Ep. 621 – Elites to the People: Shaddup exposes how the UN’s Global Compact for Migration and Apple’s "hate speech" policies weaponize censorship, while Hollywood’s "gray list" blacklists conservatives like James Woods—Gosnell earned $3.6M despite mainstream snubs. Climate protests in France were ignored as elites like Attenborough falsely claim public support for policies that spark riots, and Michael Avenatti’s fall from grace highlights media double standards. The episode argues elites silence dissent on migration, culture, and economics, urging conservatives to bypass biased platforms by funding their own media. [Automatically generated summary]
The United Nations is sponsoring a meeting in Marrakesh next week during which nations in attendance will sign on to a global compact for migration.
Among the provisions of the compact are those that could, if made law, forbid any discussion of the negative effects of migration and punish media outlets that allow such discussions to take place.
Thus, under such a UN-sponsored law, it might become illegal to say that the UN's migration compact is a piece of tyrannical garbage promoted by one of the most corrupt and abusive organizations in the world, filled with unaccountable power mad chuckleheads for whom a piece of prime Manhattan real estate has been set aside in order that they might have a place to cheat on their wives while they misuse their diplomatic privileges by double parking before wandering indoors to empower lawless groups of blue-helmeted stormtroopers to sweep through some of the poorest nations on earth,
raping women and children so that no sane person in this world would give a hair on a rat's ass what the UN thinks of migration or anything else and should instead remember that the UN UN stands for unelected worthless dirtbags and the N stands for not elected worthless dirtbags,
all of whom should be stopped before they overrule the sovereign will of free peoples with the absurd fiats of smug and belligerent bureaucrats and the fat dictators who have empowered them to allow illegal invaders to pillage a Western world they did not build and can't understand rather than sending these wannabe terrorists back to the crap hole countries from which they came.
And since saying that would be illegal, citizens of member nations would only be allowed to make such remarks as, oh look, migrants mutilating the genitals of little girls.
What a quaint and delightful custom.
So I hope the representatives have a good time signing the Global Compact for Migration, and I hope someone crumples it up and makes them eat it.
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I know.
It's amazing.
All around the world, elites are hearing the voice of the people and they want it to stop.
I mean, this is an amazing thing.
Whatever you think of Donald Trump, whatever you think of some of the more populist nationalist leaders who are rising up in Europe, whatever you think, whether you love Trump or hate these guys or whatever, it doesn't matter.
You do have to understand that the people are voting for them.
They are sending a message to the elites of the world.
And so Donald Trump, he may not be saying things the way you like them.
You may not like him.
You may love him.
It doesn't matter.
But he's saying something.
He is bringing a message from the people to the people in power.
Have you heard anybody, have you heard anybody who's anti-Trump, even one person, say out loud, you know, I don't like this guy, but the people did elect him.
So maybe there's something I should be listening to.
You know, have you heard one news outlet, one newsman anywhere say, you know, I don't like Donald Trump.
He's always attacking me, but maybe I'm wrong.
You know, maybe I should change.
Maybe we should reform our industry a little bit so both sides get a say.
Not one, not one person, has a leftist person, has one leftist person said, you know, I don't like this Trump guy, and he's yelling at me, and he's kind of right-wing, but maybe the people are trying to tell me that instead of being obsessed over the 0.04% of people who think they're the opposite sex, maybe we should be thinking about, you know, putting food on people's tables and helping the job situation.
Has any leftist, I haven't heard a single leftist say that.
Has one Never Trumper, you know, these are the people that, of course, they always get us because they're most like us.
But has one Never Trumper said, you know, I do hate Donald Trump, and yet, and yet, maybe the people are telling me that all my pretty theories weren't doing the things that conservatism is supposed to do, like keep people free, like convince people not to vote for leftist morons.
Maybe there was a problem that made it possible for Donald Trump to wipe these people away.
No.
The answer is no.
None of these people has done any of that.
The press just cling, I mean, the press has just become worse.
They've doubled down on their hatred, not just of Donald Trump, but of the people who elected him.
Us.
They tell themselves, oh, you know, it was Vladimir Putin.
He was, you know, oh man, that Putin, it was Russia.
