Nov. 3, 2022 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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I think you can't resist me. | |
| You're the one who makes me go money. | ||
| You're the sun who makes me shine. | ||
| When you're around, I'm always laughing. | ||
| I wanna make you mine. | ||
| I close my eyes and see you before me. | ||
| Think I would die if you were to ignore me. | ||
| I feel good for you, just too much. | ||
| I adore you. | ||
| I can't kill my money. | ||
| I'd do anything for you. | ||
| I won't anybody else. | ||
| When I think about you, I touch myself. | ||
| I don't want anybody else. | ||
| I'm not, I'm not. | ||
| I don't want anybody else. | ||
| I don't want any other. | ||
| I don't want anybody else. | ||
| till I touch myself I'm always one of those anybody else when I think about you I touch myself I touch myself AOC and Elon Musk are in love! | ||
| We predicted it last night! | ||
| We said AOC and her unrequited love Would flow over into the streets, and today it did. | ||
| AOC griping all day long that Elon Musk is up in her mentions, that Elon Musk is doxing her account and stopping her from being able to use Twitter. | ||
| She did this repulsive video of her eating chicken today, talking about it. | ||
| It was amazing, ladies and gentlemen, and we cannot wait to tell you about it. | ||
| You need to listen to this. | ||
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All right, all right, listen, all right, listen, listen, okay, listen. | |
| AOC is obsessed with Elon Musk. | ||
| She's in love with Elon Musk. | ||
| Let's count the ways, okay? | ||
| She's like a teeny bopper teen girl at an Elvis concert in the 1950s. | ||
| AOC, communist, loves herself some... | ||
| Capitalism. | ||
| Let's start. | ||
| Yesterday they had a feud, okay, on Twitter. | ||
| Elon Musk decided to be a capitalist, which has made him the richest African-American in world history, and he decided to charge eight bucks for Twitter. | ||
| So here you go. | ||
| AOC complains about that and says, And so we begin, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| We begin. | ||
| And again, if we don't have the AOC, do we have the AOC eating chicken loaded, clip loaded? | ||
| If we don't, let's get that set up. | ||
| And so we begin, ladies and gentlemen, with the back and forth between AOC and Elon Musk. | ||
| Elon Musk then posted this screenshot of AOC's store. | ||
| No, we're not sure if Elon Musk bought this sweater. | ||
| It would be amazing if he did, and if he cut off the sleeves, and if he wore it to work out and then sent selfies to AOC. | ||
| He said $58 for the Paddy Winkle Blue sweatshirt on AOC's website. | ||
| All right, so, okay, not great for AOC. | ||
| She's complaining about eight bucks a month. | ||
| Also, you know, she happens to make $14,500 per month as a member of Congress. | ||
| Her stipend that is tax-free, is your income tax-free? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| Is your income tax-free? | ||
| No, no, no, no, no, it is not. | ||
| Your stipend that AOC gets is like something like $200,000 a year. | ||
| AOC gets paid a lot of money. | ||
| To sit around and tweet all day. | ||
| We sit around and tweet all day. | ||
| We get zero dollars. | ||
| We actually pay for Twitter. | ||
| It's like a normal, sane person. | ||
| And so, you had this back and forth between her and Elon and the memes rained down from heaven. | ||
| Let us review, okay? | ||
| Here are the memes that spawned from the two of them flirting with each other. | ||
| Price, $58. | ||
| I like that. | ||
| Price, $8. | ||
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No! | |
| Okay, continue. | ||
| Tax the rich. | ||
| AOC crying, Elon Musk wearing her dress. | ||
| Okay, continue. | ||
| All right, $8 verified. | ||
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Good, good, very well, very good. | |
| All right, Elon Musk, members of Congress, give me $8. | ||
| This is the Renaissance painting of Elon Musk. | ||
| Members of Congress are like... | ||
| Very interesting. | ||
| I don't know if I should do that. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| $8 a month. | ||
| Salary $14,500 a month. | ||
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I can't afford it. | |
| $8 coverage. | ||
| Keep going. | ||
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Alright. | |
| The Padme and Anakin meme. | ||
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You won't charge us $8 for blue checkmarks, right? | |
| Right! | ||
| I love that meme format. | ||
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AOC. | |
| AOC looking at her blue checkmark through a fence. | ||
| They got blue checkmarks in cages! | ||
