Steven Crowder, Mark Meckler, and Marlena Pavlos-Hackney dissect YouTube's suspension of Crowder and a Michigan restaurant owner arrested for defying COVID mandates. They analyze alleged blackmail involving Congressman Matt Gates and Robert Levinson, contrasting FBI claims with conflicting accounts. The discussion critiques major corporations like BlackRock opposing Georgia election laws via ESG scores, arguing the UN and Foley Hoag redefine human rights to include structural racism, threatening financial exclusion for non-compliant entities. Ultimately, the episode highlights perceived government overreach infringing on constitutional rights while large corporations remain exempt from similar mandates. [Automatically generated summary]
Today we start with Steven Crowder, who is shockingly enough, you're not going to believe this, a conservative being thrown off of YouTube for some sort of arcane content violation that will not be defined.
An amazing situation with technically he's being demonetized and pulled off for it's suspended for some period of time.
We'll get into the details on that.
Pretty amazing stuff.
We will talk to a police, a pizza parlor owner who is just trying to serve pizza and food to their customers and is getting harassed by authorities.
It's COVID.
Apparently, in some places, it's okay to eat with COVID.
Other places, it's illegal.
We'll get into the details on that as well.
And we talked to the CEO, interim CEO of Parlor about their fight with big tech and how that is going down and how they actually told the FBI all the things that supposedly they were hiding from the FBI.
We get into that as well.
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Gates Meets Tucker: Strange Bedfellows00:16:24
I wanted to ask you, did you see the tweet, or I'm sorry, the text to Don Gates about his son, Congressman Gates, Matt Gates?
No.
Okay.
Yesterday we talked about Matt Gates and he was because he was on Tucker Carlson, what, I think, on Monday or Tuesday.
And Tucker said it was a weird conversation.
You went back and watched the interview.
What did you think?
I thought Tucker was right.
That was a weird conversation.
Clearly, one that Tucker was quite uncomfortable with.
First of all, Gates brought up a couple of things that I think were a little disturbing to Tucker.
One of them being that Gates said something like, I'm not the only one on this screen right now who's been accused of a terrible sex act.
And so at the end of that, Tucker said, yeah, you just referenced a disturbed mentally ill listener who accused me of something 20 years ago that, yeah, definitely wasn't true.
And, you know, the implication being thanks for bringing that up.
The other thing he said was, and Tucker, you'll remember this.
Two years ago, you and your wife had dinner with me and another woman, a date of mine, and you'll remember her.
And then he goes on to describe this dinner.
And at the end of that rant, Tucker said, actually, I don't remember the woman in question or the context of what you're talking about at all.
So it didn't go well.
Wow.
Didn't seem to go real well.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, he referenced in that that he had text messages from the guy who he said was blackmailing.
Yeah.
So I have it here.
Dear Mr. Gates, this is to his father, Matt Gates' father.
I'd like to talk to you immediately about the current federal investigation and indictment that is about to be filed against your son.
I have a plan that can make his future legal and political problems go away.
Last summer, we located Robert Levinson in Iran and took two proof-of-life videos, but the U.S. government foiled our rescue attempt.
We have one more opportunity to rescue Levinson.
If you and Matt are willing to help us privately and clandestinely obtain the release of Robert Levinson, I will ensure that Matt is on the plane that delivers Levinson to his family, thus making him the most sought-after public figure in the world for his efforts to obtain Levinson's release.
Then my partner will see to it that Matt receives a presidential pardon, thus alleviating all of his legal issues.
We all know that politics makes strange bedfellows.
I can assure you that we have the ability to obtain Robert Levinson's immediate release, but we cannot allow the U.S. government to be involved because they have repeatedly blocked his release since his capture.
Matt is more than welcome to attend a meeting, but we are fine just to meet with you as my partner knows you are a man of your word and has a great deal of respect for you.
Please call me and let me know if you're willing to meet with us immediately.
I assure you, you will not be wasting your time.
Bob Kent.
Now, I have several problems with this.
They are enlisting him to do something that they say, we know you're a really good guy and good of honor and integrity.
Why would a guy of honor and integrity do this for his son?
Why would a man of honor and integrity get in bed with a blackmailer?
This is clearly blackmail.
Also, why wouldn't you just go to this guy of honor and integrity and say, I need 25 grand?