Russia was hiding under every single voting machine, pulling the levers, so that that's how Donald Trump got elected.
They tell themselves that, you know, we're racist.
That's why we elected Trump.
We want to be racist.
Never mind.
Never mind the fact that black people are working more, that their jobs, their income is going up.
Never mind all that.
The reason we voted for Donald Trump is because we don't like our fellow Americans if they don't have the right color skin.
It's got to be it.
It's got to be it.
Because otherwise, you'd have to listen to what he's saying.
You have to listen at least to what the people were saying by sending them there.
And so let me just show you.
I want to show you some clips today of elites with their heads planted so far up their backsides that you may not be able to hear their voices.
I mean, here is just a hilarious piece.
I just want to show you how rigidly, how completely, With how much effort they want to silence the voices of the people they are supposed to serve.
Okay, here is, there's a climate change meeting.
It started yesterday.
It's in Poland.
So, of course, everybody flew to the climate change meeting, emitting what they say are 55,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas that the UN officials are trying to keep from accumulating in the atmosphere.
This thing is just absolutely, but elites get to do this because they are talking about climate change.
So, the fact that they're destroying the climate with their jet planes and their traveling, that doesn't matter.
So, David Attenborough, right, he is the famous naturalist.
He's done a lot of these PBS specials.
He's become very famous.
He gets up and gives us a speech.
Listen carefully to what he is telling the gathered poobahs of climate panic.
Right now, we're facing a man-made disaster of global scale.
Our greatest threat in thousands of years, climate change.
If we don't take action, the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.
The world's people have spoken.
Their message is clear.
Time is running out.
They want you, the decision makers, to act now.
They're behind you, along with civil society represented here today, supporting you in making tough decisions, but also willing to make sacrifices in their daily lives.
The people are behind you.
They support you and they're willing to make sacrifices.
So let's go from there to Paris, where the people were asked to make the sacrifice of paying an extra tax on their petrol, on their gasoline.
Let's go where our friends from rebel media are covering the support of the people for the sacrifices that you have to make in order to get the elites to stop gabbing about climate change.
Here they are.
We're outside the Arc de Triomphe.
You might see I'm squinting my face a little bit.
There's tear gas everywhere.
And obviously, I don't have goggles.
We were planning a quiet morning filming, expecting the protests to start in the afternoon, but they've started early.
It's probably going to get a lot more intense than this.
But I was receiving messages from French people again last night.
And what's amazing about this protest is the polls show that up to 85% of people in France actually support this movement.
I mean, understandable.
Taxes are insane, and there's more being proposed.
But what I also was sent was footage of police officers removing their helmets in protest and in solidarity with the people marching here.
Big movement.
It's only starting.
I'm sure it'll get bigger during the rest of the day.
The people are behind you.
Unfortunately, they're coming up behind you with a gigantic club, which they're going to beat you into the ground because they don't think climate change is worth paying extra taxes for.
So get the tear gas ready.
Otherwise, you're going to be hearing the voice of the people shouting in your ear.
You'll hear how much they support you as they pick you up and throw you into the sand.
I mean, could people be any more clueless?
Could they be any more?
The people are behind you, ready to make the sacrifices that they, oh my goodness, here they come.
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You know, there used to be a funny story about one of the great television writers.
There still is a funny story about one of the great television writers, Stephen Connell.
And I got to know Stephen just a few years before he died.
We became kind of pals.
And he's the guy who wrote the Rockford Files.
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He was just a major, major contributor to television.
Macron's Pact with Migration00:08:07
And there was a story about him pitching an idea.
I think it was about illegal immigration.
I think it was about immigrants, you know, coming into the country or something.
He was pitching this idea in a room.
And somebody said, well, what do you do about all the complex politics?
Because it was a comedy.
And he said, what do you do with all the complex politics and all the kind of edgy stuff?
And Stephen said, we won't write it.
I think that that is what the news media is doing with these riots in Paris.
These riots, I mean, what has happened is Emmanuel Macron said that somehow they had to cut back.
This carbon tax thing is very, very popular among the elites.
They love the idea of carbon tax.
They think it's going to save the world.
