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00:00:00.000 Two years and $44 billion later, thanks to Elon Musk, we now have proof that libs at Twitter

00:00:07.320 knowingly played a major role in rigging the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden.

00:00:13.160 Journalist Matt Tybee broke the news, which revealed corruption so egregious that President

00:00:19.280 Trump is demanding immediate reinstatement as president, even if it means the, quote,

00:00:25.680 termination of constitutional rules. And the cherry on top of the whole story is the reaction of the

00:00:33.280 journalists who are furious, not at the corruption of our political system, but at Matt Tybee for

00:00:41.060 exposing the corruption. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:30.420 delivered. Twittergate. I'm sure you have seen the headlines. I'm sure you have seen a ton of spin.

00:02:38.160 Most people have not taken the time to actually read through the reporting of the story because

00:02:41.520 it's very, very long and somewhat intricate. I won't bore you with all of the details. I will give

00:02:46.880 you the highlights, though, because this is at least as corrupt as we all thought it was. And in some

00:02:54.040 ways, it seems much more so. Twitter was conspiring with the Libs to rig the platform, which is in many

00:03:06.200 ways the new public square for the Libs and against the Republicans, which is a big deal because we at

00:03:13.420 least notionally have a self-governing republic. So whoever controls the public square controls the

00:03:18.060 political order. Because the way the political order works is that we all persuade one another of

00:03:22.460 how we want to live in the public square. So Twitter is not just some tech platform. It's not

00:03:28.180 just some app that we doom scroll on. Twitter represents, well, it represents the American

00:03:33.960 political order. It represents the way that we speak to one another and persuade one another. And

00:03:38.000 Twitter colluded with the Libs to rig it and exclude the conservatives. Matt Tybee is a liberal

00:03:44.340 journalist. He's a guy who's got bylines at all sorts of Lib outlets, but he's become disillusioned

00:03:49.580 with some of the liberal journalists in recent years. And so he's the guy that Elon seems to

00:03:54.020 have picked to give this story to. And he says, hey, here are the docs, run with it, Matt Tybee,

00:03:58.140 do your thing. So we see from the very beginning that the Biden team by 2020 was regularly requesting

00:04:07.440 that Twitter take down tweets that they didn't like. So they would just send emails in and say,

00:04:14.300 hey, there's more to review from the Biden team. We don't like this tweet. We don't like that tweet.

00:04:18.040 We don't like this tweet. We don't like that tweet. And it's just random accounts,

00:04:22.440 sometimes politically minded accounts, sometimes the accounts of regular

00:04:27.480 actors, Hollywood celebrities. James Woods in particular was targeted. So the actor,

00:04:34.780 James Woods, one of the greatest tweeters of all time, he had his account targeted

00:04:38.740 by the DNC. They said an additional report from the DNC, take down the stupid James Woods tweet.

00:04:43.740 James Woods is now threatening to sue over this. But you see, why would they go after James Woods

00:04:49.180 or other people like that? Because they had huge accounts and those accounts were going after the

00:04:54.100 Biden team. So they say, take it down. Okay. Now, how were the takedowns being done?

00:05:00.960 The Republicans would sometimes request to take things down as well. The problem is there was no

00:05:05.940 neutral system. There was no formal system at all for this to take place. It was just kind of

00:05:11.580 based on who you know. So if you knew somebody at Twitter, you could email them and say, hey,

00:05:16.520 Uncle Joe doesn't really like that tweet. Let's get rid of it. Okay. Hey, I don't like what James

00:05:20.560 Woods said. Take that down. And they would do it. Meanwhile, the Republicans say, hey guys, come on,

00:05:24.400 we're getting death threats over here. People, take down this tweet. But it would be like howling into

00:05:28.860 the wind because nobody at Twitter likes the Republicans. And you can see this based on the

00:05:33.340 political donations of the people at Twitter. If you look at Open Secrets, the donations are just

00:05:40.400 all to Democrats. In the 2022 cycle, the donations from Twitter to Democrats came to $166,000.

00:05:50.620 The donations from Twitter to Republicans, $451. Not $451,000, $451. That means that the percentage

00:05:59.240 to Dems was 99.73%. 2020 cycle, 98.47% of donations to Democrats. The 2018 cycle, 96.38%

00:06:09.820 of donations to Democrats. So not only were the Twitter employees statistically all giving to

00:06:15.660 Democrats, or all of the donations were going to Democrats, but it was actually getting worse over

00:06:20.540 time. It was skewing even more toward the Democrats over time. So no surprise that the Republicans

00:06:25.720 couldn't get the post that they wanted taken down, Democrats almost always did.

00:06:29.600 Then you get to the Hunter Biden laptop story. So this was a story broken by the New York Post

00:06:33.260 that they found this laptop from Hunter Biden that had a ton of evidence of crimes.

00:06:37.880 Not just drug crimes, not just sex crimes being committed by Hunter Biden,

00:06:41.380 but potential political and financial crimes being committed by Hunter Biden on behalf of the Biden

00:06:47.580 family. Trading on Joe Biden's name while Joe Biden was the point man to Ukraine, for instance,

00:06:52.080 scoring crooked deals in Ukraine. Trading on the Biden name while Biden was serving at the highest

00:06:57.060 levels of the government to get money out of China. Getting meetings arranged between these

00:07:02.420 extremely corrupt actors all around the world and Joe Biden, Hunter's the nexus of that.