Wasn't that the number 25 grand?
I thought it was 25 million.
Was it 25 million?
Okay, so that's a little different, 25 million.
Yeah.
You know, I don't understand then why it would take $25 million to fly a plane in.
What kind of bribes, where's that money going?
So he met with this guy, and they have record of all of it, and they even have the plan, if you will.
It was Project Homecoming, the document that they handed to Matt Gates' father and said, in exchange for the money, we'll give you this.
Now, the guy who is apparently writing this, he's saying, I did it on behalf of the federal government.
I did it on behalf, I was wearing a wire on behalf of the federal government.
Wait a minute.
What?
Because Don Gates reported this to the FBI immediately.
And then Don was assisting in the investigation.
Apparently, he was wearing wire.
So one of them is lying here.
We do have a letter from Don Gates' attorney firm.
As you know, my client, Don Gates, was approached by two individuals to make sizable payment, which I would call a scheme to defraud.
Don reported this to the FBI.
The FBI is now asking Don to voluntary and proactively assist their investigation, which Don is willing to do.
Please confirm that your office and the FBI would like Don's assistance in this matter and that he will be working at the government's request.
The United States attorney said, I can confirm that your client is working with my office as well as the FBI and the government's request in order to determine if a federal crime has been committed.
This has been discussed with and approved by the FBI as well as the leadership of my office and components of Maine Justice.
The government thanks you for working cooperatively with the FBI.
So who's lying here?
The FBI guy or the upper FBI guy?
What's happening?
I don't know if you're expecting us to have an answer to that.
I have no frigging idea.
It seems like a crazy situation, and I don't know how we get to the bottom of it other than waiting for the whole thing to play out.
How bad is this that none of us are willing to even speculate on who the bad guy is?
You know, we're not willing to speculate.
We're not willing to say, I'm not willing to throw Matt Gates under the bus.
I'm not willing to defend him, but I'm also not willing to throw him under the bus.
I'm willing to defend his right to, you know, a fair trial and to be convicted in a court of law and not by the media.
So I'm not saying that Matt Gates is a bad guy.
I don't know.
But I'm not willing to give anybody a lend of credibility that is in politics in Washington, D.C., because I have no idea.
Yeah, that's really hard.
But I'm also no longer willing to give it to the FBI.
That's a change for me.
It just seems like there's just a bunch of conflicting information, and it's too early for us to know.
I mean, like, you know, sometimes you see these stories, you're like, okay, this definitely looks like X, Y, and Z happened, but let's let the investigation play out.
This one is like, everyone's just saying the opposite thing, and we have no idea who to trust.
Correct.
He claims, though, that when records and phone conversations are released in their entirety, he'll be exonerated.
So it sounds like, you know, he's confident of his innocence.
I wouldn't exactly say that.
That's true.
I mean, I give you the kraken as an example of something that sounded pretty definitive and then turned out to be not so much of a kraken after all.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, that was no reasonable person would have believed that.
Oh, come on.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, my gosh.
The other thing on this is Matt Gates saying right before this came out that he might leave Congress and go to work for Newsmax.
There's a report.
I don't know that he said that outwardly, but there was a report saying that he was going to leave Congress and go to a media role.
I mean, he's obviously one of the most active congressional members in the media since he kind of got the gig in the first place.
So it was not.
This is before I think the investigation, though, was known.
So I don't know.
Who knows if any of this stuff is true?
It's hard to know.
Because Gates being such an outspoken guy, too, he says a lot of things and everyone says a lot of things about him.
So it's really hard to cut through what is actually accurate here.
Well, it's pretty clear, though.
Yesterday, the New York Times was telling us that this is an investigation that he crossed lines with a 17-year-old girl.
Now the story is, is that he attended an orgy with a 17-year-old girl and a bunch of prostitutes.
Those are both bad.
One is Glenn.
I mean, you got to cover yourself.
I mean, you know, but you could kind of maybe explain, you know, she was a campaign.
He says it doesn't exist, but, you know, she was a campaign aide and nothing happened.
And I have witnesses that nothing happened, but she and others were traveling on a plane with me.
Maybe.
The orgy thing, come on.
Come on.
Can we have some evidence on the orgy thing?
Because if the press and the FBI and everybody else can get away with this, none of our politicians, nobody stands a chance standing against this thing, except those who are the most pure.