And so the French who don't really pollute all that much in the first place, and their driving doesn't pollute all that much, but it pollutes a higher percentage than in Germany because Germany idiotically shut down all their nuclear power plants.
So because they got scared of the disaster in Japan, so they shut down one of the safest, least polluting energy sources they had.
And now they can say, oh, you know, our cars are not as polluting as our other things because they shut down their clean nuclear power plants.
So in France, he wanted to cut down how much pollution was coming out of their cars, puts on this tax.
The poor people there, you know, they've got something like an 8%.
I don't remember the exact number, but it's like an 8% unemployment.
Their GDP is under 2%.
So they're not doing very well.
And the last thing they need is a tax, especially out in the countryside where you need your car to get to work.
So what do the networks here do?
They just don't, they do what Connell said.
They just don't write it.
Here are the Nets reporting on these riots.
Listen to what you don't hear.
You don't hear climate change.
You don't hear environment.
You don't hear anything.
Only one of them even mentions that a fuel tax set this off.
Remarkable images overseas tonight, the protests gripping Paris.
Body cam video showing police rushing to the famous Arctic Triomphe where protesters were vandalizing the monument.
Protesters known as Yellow Jackets are angry about rising gas prices and living costs in France.
The biggest crisis yet for Emmanuel Macron.
The government is considering imposing a state of emergency.
Tonight, no end in sight to the turmoil across France, including more confrontations with police.
These ambulance drivers today joining the largest anti-government demonstrations here in decades.
What began as a protest against President Emmanuel Macron's plan to raise fuel taxes, growing over the weekend into a movement fueled by rage.
Anger from those who say his policies favor the wealthy.
Streets barricaded.
Cars lit on fire.
Snipers perched on rooftops.
Police body cameras capturing this clash at the Arc de Triomphe.
Riot police battling with protesters clad in yellow vests.
I love it.
So they just leave it out.
So finally, Macron caved.
He has delayed the tax increase for six months.
This is the first time he's ever backed down on any of his plans because in France, you know, you're going to deal with rioters because they basically don't understand that money has to be made in order to be spread around.
So anytime you ask them to work hard or anything like this.
But in this case, in this case, this is Macron, the elite little fascination they have with this climate change thing, which is going to have to be solved by technology anyway.
I mean, this is the thing about this.
It's not that there's no climate change.
I don't think anybody knows how much of it is caused by human endeavor, but certainly some of it we do pollute.
We do change the environment.
But none of these plans, the experts say none of these plans is going to do anything.
What really is going to have to happen is there's going to have to be some technological innovations, batteries that store solar power better, and things like that that are going to cut this stuff down.
All this is virtue signaling.
It's virtue signaling on the backs of the poor.
That's what it is.
It's virtue signaling on the backs of the poor.
So finally, Macron blinked.
But what I love about this is Attenborough is in Poland telling people, the people are behind you.
Clearly, the people are behind you on the streets ready to throw you, tar and feather you, and throw you into the Seine.
And the networks handle that.
They just don't report it.
The canal method.
They just don't write it.
And that way, the voice of the people doesn't exist if you don't hear it.
And the other thing, the other subject on which this is true is migration.
I was that opening I did about the UN.
I am not joking about this.
The UN next week is going to hold this meeting in Marrakesh and they have this global compact on migration.
And it's called the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration.
And you can tell by the name of that that it's all about being in favor of migration.
It pays a little bit of lip service to the sovereignty of the nations who are being swept under by people from failed states.
It doesn't pay any attention really to whether they want to keep their culture intact, to whether they can handle these people, to whether they can afford to give to people who haven't been paying taxes all the services that Western nations provide.
They don't talk about that at all.
All they really talk about is don't you insult these poor migrants who get to sweep into their country.
So essentially, this is the UN saying, all these tyrants who run the UN and spend all their time sitting around going, Israel, I hate Israel.
We must pass another resolution against Israel.
All these clowns who sit around the UN double parking in Manhattan and then going off to throw their mistresses out the window in some hotel.
All these clowns are going to tell the West, oh yeah, and all these failed states, you just have to take them in.
You have to take them in and spend your money on them because these countries are not going to do it.