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They got blue checkmarks in cages! | |
| Come on! | ||
| Amazing. | ||
| $8 for Twitter, $60 billion for Ukraine. | ||
| This is a beauty here. | ||
| This is a beauty because AOC actually got shouted down, screamed down in her own district for spending too much money in Ukraine. | ||
| We have that clip. | ||
| We had it last night. | ||
| Maybe we can reload it. | ||
| But I think... | ||
| Hundreds, actually, of leftist protesters came after AOC in her own district at one of her events, screamed her down for funding nuclear war, essentially, in Ukraine, for being a warmonger, which is nuts. | ||
| That's where you actually get this clip. | ||
| And if you want to hear this clip one more time, you should just listen, listen, listen. | ||
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All right, all right, listen, all right, listen, listen, okay, listen. | |
| Hey! | ||
| Okay, so AOC, very good. | ||
| Very appropriate meme. | ||
| AOC driving a Tesla. | ||
| Now, we thought this was amazing, okay? | ||
| We thought this was amazing. | ||
| I don't know if we have the article to pull up here, but this is from a Daily Mail article. | ||
| AOC happens to—oh, there we go. | ||
| Perfect. | ||
| Okay, amazing. | ||
| AOC owns a $75,000 Tesla. | ||
| That is one of the top-of-the-line Teslas there. | ||
| We can go back here. | ||
| She illegally parks it in front of— Whole Foods, DC Whole Foods, because she actually lives in this very expensive, very posh apartment complex above the Whole Foods. | ||
| Now, AOC hates Amazon. | ||
| AOC hates Elon Musk, wants to own Elon Musk. | ||
| Go get Elon Musk. | ||
| But AOC is sitting here, presumably shopping at Whole Foods and buying Teslas. | ||
| Here she is in front of Whole Foods. | ||
| This is from the Daily Mail. | ||
| That's her Tesla. | ||
| So she has to get in her car. | ||
| She doesn't get in her car every day. | ||
| She plugs in her Tesla. | ||
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She takes a plug in her Tesla. | |
| And she plugs it in. | ||
| She goes, I'm not going to pay Elon Musk $8 a month. | ||
| As her Tesla charges $75,000. | ||
| And what does it cost to charge a Tesla now? | ||
| Like $40? | ||
| Got them. | ||
| Got them, AOC. | ||
| We have more memes. | ||
| We're not advertising with Twitter! | ||
| With Elon Musk in charge! | ||
| Got it! | ||
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Pfizer apparently has paused their advertising. | |
| In case you were wondering exactly who are the thoroughly corrupted Dr. Fauci enema corporations inside of the greater global corporate environment, well then, all you have to do is see the people who paused their spending on Twitter because of Elon Musk. | ||
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Elon Musk, very bad man, very sad, very bad man. | |
| These people, General Motors and Pfizer, okay? | ||
| In case you're wondering which two companies are so thoroughly, unmitigatedly corrupted by the corporate government dollar and the corporate government elite, those two companies, bingo, bingo, bongo, got it, okay? | ||
| Dr. Fauci and all of his Pfizer stock. | ||
| General Motors. | ||
| That hasn't made a good car in like 200 years. | ||
| General Motors. | ||
| That completely exists off government subsidies. | ||
| Like the welfare queen in like a trailer park. | ||
| General Motors. | ||
| Trash company. | ||
| Pfizer, of course. | ||
| Pfizer, of course. | ||
| If you know, you know. | ||
| Pfizer doesn't exist right now without the government going through and buying up all their favorite Pfizer products. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Pfizer pausing advertising on Twitter. | ||
| Gotcha. | ||
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How dare Elon charge me $8 for my blue checkmark? | |
| This was great. | ||
| Meta, Pfizer, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Apple, Disney, Post Service. | ||
| It's the post office that gets me on this one. | ||
| Is that the last one? | ||
| We got one more. | ||
| The AOC charging her Tesla. | ||
| I see Jerry put that one in the jet. | ||
| Maybe we'll get that one. | ||
| I'm not giving a billionaire my $8. | ||
| It's perfect. | ||
| It's perfect. | ||
| Okay, guys? | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
| What's also perfect is that AOC today proved exactly how obsessed she is with Elon. | ||
| Do we have the tweet from Elon saying, stop hitting on me, I'm shy? | ||
| Do we have that or no? | ||
| Elon Musk famously said to AOC, who was griping about him, he goes, stop hitting on me, I'm a very, very shy person. | ||
| And then comes AOC. | ||
| Into her house today, flips on her camera, and does this absolute... | ||