00:07:07.460 What happens? Twitter says you can't share this story. Not only does Twitter say you can't post the

00:07:13.460 story publicly, and then Facebook and Google followed suit, but they say you couldn't even

00:07:17.300 privately message the story. So this step, which says you can't even privately message something,

00:07:24.280 was previously a mechanism reserved only for child pornography. And it's true, actually,

00:07:31.140 that on Hunter Biden's laptop there was, it would appear to be some evidence of pornography where the

00:07:37.180 girls didn't totally look 18. But that's not the point here. We're not talking about the actual

00:07:41.580 contents of Hunter Biden's laptop. We're talking about a story in the New York Post. So obviously,

00:07:45.000 there's no child pornography in the story. They just went as far as they possibly could. They said,

00:07:49.980 this material is unsafe. So now we're going to have a new category. It's a category of content

00:07:56.780 that is so dangerous that it involves child pornography or something that threatens the

00:08:01.840 Biden campaign. That's it. That is now the most extreme category on Twitter. The executives almost

00:08:07.620 immediately start raising questions about this. The public policy executive, Carolyn Strom,

00:08:12.560 sends an email out to several people on the team saying, hey, guys, are you sure about this?

00:08:21.280 Are we sure that this is really something that should be banned from the public platform and

00:08:30.340 such that you can't privately message it? And what Tybee found out is there was a big tension between

00:08:35.600 the communications and policy teams, which had basically no control over moderation and the

00:08:41.560 safety and trust teams. And those were the ones who were censoring everybody and ultimately who would

00:08:46.860 even censor the duly elected sitting president of the United States. The next claim that was made by

00:08:52.660 these guys is that it was a hacked material. So because, okay, forget about, yeah, it's obviously not

00:08:58.280 child pornography, but it's very possibly hacked materials. And so we can't allow that to be spread

00:09:05.140 all around the internet. Again, this doesn't hold up at all. You're seeing messages from these top

00:09:15.300 execs saying, are you sure? Is this really going to hold up? It doesn't really make a lot of sense to

00:09:21.900 us. Then the crazy part is Jack Dorsey, who was the CEO of Twitter, apparently had no idea what was

00:09:27.060 going on. He was not the guy who made the call to censor the Hunter Biden story. He was, I think,

00:09:33.420 away from the office at this point. So that call was made by the former head of legal policy and

00:09:38.400 trust, Vijaya Gaddy, who Elon Musk nuked from orbit on his first day in office. Everybody knew that this

00:09:45.020 was messed up. This is, I think, the biggest revelation from the Twitter internal emails is we've

00:09:51.460 just been gaslit this whole time. And Twitter and big tech, they say, no, of course, this is totally fine.

00:09:56.120 This is in keeping with our policy. There's nothing wrong here. Deny till you die. Deny till

00:09:59.520 you die. You look at those internal emails, there is a ton of controversy here. And people are saying,

00:10:05.500 gosh, this is really bad. We have screwed up. It's not going to hold up. But we can't back away now.

00:10:10.260 We've got to stand firm. You see the former trust and safety chief of Twitter, Yoel Roth,

00:10:17.440 who is getting into these exchanges with Vijaya Gaddy and all these people. And then you've got a

00:10:22.120 communications official, Trenton Kennedy at Twitter, who says, I'm struggling to understand

00:10:26.500 the policy basis for marking this as unsafe. And then the other team basically says, well,

00:10:30.580 just shut up and deal with it. Everybody knew it. There was even a Democrat. There was only one

00:10:35.040 Democrat, but there was a Democrat member of Congress who knew that this was a big deal.

00:10:39.880 That was Ro Khanna, who writes to Vijaya Gaddy, this lady who's taking all the steps to ban people and

00:10:47.980 ultimately would ban Donald Trump and says, hope you're well, Vijaya. This seems a violation of

00:10:53.120 the First Amendment principles. If there is a hack of classified information or other information that

00:10:57.100 could expose a serious war crime and the New York Times was to publish it, I think the New York Times

00:11:00.860 should have that right. A journalist should not be held accountable for the illegal actions of the

00:11:04.860 source unless they actively aided the hack. So you've got this lone Democrat out there saying,

00:11:09.540 guys, what about the First Amendment? Even if this were hacked material, which it's not,

00:11:13.280 by the way, still, you can't just ban it from being circulated. By the way, you allow the

00:11:18.340 publication of all sorts of Republican hacked material, material that was hacked that does

00:11:23.640 not bode well for Republicans on your platform. It just, this doesn't hold up. And yet even the

00:11:27.940 Democrat admitting it. So then what happens? Then what happens? What happens is the journalists

00:11:37.860 take stock of their failures, right? The journalists, this took two years. This shouldn't

00:11:43.220 have taken two years. The journalists, they come together, right? And they say, gosh, we did not

00:11:47.400 investigate this huge abuse of power. Gosh, we did not, we did not speak truth to power as we are

00:11:55.220 supposed to do. And they looked inside themselves and they were very introspective. And just kidding,

00:12:00.440 they didn't say that at all. They actually just kept shilling on behalf of the Democrats

00:12:03.900 and they went after Matt Tyvee. So you've got all these liberal journalists turning on their

00:12:09.200 liberal journalist friend for doing the job of a journalist, or at least the ideal job of a

00:12:14.740 journalist. In reality, journalists are pretty much just propagandists for a particular point of

00:12:19.900 view. They're not neutral. They are not merely speaking truth to power. That has never been the

00:12:24.600 case ever in the whole history of journalism. But with the exception of maybe some independent people

00:12:30.500 who have their own ax to grind usually as well. But you see the complete mask fall down by the

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00:14:03.520 Wajahat Ali, he is a liberal journalist, very prominent on Twitter. He's been at all sorts of

00:14:08.160 outlets. He says, Matt Tybee, what a sad, disgraceful downfall. I swear, kids, he did good work back in the

00:14:14.160 day. Should be a cautionary tale for everyone. Selling your soul for the richest white nationalist on

00:14:20.780 earth. Well, he'll eat well for the rest of his life, I guess. But is it worth it? And I read that,

00:14:27.560 and I actually didn't get it at first. I said, the richest white national, who is the richest white

00:14:33.560 nationalist? I realized he's referring to Elon Musk. Is Elon Musk a white nationalist?

