Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - NEW: Kevin McCarthy Wants To Talk To Elon Musk About Twitter Censorship

On today's show, we discuss the latest in the Elon Musk takeover of the company, and the fallout from it. We also talk about the new committee created by the Senate Intelligence Committee, and why it's a good thing we have a committee at all. Also, we talk about why we should all be worried about what's going on in the world of government spying, and whether or not it's really as bad as we think it is. And, of course, we finish the show with a special guest interview with Alex Blumberg, the host of the popular conservative podcast "The FiveThirtyEight". Thanks to Pale Fire and Mossad for sponsoring this episode! If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe, Like, and Share to stay up to date with the latest episodes! Timestamps: 5:00 - Elon Musk's takeover 6:30 - What's next for the company? 7:15 - Who's the real threat to the U.S. government 8:40 - Who is the real Alinsky? 9:20 - Is the FBI colluding with the Russian oligarch? 10:00 11:30 What's the biggest threat to us? 12:00 | Who's being paid by the Russian government? 13:15 | What's going to win in the election? 14:00: What do we know about Russia? 15: Is the real Russia hoax? 16:30 | What are we should do now? 17:40 | What we should we know? 19: Should we do about it? 21:10 | What s going to happen next? 22:00 // 21:40 26:10 27:00 +23: What s the best thing we can do about this? 25:20 | What do you think we should be doing in the future? 26 - What s our role in the Russia hoaxes? 35: Is there a church committee? 31:00 & 27:30 // 26:20 32: Is it a church Committee? 36:40 +33:30 +35:00 / 35:10 +35? 37:40 Is it possible to be a victim of the Alinskyism? 39:30 & 35:30?

00:00:00.000 I mean, I look today at what happened at Twitter.

00:00:02.000 I don't believe Elon thought they were doing that much.

00:00:05.000 Now he gets in the middle of Twitter, and all he's doing is releasing the information, and now people are trying to vilify him.

00:00:12.000 Well, you know what's interesting with Twitter?

00:00:13.000 It was sort of amazing, because it came back.

00:00:15.000 We have Truth Social, and it's been a great platform to say what you want.

00:00:19.000 But Twitter, I actually like being in that fight because I'm sort of adversarial, and that's what I do, and that's sort of made a reputation of it.

00:00:25.000 When he even started talking about the takeover, it's like they were burning the documents.

00:00:30.000 My engagement went through the roof, the files went through, you know.

00:00:32.000 You had no growth and all of a sudden- I had no growth for years.

00:00:36.000 I was getting, and they were like, you know, four years ago, I'd say, listen, they're screwing with the algorithm, they're messing up.

00:00:40.000 Well, how do you know? It's like, because yesterday I was getting 10,000 retweets and today I'm getting three.

00:00:44.000 Like not 3,000, like three, single digit.

00:00:47.000 And you knew it and it was obvious.

00:00:49.000 Then he took over. And for like two months, I was getting great growth and engagement.

00:00:52.000 But it does seem like, and again, I don't know if he's maybe not as focused on it.

00:00:55.000 Yeah. But that engagement and the engagement of a lot of other conservative accounts has gone back down to like pre-Elon levels.

00:01:02.000 Yeah, we got to watch. We got to see it.

00:01:03.000 I'll talk to him. I mean, it's interesting just because it felt great to have a free speech platform.

00:01:08.000 And we have like an actual competitor.

00:01:10.000 And I stay on the platform because I want to engage.

00:01:12.000 Well, I see the engagement. I don't want to ever seed one of these platforms.

00:01:15.000 Yeah, you want to be... Well, when I talk to Devin over at The Truth, you can see the engagement is greater than any other platform that you have.

00:01:22.000 It's just people are passionate about it.

00:01:25.000 This is where they want to go. Yeah, and they may have changed a policy, but the reality, the employees at Twitter are still going to be 99%.

00:01:31.000 You see it in the donations, and so...

00:01:33.000 And he's seen that. He's been able to change it.

00:01:35.000 I hope they recognize that because all the guys that were actually, if I say even excited about what was going on, like, hey, just give me a chance to compete on a level playing field.

00:01:42.000 I'll even take a little disadvantage because by nature of the following, I'm already at a disadvantage.

00:01:47.000 But, like, that seems to have gone back down to almost worse.

00:01:50.000 There's guys like Andy.

00:01:51.000 Yeah. Like, he'll tell you, like, it's worse for him than pre-U.R. days, which is odd.

00:01:56.000 We'll have to see because he must not know about that because he's really changed so much to be able to come out and attack.

00:02:02.000 But what we find is what we're doing with this weaponization.

00:02:05.000 This is a committee that people would call the church committee after a former senator.

00:02:08.000 Explain that. I heard church committee.

00:02:10.000 I didn't even know what it was. It sounds like religious rites.

00:02:13.000 Yeah, no.

00:02:14.000 It's named after a senator back in the 70s.

00:02:17.000 And what happened, we didn't have the Intel Committee back then.

00:02:19.000 And the Intel Committee's responsibility is to oversee all the FBI, the CIA, all these agencies, right?

00:02:27.000 Before, they were just running wild.

00:02:29.000 So they create this church committee.

00:02:31.000 That's back, by the way. Yeah. And they go back and they look, hey, these guys are doing all this stuff in other countries, everywhere else in here.

00:02:37.000 We've got to rein them in.

00:02:39.000 And part of after they rein them in, they say, we need this committee.

00:02:42.000 Well, now we've watched what happened again.

00:02:44.000 We... You didn't fully believe that it was all happening.

00:02:46.000 You know, when Devin would come tell me, he said, oh yeah, that's right, but maybe you're a little far.

00:02:49.000 No, it's worse than what they told you.

00:02:51.000 I was a victim of it.

00:02:53.000 I don't want to use the word victims.

00:02:54.000 I hate that mentality.

00:02:55.000 But like, I was a target of it.

00:02:57.000 And I still was like, well, it can't be this bad.

00:02:59.000 And it is. I mean, they literally just arrested the FBI agent that was one of the leads of Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.

00:03:06.000 Being paid by Russian oligarchs.

00:03:08.000 For colluding with Russia. 0.62

00:03:10.000 Yeah. I mean... You can't make this up.

00:03:12.000 Typical of the, you know, the Saul Alinsky, you know, rules for radicals.

00:03:15.000 Like, accuse them of doing all the things you're doing.

Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - January 27, 2023

NEW: Kevin McCarthy Wants To Talk To Elon Musk About Twitter Censorship

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