Instead of chasing some of these tyrants and idiots out and establishing the rule of property law, free trade, capitalism, all those things that help people come out of poverty, instead of doing that, they let the tyrants, the madmen, run the asylum, and now they want everybody to sign on.
And so, of course, in England, something like 40,000 people have already, which I think is the population of England, have already saw, signed a petition against this.
And somebody, one of the people, the EU migration commissioner, Dimitris Avropomopoulos, or something like this, said he told a German newspaper, he doesn't understand why anybody would oppose the pact because it's not binding.
The pact is not binding.
So why wouldn't you sign it?
Which is absurd.
If you don't agree with it, why would you sign it?
And of course, once you sign it, you accept the terms of the pact, which is that basically migration is a human right and anybody should be able to do it.
Here is a, this guy was put on Twitter.
I'm sorry, I don't know his name.
I couldn't track down his name, but he is an EU MP.
And he was protesting.
They put him on Twitter as if he were supporting this pact, but he's protesting the pact.
And he describes what I was talking about in the opening, this idea that they're going to simply deal with the voice of the people simply by shutting it down.
Here he describes it.
Participating countries are set to sign this agreement.
And although this joint agreement isn't binding, it's still meant to be the legal framework on which the participating countries commit themselves to build new legislation.
And one basic element of this new agreement is the extension of the definition of hate speech.
The agreement want to criminalize migration speech.
Criticism of migration will become a criminal offense.
And media outlets, and that also concerns you, that give room to criticism of migration can be shut down.
The compact for migration is legalization of mass migration.
It's declaring migration as a human right.
All around the world, anti-immigration groups are rising up.
All around the world, nationalist leaders are getting more and more, and nationalist parties are getting more votes.
The Voice of Rightism00:14:34
Trump wins in America by promising to build a wall on the border.
Angela Merkel is finished in Germany because she let all those people come sweeping in.
The people want to protect their nations.
They want a right to say who comes into their nations.
Even welcoming countries like ours can be taxed beyond our ability to take people in.
And the elite hear these voices and they want them to shut up.
They are telling you, hey, don't tell us what to do.
We're the elites.
And the way they do it, the guy just described it, they define it as hate speech.
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So Tim Cook, the Apple CEO, received an award from the left-wing Anti-Defamation League, the Courage Against Hate Award.
And he declared that Apple, which after all are the people who spread the Apple, the apps and the so much information, their app store and all their podcasts and things like that that they do.
He basically declared that he is in favor.
He is one big, just another big corporation in favor of silencing the voice of the people by defining it as hate speech whenever he sees fit.
We've got two cuts of him.
They're both worth listening to.
Let's play cut number one.
At Apple, we believe that technology needs to have a clear point of view on this challenge.
There is no time to get tied up in knots.
That's why we only have one message for those who seek to push hate, division, and violence.
You have no place on our platforms.
You have no home here.
From the earliest days of iTunes to Apple Music today, we have always prohibited music with a message of white supremacy.
Why?
Because it's the right thing to do.
And as we showed this year, we won't give a platform to violent conspiracy theorists on the App Store.
So here's the problem, of course.
Who defines hate speech?
And we know it's the big corporations and the big corporations are left-wing.
You know, the left used to know this.
The left used to know that big corporations, corporations are not good or bad, but they are power centers.
And power centers have to be diluted.
They have to be played off other power centers.
And the government, which is a power center, has to play off them as well.
The left used to know this, but they have forgotten it because now the corporations are on their side.
So they think, hey, we've got the power, so now it must be a good thing.
Who decides what hate speech is?
Well, Tim Cook has the answer.
He decides.
Here is him telling you that this, I mean, the voice of God speaks to Tim.
Let's hear it.
My friends, if we can't be clear on moral questions like these, then we've got big problems.
At Apple, we are not afraid to say that our values drive our curation decisions.
And why should we be?
Doing what's right, creating experiences free from violence and hate, experiences that empower creativity and new ideas, is what our customers want us to do.
I believe the most sacred thing that each of us is given is our judgment, our morality, our own innate desire to separate right from wrong.