| Like, okay, we have to play the cringe alert for you here before we play this clip. | ||
| We'll do the cringe alert. | ||
| But AOC decides that now is the time to eat a chicken nugget. | ||
| Now is the time to eat a chicken nugget. | ||
| While doing a video about how much she hates Elon Musk. | ||
| And there's the stop hitting on me. | ||
| I'm really shy. | ||
| AOC. | ||
| Tired of having to collectively stress about the hate crimes. | ||
| And Elon Musk has stopped hitting on me. | ||
| I'm really shy. | ||
| Elon Musk is maximum fun. | ||
| So, cringe alert, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| The AOC clip. | ||
| That I'm about to play you. | ||
| Unless you're into some really weird stuff, you're not going to like this. | ||
| AOC unwrapping a piece of fried chicken piece by piece while talking about being fake banned on our Twitter stream. | ||
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Watch. | |
| I was at a community event in the Bronx in Corp City. | ||
| And when I get home, I see a text from my team saying, Hey, let me know if you need any help with this Elon stuff. | ||
| And I was like, what? | ||
| So I pull up my Twitter app and it's like gone. | ||
| Like when you pull up your mentions and stuff like that, it's just like literally like a blank screen. | ||
| Totally gone. | ||
| And I was like, hmm, that's weird. | ||
| So it turns out we got under a certain little billionaire's skin. | ||
| Oh, got him, AOC. | ||
| Oh, AOC owned Elon Musk. | ||
| Take that, African-American business owner. | ||
| AOC, put that stiletto on your neck. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| This is what actually happened. | ||
| I think AOC tweeted about this. | ||
| This is like the chicken tweet with the rooster in it, Royce. | ||
| AOC shared a screenshot here. | ||
| Yo, Elon Musk. | ||
| Now that I have your attention, why should people pay $8? | ||
| This is what my app looked like. | ||
| Ever seen my tweet upset you yesterday? | ||
| That's good. | ||
| Doesn't seem very free speechy of me. | ||
| Be the first to know! | ||
| So this is just her using Twitter wrong. | ||
| And to that we have one more movie. | ||
| That played funny. | ||
| Alright, well, there we go. | ||
| So AOC obsessed with Elon Musk. | ||
| Making videos about Elon Musk. | ||
| Crying about Elon Musk in the bathroom. | ||
| Eating food while thinking about Elon Musk. | ||
| Tweeting at Elon Musk. | ||
| Can't. | ||
| Can't. | ||
| Get enough. | ||
| She's in love. | ||
| We said yesterday that Elon Musk and AOC are upset, that they're in love with each other. | ||
| We're not sure if Elon's married right now. | ||
| We don't think so. | ||
| I think he just went through a divorce or something. | ||
| We know that AOC is married to the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, the ginger version of that. | ||
| And so, you know, we wish them well. | ||
| But if things get a little stressful, AOC, if this Congress life ain't for you, then you know a certain billionaire that definitely has slid into your DMs. | ||
| I'm sure he's got you. | ||
| He'll pay your $8 a month. | ||
| No doubt about it. | ||
| Congress can be stressful. | ||
| Congress can be stressful. | ||
| Maybe the time to jump ship, AOC. | ||
| Think about it. | ||
| You don't have to worry about any more of these events. | ||
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Very classy. | |
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| These people are running on the streets of New York. | ||
| They got some people like me. | ||
| So they are freaking out. | ||
| AOC is losing it. | ||
| She's in love with Elon Musk. | ||
| It's obvious. | ||
| And that's because she just loves a strong man. | ||
| And Elon Musk is doing strong things at Twitter.com. | ||
| Meanwhile, while AOC is having a meltdown, just unable to use her app, and we have ALX coming up here to tell us exactly what AOC did wrong in the usage of her app, Elon Musk is getting ready to be pure alpha-based god energy firing. | ||
| Half the Twitter staff? | ||
| Let's see. | ||
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But the changes are indicating that Musk is focused on profit just as much as free speech. | |
| Now, sources tell me layoffs are coming in imminently. | ||
| A new report cites that half of the staff could be gone as soon as tomorrow. | ||
| And there's also some major cultural changes underway. | ||
| Reportedly, they're getting rid of what Twitter calls their monthly rest day, as well as walking back their remote work policy. | ||
| Now, that's not surprising, right, given Musk's push to return to in-person work at both Tesla and SpaceX. | ||
| But these reported layoffs are coming at a tough time for big tech. | ||
