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Sept. 15, 2025 - The David Knight Show

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Cancel Culture's New Face: When Conservatives Embrace Censorship

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	Well, I got really upset over the weekend when I saw these ludicrous, insane, authoritarian proposals from multiple GOP congressmen giving brand new powers to Marco Rubio to revoke passports of American citizens.
	But especially what was done by one representative, Clay Higgins out of Louisiana.
	I gotta say there is something deeply wrong with the Louisiana GOP.
	They have given us squeaker Mouse Johnson.
	They have the sycophant that is there who doesn't care about the rule of law any regard.
	They've also given us Senator Cassidy, the gatekeeper over health appointments, who is a one of the biggest supporters for vaccine poisoning.
	And then we've got this guy, this new guy, Clay Higgins, who is truly off the wall reactionary to all of this.
	And he is not just embracing censorship, but the amazing thing to me is that these conservatives are doing it in the name of Charlie Kirk.
	Charlie Kirk was all about debate and bringing back free speech.
	These people are despising his legacy.
	Truly crazy how they're doubling down.
	I wrote a Substack article about this, cancel culture's new face, when conservatives embrace censorship.
	Not that they haven't always embraced it to some degree, more quietly.
	It's just that with this, they are really coming at us.
	When you think cancel culture is only a radical left thing, think again.
	In the UK, Christians watched in horror and amazement as prayer, silent prayer, wasn't simply mocked as Democrats have done here, but punished.
	A woman has been repeatedly arrested for praying silently in the vicinity of an infant sacrifice center.
	Even after the court threw out the charges and awarded damages, the police arrested her yet again.
	Law doesn't matter to them, only their agenda.
	Here in the U.S., leftists mocked people for praying after a shooting tragedy.
	But in the UK, apparently they're worried that it works.
	And they don't want to spare any child from death by doctor.
	As a matter of fact, that same understanding that prayer works is also in play in Australia.
	We'll talk about it later.
	They do not want you praying in silent groups over somebody being uh getting somebody away from this transgender insanity.
	Now, there's not a center that they are protecting, so it's not a physical place, not like you're standing out there.
	So how would they know, right?
	How would they know that you're praying for that?
	Are they going to put informants in churches?
	Are they going to just assume that because a church opposes the transgender insanity, that therefore these people are criminals?
	I think that's the more likely scenario.
	But they do believe that it works, don't they?
	And you notice that as our governments in the West turn increasingly towards Marxism and socialism, they become increasingly strident in terms of attacking Christians.
	J.D. Vance rightfully called out the UK over this obsession with all forms of censorship, especially social media.
	But when it comes to something that American conservatives care about strongly, they show themselves even more zealous in punishing speech than their British counterparts.
	They remove the mask of pretense as defenders of free speech.
	First to stop any criticism of Gaza, and now conservatives justifiably angry at the murder of Charlie Kirk are imagining how they can punish those who mock and cheer the murder.
	Politicians see an opportunity to virtue signal to their base, and they're producing bills that are a repudiation of Charlie's life work.
	Charlie Kirk spent his life and gave his life, supporting free and open debate, tolerating those that he disagreed with, and inviting them to quote, prove me wrong.
	But now multiple GOP congressmen are approving proposing bills to prove that Charlie was wrong, and to punish speech that they don't like.
	The punishments are radical and in violation of the amendments, uh prohibition of the First Amendment's prohibition of cruel uh I'm sorry, Eighth Amendment prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.
	This Congressman wants lifetime social media bans.
	He also wants to revoke business licenses.
	He wants even driver's licenses revoked if you are engaged in speech that the government doesn't like.
	He knows that the First Amendment, he knows what it says, and he knows that it begins with Congress shall make no law.
	So this reprehensible traitor, Clay Higgins, says, I'm gonna lean into my friends at big tech.
	That's the way they've done it all along.
	We knew that before we got the documents with the Twitter dump.
	We already knew who was pushing this stuff.
