speech for conservatives a little bit,
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at least to some degree, or if he just destroys Twitter, either way, that will be a positive
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development. Either way, I cheer him on. I don't know which is funnier. I actually can't decide which
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is funnier. It's a longer term joke if Elon runs Twitter and gets to troll from Twitter.
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But it is a spectacular, magnificent joke if he just does all of this to destroy Twitter for
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perpetrating a fraud. He would be destroying it, not just to troll them and get his kicks.
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He would be doing it with a purpose. He actually would be exposing a fraud. He actually would be
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improving speech in the public square. That would, it's, as I frequently say, it is not enough to own
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the libs. It's good to own the libs. I'm pro-owning the libs, but you, one needs to own the libs with
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purpose. You don't want to be frivolously owning the libs. Why is Elon doing all of this? Is he
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sincere? What's his end game? A lot of people have pointed out that Elon Musk is a lib. He's a
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Democrat. He's an Obama Democrat. He voted for Obama twice, I believe. Well, now Elon says he's
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officially a Republican. He tweeted out, or I don't know if he tweeted this. I don't know how much he's
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using Twitter these days, but he at least stated, I have voted overwhelmingly for Democrats
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historically. Like, I'm not sure. I might never have voted for a Republican, just to be clear.
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Now, this election, I will. He posted a meme the other day of him standing still to the left of
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center. You had the, you had the left of the political aisle and the right of the political
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aisle. He was left of center. And then the leftists ran so far left and the right didn't
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really move. The right actually moved a little bit to the left. And so now all of a sudden,
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Elon, having not moved at all, is center right. That's what happened. And so is Elon a Republican?
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Is he being sincere? I suspect he probably is. I think there are a lot of people who would
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have called themselves liberals or leftists even, or center left, who now are firmly on
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the right because they hold such radical positions as don't chop off little kids' genitals,
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such radical positions as don't kill little babies one minute before they're born, such
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radical positions as, hey, maybe a handful of woke bazillionaires shouldn't completely
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dominate our political discourse. And the establishment is trying desperately to counter
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that narrative. So Sonny Hostin on The View insists, no, no, Elon, you're wrong. No, no,
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most Americans, you're wrong. Actually, it's the Republicans who have moved much further to
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the right. They are playing to the base. I mean, if you look at all the studies,
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the Republican Party has moved further to the right than Democrats have to the left.
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There's a Pew Research Center analysis that finds that on average, Democrats and Republicans are
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farther apart ideologically today than at any time in the past 50 years. And that ideological divide
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breaks down to the Republican Party being an extremist party. And the Democratic Party actually,
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as you just mentioned, Sarah, moving more to the center.
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But isn't the problem that is the primaries, because you can't get through these primaries
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unless you are extreme, especially right now in the Republican Party.
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That claim that Sonny Hostin just made is so ridiculous, it almost isn't worth responding to.
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I will respond to it because it's going to be a common refrain in this election.
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On what issue have the Democrats moved to the center? On what issue? On abortion? No,
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they went from safe, legal and rare to abortion on demand without apology up to the moment of birth
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and maybe afterward. On immigration? No, they went from we've got to keep illegal aliens out of our
00:22:58.040
country to we need completely open borders and three million migrants coming in per year,
00:23:01.780
two million of whom are illegal. On what? On sexual issues? No, we went from maybe teach sex ed
00:23:07.460
in high schools to we need to trans the kindergartners. I don't think so. On what issue?
00:23:13.020
On what issue have they become on free speech? No, they went from let's tolerate free speech to
00:23:17.940
let's censor all the conservatives. On what? They've moved radically left on all of the issues.
00:23:22.020
What about the Republicans? Where have they moved right? On abortion? They're basically the same.
00:23:26.240
Maybe they've moved a little bit more pro-life on abortion, but basically they're the same.