| Amazon just announcing it's pausing hiring for roles across all businesses in its corporate workforce. | ||
| Staff memo that came out today sharing that the measure comes amidst a worsening economic outlook and after it hired rapidly in recent years. | ||
| So these laid off Twitter employees will be entering a quite frigid job market for tech. | ||
| But it's not just cost-cutting, right? | ||
| Musk is seeking new revenue streams as advertisers weigh their options. | ||
| The billionaire confirming earlier this week, the platform will charge $8 a month for verification. | ||
| And that could reportedly begin as soon as Monday. | ||
| But some blue check critics are balking at that idea. | ||
| AOC tweeting this saying, quote, laughing at a billionaire, earnestly trying to sell people on the idea that free speech is actually an $8 a month subscription plan. | ||
| Musk responding, your feedback's appreciated. | ||
| Now pay $8. | ||
| So there was a rest day? | ||
| We didn't know this. | ||
| There's a rest day? | ||
| This doesn't shock us, because Twitter is made up of a bunch of very, very smelly Marxists who do not know their way around a razor or a bar of soap. | ||
| You could see in these Project Veritas videos that these people are oof. | ||
| You don't want to stand next to them at the bar, that's for sure. | ||
| Anyway, the Twitter Marxists apparently had a rest day. | ||
| They had a lot of other things, too. | ||
| Check out this video from a... | ||
| Hopefully fired tomorrow Twitter employee talking about their luxurious, luxurious yogi rooms and wine on tap. | ||
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Welcome to a day in my life as a Twitter employee. | |
| So this past week went to SF for the first time at a Twitter office, badged in, honestly took a moment to just soak everything in. | ||
| What a blessing. | ||
| Also started my morning off with an iced matcha from the perch. | ||
| Then I had a meeting, so quickly scheduled one of these little pod rooms, which were so cool. | ||
| They're literally noise-canceling. | ||
| Took my meeting, got ready for a bunch. | ||
| Look how delicious this food looks. | ||
| Oh my goodness, I was so overwhelmed. | ||
| Then made my way down to this log cabin area. | ||
| I don't know what this is, but it was really cool. | ||
| Played some foosball with my friends to kind of unwind a bit. | ||
| Also found this really cool meditation room that I thought was super neat. | ||
| I didn't do any yoga, but they have this yoga room if you are a yogi, so also thought that was really cool. | ||
| Had a couple more meetings in the afternoon, had a ton of projects that we needed to knock out. | ||
| Say hi to my teammates! | ||
| Went to the library to kind of get some more work done. | ||
| Obviously, had to have our afternoon coffee, so made some espresso. | ||
| And then before leaving for the day, had some red wine that's on tap. | ||
| Went up to the rooftop and just honestly enjoyed the beautiful weather. | ||
| So awesome trip Ah Ah Ladies and gentlemen, when you get the bill for the person whose student loans you paid off by working a double at Walmart or busting your ass trying to build your own business, you ever been there? | ||
| Feeling the weight day and night, night and day of the salaries that you pay and support, grinding. | ||
| And never stopping work. | ||
| Remember, it's that girl whose student loans you paid off. | ||
| That girl. | ||
| I think she's like a 29-year-old product manager. | ||
| Okay, what product does a 29-year-old manage? | ||
| And did you see that in the video? | ||
| We've played this video twice. | ||
| Like, she's playing foosball to unwind in the middle of the workday. | ||
| Just go ahead and ask anyone on my team if they unwind in the middle of the workday. | ||
| And if I give them wine on tap, I give everyone a giant bottle of bourbon for Christmas, but no, I don't give them wine on tap. | ||
| We also don't have a yogi room at this company. | ||
| So that's what Elon Musk was firing. | ||
| That's who Elon Musk is firing. | ||
| we have an artist's rendering of what that may look like. | ||
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We'll be right back. | |
| Bring them all back, including AMI. | ||
| ALX, who joins the program right now. | ||
| ALX, what's up? | ||
| There we go. | ||
| What's happening, dude? | ||
| Yo, what's up? | ||
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I'm just laughing at AOC. | |
| I think the funniest thing about this whole AOC thing is when she's complaining to Elon Musk about his features, and Elon should reply and say this, that if she bought... | ||
| Twitter blue. | ||
| She'd be able to edit the tweet instead of replying with the buy in the typo. | ||