Choosing to set that responsibility aside at a moment of trial is a sin.
It's a sin.
It's a sin.
The voice is speaking to him.
That voice is the voice of God.
The voice of leftism is the voice of God.
If you have that voice inside you, the most sacred thing you have, I mean, what about the people who sacredly disagree with him?
What about the value of free speech, which is speech that you don't like being allowed to speak?
That's the voice.
That's the voice inside me.
The voice inside me says the right thing to do is to let people speak.
The right thing to do is let every voice be heard and trust that the right will win, the right ideas will win.
So this is the left.
This is the left now, the sacred left, telling us that their religion is so sound that the voice of God speaks through them so well that they can decide what hate speech is.
I want to close by reading a little piece of this article that was in the Atlantic Monthly by a left-winger.
This is a left-wing lawyer named Joan Williams, and she wrote a piece for the Atlantic, The Democrats' White People Problem.
And she starts out by quoting Steve Bannon.
And Bannon says, I want the left to be talking about racism every day, because if the left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats.
And what she says is this is, she feels that this is racist himself.
I don't hear Bannon saying that.
What I hear Bannon saying is let them get mired in identity politics and we'll talk about the economy, stupid, and we can win.
That's what I hear Bannon saying.
But I'm not going to judge.
I mean, Bannon has said some things that I found very suspect, but I'm not going to judge.
Now, she says Trump is using this by carefully timed injections of racism.
The Muslim ban.
Okay?
Now, let me stop and take this.
This is the voice, the voice of God talking to this leftist, the Muslim ban.
Muslim is not a race.
Muslim is a philosophy.
It is right now a problematic philosophy with at least we can say a cancer of violence growing in it, which turns against other Muslims as well as Jews, as well as Christians, as well as the West.
There is nothing racist about discussing whether we need to hold back on some kind of Muslim immigration or check it more.
His shocking comments after the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, I've talked about this a million times.
I simply feel when you listen or read the transcript that Trump was talking when he said there are great people on both sides.
He meant great people on both sides of the pulling down the statue question, not Nazis.
I think that's absurd.
His unsolicited advice to the NFL on how to handle player protests.
Why is that racist?
Why isn't it just respecting the flag and expecting our athletes?
And after all, athletics is a national sport.
It's a national event.
Why is that racist?
Another, what I'm saying to you is everything she says, she's interpreting through the lens of race of leftism.
She has the right to do that.
She has the right to see the Muslim ban as racist.
But I also have the right to explain to her that it is not racist.
And if what Tim Cook is saying is, no, no, no, that voice of hers, that is that lens that she is wearing, that is the lens of God.
That is the moral lens.
And my lens that says, no, I can question the ideas of Islam.
No, that's not what Donald Trump said at Charlottesville.
No, you cannot disrespect the flag and expect me to care about your problems.
That has nothing to do with the color of your skin, zero to do with the color of your skin.
My voice is the voice of hate, and they are defining it that way.
And what's so interesting about this article is this woman has begun to get it, but not quite.
She starts telling people, she has been telling people on the left that these white people who voted for Donald Trump were voting their economic interests.
Finally, somebody is saying that.
She says, middle-income white people, because remember, a lot of these people voted for Obama.
She says they voted for Trump not so much because they liked him, though many did, or because they were racist, though plenty were.
How she knows that, I don't know, but she says plenty were.
But foremost as an expression of class anger, okay?
So she put out this article and she went around giving speeches to the left saying, no, these people actually, the voice of the people actually have something to say.
She said she got questions like this one.
Why not just wait for the white working class to die off?
That was the question she said.
And she responded, do you understand now why they voted for Trump?
Your attitude is offensive and Trump is their middle finger.
Here is a leftist who, for all her prejudice, for all her looking through the lens of leftism, for all her inability to hear what people are saying, hears something, something of the voice of the people.
She half gets it, because maybe none of it is about race.
Maybe none of it.
Maybe people want their borders sealed because that's their right, is their right to decide who comes in the country.
Maybe people want jobs because that gives their lives meaning and they're perfectly happy if the person next to them is another color as long as they both have jobs.
Maybe people don't want you to destroy their economy in the name of climate change because they know it won't work, not because they're racist or stupid or anything else.