00:23:29.920
On guns? No, they're pretty much the same on guns. On taxes? If anything, they've moved to the center
00:23:35.060
on taxes and economic issues. On the social issues? On marriage? Oh my gosh. Many Republicans have just
00:23:42.780
bought a complete radical redefinition of marriage given to them by the radical left. I don't think
00:23:46.980
there. On what issue? On if the Republicans have moved at all, and I suppose they have,
00:23:51.920
they've moved to the center. And this is not just, well, the leftists say that it's the other guys
00:23:57.760
who moved and it's the conservatives say it's the other guys. No, you just look at the issue by issue.
00:24:01.180
Tell me where I went wrong. I don't think I've said anything wrong. I'm giving specific examples. I can
00:24:06.480
prove my argument. Sunny Hostin is just spouting platitudes because her party has moved radically
00:24:11.380
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00:24:21.320
Not just where you write into me in the mailbag. I like that too. But where you can submit your
00:24:27.300
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00:24:33.840
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00:24:39.660
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00:24:45.220
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00:24:51.440
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00:25:00.860
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00:25:03.580
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more. It's the conservatives who have moved radically to the right, right? It's not that the
00:27:05.520
left has moved radically to the left. It's that the right wing has moved radically to the right,
00:27:09.940
right? Like, for instance, right now, if you object to little kids, little boys being told
00:27:19.140
that they're little girls and dressed up like little girls and being encouraged to mutilate
00:27:22.820
themselves, if you oppose that in any way, that makes you a far right extremist, right? There's a
00:27:28.220
mother who should probably be arrested, certainly have her children taken from her,
00:27:32.360
who posted a video to TikTok, dressing up her little boy in dresses and encouraging him to
00:27:38.680
pretend to be a girl. You love it, and you want it, and you picked it out, but you don't want it for
00:27:46.420
school. Can you tell me why? Because last time I wore a dress to school, everybody called me a girl.
00:27:53.840
What makes a shirt for a boy or a girl? Nothing.
00:27:57.360
So do you want this? You picked it out. I do want it. You want to wear it all the time at home, but not at
00:28:04.940
school, right? Yeah. Tell me about that. I want to get made fun of, and that's what they always do when I wear
00:28:11.020
pink and stuff. Do you think bright, pretty colors and dresses and sequins and jewels and golds, all the
00:28:19.340
things that you always want to wear? Do you think that's your innermost you? It is. Well, how are you
00:28:27.440
going to be your innermost you when we live in a place that people think clothing belongs to
00:28:33.580
particular gender? So the decision to dress up like a little girl, that was obviously just this
00:28:40.740
little boy's personal decision, right? He's not being coached. He's not being coached right before
00:28:44.720
our very eyes. Hey, you, you love wearing sequins and dresses, right? That's what you really want
00:28:50.760
to do, right? You want to do that thing. Uh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. And you, but why won't you wear the
00:28:57.500
dresses to school? Uh, cause the kids call me a girl when I do that. Cause I'm dressing up like a
00:29:01.820
girl and that's weird. Uh, yeah. And it's, that's, that's bad that that happens, right? And you, do you,
00:29:08.060
tell me how much you want it. Tell me how much you totally want it. And it's not just
00:29:12.220
me, a sick, very sick, twisted pervert mother abusing her child and, and grooming. That's what,
00:29:20.040
that's what the grooming is, right? When we use the phrase grooming and groomers,
00:29:24.340
people think it has only this very narrow application to adults who are trying to have
00:29:30.340
sex with children, but it has a much broader application than that. It is adults who are
00:29:35.880
inculcating a sexual sense, a sexual desire, a sexual identity, a sexual orientation in
00:29:42.080
little kids. This is why we call the teachers groomers when they were having private sexual
00:29:47.360
conversations with kids that they didn't want their parents to hear about. It's not just because
00:29:52.420
the teachers wanted to have sex with the students. Maybe they do. I don't know. Maybe some of them do,
00:29:56.640
but it's because it's still extremely creepy and psychologically damaging and accomplishing much
00:30:03.280
of the same damage. If you're just cultivating a disordered sexual identity in a kid, like when this
00:30:10.400
mother shamelessly, abusively puts her kid on TikTok without, we censored his face. She didn't
00:30:17.200
censor his face. That was, I, I, when I saw this video going around the internet, I said, okay,
00:30:20.900
I want to use this video. We have to talk about this, but don't you dare put this kid's face, you
00:30:25.720
know, you, our editors have to censor that because if his parents are not going to look out for him,
00:30:31.280
at least, at least we will to, to the extent that we're exposing what his parents are doing.