00:14:42.760 I guess he's white. Although he is an African American, so that complicates things.

00:14:48.080 But I guess he's white. Is Elon Musk even a nationalist? I don't know that he's a nationalist.

00:14:53.560 I see no evidence that he's a nationalist. And it made me realize the term white nationalism,

00:14:59.940 that's just the new meaningless phrase that the Libs throw around. It's just the new racism.

00:15:05.260 The Libs used to call everyone that they didn't like racist. And if the word racist ever had any

00:15:11.420 meaning, it certainly doesn't anymore. No one cares at all. When a liberal calls you a racist,

00:15:15.980 you know you've won the argument. It's just, it has no effect in the public square. It used to be

00:15:19.860 the worst thing you could possibly be called. Now I think it's really losing steam because it's so

00:15:23.620 silly. So they have to up the ante. And so the new one is white nationalist. He's a white. But

00:15:30.100 I don't see, even if I'm being as charitable as I possibly can to the left-wing point of view,

00:15:36.540 I don't see how you could possibly describe. I can't even make fun of it. I don't even know what

00:15:44.240 this guy would be talking about to call Elon Musk a white nationalist. So that's just completely

00:15:49.560 meaningless. And then what's the second charge? What's this rich person? You're just selling out

00:15:54.880 Matt Tybee for the rich person. This was a comment that was also underlined by NBC's Ben Collins,

00:16:01.300 who says, imagine throwing it all away to do PR work for the richest person in the world,

00:16:05.660 humiliating SHIT. Who do these people work for? Who does Ben Collins work for? Ben Collins,

00:16:16.080 does he work for the Little Sisters of the Poor? That's who he does. No, he gets his check from

00:16:20.380 NBCUniversal, a very, very rich, powerful company. And he gets his check from all these guys,

00:16:28.040 Wajah Ali, all the rest of them. They get their checks, they get their funding. At the very least,

00:16:33.000 they serve the interests of people who collectively are much, much richer than Elon Musk.

00:16:40.840 Elon Musk is very rich. He's one guy. The people who run NBC, just GE, right? Or just think of any

00:16:49.380 of these corporations that own the media companies. And think about the water that these, even the

00:16:54.800 so-called independent journalists carry for the wealthiest people on earth, for people like George

00:16:59.360 Soros, the largest donor to Democrat causes in the country. It's just preposterous.

00:17:06.440 Doing PR work for the richest person in the world.

00:17:11.900 All journalism has a little touch of PR to it, because all journalism has spin,

00:17:18.420 because all journalism has a perspective. Because the only people who go into journalism

00:17:23.160 are people who have perspectives about things. And frankly, everybody has a kind of perspective

00:17:28.240 about things, because we're rational creatures and we have moral judgment. So obviously that's the

00:17:32.900 case. And when we talk about journalism, journalism is very expensive. It's funded by people. It's

00:17:36.960 funded by people for a reason, to advance a certain view of the world. Daily Wire, we're self-funded in

00:17:44.780 the sense that we've run our business from basic, almost from day one, from about a year and a half in,

00:17:50.360 on cash. And we've done it because of you. Well, why do we do it because of you? Because we all share

00:17:57.540 a sort of view of the world. And we share some basic principles, like a country should have borders.

00:18:03.980 Kids should not have their genitals chopped off. Babies shouldn't be killed in the womb.

00:18:07.500 Many other points of view that we all share together. And then you are willing to spend your

00:18:11.780 money to help us get the message out there. And when we're talking about the corporate media,

00:18:17.040 you've got corporations spending a ton of money on media because they know that it's important to

00:18:21.740 have a bullhorn in public. So they're all to some degree PR people. They're all to some degree

00:18:27.480 propagandists. The question is, on behalf of whom and on behalf of what? And when I see these guys,

00:18:32.540 NBC and Wajahat Ali and all the rest of them, just whining and pulling their hair out over the

00:18:37.740 publication of this story, it should expose, I think, quite clearly who's really serving the

00:18:44.040 powerful entrenched interests. You have the entire corporate media and the entire liberal

00:18:49.320 establishment on one side trying to suppress this story. And then you've got one journalist

00:18:56.280 and one rich guy on the other side exposing it. A rich guy who is so incensed by this kind of

00:19:02.640 behavior that he spent $44 billion to expose it. So money well spent, especially since it's not my

00:19:09.060 money. Trump was shocked and appalled at this expose, as he well should have been. And so he's

00:19:14.940 gone so far as to say that this sort of behavior allows for the suspension of the Constitution.

00:19:21.780 Very Trumpian kind of dialogue. He says, so with the revelation of massive and widespread fraud and

00:19:28.980 deception in working closely with big tech companies, the DNC and the Democrat Party,

00:19:32.900 do you throw the presidential election results of 2020 out and declare the rightful winner? Or do

00:19:39.440 you have a new election? A massive fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of

00:19:44.220 all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Our great founders did not

00:19:51.220 want and would not condone false and fraudulent elections. I love the way that Trump negotiates

00:19:58.200 because he says, look, now that we know what we know, what do you do? Do you either immediately

00:20:03.340 reinstate me as president or do you immediately hold a new election? As though there's no third

00:20:08.580 option. There's no third option of, does Biden get to continue to be president? And we just all move

00:20:13.080 on. No, no, no, that's not in there. He's always talking you pass the sale. It's like a guy who says,

00:20:18.140 hey, hey, I can borrow 20 bucks. He's already just begun with the premise that he was trying to argue.

