June 28, 2019 - Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer
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Will We Survive This? | Ep 17
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So in terms of politics, what I do is I help people basically get in the news.
So essentially what I do is I take people who are fighting for conservative culture, conservative causes, whatever that stuff, and we make sure that they can get heard in mainstream media and all those other things because I think it's important that Republicans appear everywhere.
Yeah, and he actually, Peter's actually shown up a few times, I think even on Fox News and other mainstream media news networks, which we might talk a little trash on.
And I know a lot of you guys who might be listening to this probably are up to date on big tech censorship.
And so I don't want to hit a dead horse.
I don't want to talk about things that you already know.
But for those that aren't up to date with the widespread, I guess I could call the disease of tech overlords implementing fascist techniques in order to silence critics and control the 2020 elections.
I want to talk a little bit about how deep this corruption has gone in our country to where large entities and corporations and political groups are not looking out for the best interest of the people or the populace and are trying to socially re-engineer the country.
And I thought nobody better than yourself to talk about this.
I mean, I love that you brought up this subject because I think everyone wants to, especially in the mainstream media, mainstream conservative media too.
They want to talk about Google.
They want to talk about these big things, but they won't talk about things like the things we'll talk about, where Hillary Clinton came in and basically said that she petitioned to have Nancy Pelosi's video removed from Facebook.
You have Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic nominee, going and actually trying to get something removed from Facebook.
You have, you know, the CEO of Google actively doing things to suppress conservatives.
You have so many of these issues that I don't think are stories that people often hear.
I think it'll be really cool to go over those and actually give people some real talking points, some real stuff to be able to say, no, there is an organized effort against conservatives.
And if you don't believe it, well, you will after you hear what we're going to talk about today.
And so I'm sure you're probably driving if you're listening to this.
You can't write this down, but take mental notes.
I want to give the groundwork here because recently we got these updates, right?
These massive bomb drops of videos released by investigative journalist James O'Keefe at Project Veritas, which completely showed Google executive Gina Janai admitting that they have implemented a algorithm called ML Fairness, which essentially is sort of the most ironic name you could give something.
Call something fairness that's literally meant to strategically manipulate elections and reprogram society in an unfair way in the advantage of Democrats.
But of course, I want to start by talking about this is obviously not just a problem with Google manipulating things.
We have a lot of tech companies currently this month that have stepped up their game in targeting and collectively targeting conservatives.
And we'll start with Pinterest.
So why don't you tell me a little bit about what happened with Pinterest there?
So, I mean, with Pinterest, it was really interesting.
So, whenever people looked up, they looked up different Christian phrases, different Bible verses, different conservative ideas.
There's this thing called autocomplete.
For anyone listening that doesn't understand what autocomplete is, autocomplete is a thing within search engines like Google, within websites like Pinterest, within all these different platforms.
And what happens is, let's say you start typing in Trump.
On a lot of these search platforms, when you type in Trump, you'll see Trump is a racist.
Trump, this, Trump, that.
What those are supposed to be is those are supposed to be the things people most search for, but they're no longer that.
They're actually the search terms that Google suggests you search for.
So if you look on other search engines like DuckDuckGo or even Bing, which is owned by Microsoft, not exactly a right-wing company, when you type in Joe Biden, you'll see things like Joe Biden.
And the suggestion is touching girls, being creepy, doing whatever.
Go try and do that on Google.
You'll see a lot of different results.
So either people are searching totally different things on Google, which can't be the case because Republicans and Democrats use Google, or they're censoring stuff.
It's one or the other.
And I guarantee you, Bing is not going out trying to make Joe Biden look creepy.
And I think that that's where we get into this fact.
If we look at some of these companies and the way that they're collectively working, basically they're working to target certain ideas, which they're saying are not good for the country.
And ironically, those ideas mostly end up coming down to predominantly conservative, natural conservative ideas.
For instance, just the other day, we had Representative Dan Crenshaw, who Owen Benjamin, for some reason, doesn't like.
I don't know why Owen Benjamin is talking crap on him.
But, you know, he actually was talking to some of the executives, including one of Google.
And he talks to one of the leaders at Facebook and says, look, one of my constituents was deleted off your platform.
She had a picture deleted that praised women's support for Donald Trump.
Now, when you think about it, right?
Women's support for Donald Trump.
What's controversial about that?
It's just women supporting Donald Trump.
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One of my constituents posted photos on Facebook of Republican women daring to say that there are women for Trump.