	And it was coming out of the Trump administration during the so-called pandemic.
	Then of course Biden went deep into it.
	I've been banned from YouTube for opposing the pandemic lockdowns, MRNA, genetic weapons, etc.
	They won't even allow me to put up a music channel.
	I've been fired by so-called alt media for opposing stop the steal.
	I've been banned by Teal's Mafia on PayPal and Venmo.
	This is not an abstraction for me.
	Everyone should recognize that the Chinese social credit system is just a beta test for what the technocracy seeks to establish everywhere for everyone.
	An idiotic and ignorant suggestion by a young TikToker now is being echoed everywhere, calling for citizenship of the press.
	She completely misunderstands the Smith Monk Act, but she wants to call it this new one, the Charlie Kirk Act.
	Let me play this for you.
	You will not believe this person is uh goes by the name Ellie Man, I told Karen I said, Who would have thought we're watching 1960s sitcoms that Ellie May and uh Fred Mertz would become the bane of the 21st century?
	Alrighty, this message is for President Trump and his administration.
	If you stay to watch the video, please tag him down below, share, and repost so we can try to get this to him as quickly as possible and hope that he can do something with this.
	President Trump, as a supporter who voted for you three times, I am hoping and praying that you will revisit what Barack Obama and Joe Biden got rid of back in 2013, which is the Smith Munt Act, which held news corporations accountable for lying to the American people and spreading propaganda instead of truth.
	I think instead of bringing it back as a Smith Munt Act, you name it the Charlie Kirk Act, you make it a law, and you make it damn near impossible for these people to continue to lie to the American public, which has brought chaos, hatred, division, and anarchy all across this country.
	Finds out the S, which will damn near bankrupt their company should they lie to the American people ever again.
	It's a spitting image of the left, doesn't she?
	She even looks like it.
	Because of their constant lies, a man lost his life over it because of the constant hateful rhetoric of calling him a fascist and a Nazi and a white supremacist and a bigot, the same thing that they called you.
	This man is dead.
	I think this would be a great legacy for him to have a law named after him to force journalists to finally start telling the truth and having the integrity that they have lacked for over a decade.
	Who gets to decide what the truth is?
	You gets to you.
	I hope that you think about it and that you pass it into law.
	Because we are on a dangerous path right now with the constant lies and the propaganda, and that doesn't end just at news journalists.
	It needs to go to content creators who consistently spread lies and propaganda and half-truths on the internet.
	Anybody creates content if you participate in social media.
	Over abysmal things.
	It needs to end.
	So please, if you have it in your heart to have the time to do this, get this in front of Congress, get this passed as a law, and start holding these news corporations, be they right, left, or center, accountable for their behavior.
	Congress shall make no law, Ellie.
	There's exhibit A of the idiocracy that we live in in this country.
	Don't tell me that Charlie Kirk was turning the youth around.
	All he did was change the tribes.
	She is exactly like the leftists, absolutely 100% like them.
	It's just she wears a MAGA cap.
	No difference whatsoever.
	They don't get it.
	They don't understand what's going on.
	They don't support free speech and debate.
	And when she starts talking about the Smith Munt Act, uh, while she was still in diapers, presumably, I was talking about that back in 2013.
	And that was not what she characterizes it as.
	Not at all.
	It was not anything at all that would control or judge speech by the press or free speech by the public.
	It had nothing to do with that.
	Understand that dur after the after World War II and kicking off the Cold War, you had uh Truman did a bunch of things to create the national security state.
	And then he started using the military as the world's policeman.
	But really what he was doing was creating a police state here domestically at home.
	He created the NSA by executive order.
	He uh did the charter for the CIA.
	They started using the term national security.
	They changed the name of the uh the Department of War to Department of Defense to be a little more subtle about it.
	Uh but part of that was the creation of these propaganda organizations.
	Voice of America, Radio for Europe, and things like that underneath it.