And I'm not saying that Matt Gates isn't, because you can make up anything about anything.
You could make it up about Mike Lee, but most of these guys, and I'm not saying they're orgy or having sex with underage kids, but everybody has something in their life that they don't want to come out.
And they just, it's not that it's evil or it's illegal or anything else.
It's just you're going to twist this and you're going to make it look bad.
And I'm going to have to deal with it for the rest of my life.
And I've already dealt with it and put that to rest.
You won't be able to send anybody to Congress and you certainly won't get anybody in Congress or the Senate that is actually going to stand against anything.
Yeah.
Look, you know, let's look at someone who the press is a lot less judgmental about.
Deshaun Watson, the quarterback for the Houston Texans, who has now 14 accusers against him that have come out in the last couple of weeks.
Now, I don't know.
This is a huge public figure making millions and millions of dollars.
Could 14 women come together and come up with fake accusations?
Absolutely.
Of course they could.
And that's why you get your day in court.
The same thing with Gates.
He's a very public figure.
He's very, very tight with Donald Trump.
And people are going to go after him.
That's why it may be true.
It may not be true.
But you can't assume either with someone like this.
When it becomes a public figure with this sort of profile, it's even more, you have to be more skeptical in some ways because you just don't know.
I mean, people can say anything and do.
And he's a single guy.
And as Jeffy would say, who among us?
Who among us?
Well, one last thing.
I dismissed somebody yesterday because they were standing with Gloria Allred and their story was much more salacious.
You know, we're talking about Andrew Cuomo.
I believe the women against Andrew Cuomo.
The last one that comes out is with Gloria Allred.
I don't know.
Let's not be so quick to buy into her story.
The best of the Blackbeard program.
Last night's television show is a decoder ring.
You will start to understand what's happening with these companies.
Just a few minutes ago, I went through all of the companies.
Let me just give you some of the headlines.
Biden has unveiled a massive infrastructure.
I've got to get to the real point of what that is.
It's unions.
I'll go into that.
It's probably going to be tomorrow, though.
I'm running out of time.
Major U.S. companies have come out against the Republicans in Georgia.
They're saying this historic tax or this historic voter reform, it wasn't voter reform, it was COVID that is now being retracted is suppression.
And you have BlackRock, Coca-Cola, Delta, Merck, Porsche, UPS, Microsoft, Bank of America, Cisco, Home Depot, JPMorgan, Chase, Citigroup, American Express, Facebook, Viacom, CBS.
They're all coming out now and they're taking a stand against Georgia and the governor.
Have you ever seen that before?
Have you ever seen, let me give you this headline.
The headline is that sports viewers shift habits as social justice messaging increases.
So this is about the NBA, and they're saying one-third of Americans are watching less professional sports because they can't handle the cram down.
So then why would Major League Baseball threaten to move the all-stars from Georgia if they know they're going to lose a third of their audience?
This is going to piss off a third of their audience, maybe more.
Why would they do that?
Why would these companies, why would Delta get involved in any of this?
Why would Bank of America?
Last night, I gave you the Dakota Ring, and I want to go through the Dakota ring, but I want to start with the Facebook ESG score.
Facebook, we were looking at the ESG scores.
This is from Morgan Stanley, I believe.
And they're starting to score these.
This is the part of the great reset.
They're starting to score every company so you know if the company is doing everything they can for the environment, everything they can for social justice, and everything they can to help the government.
Are they complying by governance, social, and environmental standards?
Facebook, you would think, has a great score because they're so progressive.
They're the reason a lot of this jam down is happening.
However, they got a laggard score.
There's only leader, average, and lagger.
You don't want a laggard score.
Facebook is a laggard.
Environmental, they're a leader.
Social, they're a laggard.
And governance, they're a laggard.
Now, governance, they're a laggard because they've had some problems with the government recently and they allege or they list all of the things that have been happening, you know, over in Europe and Germany and also being called in front of Congress.
Social Justice Scores at Banks00:10:42
But their social justice score is a laggard.
Now, social justice score, Facebook, you can't say anything on Facebook.
Stephen Crowder was on last hour.
He's been banned now from YouTube.
And I told him a story about how Bill Clinton, Donald Trump was on Facebook on a podcast, and part of it was aired on Facebook, and it was just his voice, and Facebook deleted that post because you can't even have the voice of Donald Trump on Facebook.