Facebook took down that post right away with no explanation.
Is there any explanation for that?
Without seeing it, it's hard for me to opine.
That doesn't violate our policies, but I'm happy to follow up on this specific example with you.
Thank you.
Listen, here's what it comes down to.
If we don't share the values of free speech, I'm not sure where we go from here.
But of course, in these algorithms and these tech companies, they honestly and thoroughly believe that trying to raise up basically support for Donald Trump in itself is controversial.
It's one of those things where these tech companies, whether they actually believe it or it's just what their employees want them to do or their shareholders or whatever, they're clearly hell-bent on doing anything they can to distance themselves, even hurt Donald Trump, conservatives, anything like that.
Because for them, the moral grave error was that if they had simply done what they're currently doing in 2016, Donald Trump would not be president in places like Michigan and places like Ohio, Wisconsin, where he won by less than 100,000 votes.
If Google had gone and they'd pushed out a lot more bad news on Trump and a lot more good news on Hillary Clinton, they didn't allow you to see any of the corrupt things she was doing or they allowed it to be heavily underreported.
Hillary Clinton would be your president.
There would be two more liberal justices, leftist justices on the Supreme Court.
And this would be an entirely different country.
And we would probably have quite the crazy Republican primary now.
They learned they can get away with it because people are not talking about the stuff we're talking about here today and actually calling them out on it.
See, but that's interesting you say that because people are pretty smart at delineating what they do or don't want to talk about.
But the Hodge twins on Instagram, no matter what topic they talk about, if they talk about black people and it's not in a positive manner, they're black, by the way.
If they talk about tea people and it's just a criticism, their videos keep getting deleted.
They're actually very big entertainers.
They're actually comedians.
And so ironically, I consider the left to be some of the least funny people.
They can't make a good late night show anymore, actually.
They currently can't really make any good comedy.
Their movies are too politically correct.
Like I used to like, what's his name?
Seth Rogan.
I used to like Seth Rogan's comedy.
And his recent movies have just been terrible.
You know, because I don't think it's him.
I'm pretty sure it's probably the networks and the studios that end up policing these kinds of content last minute and these tech companies which decide, hey, we're going to say what's funny.
And everyone knows if somebody comes out and says, we're going to say what's acceptable and funny, it's probably not funny.
Yeah, I don't think you can quite have acceptable and funny at the same time.
It's like, if you go back and you look at anything, George Carlin, huge leftist, anything any of these leftist comedians said, go look at any YouTube clips that were uploaded for 2010.
These guys were dirty.
These guys were offensive.
These guys are more than slightly offensive.
They were heavily offensive.
But it was one of those things where there was a time and a place for that stuff.
And it's like, I wish we as a society still had a time and a place because I think humor often brings out the truth and stuff.
I think it actually brings it out more than rigorous analysis, which is all we seem to have today, because I think everyone's afraid of stepping on the other person's toes, at least on the conservative side.
But, you know, what's even crazier is people go, okay, cool.
This isn't really an example of a coordinated effort, but it really is.
Because an example of this is, so Project Veritas, right?
It's not just comedians, but investigative journalism is dead too, because the news isn't about, and you know this because you work in the news media.
It's not really as much about being neutral and providing facts as much as it is about commentating and providing opinion.
And in this case, if online on these so-called platforms or whatever you want to call them, that's what they still go by.
If you produce an opinion that goes against them, for instance, Project Veritas drops a video on YouTube and it exposes YouTube's corruption.
Now YouTube deletes it because YouTube's owned by Google and this is like, I get it.
It's like, you don't want someone in your house like talking crap about you, right?
You keep them out of your house.
I'm kind of understanding that.
Even if it seems sketchy, there's no better way to deny that you're up to no good than to delete all, try to get all the evidence deleted that says you're up to no good.
But then here's, here's what it goes to, is the rebuttal is, is that, you guys, why are you guys always complaining about all these tech companies censoring you?
Why don't you just move to another platform other than YouTube, which is interesting.
So a lot of you have talked about us about moving to BitChute or to Vimeo.
And while BitChute seems like a good alternative, the problem is, is you have to go where the people are that haven't heard your ideas.
Our goal is to get these ideas into the ears of people who haven't heard them first and foremost.
Before even people, because if you've heard these ideas, you know how to search for them.
You can go to BitChute.
You can go to a website.
You'll find the people you want to hear.
But we want to get to the voting block.
Over 50% of Americans don't vote.