Maybe the voice of the people is the voice you should be listening to instead of Tim Cook's inner voice, which is just his own and just a religious idea that is fake religion, false religion, instead of the true religion, which has sought hard and long for discernment on how to know when that inner voice is the voice of stupidity and when it is in fact the voice of God.
Maybe instead of silencing the voice of the people, that's the voice you should be listening to.
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Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, film critic, and podcaster.
He's the founder of Hollywoodintoto.com, a site I just love because it's not only a look at pop culture from the right, it is an informed look at pop culture from the right, which doesn't happen enough.
He's the host of the weekly Hollywood in Toto HIT podcast, which offers a right-of-center perspective, entertainment news.
Christian, it's good to see you.
It's been a while.
It's been a while.
It's good to be here.
I was all kind of full of optimism towards 2019, and then I heard Tim Cook speak, and it's all out.
Well, this is going to be a good year.
You know, I mean, these guys are really on the warpath, and they do mean to shut us down.
And it's dangerous.
It really is.
Their certainty, their self-certainty is truly dangerous.
I've never quite seen it this bad before.
But you kind of wrote, you wrote this piece, which I really found fascinating, that basically said that 2018 was a really bad year for the right in the culture.
Why do you say that?
Well, I mean, it's on a couple of fronts.
You look at late night TV.
We know what it is.
We know what it does.
We know what it says.
It gets worse.
It gets more toxic.
It gets more vicious.
There's that.
You know, I look at some of the films that came out this year, including Gosnell, which you had a significant hand in.
And it made about $3.6 million.
Now, it's a small, small film with a small, small marketing budget.
And actually, by all those measures, it did very well.
But you would think a movie like that with a lot of conservative-leaning actors, with a story that's certainly faith-friendly, you think it would be big, huge, that people would rally around it.
And the same goes for Chappaquittic with the Ted Kennedy movie.
It was terrific.
It was a really good film.
It was the best of the year.
And it made about under $20 million.
If conservatives don't rally to see films like this, which have, if not their entire message, a part of their message, then we're in trouble.
We have to kind of support these pop culture moments.
So one of the things about Gosnell is it was, like the Gosnell trial itself, it was basically boycotted by the left, which is most of the cultural venues.
I mean, it wasn't reviewed at all.
When it was reviewed, it was clearly at one point, I think it was the Washington Post.
I may be wrong about that, but it was reviewed by somebody who obviously hadn't seen it.
They went out of their way to say that it was gory, which it purposely was not.
I know I wrote it.
It was not gory.
And they went out of their way to ignore it, the way they went out of the way to ignore the trial because they didn't want people thinking, oh, maybe abortion is not such a good idea.
And yet, you're saying the problem is on the right.
You feel the problem is more on the right than it is on the left.
Oh, no, it's all over.
That's just one example of why 2018 didn't work out the way it should have been.
When you've got a movie like Gosnell, which is terrific, and I'm not kissing up, it's a very good movie.
And we don't rally around that.
We don't make that a cause slab.
We don't say, hey, Hollywood, if you don't make more of these movies, we'll work around the system and we'll make them successful on our own.
And just a quick note about the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes for Gosnell.
Michael Avenatti's Announcement00:10:21
I talk to a lot of PR people.
They want me to review their movies.
I get pitches from them.
That's perfectly fine.
They desperately, desperately want those reviews to air the first week.
that the movie comes out because that's the moment.
That's sort of that critical juncture where if a lot of people are talking about it, it could get more attention.
So not only are the amount of reviews of Gosnell and Rotten Tomatoes small now, the week it opened, it was almost like it was between three and six.
And a normal movie would be hundreds perhaps.
So that's, I mean, a few few reviews have trickled in between now, between then and now, but when it really mattered, they were absent.
And that does count.
I mean, the time I wrote a novel, Empire of Lies, the first novel I wrote that was openly conservative, the number of views I went, I got went from something like two to 300 to one.
And in that one, I was called in mainstream venues.
And in that one, I was called something like a right-wing lunatic.
So, I mean, they actually do ignore things.
And you talk about the blacklist.