| Like, that's a perfect use of the feature that he's selling to her. | ||
| So she wouldn't have to do that. | ||
| Not only would she be able to keep her blue check, but, I mean, she could just fix the error. | ||
| So that's low-hanging fruit for Elon right there. | ||
| So if he wants to reply to that, it's so funny. | ||
| You hear us talk about it every day as much as we can. | ||
| ALX was... | ||
| Criminally kicked off Twitter.com. | ||
| I think they were literally in an act of malice trying to destroy a young man's career, a young conservative's career. | ||
| He is the definitional example of what evil, smelly Marxists did at Twitter during their regime. | ||
| ALX, your thoughts on Elon. | ||
| Has he invited you back yet? | ||
| No, he has not invited me back yet, bud. | ||
| I can understand the impact of taking on this huge company. | ||
| And as we've seen, it looks like the mass cutoffs, layoffs are going to take place tomorrow. | ||
| I think there's going to be 50% of staff cuts, and much of that is coming from the trust and safety. | ||
| Does policy enforcement. | ||
| So what he said the other day is that he's not reinstating any banned accounts until there's a clear process, which I guess is understandable when he's reformatting all of these teams. | ||
| And like I said, a lot of the cuts are coming from that team that handles policy enforcement. | ||
| So I think he wants to get a better process in place and then figure out how he wants to bring people back, whether it be like... | ||
| In the past, there is a way you can submit an appeal, but it usually just goes on deaf ears. | ||
| My recommendation would be for them to send an email to each banned user, and for people that are active and that aren't bots, they would receive that email and then appeal their suspension via email. | ||
| I think that's the best way for them to do that, but we'll see. | ||
| Have you given any consideration to if Elon Musk invited you to sit on the Trust and Safety Board? | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| I would take that. | ||
| But, of course, I would do it on the side. | ||
| I wouldn't leave here. | ||
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Ah, yeah. | |
| Amazing. | ||
| What's your thoughts on AOC? | ||
| Like, is she not using Twitter correctly? | ||
| What's with that image? | ||
| Maybe we can put the image back up here of the rooster. | ||
| Like, is she just using, like... | ||
| She has the verified tab instead of all mentions or if you could go to all. | ||
| So you probably would be able to see more notifications. | ||
| I think you can also go to the gear icon and just select what notifications you want to see. | ||
| And also, you just might have to close your app and refresh it. | ||
| I don't know how much you use the app, but sometimes that just happens if you haven't used the app in a while. | ||
| Close the app and open it back up if you're getting a lot of notifications. | ||
| But yeah, you can just tab over to the mentions are all and they would probably all be there. | ||
| Is there a product in AOC's life that isn't a Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk product? | ||
| That's a very, very interesting question. | ||
| And she publicized this all on her Instagram Live account, so there's Mark Zuckerberg you can add. | ||
| But she seemed like she was mystified by all of the things in her house when she had the garbage disposal. | ||
| She's never heard of a garbage disposal before. | ||
| So all of these fancy products. | ||
| I want to play my favorite Elon Musk clip here and get your reaction because it does seem as though they were never counting on somebody who's so uncontrolled by the regime. | ||
| Being in charge of so much, and he's a problem that they can't get rid of because he runs Starlink and because they have so many contracts, government contracts, and they're pushing EVs. | ||
| He has them sort of over a barrel, and then he goes and says stuff like this. | ||
| But it's not as if Biden has flipped the script and said, okay, we're going to go 180 degrees in the other direction. | ||
| He's kind of kept it the same, which has been really surprising, actually. | ||
| It's hard to tell what Biden is doing, if you're totally frank. | ||
| It's weekend at Bernie's. | ||
| The real president is whoever controls the teleprompter. | ||
| It's like the path to power is the path to the teleprompter. | ||
| Then he just reads the teleprompter. | ||
| I do feel like if somebody would accidentally lean on the teleprompter, it's going to be like Anchorman. | ||
| It's going to be like QQQ ASDF123 type of thing. | ||
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I mean, in fairness to Biden, he hasn't been napping as much as he needs to. | |