	And people were concerned that the government was first of all uh creating its own news media, because the government doesn't have authority to print money, and it doesn't have authority to have printing presses either, does it?
	It has no authority to do those things.
	And people were concerned about it, because they understood that the weapons of propaganda abroad would become weapons of propaganda at home.
	And of course they have.
	You know, in addition to that, we had things like Corporation for Public Broadcasting and NPR.
	Uh, but those were portrayed as they were going to be all about art and so forth.
	But they were propaganda organizations.
	But the Smith Munt Act was there in 1948 to uh swage the fears of conservatives that we were going to create this massive propaganda uh organization of the uh government.
	Of course, they did Operation Mockingbird secretly, but Voice of America was there in your face.
	And so they said, we're going to prohibit them doing it here at home.
	They can only do this abroad.
	You know the same lies that they told us about the CIA, the NSA, the same lies that then resurfaced when we had when people found out about it, and they had the Frank Church Commission.
	The product of that was the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, emphasizing that these organizations created by Truman and the National Security State could only spy on foreigners in foreign countries, couldn't even spy on foreigners in America without a search warrant.
	All of that was a lie, a distraction, and a cover-up.
	And so she has absolutely no idea what's going on.
	In 2013, Smith Munt was not banned.
	Instead, what they did was they relaxed some of the controls on it.
	Now, those of us who knew how the government was lying and had uh had apps for it and programs for it, uh, were very concerned because when we saw those prohibitions being taken away, it's like, well, they're gonna double down in our face openly with propaganda, which is what they did.
	Uh but uh that was what we were talking about in 2013.
	This is Obama getting rid of these prohibitions on direct propaganda because that's what he wants to do.
	And so it has absolutely nothing to do with it.
	But as stupid as Trump and his supporters are, he retweeted that.
	So he approves of that message, and he also doesn't believe that there's any controlling legal authority to stop him from censoring people, as we've already seen in his administration.
	And then that brings us to this other traitor, Clay Higgins from Louisiana.
	He said this.
	I'm going to use congressional authority and every influence with big tech platforms to immediately uh mandate a ban for life of every post or commenter that belittled the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
	You just did more to to dishonor his legacy than anybody could have ever possibly done, Higgins.
	If they ran their mouth with their smart ass hatred, celebrating the heinous murder of that beautiful young man who dedicated his whole life to delivering respectful conservative truth.
	Let me say this.
	Conservatives don't have a different truth.
	It's like the liberals when they talk about social justice.
	Once you put an adjective in front of justice, you're not talking about real justice.
	You put an adjective In front of truth, you're not talking about truth either.
	Anyway, he said, conservative truth into the hearts of liberal enclave universities.
	Why are we funding them, Higgins?
	Why don't you stop that if you want to do something?
	Armed only with a Bible and a microphone and a constitution, which obviously Higgins has never read, though he had to swear to it in order to become a congressman to have any authority.
	So I'm going to lean forward into this fight, dismant uh demanding that big tech have zero tolerance for violent political hate content.
	So he understands that he isn't going to get past square one with a censorship bill because of the First Amendment.
	So they always do it in the back door with their partners that they can bully.
	And this guy sits on the House Armed Services Committee.
	So he can bully these people very effectively because most of them have financial interests that he can affect.
	I'm also going after their business licenses and permits.
	I'm going to have them blacklisted aggressively.
	They should be kicked off from every platform, and their driver's licenses should even be revoked.
	I'm basically going to cancel these animals who celebrated Charlie Kirk's assassination.
	I'm starting that today.
	End of message.
	Just like Trump does, end of message.
	Like it's some kind of a transmission or something.
	I cannot express words cannot express my utter contempt for people like Clay Higgins and for people like Donald Trump.
	Absolutely disgusting.
	Absolutely disgusting.
	He's going to cancel with extreme prejudice.
	So we always knew that that was what they were doing.
	They're not fooling anybody, but they're not even trying to hide it anymore.