Now, there certainly has been a gray list.
I know that it has cost me a bundle of work to be as outspoken as I am, no question about it.
You know, James Woods obviously lost his agent over this.
And John Voigt, who's been outspoken, has spoken to, I know personally that he has spoken to other people in Hollywood saying, keep it down, you know, because they will punish you.
But you think the blacklist is getting worse.
Yeah, well, two stories recently just shocked me, and they were both in the Hollywood Reporter, which is a major entertainment site.
One of the biggest.
And the most recent one really kind of chilled me.
It's about a new movie coming soon that is critical of Planned Parenthood.
Now, last time I checked, you can be critical or in favor of Planned Parenthood.
That's okay.
But the story said, and it kind of mentioned it in a very offhand way, like, oh, by the way, they had to shoot it in secret because it was being critical of Planned Parenthood.
Could you imagine that?
You have to shoot something in secret because your opinion doesn't collect.
It doesn't unify with Hollywood.
So to do it, you got to be on the sneak.
And something similar happened with the Roe v. Wade movie.
Now, I don't know if these movies are good or bad.
I don't care.
But if you've got an opinion and you can't share it, that's a problem.
You know, my friend Obian Uju Aikiochi, who I always call Uju because I can't pronounce her name, but she is an African.
She lives in London now, but she is a fighter against abortion in Africa and basically puts forward the idea that Europeans and white leftists are imposing abortion on a culture that simply doesn't want it.
Today, she was censored on both Facebook and Twitter, which is insane that the white poo-bahs of Facebook and Twitter are telling this black African woman that she can't speak for her culture if she's going to speak against abortion.
Obviously, abortion is something they have to protect with silence because once you start talking about it, it's impossible to defend.
What about social media?
I mean, is that part of this too?
Yeah, I mean, we've seen people, like you just said, examples where they're not doing anything wrong per se.
They're not saying you need to burn someone's house down.
They're not being vicious or vile, giving personal information out.
Things that you think, okay, it is a public platform.
That's crossing an obvious line.
But I know a comedian here in Denver, a Steve McGrew, he got kicked off recently.
Do we know why?
Often we don't.
Twitter is very opaque with their rules.
And we're seeing it time and time again.
People get, you know, I had a story recently in my site about how, hey, Twitter, what about these celebrities?
I mean, Bette Midler just fantasized about the Trump family getting hanged for their crimes or the alleged crimes.
You've got Tom Arnold, who is an absolute nightmare on social media, who doesn't have a bustling career, but whatever he has, there's no punishment there.
I mean, we see it time and time again.
And things that have been said by celebrities about the president, I mean, how many times is the Secret Service going to knock on someone's door?
You know, Mr. Arnold, Mr. Johnny Depp, Mr. Madonna, Ms. Madonna, what's going on here?
Yeah.
And yet we see all that rage and hate directed in ways that seems absolutely against the policies that Twitter has, and there's never a punishment.
No, it's all in one.
And they've gotten very arrogant about it.
They've gotten, you know, that guy, Jesse Cook, who I think his name was, who was the radio host who got knocked out.
Jesse Kelly, I think it was.
Jesse Kelly, sorry, sorry.
Absolutely right.
But, you know, they were so arrogant until they were called out by the government, basically, and then they backed down.
But I think the government's going to have to get into this because they are really censoring people.
So what do we do?
You started out by saying you were looking forward to 2019.
You thought it might be better.
Why?
Well, I mean, we still have some elements of social media.
I can post something on YouTube.
I can do something on Facebook.
And people, there's a good chance they'll see it.
And it could go viral if the message really kind of concentrates and really matters to people.
You know, there are some great podcasts in there, the work that you do.
There's a new show called Red-Pilled America.
It's terrific.
It's kind of like NPR for the right.
And how much do we need something like that?
Good production values, well thought out.
It's interesting.
Sort of a libertarian comedian named Andrew Heaton has a new podcast called Something's Off.
So we do still have the majority of these platforms.
We haven't been kicked out yet.
There are ominous signs and that arrogance really kind of scares me.
But we need to kind of leverage all these platforms to spread the word.
You know, we see so much bias in the media.