And that's who we as conservatives want to empower with the truth.
We want to free them from the bondage of the blue pill to where they're locked in thinking the world is one progressive shit show.
And they want to come in and we're trying to access them there.
They're not going to go to BitChute to get information.
We want our videos to trend on YouTube.
But Vimeo has decided they're going to join in the race and they closed Project Veritas' account as well for defamation and discrimination based on their video for exposing Google.
So do you, I mean, how could this not be collusion?
Like, how could every website, like major liberal website, be hitting Project Veritas?
You know what would actually be an interesting way to take that to the next level though?
I think it would be really interesting if there was a former doctor who did that who became pro-life and they went on cable news and obviously you would not do a live procedure on there, but you could or life to death procedure on there, but you could absolutely do a mock procedure and show people literally live from your little cable news black box what it is.
4.3 stars, 4.3 body parts after you're finished with it.
But, you know, I got to say, you know, like, I understand that these tech companies don't want us to talk about certain ideas that are offensive.
And so a lot of people bring up, you know, not just like, okay, fine.
Okay, sure, Vimeo doesn't want you.
Sure, YouTube doesn't want you.
Conservatives and people, and it's not just conservatives, but people who have ideas that aren't popular to liberal and progressive tech overlords, design your own company.
It's not going to work literally ever because, look, that is a 30 or 50 year plan.
Think of it this way: in the 1960s, or before the 1960s, really, before the 19, like late 1950s, early 1960s, basically after JFK died, there was the whole kind of post-war malaise.
Everyone was like, you know, crap, like, what do we do with America?
And you have basically the leftists who were the cultural radicals, and you had conservatives who are us trying to fight against that.
But for 50 years, the left has created cultural institutions, which has ended up becoming the Googles, the Facebooks, the YouTubes, Vimeo, Pinterest, all this stuff.
So, in the long term, apps like Parlor, which we'll talk about, a lot of these different things are good, and they may even be able to be built up in five or 10 years.
However, even if it was something that was built up, we still have to go out and be on mainstream institutions.
And the best way we can do that is with public pressure.
And you're not going to be able to get people to boycott Google.
You're not going to be able to do it in one day.
But if you ruin their freaking reputation, I guarantee you people will start looking other places.
I mean, you know, a dick pic from Jeff Bezos, one, don't put that up on screen here.
And two, I mean, you could have a dick pic of the CEO of Google, the CEO of whatever.
I don't think that's going to take them down.
That would just be a scandal.
But take them down by proving that they are not neutral, like we're doing here.
And look, if three years ago, four years ago, you told the conservative movement that everyone would believe that basically the mainstream media is totally fake news and be willing to call it that, that mainstream conservative commentators would be on there calling it fake news, that the president would be calling it fake news, that people would be going after these platforms.
Let's not get too greedy and say, cool, we already won here with Trump.
Now we're just going to go create our own platforms because it's not going to work.
Let's keep the momentum going that we have with Donald Trump and actually go create our own thing while we're staying on these mainstream platforms and pressuring them to be included.
Use Solinsky's rules against him.
Use the rules for radicals.
Force your enemy to live up to their own standards.
And if they say they're neutral, we will either force them to by popular will or eventually by bigger will.
And we hope we don't have to get to the bigger will because that's not great for the country to have to do that.
But whether or not you like Alex and his team, they've been wiped off.
Okay, they were an alternative platform, which was really, really beneficial and open to hosting independent media.
Another example of that was Gavin McGinnis.
He was really big on helping host independent creators, even on his show on CRTV.
He got completely fired because of groups like Media Matters, which, of course, even to this day, if you go, well, well, why do you need to be on these platforms?
Why are you getting kicked off?
We're not getting kicked off, I think, just because the tech companies randomly decided to.
There's a lot of these left-wing radical progressive groups that are targeting people.
And we have this article that even now, after they ban InfoWars, they're trying to ban people like Paul Joseph Watson and Liberty Hangout, Caitlin Bennett, from YouTube just for having an association with Alex Jones.
And we're going to get to this in a second.
Additionally, Gab, they try to make an alternative free speech platform.
It's completely removed.
And when you look up its removal on Google, you can't find any articles.
I mean, I will say it's not just an app for conservatives, although it, of course, de facto ends up becoming that.
I mean, I think because President Trump could potentially join it if they kind of get their software going a little bit better and it's, you know, it's a little more stable platform that can handle that many people joining once the president joins.