So how are they not leading social justice?
You have to read the fine print.
Let me read it to you.
Apart from platform safety issues, Facebook has also come under scrutiny for inconsistent enforcement of content moderation rules.
Well, that's great, right?
Because that helps us.
That helps conservatives.
That's what we've been saying.
That's not what this means.
Independent auditors found certain content decisions caused, quote, significant setbacks for civil rights, end quote.
So because Facebook hasn't fully banned people like me, people like Stephen Crowder, people like you, we're doing significant damage to civil rights.
That's why all of these companies are coming out for Georgia.
That's why all these companies line up to say, oh, yeah, we're for this.
Because one of the ways that they actually judge a company, because all they're doing is they're just judging.
Here, let me give you this.
Yesterday, the Fed chair, sorry, the Fed chair, what's the difference now?
Janet Yellen, who was the Fed chair, now the head of our Treasury, she came out and said, Environmental issues and companies that aren't working to go all green and become compliant, they're a risk to the economy.
Now, how do you define a risk to the economy?
Well, things get a little sketchy on all of this stuff, but a risk to the economy would be Facebook is too big to fail.
These banks are too big to fail.
And if they are working with companies like Facebook that could get deluged and get protested because they're not compliant with social justice, well, then they could fail and we could lose all their money or all of our money.
So all of our investment would be gone.
So that's a risky company.
The Blaze wouldn't even get considered.
I mean, it's never been considered by an investment group, but it would never get considered now because we're not going to comply.
And if you don't comply, you're too risky for anyone to invest in.
This is what's happening now.
Let me give you one other really disturbing thing that they're talking about, and that is social justice and human rights.
The UN, which has their human rights abuser list, is really the ones on the Human Rights Council.
They are the ones defining for the banks and everybody else human rights.
Now, the UN teamed up with Foley Hoag.
They're one of the specialists.
It's a law firm in corporate social responsibility, an international law firm.
And maybe they do some good in the world.
I don't know.
Maybe they'll help prosecute actual human rights abusers, but I'm a little confused about what's all included under human rights.
Because looking through their websites, it gets a little nutty.
The UN and this law firm seem to be including social issues and social justice now as human rights abuses.
The post says the U.S. must, quote, fully dismantle structural racism in America.
Now, what if you don't believe in structural racism in America?
Doesn't matter.
They mention, and I'm quoting, publicly recognizing and supporting the Black Lives Matter movement and rapidly instituting a variety of measures that seek to begin to address racism at a systematic level within corporate America.
That's why you're going to the stupid Black Lives Matter meetings and the critical race theory meetings because your company is a coward.
And if they're not a coward, they're part of the problem.
I don't care what my ESG score is, but I am going in and saying that.
Please do not say that until you fully understand what is entailed.
You will not get any loans.
You may not be able to work.
You won't be able to buy or sell because you won't comply.
To Christians, does any of this sound familiar?
The joint report goes on to list a few abuses.
One lists an example of a company that, quote, doesn't promote certain staff members due to their ethnicity or religion.
Okay, I don't know any of the details here.
How is that even quantified?
Were they not promoted because of their social category or because they sucked at their job?
And are all religions equal in this?
I get the feeling that they're not, but maybe.
But this is all about compliance.
If you fail to comply, the banks are expected to exert, quote, leverage.
That means shut off the money spigot.
This was described in earlier things that I showed you last night called exclusion measures.
Please correct me if I'm wrong here.
I'd like to know, but it sounds to me if you're not a social justice warrior, then you're going to be labeled a human rights abuser and shut off from the financial system.
Is this what having a low social score will get you?
Because I will proudly wear that.
But I know that makes me a pariah.
I know that takes my voice off the radio.
I know it takes it off internet.
I know I won't be able to go to theaters anymore and perform live.
I understand that.
You must be very careful.
Your children must be, get them off social media.
And I know what that's going to take.
Holy cow, because my kids don't believe me.
My kids are like, dad, that's just for people like you.
No, that's for people like you in the future.
You say anything wrong and it's going to come into your score.
Now, I don't know how many banks are gearing up for this.
We don't know how it will ultimately look or how it will be implemented.
A good example might be what is facing is what's happening with Amalgamated Bank because it's all implemented there.