00:30:35.420
And she's, and she's just there with that phone. Okay. And you like this and you want to wear the
00:30:41.360
dresses and you want to live out whatever sick fantasies I've got in my head, right? Says the
00:30:45.980
mother. And if you oppose that, you're the radical. She's not the radical because the left has moved to
00:30:51.840
the center, according to Sonny Hostin. You're the radical. If you think it's wrong to do that to
00:30:57.280
little boys, you're the radical. If you, if you believe that babies before the moment of birth
00:31:05.200
should not be killed, that it's wrong to kill babies. There was a pro-abortion rally at the
00:31:10.620
Arizona state capitol. Two sides here. You've got the pro-life side quietly demonstrating, praying,
00:31:18.280
being polite, being normal. And you've got the pro-abortion side screaming until they're blue in
00:31:24.900
You guys want to sign up? You want to sign up? We're poor women in the room. Women's rates begin in the room.
00:31:47.320
Code Hanger Dodger. Code Hanger Dodger. That means your mom stuck a cute hanger up her
00:32:00.240
and tried to get rid of you, but she failed. So if you just listened to that clip, you get
00:32:08.180
probably 80% of what was going on there. And if you watched that, you get the whole thing.
00:32:14.500
You probably get about 150% of the distinction between pro-abortion side and the pro-life side
00:32:21.420
here. On the pro-life side, you get really the one person you can see is this normal looking kid
00:32:27.760
wearing a USA hat, like a MAGA type hat, smiling and looking normal. He kind of reminds me of that
00:32:36.400
kid who was wearing the MAGA hat in Washington, D.C., Nick Sandman, when all the crazy screaming
00:32:41.460
leftists are banging drums in his face and yelling, and he's just there kind of vaguely
00:32:45.100
smiling, bemused. That's what that kid, the pro-life kid, was doing. And then the pro-abortion
00:32:50.480
side, screaming, shrieking, saying all sorts of profanity, hideous, vile things with crazy
00:32:58.440
hairdos and not looking like they've got their lives in order, okay? Not looking like these
00:33:05.060
are the most grounded people on earth. But we're the radicals, right? We're the crazy extremists.
00:33:12.120
The kid in the hat, smiling, pro-America, USA, MAGA, just normal. He's the crazy extremist.
00:33:22.840
And the people shrieking about coat hangers and how pro-lifers should be aborted and with all sorts of
00:33:30.060
physical, eccentric, you know, clothing and tattoos and piercings and hair colors. They're
00:33:36.400
the normal ones. They're the ones who, they've actually moved to the center, according to Sonny
00:33:40.960
Hauston. Who are the extremists? It's not just these crazies on the street. I am not just strawmanning
00:33:46.500
this. We are talking all the way up to the most elite levels of the Democratic Party right now.
00:33:51.760
Now, Ketanji Jackson is about to become the new judge on the Supreme Court. Ketanji Jackson has not
00:34:00.780
really played a role in the court yet, obviously, but she was confirmed. She's set to replace
00:34:05.840
Justice Breyer after the current term ends. Ketanji was interviewed by the Washington Post and asked what
00:34:12.640
she thought about the protests outside of the homes of the judges after the leak of the potential opinion
00:34:20.520
in Dobbs versus Jackson Women's Health. This is a layup. This was an easy question.