And I go on my Twitter feed and all I see is conservatives shaming reporters and shaming them and pointing to the double standards where the Associated Press had a backtrack on an obituary for President Bush because it was so pathetic and so one-sided and so cruel.
It took them two days to do it, but they did it.
And that's because you and I and everyone else there shame them and show them how ridiculous it was.
So we have to stay active.
We have to be activists.
What about the movies?
Do you think there's any chance?
I mean, are they so insulated now?
When I say movies, I mean movies and TV.
Are they so insulated now that they're not going to serve 64 million people who voted for Donald Trump?
They're just going to let that money lie on the ground.
There's a lot of money on the table across the board.
Do you think they'd have one late night comic who is at least center-right?
Unbelievable.
One.
Just give me one.
That's all we want.
That person, that guy or gal, would be a superstar.
It's amazing.
It's going to talk to them every night, even if they're moderately funny.
Yeah, it's hard.
You know, I just watched this generic horror movie coming out in a few weeks called Monster Party.
And in it, there's a Trump little kind of dig at Trump out of the blue, apropos of nothing, but that's where we are because Hollywood is obsessed.
You read the Twitter feeds of celebrities.
They can't take a step without thinking about how much they hate Trump and how much they have to tell you that they hate Trump.
So from a content creation point of view, we've got to work out of that system, which is what Gosnell did.
It didn't go straight through the traditional media outlets.
It went around it.
So it's still possible.
It's just much, much harder.
Yeah.
Well, I think Trump as a real estate mogul has done a good job of taking up space in their heads for free.
Kristen Toto, great to see you.
Hollywood in Toto.
Really check out the site, HollywoodandToto.com.
Will that take them to your podcast as well?
I've got a link right at the top of the page for the podcast.
Okay.
It's pretty there so they can they can do both.
Okay, great.
Well, have a have a great holiday and I'll see you next year.
Thank you.
You too.
Sexual follies.
So yesterday, I was talking about the effect of politicizing sexual scandal so that only right-wingers basically pay the price for sexual things that they do, for mean things that they do, and how that really makes it.
puts right-wingers in a position where they start to say, well, if you're not going to punish Bill Clinton for 40 years, you know, then we're not going to punish our guys either.
We're not going to care either.
And it really does hurt the culture.
So Michael Avenatti today announced that he was not going to run.
In 2020, he's charged with, I believe it's misdemeanor now, misdemeanor, sexual assault.
And he decided this was going to, he was going to give up.
But Politico did everything they could to save him with an article, just a hilarious article, trying to make him the sympathetic character.
This is by Natasha Korecki.
It's called He's Going.
Michael Avenatti, here's a guy who's accused of smacking around his girlfriend, right?
He's going through a pretty tough time.
Avenati crash numbers.
You know, I got to read some of this.
I want to read it.
I need like a little sad violin music.
Do we have sad violin music?
That, perfect.
That's perfect.
Michael Avenatti's cable TV bookings have dwindled.
He was uninvited from one prominent Democratic event and skipped out on another.
He has even publicly clashed with his highest profile client, Stormy Daniel.
In just a matter of weeks, a matter of weeks.
Avenatti's fortunes have taken a nosedive, rapidly downshifting him from 2020 presidential prospect to political pariah.
After a recent domestic violence arrest in Los Angeles and a public rift with Stormy Daniels over fees and legal strategy, even some of his most loyal supporters are questioning whether he could survive the latest round of challenges and be a viable candidate.
Could he survive?
I thought his campaign slogan was going to be, she hit me first.
I mean, this is a guy who's accused of beating up his girlfriend.
Just imagine for one minute if this was Donald Trump accused of slapping Melania, if this was anybody on the right accused of anything.
Just look, as a friend, I'm concerned about him.
When I call him to say, hey, how are you doing?
It's pretty obvious he's going through a pretty rough time now.
I'm more worried about these pending charges.
Domestic abuse, that's pretty bad for a run for president.
It's all on us.
All right.
Kill the violin.
I can't cry anymore for Michael Avenatti.
So he's announced that he's out.
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And I guess at Politico, they're wearing black today.
Unbelievable.
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