00:20:23.720 So he says, what are we gonna do? We've got two options. We can either reinstate me as

00:20:27.700 president immediately or hold a snap election immediately. And then here's the line that's

00:20:31.860 got him in trouble. He says, a massive fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the

00:20:35.260 termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.

00:20:41.480 What is he saying here? Well, it depends on what the meaning of the word allows, allows.

00:20:47.220 Which is, if he means allows, as in prescribes the suspension of the Constitution. That's a radical

00:20:58.640 statement and all of the libs and the never trumpers are gonna pull their hair right over it.

00:21:02.720 But if the word allows describes what has happened here, then I don't see how you could

00:21:10.020 really disagree with it. Meaning, they rigged the election. The libs have rigged the election.

00:21:17.960 They've rigged the public square. They've rigged the mechanism of government in a self-governing

00:21:23.900 republic. Therefore, we are justified in going further and suspending the Constitution. That's

00:21:31.280 a radical claim. But isn't it merely descriptive? The libs have rigged the whole system successfully.

00:21:39.420 The libs were able to dominate the public square and kick out dissenting voices and cover up anything

00:21:44.540 that, according to polls, would have thrown the election to Donald Trump. Again, I don't really

00:21:50.980 believe polls, and I think most statistics are made up, but that's what you see. 12% of Biden voters,

00:21:55.760 according to a poll right after the election, say they would have voted for Trump had they known

00:21:58.760 about the Hunter Biden laptop story. So if the libs have already rigged all that and gamed the whole

00:22:05.580 system, then haven't the rules of the Constitution already been suspended?

00:22:11.840 And when we're talking about the state Constitution in Pennsylvania, they were suspended

00:22:14.960 before the 2020 presidential election. That's how Pennsylvania got widespread mail-in ballots.

00:22:21.800 Furthermore, when Trump goes on and he says, this is not what the founders wanted,

00:22:25.120 and they would not have condoned this, that's obviously true.

00:22:27.640 Now, of course, the meaning of Constitution has changed dramatically over time. This is one issue

00:22:36.900 with conservatives, and I think it's just kind of part of our character. We are always fighting

00:22:41.440 yesterday's war. I talk about this on the show a lot. Our government is not run with the bill up on

00:22:47.940 Capitol Hill. The thing you learned in civics class, for those of you who are old enough to

00:22:54.000 have had civics class, that's not the way our government is actually run. And so you have

00:22:58.800 conservatives, especially you saw this in the Tea Party movement, say, well, according to the

00:23:03.100 Constitution, that we shouldn't have the administrative state. According to the Constitution, I don't see any

00:23:08.140 mention of the Federal Reserve System. According to the Constitution, I don't see it. And they describe

00:23:11.860 the difference between America in the late 18th century and America in the early 21st century.

00:23:17.780 And they say, these things are totally different. Yeah, that's true. But the Constitution has

00:23:20.900 changed over time. I mean, just with the 14th Amendment and the way the 14th Amendment was

00:23:24.700 interpreted in the 20th century, you see something like the incorporation doctrine, the idea that the

00:23:28.980 Bill of Rights would be incorporated to the states. Previously, the Bill of Rights was only understood

00:23:32.760 to apply to the federal government. The federal government can't establish a church. The federal

00:23:37.100 government can violate free speech. But the states were totally allowed to do that.

00:23:41.700 In fact, at the time of the ratification, one of the reasons the federal government couldn't

00:23:45.100 establish a church is because multiple states already had established churches. So when you

00:23:50.540 incorporate the Bill of Rights into the states, that's a major change to our Constitution.

00:23:56.160 When you see the expansion, well, the 17th Amendment, which says that you're going to directly

00:24:01.140 elect senators, that basically takes states' rights off the table. So that's a major change to

00:24:05.320 our Constitution. When you see the Civil Rights Act and the Great Society and the programs,

00:24:10.260 well, first the New Deal programs in the 1930s, then Civil Rights Act and the Great Society in the

00:24:14.720 1960s, both of those are major, major changes to our Constitution, especially the latter, which creates

00:24:19.680 in many ways a new legal regime, a new constitutional framework in our country. This was the argument of

00:24:24.580 Chris Caldwell's book, The Age of Entitlement. So obviously that's all true. And so the question for

00:24:32.040 conservatives is, are we going to keep whining about the difference between the Constitution as we see it

00:24:38.240 on paper written at the end of the 18th century and the present? Or are we going to accept the actual

00:24:44.120 Constitution, the way that our laws are actually made, and then work against that system and fight it

00:24:49.600 and win? You're seeing this in the Elon Musk case, right? Either conservatives could keep whining about

00:24:54.460 how we're being censored on Twitter, or we can get our own rich guy to go in and buy Twitter and then expose it

00:25:00.680 and then try to fight the system from within. Are we going to keep fighting yesterday's war,

00:25:04.720 are we going to fight the war being waged on us right now?

00:25:11.020 Speaking of wars and constitutions, Iran has disbanded its morality police.

00:25:18.220 This is the big headline here. So there have been protests in Iran for a while now. This was over

00:25:23.460 the killing of a woman, Masa Amini, who was detained by the morality police because she broke the headscarf

00:25:34.020 rules. She was walking out without a headscarf, and then she died in custody. And there have been

00:25:38.520 protests that were sparked since her death. And now the regime seems to be afraid of the protests

00:25:46.820 enough that they're saying, okay, we're going to disband the morality police, that special police

00:25:52.140 segment that goes around telling people to put their headscarves back on.