00:34:26.540
Well, it's two questions. One, do you condemn the leak? Two, do you condemn protests outside of the
00:34:32.580
homes of the federal judges? Which is in violation of federal law? And Ketanji says, you know, I just
00:34:39.340
can't comment on that. You know, I just, I just don't know. I don't know. Specifically, she said,
00:34:46.960
if leaking the draft opinion was a good thing or a bad thing, she said, I can't answer that.
00:34:53.500
Every judge who's given an opinion on this so far has answered that and said, this is terrible. It's
00:34:58.880
eroded the trust of the court. This is a really awful thing. She says, yeah, I can't answer that.
00:35:03.480
I don't know. Yeah, maybe, maybe Brett Kavanaugh is going to F around and find out. I don't know.
00:35:09.480
Yeah. Oh, there are people screaming and threatening his family and yelling outside in the middle of the
00:35:14.360
night while his little children try to fall asleep. Yeah, I don't know. I can't answer if that's good
00:35:18.580
or bad. Hmm. I don't know. Find out. I don't, I don't have any comment, she says, on the protests
00:35:25.260
outside of the homes. I can't answer whether it's good or bad that a clerk destroyed the trust of the
00:35:29.940
court and leaked the opinion early and caused the protests in the first place. Before this woman was
00:35:36.400
confirmed, I put on my Noel Stradamus hat, took out my crystal ball, and I said this woman would be
00:35:43.340
the most radical person in the history of the Supreme Court. As I just looked at her record,
00:35:49.100
I looked at her intellectual pedigree and her political pedigree, and I looked at the way she
00:35:58.220
was conducting herself during the hearings. She wouldn't even say what a woman was. She laughed
00:36:02.940
at the suggestion that she could define what a woman is. I said, haha, I'm not a biologist. I said,
00:36:07.520
we haven't seen this kind of radicalism. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, even Sonia Sotomayor
00:36:13.640
have nothing on this chick. And what do we see? What do we see? She says, oh, yeah, well,
00:36:20.760
you're going to protest outside the homes. I don't know. Well, you want me to condemn that? I can't,
00:36:23.920
I can't condemn that. You're going to leak the opinion? I can't condemn that.
00:36:28.340
Speaking of the court, there was a big win at the Supreme Court yesterday for conservatives,
00:36:31.640
and it's not getting a ton of play. And it actually comes from Ted Cruz,
00:36:34.740
my intrepid co-host on Verdict, on the Verdict podcast. Senator Cruz brought a case to the
00:36:42.240
Supreme Court. I think it's called Cruz versus FEC. So his name is right there in the case.
00:36:47.880
And he brought this case because John McCain had a very stupid campaign finance law.
00:36:53.240
And the stupid campaign finance law proposed to set limits on the way that big money enters into
00:37:00.820
politics. That was theoretically the idea. That was at least what the marketing team
00:37:04.680
said about it. But that's not really what it did. Most of what the McCain-Feingold campaign
00:37:08.400
finance rules did was just to protect incumbents. This is why the incumbents voted for it. It's
00:37:13.560
because it protected them from challenges to people going out and running and draining the swamp.
00:37:18.580
So it was a really swampy piece of legislation. And lots of it has already been struck down by the
00:37:24.640
courts. And even at the time that George W. Bush signed it into law, Bush said, yeah, I don't really
00:37:29.760
know if this is constitutional or not, but whatever, the courts can decide, which was an abdication of his
00:37:34.040
duty as well. The president of the United States has a responsibility to defend the constitution too.
00:37:38.720
So I thought that was weak stuff from George W. Bush as well. Well, now it's been struck down.
00:37:44.120
Specifically, what was struck down here was a provision that would allow political candidates
00:37:49.960
running for office to reimburse themselves for money that they had lent to their campaign.