| It's an incredibly hard job. | ||
| I mean, this administration, it doesn't seem to get a lot done. | ||
| It doesn't seem to get a lot done. | ||
| You're not allowed to talk about the regime like that if you own Twitter and Tesla and Starlink. | ||
| Yeah, and the reaction from the audience is just hilarious because they're probably not all right-wing, and I know at least one of them isn't, and trying to kind of defend him. | ||
| Oh, he's not getting a lot of naps. | ||
| It's like, yeah, he goes to bed at 8 p.m. every night. | ||
| He's not getting enough sleep. | ||
| Yeah, right. | ||
| But yeah, and it's entirely true, and everyone knows it because, you know, any time he has a speech, everyone gets excited on our team because we're like, oh, here comes the content. | ||
| Without a doubt, there is not one speech that we don't get at least one clip out of. | ||
| Usually, it's about 10 or 12. It needs a new teleprompter. | ||
| What is going to be the first tweet when you're back? | ||
| Still thinking about it. | ||
| What are you going to say? | ||
| It's going to be good. | ||
| You should pre-follow ALX on his Instagram as Getter and his Truth Social. | ||
| Final question for you. | ||
| Is Twitter better off now than the last regime? | ||
| Mark the ways that Elon Musk has improved Twitter thus far. | ||
| So already we've noticed that he froze the access to lock and take down tweets from a bunch of employees down to like a small amount. | ||
| One of his criticisms and the whistleblower's criticisms is that Too many people have too much control over other people's accounts, whether it be politicians or just, you know, high-profile people or lower-level people. | ||
| And just like, that's way too out of control. | ||
| So he wants to kind of... | ||
| Shrink that control into a small centralized group. | ||
| And I hope that moderation council will include actual right-wingers on it. | ||
| So it looks like they're working on that. | ||
| I know it's going to be a long process. | ||
| And then already, he's going to be turning this verification thing into automatic profit for the company, which they haven't been profitable for two or three years. | ||
| I think they've only been profitable for... | ||
| For two years in their existence. | ||
| And they've just marked up losses the past two years. | ||
| And in the Project Veritas tapes, they've even said that. | ||
| It's like, we don't even care about profit. | ||
| We just care about wokeness. | ||
| It's all ideology. | ||
| And they pay people to just like, oh, I don't feel like working today because it's stressful or whatever. | ||
| They're free days off or whatever. | ||
| They're rest days they just got rid of. | ||
| And it just shows a complete shift in attitude towards the company under Elon already. | ||
| So, it looks promising. | ||
| Good. | ||
| Good. | ||
| Well, we just got onto Twitter Blue yesterday. | ||
| So, they let you edit your tweets. | ||
| That's the major thing that I've noticed. | ||
| But I support Elon Musk and what he's doing. | ||
| So, we're going to go full in on Twitter. | ||
| ALX, where can people find you right now before you get your Twitter handle back? | ||
| Yep. | ||
| So, it's Instagram. | ||
| And Getter is ALXTheLord. | ||
| And then TrueSocial is at ALX. | ||
| All right. | ||
| And what was your handle on Twitter? | ||
| And Twitter is just ALX as well. | ||
| It was just ALX. | ||
| It was at ALX on Twitter. | ||
| So you'll get at ALX back, right? | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| Three character, just like AOC. | ||
| Baby! | ||
| I mean, listen, I'm looking at Midnight Riders channel. | ||
| It looks like Kanye West has his account back. | ||
| So Kanye is back. | ||
| He's posted about 20 things in the past hour after saying that he was going dark, so we'll see how that goes. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So, Kanye's back, ALX. | ||
| Godspeed. | ||
| We'll see you soon on Twitter. | ||
| Say amen. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, we wanted to end the show, of course, with an extremely happy video that gave us great joy and great optimism for the future. | ||
| But before we do that, we will start with something very sad. | ||
| ALX mentioned that AOC didn't know what a garbage disposal was, and he's right. | ||
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I am told this is a garbage disposal. | |
| I've never seen a garbage disposal. | ||
| I never had one in any place I've ever lived. | ||
| It is terrifying. | ||
| I don't know what to use it for or what its purpose is. | ||
| Like, food scraps? | ||
| Like, is this environmentally sound? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| *laughter* | ||