00:25:55.420 What's most interesting, the story I don't find interesting at all. The reaction to the story

00:26:02.780 is what I find very interesting. The protesters in Iran are saying this is not good enough. We are

00:26:08.660 not going to stop protesting. They are pledging to continue the demonstrations. And the reason that

00:26:14.060 they are reacting that way is the same reason that the Iranian regime was willing to abolish the morality

00:26:22.760 police in the first place, which is, it's a completely empty gesture. It doesn't mean anything.

00:26:30.560 A regime that remains in power cannot abolish the morality police because all police are the morality

00:26:40.800 police. Sure, maybe Iran, well, let me rephrase that. Maybe Iran, more on that in a minute. Maybe Iran

00:26:52.480 has a special division called the morality police, but all the police are always the morality police

00:26:59.180 because all regimes have a moral view of the world and they encode that moral view in their laws. And

00:27:04.580 then the police seek to enforce those laws. So the protesters know it's BS. They know it's just a way

00:27:10.940 to give a fake concession and try to disband the protests. The regime knows it's BS. You've still got

00:27:17.120 the mullahs in charge. How on earth are you going to disband the morality police? And the only people who

00:27:21.800 seem not to really get it are Westerners who misunderstand the role of morality in politics

00:27:28.360 and who recite stupid platitudes such as, you can't legislate morality. That has never been true.

00:27:36.520 That is not true today. Both sides of the conflict right now in Iran understand that. And we would do

00:27:43.700 well to understand that too. Americans would do a lot better and American conservatives would do a lot

00:27:47.340 better if we understood there is no way not to enforce morality. The only question is which

00:27:52.360 morality are you going to enforce? I mentioned the Iran thing. Iran. I'm sorry. I keep screwing it up

00:27:57.160 myself. There's a big debate over how do you pronounce the name of that country? Is it Iran

00:28:02.800 or Iran? And I took a Twitter poll and there were a number of people who wrote into me that said,

00:28:07.840 no, Michael, it's pronounced Iran. Iran, you know, like the way Obama pronounces it and the way all the

00:28:12.620 sophisticated libs pronounce it, Iran, even the way I've been pronouncing it because I've been hearing

00:28:15.980 it on TV for the last 20 years. Iran, because that's the way that the Iranians themselves pronounce

00:28:22.140 it. And I think, okay, my family is Italian. But when I'm referring to Italy on the show, do I say,

00:28:29.020 you know, a few years ago I was traveling to Italia. I was just walking through La Repubblica Italiana.

00:28:36.740 And then I said, do I, I don't do that. When I discuss the country that is immediately to our

00:28:41.900 south, do I say, I think, you know, we're going to go on a little trip, me and sweet little Elise.

00:28:46.200 We're going to go down to Texas and then we're going to go down to the Rio Grande Valley. And

00:28:50.840 then I think we're going to venture into Mexico. No, I don't do that. I call it Mexico because I

00:28:56.460 speak English. I call it Italy because I speak English. And I think we should all call it Iran

00:29:00.880 because we speak English. And more specifically, we speak American. And it really,

00:29:05.260 really irritates the libs when we call it Iran. And so that, that is it. I don't have any more

00:29:09.140 sophisticated or scholarly reason why I advocate that pronunciation, but I think that is sufficient.

00:29:14.860 And I think we should all, all do it. All police are the morality police. Okay.

00:29:20.640 There's a slight digression on the pronunciation of Iran. All police are the morality police,

00:29:25.500 but not all morality police are the police. It's kind of like the square in the rectangle.

00:29:32.160 All police forces necessarily enforce the morality, but not all of the people who enforce the moral

00:29:39.680 views of a culture are wearing police uniforms. Okay. And that brings us right back to this Twitter

00:29:46.700 issue. The reason this Twitter issue matters so much is because we allowed a handful of lunatics,

00:29:54.400 lunatic leftists in Silicon Valley to dictate the morality that would be accepted in the public square.

00:30:01.940 And they did so in a way that was in contravention of morality. They did so in a way that elevated

00:30:06.480 falsehood over truth, that elevated evil over good, and that elevated ugliness over beauty. That's the

00:30:12.520 problem. So this guy, Yoel Roth, who is the former Twitter safety chief, he was filmed on stage at some

00:30:22.300 stupid lib conference discussing how the Babylon bee and libs of TikTok, two of the funniest accounts

00:30:31.120 on Twitter could kill people. Okay. Babylon bee, which is what got him to buy the thing. I think

00:30:38.560 that's the, that's the one which is, which was not particularly funny. The Babylon bees man of the

00:30:44.380 year is Rachel Levine. Not funny. Yeah. Um, and, and you can, I didn't agree. They should have taken that

00:30:51.260 down, but go ahead. You know, it's interesting. Uh, it's interesting to think about what the competing

00:30:56.720 tensions around that are. And I want to start by acknowledging that, um, the targeting and the

00:31:01.760 victimization of the trans community on Twitter is very real, very life-threatening and extraordinarily

00:31:07.820 serious. Um, we have seen from a number of Twitter accounts, including libs of TikTok, notably

00:31:14.760 that there are orchestrated campaigns that particularly are singling out a group that is already particularly

00:31:21.580 vulnerable within society. And so, yeah, not only is it not funny, but it is dangerous and it does

00:31:27.900 contribute to an environment that makes people unsafe in the world. When the Babylon bee makes a joke

00:31:36.420 about how a man is not a woman that kills people. Okay. That kills people. And that's why we need to

00:31:44.420 de-platform the Babylon bee and libs of TikTok. When libs of TikTok do the work that journalists

00:31:52.900 pretend that they do. And when libs of TikTok exposes abuses and corruption and child abuse,

00:32:00.660 that is killing people. And so we need to kick her out of the public square. This is the fatwa handed