00:37:55.740
So when you run for office, especially if you're a challenger candidate, no one knows you,
00:37:59.740
you don't have any name recognition. A way to even get yourself in the running is to donate money to
00:38:05.260
your own campaign. So we're not talking about gazillionaires here. Gazillionaires don't need
00:38:10.780
to pay themselves back. If you've got $50 million and you loan your campaign half a million bucks or
00:38:15.640
a million bucks or 10 million bucks, you don't care if you ever get that money back. It can go to the
00:38:20.020
government and who, it doesn't matter. And we're not talking about people who are, who don't have any
00:38:23.700
money. We're not talking about because they wouldn't be able to loan themselves money in the first
00:38:27.660
place. We're talking about doctors. We're talking about lawyers. We're talking about professionals
00:38:31.760
who do well, who have money, who could make a big loan to them. Let's say they could loan their
00:38:35.840
campaign, I don't know, $300,000, $400,000. According to the McCain rules, you can only pay
00:38:42.840
yourself back $250,000. And so it was basically just a way to cap challengers at what they were
00:38:47.740
even able to donate to their own campaign. So it would be harder for them to win. That was just
00:38:52.300
struck down. This was, the reason I really like this case is because it's, it's not just a left
00:39:00.900
versus right or Republican versus Democrat. This case really was a drain the swamp kind of case.
00:39:06.500
This, this one, this will hurt political corruption in both parties. It gets back to that machine
00:39:11.740
politics we were talking about at the very top of the show. This is a way to, well, not to get money
00:39:17.600
out of politics because you, you can't get money out of politics. That's not possible. And usually
00:39:22.580
like McCain-Feingold, usually the laws that purport to get money out of politics actually
00:39:27.720
preserve the money in politics. Actually, because big politics always attracts big money,
00:39:33.580
all that's going to happen is when you pass laws about money in politics, the money just goes
00:39:38.820
elsewhere. The money just kind of hides itself or the money is, is really only accessible to a
00:39:44.680
certain protected political class. Like the gazillionaires who don't need to pay themselves
00:39:49.040
back, like the incumbents who have huge war chests and not the challengers. So this was a big win,
00:39:53.520
good win for conservatives. We're also now looking at the Pennsylvania Senate race,
00:39:57.940
which is extraordinarily close. There were, I told you yesterday on the show, the Pennsylvania Senate
00:40:03.680
race was going to give you a hint of what the future of the Republican party looked like.
00:40:10.400
There were three top candidates, Dr. Oz, the daytime TV talk show host, who seemed like a pretty liberal
00:40:18.580
candidate actually, and was very recently attacking pro-life laws around the country from the GOP and
00:40:25.000
has done shows promoting transgenderism and kids and all sorts of madness. You had David McCormick,
00:40:32.580
who seemed like kind of a business Republican, not, you know, not the most rock ribbed stalwart conservative,
00:40:38.320
but not a total squish either, but, you know, just kind of a centrist, moderate business Republican.
00:40:43.880
And then Kathy Barnett, who was a political commentator. She didn't have a ton of money.
00:40:48.140
We didn't know a ton about her. She was probably the newest to the political scene,
00:40:52.660
at least at the national level. And she was the most conservative in terms of her positions.
00:40:59.060
We still don't have an exact answer on, on who won the race. It was very, very close. Kathy Barnett
00:41:04.500
was a distant third. So the rock-rubbed conservative in the race really fell down.
00:41:10.340
She'd surged in the polls and then she fell down. McCormick, as election night was concluding,
00:41:16.160
McCormick was leading. Dr. Oz was in second place. But we're talking about by tenths of a percentage
00:41:21.960
point. So knowing the way that they count the votes in Pennsylvania, it seems unlikely that they're
00:41:26.280
going to instantly come out with an answer. That battle in Pennsylvania, though,
00:41:32.380
will also show you a little bit more about where the party is. Ted Cruz endorsed David McCormick.