Amalgamated Bank is like the sixth or seventh largest bank in the country.
I never heard of it because it's an SEIU bank.
It's a union bank.
They're the bank that brought all of this to the United States.
They are patient zero.
So let's use them as a template of what might be coming to a bank near you.
The social justice scores are at banks now.
They are at the investment level now.
They have not trickled down to you yet.
But Amalgamated has just begun an annual CSR report, which I can only assume will be the standard for high-scoring ESG companies going forward.
If you want to see what that model might look like, high ESG scoring banks or companies say, quote, we do not lend or invest our own money in fossil fuel companies.
Those who manufacture weapons or who do not support the rights of workers, read that as labor unions, women, immigrants, the LGBT, the LGBTQ plus community, and other positions not aligned with our mission, end quote.
So if you're an oil and gas company, you're out.
You're a Second Amendment company, you're out.
I mean, I thought discrimination on race, gender, and pretty much anything else was already considered illegal.
But we now have to prove that we're now somehow not racist and bigoted if we want to do business.
How does that work?
Well, maybe this is the standard.
Amalgamated breaks every employee down into their own social justice category, and they submit this report every payroll period.
Remember, this is the bank that brought this framework to America, and several of the largest banks in the country are already part of it.
If you want to understand the news, you have to understand the Great Reset.
If you want to understand what's happening to our corporations and what's coming for you, you have to understand as part of the Great Reset your ESG score.
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Last night it was comply or die.
And I explained all of this and showed you the documents.
It is critical that you understand this and don't just beat your chest and say, well, I'll stand.
Comply or Die00:04:58
You might, you might not.
But if you don't understand it, I can guarantee you you have no idea what you're even talking about facing.
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All right, a couple of weeks ago, or maybe it was a week ago, I lose track of time.
We interviewed a Michigan restaurant owner.
Her name is Marlene Pavlos Hackney, and she was arrested for refusing to close her restaurant amidst COVID-19 lockdowns.
Now, she's had a tough go of it.
She is from Poland.
She understands what these kinds of crackdowns really are and how dangerous and easy it is to lose your freedoms quickly.
Well, she was arrested, I believe, the day we spoke to her, and she's on now with us.
She's also being joined by her attorney, Robert Baker.
Welcome, Marlena.
How are you?
I'm doing great.
Thanks for having me on your show.
Sure.
So, first of all, recap why everybody was so mad at you and why you were threatened with jail time by the state.
What were you doing or not doing?
Well, as you know, the governor Whitmer, she imposed all those rules and regulations that every business, restaurant, should be closed and follow her guidelines and suggestions, which, in my opinion, they are not the laws.
So, I took decisions that I'm going to be open and I'm going to serve the food.
And I have a sign on my door which, you know, says that I am, I say, I have the sign.
We are constitutionally complying business.
We are not interfering on anyone's annihilation rights.
By the law, we do not follow any of governors, mayors, health departments, or other government agency orders or suggestions permitting to social distancing or mask wearing.
And then I have a hotline, I mean, highline.
Then I said, your health is your responsibility.
So, people who come to my place, they are aware of how I run my business.
And like I say before, I respect everyone who feels different and didn't participate by giving me them business and they stay away.
But we the people, we have the rights to decide what we will follow and how we will live as happy and happy lives and follow the freedoms that the Constitution give to all of us.
Okay, so, Marlena, you didn't do this right away.
When it first came down, you complied.
Right?
The first time, like everybody else, from March to June 14, I comply because I take this very serious because I think, okay, something isn't right.
But as things go and we see I feel different about all this virus, like you see, you go to all these other places, like Menard, Costco, and so many others big corporations, and they don't have to follow any rules like we do, trucking and all other sub-distancing.
You go on the plane.
Did you see anyone to have a distance like six feet apart?
Everyone sit next to each other.
What's the difference, my business, and the aeroplane business?
So, Marlene, Marlena, you left Poland in 1983, and I don't know if you spend any time in one of their jail cells, but you had to have known others who the government came in and just hauled them away sometimes in the middle of the night.
Now you've spent five days in a U.S. jail.
What'd that feel like?
Feels like my freedom has been taken away.
I experience something who no one probably did, but some they do.
At least what I experience, I can see like some things are not right.
Like, for example, making phone call when they take you to jail.