00:32:08.400 down by the American mullahs. Those two people on stage, those are the American mullahs. There are many,

00:32:14.420 others as well, sitting there in their chairs with their microphones, just like the Supreme Leader

00:32:20.420 of Iran, issuing the moral declarations by which we all must live. And they have the power to enforce

00:32:26.860 them, or at least they did until Elon came in and booted these people out. But they, they do,

00:32:32.020 they largely have the power to enforce this stuff at Facebook, at Google, at Twitter, and in many other

00:32:38.740 areas of power as well. But it's so noticeable there because they control the public square. They

00:32:43.520 control the speech in the country. And they say, we will not now tolerate, we will not now tolerate

00:32:49.700 anyone suggesting that a man cannot be a woman. We will, they're fixing their turbans as they say this,

00:32:55.960 we will not, this is the fatwa issued by the Supreme Leader of Twitter's Safety and Policy Board.

00:33:01.980 Oh, all hail the Twitter Safety and Policy Board. Americans, we make fun of the mullahs in Iran.

00:33:10.800 We make fun of the Iranian form of government. Can you believe these men so divorced from the modern

00:33:17.520 world, so divorced from reality are going to issue these declarations and make these women

00:33:23.100 put on head coverings? At least they're not telling kids to chop their genitals off.

00:33:30.840 Okay. I think before we start casting stones, there are a lot of criticisms to make of the Iranian

00:33:35.880 regime. But maybe before we start casting stones, how about we take a look in the mirror? Okay.

00:33:42.000 Before we accuse them, how about we take a look at ourselves? Because that, that, that is how the

00:33:46.980 United States is run. We are run by a, an elite, largely unaccountable, self-appointed morality police

00:33:56.360 who have the ability to enforce their liberal fatwas. Okay. And in some cases, their view of morality

00:34:04.940 is far more perverse than the view of our enemies around the world.

00:34:10.840 Speaking of laughing and the ruling class, speaking of mocking these sorts of things,

00:34:19.320 Barack Obama just, just said something very interesting. And I, I almost have never said

00:34:26.260 that. I never thought Barack Obama was a particularly interesting public speaker. I know

00:34:30.280 when he came on the scene in 2008, people said he was the greatest orator since Pericles. I never saw

00:34:35.140 that. I just thought he said empty platitudes in a largely boring way. His most famous speech was the

00:34:39.940 one where he says, there's not a red America, not a blue America, not a states of America,

00:34:44.580 not a black America, not a white America. It's not. And you just think, okay, okay, this is,

00:34:48.500 this is the most banal kind of platitudinous thing I've ever heard in my life. But he, he at least

00:34:54.460 has presented himself as this great speaker and he does always choose his words carefully.

00:34:59.600 And while campaigning for Raphael Warnock, he took a shot at uncle Joe.

00:35:03.860 We all know some folks in our lives who we don't wish them ill will.

00:35:11.420 They say crazy stuff. We're all like, well, you know, uncle Joe, you know what happened to him?

00:35:18.020 You know, it's okay. They're part of the family, but you don't give him serious responsibilities.

00:35:27.200 Ugh, he's talking about crazy uncle Joe. That's a little awkward. And the way that

00:35:33.120 liberals are reacting to this is to say, oh, come on, give me a break. He wasn't talking about Joe

00:35:38.120 Biden. He was talking, you know, he was just saying, you know, he was just using crazy uncle Joe

00:35:42.660 to mean, you know, whoever you're, you're random uncle. I'm not, he's not talking about Joe Biden.

00:35:49.200 I'm not convinced of that. Whatever you want to say about Barack Obama, I have plenty of mean

00:35:53.500 things that I could say about Barack Obama. The man generally does not misspeak. In fact,

00:35:59.720 as crazy uncle Joe said during the 2008 primaries, Barack Obama is very articulate. I think it was

00:36:06.800 Joe Biden who said that Barack Obama was the first clean, articulate black man in American politics.

00:36:12.000 Okay. So, so you can take Joe's words for it too. Crazy uncle Joe. Barack Obama is precise about his

00:36:18.580 jurisdiction. I think if for anyone who is paying attention, this was a clear shot at Joe Biden,

00:36:25.460 because in recent weeks, you've seen Joe Biden signaling, he does not want to get out of the way

00:36:30.440 in 2024, that he does want to run again. A lot of Democrats don't want him to run again. And so what

00:36:36.720 does Barack Obama do in this thinly veiled barb? He says, you know, when you got crazy uncle Joe,

00:36:42.940 uncle Joe is Joe Biden's nickname. When you got crazy uncle Joe, you don't, you're nice to him.

00:36:48.040 He's in the family, but you don't give him a lot of responsibilities. You don't do that.

00:36:53.460 Insinuating perhaps that Joe Biden doesn't have a lot of responsibilities now. He's just being sort

00:36:57.480 of led around by the hand. And certainly I think implying that Joe Biden should not have a lot of

00:37:02.060 responsibilities come 2024. So who is running the show? Who will be the titular head in 2024?

00:37:09.600 But even now, if Joe Biden doesn't have a lot of responsibilities, who's running the show?

00:37:12.880 Who is actually enforcing, enforcing our morality? Who are the morality police?

00:37:19.200 Who is the executive in the United States? Because Barack Obama seems to suggest it ain't

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00:38:34.000 Speaking of incompetence in our federal government, really great news, everybody. You can breathe a

00:38:39.380 sigh of relief. The Department of Health and Human Services has declared an end to the monkeypox

00:38:45.560 emergency. I know you were all quaking in your boots. You were so nervous about the spread of monkeypox,

00:38:50.800 but it's over. Well, actually, monkeypox is not over because they don't call it that anymore.