	So I said, Charlie Kirk didn't just fight for free speech against the censorship that has come to dominate our so-called universities.
	He also fought against postmodernism.
	The idea that there is no such thing as absolute truth and authority.
	So Representative Higgins' intended bill opposes both free speech and embraces the leftist postmodern idea of a quote living constitution, unquote.
	In other words, that it is not fixed, it is not literal, but it is malleable by whatever their whims are, their evolving whims, by the way.
	Higgins is the poster child for what Congress uh conservatives used to despise.
	An authoritarian who will use every trick and all of his wiles to circumvent the Constitution and principles upon which America was built.
	Higgins' voters should ban him from Congress.
	But that'll never happen, due to partisan groupthink and gerrymandering.
	Unfortunately, Higgins seems to be in the mainstream of current GOP party politics.
	When Charlie Kirk was debating students on campus about Gaza, the Trump administration, he was loath to criticize, sought to block money from colleges, which by the way, the colleges should have never had in the first place, if they allowed forbidden speech and to deport students who were legally here if they engaged in government forbidden speech.
	Many of us who said this was just the beginning have now been proven right.
	Another traitorous congressman, Brian Mast of Florida, a Republican again, has introduced a bill to revoke the passports of American citizens if the government doesn't like you for whatever reason.
	As far as the TikToker Ellie May, again, she's a three-time Trump supporter.
	That tells you everything you need to know about her and elect.
	Propaganda is the flip side of censorship.
	The people promoting censorship, whether it's Rubio, Trump, GOP congressman, or some TikTok influencer wannabe, can't handle the truth.
	Their propaganda doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
	Unlike Charlie Kirk's respectful manner and his respect for debate and free speech, many on the right have now become raging reactionaries, demanding to burn down what characterized both America and Kirk.
	Rather than conserve free speech or the Constitution, they are more like the radical left Jacobins that he debated at the universities.
	Prove me wrong.
	That's why I said the very first day about Charlie Kirk.
	I had some big policy differences with him.
	First one, that he would support, could support Donald Trump after what happened in 2020 with the lockdowns, the genetic code injections, the ventilators, and the rest of this stuff.
	But you can have a debate, and there was a lot of value in being able to have a debate with people that we disagree with.
	And because I had that caveat there, and folks, I'm not going to jump in and declare the guy a saint because he he did because he had debates like that or whatever he had to say.
	I've opposed him in the past.
	It'd be hypocritical for me to say that.
	But because I say that, I'm getting a lot of hate mail from former supporters who've canceled me.
	So that's exactly what you would expect, isn't it?
	I'm not going to back down.
	As a matter of fact, I'm not going to revise uh revisit any of those criticisms.
	I'm not going to revise them either.
	But I will revisit them in the future after a certain amount of time has happened.
	But uh, you know, I agree with him on some things, and I disagree with him on other things.
	These people want to shut down anything that they disagree with.
	And they are total idiots.
	It is an idiocracy.
	You want to talk about playing 4D chess?
	These people can't even think four years ahead.
	What happens if Trump's not there?
	And you've given these powers to the president.
	They will shut you down.
	Just as I said earlier.
	You've got the UK and Australia banning silent prayer.
	What do you think they're going to do to you if you keep giving them power?
	If you hate the First Amendment so much that you're willing to give them this kind of power, what do you think the Democrats are going to do when they become when they win an election?
	And they will win an election.
	These people can't play checkers, let alone 4D chess.
	It's absolutely absurd.
	the common man.
	They created common core to dumb down our children.
	They created common past to track and control us.
	Their commons project to make sure the commoners own nothing.
	and the communist future.
	They see the common man as simple, unsophisticated, ordinary.
	But each of us has worth and dignity created in the image of God.
	That is what we have in common.
	That is what they want to take away.
	Their most powerful weapons are isolation, deception, intimidation.
	They desire to know everything about us while they hide everything from us.
	It's time to turn that around and expose what they want to hide.
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