00:41:39.500
Donald Trump endorsed Dr. Oz. Some more right-wing conservative groups seem to go for,
00:41:47.900
between Oz and McCormick, seem to go for McCormick. Sean Hannity went for Dr. Oz. But a lot of the
00:41:54.820
conservative base really doesn't like Dr. Oz. So you're seeing, Trump has a decent record right
00:41:59.900
now on the endorsements in Ohio, for instance. Cruz endorsed Josh Mandel. Donald Trump endorsed
00:42:05.480
J.D. Vance. J.D. Vance won. So what's going to happen in Pennsylvania? What you are seeing right
00:42:10.320
now in these races, even if you don't really care about the Republican primaries and even if you
00:42:14.640
don't really care about 2022, what you are seeing play out is a shadow campaign for 2024. Whose
00:42:20.240
endorsements matter? Who is going to have the right favors going in? Where it is, we haven't even talked
00:42:25.380
about the endorsements that Ron DeSantis has made. We haven't even talked about the endorsements that
00:42:28.880
other potential, that Mike Pompeo has made, that Nikki Haley has made, that other presidential
00:42:33.200
candidates are making. That is part of the race that's playing out right now. Now, a huge issue in
00:42:40.940
Pennsylvania is energy. Energy is a really big issue. And you know that the two parties have totally
00:42:49.000
different views on energy right now. What we are led to believe, you want to talk about grift, you want
00:42:55.720
to talk about machine politics, you want to talk about disingenuous political rhetoric. What we are
00:43:01.560
told is, if you support fossil fuels, if you support, if you in any way oppose solar, wind, green energy,
00:43:13.360
renewable electric cars, if you oppose that in any way, you are destroying the earth, you're going to
00:43:18.080
kill all of mankind within, well, it used to be nine years. Now it's, what, it's probably seven or
00:43:25.040
eight years at this point. It's the same kind of argument you see in Buffalo. They'll say, if you
00:43:30.140
in any way call out Democrats' immigration strategy, then you're responsible for a massacre in Buffalo.
00:43:35.260
If you in any way oppose Democrats' radical energy reforms, you're responsible for the destruction of
00:43:41.080
the earth. John Kerry, the White House climate czar, has come out and said that the United States
00:43:47.700
needs to transition to electric cars, transition, meaning you lose your current car and you have to get
00:43:53.560
an electric car. We need to transition at 20 times the current rate.
00:43:58.140
This year, we have to implement those promises. And what it means is we have to decarbonize
00:44:03.980
the power sector five times faster than we are right now.
00:44:08.480
We have to deploy renewables five times faster than we are right now. We have to transition to electric
00:44:18.580
vehicles about 20 times faster than we are now. And we have to fully transition to a resilient net zero
00:44:26.080
economy faster. We have to do, we must transition. You all need to go buy Teslas.
00:44:32.780
And if you're a pauper and you can't afford the Model X for $96,000, well, at least you dirty peasants can
00:44:43.540
get the Model S, can't you? Isn't that one's only about $45,000? That's chump change. So you have to buy
00:44:52.080
your Tesla and you have to put solar panels on your roofs. And you have to do, if you don't do all of
00:45:01.520
this and buy from our companies, then the world will end. Why are they doing this? Why are they
00:45:07.960
doing this? Are the libs promoting this particular segment of the energy industry out of the goodness
00:45:17.020
of their heart? Or because they genuinely believe the world is going to end in seven years? Or because
00:45:22.300
they haven't noticed that all the predictions they've made on the climate and the environment
00:45:26.860
for the last 50 years haven't happened. And they keep changing the predictions radically,
00:45:31.460
sometimes to the opposite of the predictions they had just previously made. Or do you think
00:45:34.680
it's because of that? Or do you think it's because the Republicans own oil and gas and the Democrats own
00:45:41.420
electric? With a little bit of an exception of Elon Musk, who used to be a Democrat, who's now seems to
00:45:46.520
be transitioning to a Republican. Everyone's transitioning these days. What do you think it is? I think,
00:45:52.180
call me a cynic, call me jaded. I think it might have a little bit more to do with the latter. I
00:45:56.740
don't think the Democrats really care all that much about the climate. I don't think they're really
00:46:00.620
worried about the world ending in 10 years, most of them, the elite Democrats. I think it's a grift.