00:38:57.880 According to Xavier Becerra, the secretary of HHS, from the outset of the Mpox outbreak,

00:39:04.560 the administration pulled every lever to stop the spread of this virus. So it's Mpox now because

00:39:09.200 monkeypox is offensive for some reason. I'm not sure what is offensive about it. I don't think they've

00:39:14.780 renamed the chickenpox. I don't think it's the Cpox. So I don't know why that is.

00:39:19.680 Some people said it had a stigma because the virus comes from Africa. Before the weird gay fetish

00:39:27.460 orgies in Belgium and Spain spread it around the world, monkeypox was pretty much contained just in

00:39:32.580 Zaire. Or if there were stigma, because it pretty much only spread with promiscuous homosexual men.

00:39:40.780 So if it seemed like someone was comparing them to monkeys, I don't know. But anyway,

00:39:45.400 monkeypox, you're not allowed to say it anymore. It's Mpox. And that's not even the craziest thing

00:39:50.000 that Becerra said in his statement. He said the administration pulled every lever to stop the

00:39:53.580 spread of the virus. That just isn't true. The administration did not do that. It would be

00:39:59.480 very simple to stop the spread of monkeypox. It would have been very simple to stop it much faster

00:40:04.960 than it already was. It was always going to be a more contained sort of thing because it only

00:40:10.620 really statistically affected one group of people, a relatively small group of people.

00:40:15.300 And it was contained pretty much to just the cities. And because there were vaccines out there

00:40:20.960 that were somewhat effective in slowing the spread, which for instance, you didn't have with HIV

00:40:26.140 in the 80s and 90s. So it was always going to be contained, but they could have contained it a lot

00:40:30.820 faster. And they could have contained it by being honest and just saying, no, monkeypox doesn't spread

00:40:37.220 to everybody. No, as we heard from the administration at the beginning, this is not

00:40:41.080 everyone's equally at risk here and potentially going to contract monkeypox. Pretty much the

00:40:46.180 only way you get it is if you're a very promiscuous homosexual man. Not even if you're just a relatively

00:40:52.460 mild homosexual man who has none or one sexual partner. There, you're not going to get monkeypox.

00:40:58.620 But if you go to the bathhouses and you go to the fetish parties in Belgium and Spain, and later

00:41:04.140 then in New York and San Francisco and all over the place, and you have sex with multiple partners

00:41:08.500 in a very short period of time, you are much more likely to contract monkeypox. So stop doing that.

00:41:13.760 The administration couldn't say that because that would be considered homophobic today to tell a

00:41:19.020 basic truth. I have gay friends who are more reasonable than the libs, which is not saying all that

00:41:28.600 much. But these are sensible people who would come out and they, because I would ask and say,

00:41:33.880 do I sound homophobic? Do I sound bigoted? They say, Michael, they should rename it gay

00:41:40.780 orgypox. That would get the message out very, very clearly. The Biden administration didn't want to do

00:41:46.920 that because at every single turn, they seem so concerned with hiding the truth. You see it on

00:41:55.280 Twitter. You see it in the statements of the administration on public health and everything

00:41:59.880 in between. They want to hide the truth because the truth does not go very well with their narrative.

00:42:06.180 Speaking of scientific truth, there is a scientist who worked at the Wuhan laboratory who is now coming

00:42:13.900 out and admitting that the Wuhan virus was a lab leak. This is his opinion. This is his bombshell.

00:42:25.280 I think it was reported in the Sun out of the UK. This is Andrew Huff. Andrew Huff not only worked

00:42:33.940 at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, he worked for EcoHealth Alliance. EcoHealth Alliance is,

00:42:41.000 if you've seen my documentary on Dr. Fauci, which is available at Daily Wire Plus.

00:42:46.680 EcoHealth Alliance is the organization of Peter Dajjak. Peter Dajjak recklessly pursuing gain-of-function

00:42:53.520 research, recklessly working with the Wuhan Institute of Virology on bat coronaviruses.

00:42:59.520 This was covered up by the government. Dr. Fauci lied about this in front of the Senate.

00:43:05.300 Then it turned out it was true. The NIH actually had funded this organization,

00:43:08.380 had been funding subgrants to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Well, this guy, Andrew Huff,

00:43:12.740 who worked at EcoHealth from 2014 to 2016, says that the EcoHealth helped the Wuhan lab put together,

00:43:20.660 quote, the best existing methods to engineer bat coronaviruses to attack other species for many

00:43:26.400 years. Huff says, China knew from day one that this was a genetically engineered agent.

00:43:32.640 The US government is to blame for the transfer of dangerous biotechnology to the Chinese.

00:43:37.860 I was terrified by what I saw, he says. We were just handing them bioweapon technology.

00:43:45.240 And I suspect this is behind a lot of the cover-ups, a lot of the, we don't want Hunter Biden's laptop

00:43:53.040 getting out, a lot of, this is a threat to safety, a lot of the, we've got to accuse Trump of colluding

00:43:58.940 with the Russians, we've got to wield the federal government to stop Trump's campaign, kill it in

00:44:03.900 the cradle. What is it all about? Is it about them fearing the conservative policies? Yes, that's part of

00:44:10.900 it. But I think another part of it, maybe an even deeper part of it, is that the libs don't want

00:44:17.340 their screw-ups and corruption exposed. They knew that if Donald Trump had been elected president,

00:44:26.580 that it would come out that the Obama administration was wielding the government against the Republicans,

00:44:32.920 against their political enemies. That the Obama administration was wielding the government

00:44:36.780 to spy on Donald Trump's campaign. And that did come out. So all of a sudden, the political

00:44:43.280 operation to stop Trump because you don't like his policies becomes a little bit of a CYA operation.