| She's a congressman! | ||
| Come on! | ||
| You know you're going to watch her run for president one of these days. | ||
| You don't. | ||
| You know she's going to run for president. | ||
| And her billionaire husband, Elon Musk, is going to fund it all. | ||
| Oh, we want to send you off with a... | ||
| You know, with a little pep in your step, a little happy note to tell you that not all of everything is going to hell in the world. | ||
| AOC is getting completely owned and destroyed by Elon Musk. | ||
| It's just a beautiful thing to see. | ||
| The White House is getting fact-checked. | ||
| Karine Jean-Pierre is getting fact-checked, too, on new Twitter. | ||
| And there is a rise of, like, really smart young people and tech people. | ||
| ALX is one of them, obviously, and you must go follow ALX, along with the other people who work at this show. | ||
| You must follow Vivek Ranshwamy, who is a really talented orator, who has a great book out right now, and who we'd really like to bring on the show sometime very soon. | ||
| his friend and he was on CNBC and he was just dropping the most spectacular truth nukes to this sort of screechy lib that exists on CNBC to talk about how he likes capitalism but he's really a communist It used to be that you could stand in Times Square right behind us. | ||
| And you could shout whatever you wanted. | ||
| But you could only get 30, 40, 50 people around you. | ||
| Twitter's different. | ||
| The amplification. | ||
| It's the piece that she's talking about. | ||
| And so when you see these kind of heinous stories, conspiracy theories, about a Paul Pelosi situation that seems to lead to violence in other situations, as a result of it, the question is, do the companies bear some responsibility for trying to rein that in? | ||
| And I would argue they do, but to also put it on them to decide what's false. | ||
| Is also a complicating factor. | ||
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Well, exactly. | |
| So what I would say, if the company is going to take down something as false speech, the company bears the burden of proof to show that it was false. | ||
| History teaches us, and by the way, not just history over the last hundred years. | ||
| History over the last two to three years teaches us that many of our current beliefs will be modified in some way. | ||
| But why do we want to put the responsibility on the person who's speaking? | ||
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Well, I would say put it on the responsibility of the body politic to say that, you know what, we're going to debate these ideas in the open. | |
| May the best ideas win. | ||
| May the best arguments win. | ||
| By the way, that jackass, it's a longer clip, it's up on our social media. | ||
| That jackass there on CNBC, are you aware that what social networks operate as is essentially media? | ||
| And it's just the changed vector of how people consume media. | ||
| So they're just the newspapers of the olden days. | ||
| There were a few really big newspapers with really huge readerships, and people would get a physical piece of paper. | ||
| Back in the colonial days, when they wrote the First Amendment, there were huge publishers. | ||
| Big publishers. | ||
| There's the Getty family and the Hearst family. | ||
| They don't go back to the colonial days, but there were massive media conglomerates back then. | ||
| In fact, there was a publisher who was a founding father. | ||
| His name was Ben Franklin, you idiot. | ||
| And so... | ||
| No, free speech was never intended to just be a dude standing on the corner. | ||
| That's why freedom of press is woven into the First Amendment, along with the freedom to assemble, so that crowds of people could gather and shout whatever they wanted, as loud as they wanted. | ||
| So no, you absolute tool. | ||
| What do you think? | ||
| The printing press had been invented. | ||
| People could mass print whatever they wanted. | ||
| The First Amendment covers that. | ||
| They didn't have Wi-Fi, but they had their version of Twitter. | ||
| They had their version of Facebook. | ||
| You nincompoop. | ||
| They're so easy to knock down. | ||
| It's very fun to do it. | ||
| It's very fun to do this show. | ||
| Our evening live is sort of like a free-for-all. | ||
| We're going to be changing the format here and putting comments on screen and doing a lot of very fun stuff, so stay tuned. | ||
| God bless all of you for watching. | ||
| This is our evening live. | ||
| Tune in tomorrow morning. | ||
| We have some very big surprises for you. | ||
| It's going to be very exciting. | ||
| See you in the AM. | ||
| My name is Benny Johnson. | ||
| This is The Benny Show. |
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