00:46:06.640
I think it's a regular old hustle, just like all the rest of their politics. And I think that they've
00:46:12.720
got a crooked relationship with the green energy companies. You saw this with the scandal during the
00:46:17.760
Obama administration. There was a major environmental company scandal. The name of
00:46:22.680
the company now escapes me. Oh, it's going to drive me crazy. I'll Google it right after the
00:46:27.120
show. It was such a, one of the, it's hard because there were so many scandals during Obama. But it
00:46:32.280
was a bigger one. It was a green energy company where the federal government was funneling a ton
00:46:36.000
of money into it. And it wasn't doing anything. It was just a grift. And it was a payoff. And it was
00:46:40.160
patronage for loyal Democrats. And you're seeing this throughout that whole sector.
00:46:44.600
The cleanest energy you could possibly have would be nuclear energy. That would be the best way to
00:46:51.500
reduce carbon. It would be extremely efficient. The Democrats don't endorse that because that's
00:46:55.820
not part of the Democrat grift. It's not part of the machine. So they don't, they don't get behind
00:46:59.200
that. Fossil fuels for that matter are extraordinarily abundant. There are ways to use them that are
00:47:04.240
cleaner and cleaner every single day. There are ways to capture carbon if that's really something that
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you want to do in your politics, if you're really so afraid of any kind of warming. So there are ways to
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do that. But they don't like it because fossil fuels are for the Republicans. If you want to
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understand what political debates are really about at the level of policy, you are going to have a much
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clearer understanding if you first look to the money than if you first look to the philosophy.
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Maybe there are some philosophical considerations too. But if you want to understand BLM,
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how are you going to understand it? Are you going to understand it simply by reading Kimberley
00:47:40.400
Crenshaw and Derek Bell and critical race theory? Or are you going to understand it by looking at
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where the money's going? And you're looking at Patrice Cullors paying off her baby daddy. And
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you're looking at Patrice Cullors paying off her brother. And you're looking at the woke corporations
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paying off BLM. And you're looking at the Democrat politicians hustling and raising money to bail out
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the BLM. What do you think is going to make more sense? What do you think is a greater motivator
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for these politicians? There's one last story, speaking of fossils, that I have to get to. I've
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been meaning to get to it for a few days. Huge discovery in China. China has discovered a 66
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million-year-old dinosaur embryo fossil. Oh my goodness. May 8th, 2022, just happened just a week
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or so ago. Scientists from the Fujian Science and Technology Museum and the China University of
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Geosciences revealed the discovery in a study published in the journal BMC Ecology and Evolution.
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This new dinosaur embryo fossil comes from the Jiangxi province. At least two of the eggs contain
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identifiable hadrosauroid embryos. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that correct. Hadrosauroid? I don't
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know. Described here for the first time. And my only question for them is, how do you know?
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I guess I have two questions. One, how do you know? What do you mean it's a little baby
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hadrosauroid? I thought it was just a clump of cells. I have been reliably
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informed by the libs that until the moment of birth, life forms are just their little
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meaningless stupid clumps of cells. So my first question is, how do you know what it is? How
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could you identify it? 66 million years old. You can't even identify a human baby that was
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conceived two months ago. And then my second question is, well, who cares? Who cares? It's
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just a meaningless, pointless clump of cells that can just be thrown in the trash. So why does that
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matter? Hold on. You're telling me that a 66 million year old clump of cells from a dead lizard
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is more important than a human baby, a little human baby? That you're also calling a meaningless
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clump of cells? That doesn't seem, I think they're kind of giving away the game a little bit, folks.
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I think the logic is falling apart. Now, whether the extremely effective political machine will fall
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