00:44:48.800 Shoot, now we have to succeed here, because otherwise he's going to cover up, he's going to uncover

00:44:53.800 our corruption. A lot of the tamping down of dissent when it comes to coronavirus, the basic questions

00:45:02.180 people were asking, where did this virus come from? It was not man-made. This had nothing to do with the

00:45:07.200 Wuhan Institute of Virology. We've never funded gain-of-function research. We do not fund the

00:45:12.900 Wuhan Institute. None of that ever, all of that was a lie. All of that was, why? Because Dr. Fauci is

00:45:19.460 just so ignorant, because he's so forgetful. No, because he was trying to cover up his actions that,

00:45:26.220 as Andrew Huff is suggesting here, contributed to the creation of the coronavirus. And so that becomes

00:45:34.960 a self-fulfilling cycle. It becomes a self-perpetuating cycle. You've got all this lib

00:45:40.400 corruption from these people who have held on to power for far too long. And so their raison d'etre

00:45:45.920 becomes continuing to cover up their corruption, which is in itself corrupt. And so you get an ever

00:45:52.240 tightening grip on power. They can't let go even a little bit because it will expose just how corrupt

00:45:57.800 they have been. Now, speaking of things that happened a long time ago that people are trying

00:46:07.240 to cover up, Anna Navarro on The View is attacking the Cowboys owner, Jerry Jones. She wants answers.

00:46:16.640 Okay, she's going after the real stories. Not about the Twitter corruption. Not about the Biden

00:46:23.860 administration corruption. Not about, no. She's going after the real stories. When Jerry Jones was 14,

00:46:30.180 he's 80 years old now, by the way. When Jerry Jones was 14, he was photographed near a rally about segregation.

00:46:40.540 LeBron James gave an interview, or maybe it was Wednesday, I thought it was so incredibly

00:46:46.820 poignant, where he brought up the picture from 1957 of Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys,

00:46:55.300 standing in Arkansas as a mob of white boys were blocking black students from going into a high

00:47:04.620 school. And, you know, and LeBron made the point that he gets all these questions about Kyrie Irving,

00:47:11.960 about everybody else, about all these things. And he said, you know, you guys haven't asked me about

00:47:15.740 Kyrie Irving, about Jerry Jones, and why the disparate attention. And I do think it's important.

00:47:21.900 And I hope that Jerry Jones, who has so many black players, who has such a platform, who has all this

00:47:27.420 money, who's got all this access, I hope Jerry Jones really does take the opportunity to own this,

00:47:33.840 to talk about it, to explain it, and to talk about the change that has happened in 65 years and his

00:47:40.200 role. Well, he claims he was just a casual observer at that event. He was 14. Yeah, he was 14. He was a

00:47:46.560 casual observer. And how old is he now? They were 14-year-olds in the KKK as well, right?

00:47:51.200 The best part of it is Sonny, who acknowledges, she has to admit here, look, maybe he was just there.

00:47:57.300 There was a crowd of people watching something. So maybe he was a casual observer. And also,

00:48:01.580 he was 14. He was a child. He was in what, eighth grade or ninth grade. But there are 14-year-olds in

00:48:08.260 the KKK. Are there? Okay, maybe. The conservatives must be the most virtuous people. The American

00:48:21.840 conservatives in the year 2022 must be some of the most virtuous people ever to walk the earth

00:48:28.300 if this is the best the Democrats can do. If the best that the Democrats can do to come up with a

00:48:37.320 scandal about American conservatives is that 66 years ago, the Dallas Cowboys owner, when he was in

00:48:47.660 ninth grade, was in a crowd of people watching an event about desegregation, if that's the best

00:48:58.220 they've got. They don't have anything that they can point to, that they can complain about.

00:49:02.540 Anytime in the intervening 66 years, man, we must be doing something right. Because I can point to

00:49:08.380 Democrat corruption right now that's going on right now in a really, really egregious way that is causing

00:49:13.180 all sorts of problems. It is causing deaths in some cases when we're talking about the COVID lockdown

00:49:17.200 regime. All sorts of other problems. And the best they've got. And this is true. This isn't just about

00:49:21.640 Jerry Jones. This is all they ever talk about. Well, you know, there were Jim Crow. There was Jim Crow.

00:49:26.840 There was Jim. When was Jim Crow? Oh my gosh, man. Was it 70 years ago? Yeah. And that's why you need

00:49:32.080 to give us all this power now. And we need to kick you out of the public square because there was

00:49:35.720 slavery. When was slavery? That was 150 years ago? That's the best you've got? Okay. Keep talking

00:49:45.240 about all the problems from over a century ago. We're going to keep pointing out the awful things

00:49:50.820 that you're doing right in the here and now. We'll see who the people side with. We know who the people

00:49:55.180 will side with. That's why they got to rig the system. That's why they feel that they've got to

00:49:59.000 rig the system. Because if the Democrats felt that they could win fair and square, they wouldn't have to

00:50:03.640 rig the public square, and they wouldn't have to change all of the election rules in contravention

00:50:08.060 of state constitutions in some cases. You know, the rest of the show continues now. All right. And

00:50:12.760 this is a Music Monday, baby. I told the guys, I said, no more rap. Okay, we've done enough rap.

00:50:17.680 Let's hold off on the rap for a little bit. I've had enough. So they're going to take me back to the

00:50:23.800 90s. They're going to take me back to the 90s and early 2000s by playing a little alternative rock.

00:50:28.800 Okay, so I'm going to bleach my tips in between now and the members block. I'm going to get out

00:50:34.040 some nice quick silver and billabond clothing, throw out a skateboard, and meet you guys over

00:50:38.660 at the member block. If you're not a member, click the link in the description and join us.

00:50:58.800 Thank you.

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