I think in that case, it could be, remember when I was saying the public pressure, it might not be about Parlor being successful as an app.
It might be that it got people to think.
It got people to think differently.
It got people to think, you know what?
This is the first step and we can actually start taking these on.
And, you know, let's hope we don't have to create our own platform.
Let's hope that in 30 years, we as a country are not a place where there's liberal movies and conservative movies.
There's, you know, liberal this and conservative that.
It will probably end up happening.
And we as conservatives have to make our own cultural institutions because the left will keep taking, you know, ours over if we don't.
But at the end of the day, I think the more work we can put into that, the better off we'll be.
Let's hope we're not too divided, but we still got to make our own institutions.
These tech companies are getting money from these hedge funds, right?
A lot of them are even getting Saudi money and Middle Eastern money.
That's what we're going to talk about.
They're getting this money and they're controlling where the money goes for investment for tech startups.
So we're not even tapping into the funds, which makes us unsuccessful because we lose out on the hardware, the infrastructure.
Like a lot of these companies rely on other companies' infrastructure.
Like they'll rely on Google's infrastructure to have the servers to be able to produce the app they need to.
They blacklist us from everything.
And we even found out on the White House brief that Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, the LGBTQ gay rights revolutionary who spends more time talking about social justice and about developing useful products, is actually directly trying to get Parlor banned from their app store because it doesn't restrict free speech in the way they want it restricted.
Meaning, like, this is not just like an issue where you see, like, oh, Parlor is just a bad app.
Deleting it.
The actual highest infrastructure in Apple in the largest tech company.
I'm not sure if I know Apple and Google go back and forth between being the biggest issue in terms of market cap.
Why is the CEO getting involved and trying to get parliament?
Why what is a CEO of a trillion-dollar company trying to get involved in getting one little app with limited users off of its app store unless that's collusion?
Well, it's part of the broader movement and stuff.
I mean, it's pretty obvious that they are doing it because it's a threat.
But I want to go back to your earlier point in terms of you were saying Saudi money and foreign money.
I agree with all those things.
That stuff is all true.
But here's the difference: it comes down to conservatives.
It's actually, let's stop blaming other people other than ourselves.
You know what's the problem?
Leftists and liberals donate to cultural things like movies, art, shows, stuff that creates culture.
You know what the right donates to?
Think tanks, public policy things, AEI, different stuff like that.
People who are going to go out and say the same thing we've been saying about supply-side economics as the Reagan administration.
That's who the big money is going to.
People donate their will their estates there.
They donate so much money to that that proportionally.
And then when you put in how much people are donating to candidates, I mean, don't think that Republicans are exactly poor.
There's mega-rich Democrats and mega-rich Republicans.
If people like Sheldon Adelson, the guy who owns all those casinos in Las Vegas, he's worth $25 billion.
If a couple other of those people, instead of donating to think tanks, they donated to things like independent documentaries, movies, they funded stuff like Mike Lindell did with that pro-life movie, whatever the hell it was called.
Unplanned?
Unplanned.
You know, that was a million dollars and boom, big, big change in public opinion.
That was a million dollar investment.
You donating a million dollars to a campaign won't do anything.
Might move the needle a little bit.
You might get a little bit of influence, but you're not going to do anything for this country.
That is the actual difference.
Democrats do more than just donate to candidates.
They show up, but they also donate to the big things.
But Hillary Clinton actually admitted politically at Hunter's College.
What's crazy about this clip that you're going to see right now is that we look for it everywhere on Google to find evidence that Hillary Clinton admitted in front of Hunter's College that she petitioned Facebook.
Like this is actually showing the Democrats are petitioning social media companies to take down posts that make them look bad.
There was basically a post that made Nancy Pelosi look drunk.
I've read the whole story.
It's really bizarre.
I don't even get it.
But listen to this clip real fast.
And I'm going to let you know that this is unavailable on Google.
You have to go to DuckDuckGo or Bing, which means that we got to start using alternatives.
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When Facebook refused to take down a fake video of Nancy Pelosi, it was a video.
Video is sexist trash.
And YouTube took it down, but Facebook kept it up.
Hillary Clinton, who's probably one of the most corrupt individuals that's ever worked in the U.S. government, at least in recent history, is admitting that the Democrats are actually working in collusion with tech companies to control the narrative and get things they don't like.
But I know that you were mentioning before we started the show a little bit about your understanding that it's not just the Democrats who petition to get people removed, but there's a deeper connection of how this all works to get people removed.
Can you like just completely enlighten us on that?
Yeah, so think of this as kind of like a dark triad.
At the top, you have basically the Swamp Democrats.
You have your Nancy Pelosi, your Chuck Schumer, then you have your tech companies.
So you have your Google, your Facebook, your whatever, the people who control the information.
So you have the government, the people who control the information, then you have the news media.
And I know people are going to be like, oh, he's saying the news media is involved in this.
Well, I'll tell you how they do it.
Here's how they would do it.
Let's say one of those three people, either it's the media, and it can start with anyone.
Let's say it's the government, the media, the tech companies.
Let's say they don't like what someone's saying, whether it is, you know, Infowars or Steven Crowder or whoever.
What they'll do is they will have a supposed independent journalist, someone who likely before used to be a staffer at Media Matters before they joined Jezebel or Vox or one of Slate, one of those super left-wing places.
What they'll do, they will write a heavily biased article on someone.
They'll say, Steven Crowder is a white nationalist.
He's this, he's that.
They'll search through everything he's ever said and write the biggest hit piece on him and frame him as, you know, the Antichrist.
Then what they'll do is they'll take that to the tech companies as evidence and they'll say, look, this person is this.
And they'll say, well, because of these independent news reports, by the way, which are then republished, commented on, tweeted out, shared, become part of the news cycle, then, well, everyone's talking about how this guy's a white nationalist.
So he must be a white nationalist.
So then tech companies can take them out.
That's how people in the government can control the press.
They can control the media.
They can do anything.
And I just want to say, in terms of the media, at least in terms of anything other than kind of like an independent podcast where it's just people speaking their minds, everything there is placed by a corporation, by the government, by some wealthy individual.
Everything you're seeing is rigged.
And I don't mean that in the sense that you shouldn't watch it.
I just mean that there's no neutrality.
Everything is a perspective.
Everyone is trying to get their voice heard.
And the only thing you can do is fucking shout louder.
And speaking of that, that's what I want to say is that we can shout louder.
But, you know, the reason why I know that we've won, I actually just talked to the president of Blaze Media today.
And I said, I think we won, actually, because the desperate mode of these tech companies to silence us shows that what we've done is very effective.
Now, of course, it doesn't mean we won.
We didn't win.
We didn't win the war.
I meant we won the battle.
Our battle to get information out and do it in an entertaining, effective way means we did it.
We got it out.
And people love watching.
They love listening.
They're very entertaining on the things that we do.
And so it's like, instead of letting the markets be fair and balance themselves out, they've pushed these so-called authoritative sources to the top of search queries.
In my suggested feed the other day, the top four videos suggested to me are from Good Morning Britain, of which I don't watch Good Morning Britain.
I don't know what the hell Good Morning Britain is.
I don't watch Pierce Morgan, but there's this one site called, you know, it's called News or Now This.
Okay, now this, which is a site that they consider to be authoritative.
And what I realized is it's got high production value.
Okay, so this thing has for sure investment as premium ads in front of the videos.
It's mostly social media.
And I'm going, okay, they have all this investment.
It's got to be doing well.
And if you look at the picture on the screen, for those of you that aren't that aren't watching, these are interviews with the top 20 candidates for the Democrat campaign.
Well, I mean, you'd think after he threatened to nuke every American that he would have at least, I mean, that he would at least get some views on his video.
You want to hear a contrarian opinion quickly on this?
I think this is the best thing that ever happened to us because I don't think conservatives realized we were in a culture war until now.
Now they see it and they'll see it more and more.
And even though temporarily it sucks, I really think actually the longer this goes on, the better it is for us.
If in three years we're still fighting with Google about stuff, we are going to be 17 steps ahead of them, my friends.
Here's the most important thing you should remember.
Donald Trump is basically a giant with his thumb in the wall of a reservoir about to pop.
And we hopefully have through January 20th, 2025.
What we need to do is take the best of the Trump model, learn everything we can, and figure out how to replicate it.
Because this party will not last forever, but we can make the Republican Party and conservatives last forever.
The party in terms of Donald Trump, I mean, it is, you know, it's based around a personality at this point.
It's great, but we have to actually go and make substantive progress towards figuring out what made him win and how do we get another candidate like that?
Because not everyone will be as great as Donald Trump.
The best way I could describe it is if you combine Howard Stern, TMZ, Barstool Sports, and a little bit of mainstream news, that's what you're going to get.
It's going to be a wild time, and you will never have seen anything like it.
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