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March 11, 2021 - Louder with Crowder

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Crowder Did WHAT?! War with Twitter Takes a Turn... | Sen. Rand Paul Guests | Louder with Crowder

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	Unicorns I love them, unicorns I love them, unicorns I love them. I love you too. Unicorns, unicorns, unicorns. I'm in
	the middle, I'm in the middle. Goodbye, bye. Unicorns I love them.
	You're a strange animal, that's what I know. You're a strange animal, I got to follow.
	I'm gonna miss you baby just a little bit.
	Mmm.
	Tastes like COVID.
	Oh, delicious.
	Hey, I noticed we don't have CNN on there.
	I don't know if we want to bring it up.
	Good morning, everybody.
	It's a busy, busy day today because we're going to have my half-Asian lawyer in here with some legal updates with Twitter been suspended.
	Oh, no.
	I don't know.
	It seems like it's indefinitely because every time I log in, it just keeps resetting to six days.
	Really?
	You know, listen, it's the least relevant of the platforms.
	We still have to make it sting.
	We'll be talking about that, we'll be talking about Governor Whitmer, we'll be talking about George Floyd, we'll be talking about the border crisis, and we will have Rand Paul on the show, and I'm going to ask him to tone down the cattiness a little bit.
	Well, really, when we're giving puberty blockers little boys.
	Well, you know what?
	Maybe we could give him a little bit of testosterone attack.
	Hey, look, you hear that voice?
	That's the Hodge twins here, conservative twins on YouTube.
	How you boys doing?
	Doing great, man.
	Doing great, man.
	Life is good.
	Is life good?
	Yeah.
	Oh, that's nice.
	It's okay.
	That's great.
	Another day without a cop's knee on your back is a day above ground.
	Hey, just don't break the law.
	Just don't.
	Seems simple.
	Yeah, you can't worry about that.
	When he tells you to just get in the car, get in the car.
	Well, I don't know about that.
	Oh, you had to go there, huh?
	Yeah, don't get right into the car.
	Let's move that microphone a little closer to the other Kevin Keith.
	Sorry.
	Gerald A., how are you, sir?
	I'm well, how are you?
	This is a disaster.
	This is terrible.
	We have a lot of guests here today.
	We have a lot going on in studio and Quarter Black is here.
	So we have...
	Some news to get to before we get to the legal update with the half-Asian Kraken.
	Uh, I don't know if you guys have been following this, Keith and Kevin.
	The entire Oakley school, uh, board, California, Oakley, California, because I'm sure someone else is like, there's an Oakley, Oklahoma, and someone's like, meh!
	No.
	No, not you.
	No, not you.
	Nobody cares.
	Just like, what is it, Egypt, there's like Egypt, Texas, or Cairo, Texas.
	Yeah, there is.
	Do you know there's a, do you know there's a, do you know there's a, there's a place in Texas called White Settlement?
	Oh.
	Sounds like a nice place.
	Sounds safe.
	These are things we can't say.
	I get to say it.
	Well, that's why we have you here today because we're going to be talking about George Floyd and I can think things that I can't say.
	So, the entire California, Oakley, California school board resigned.
	Did you guys know why?
	Let me show you because of this clip.
	Whatever, I wasn't doing anything bad.
	I honestly don't care about that part, but you know what?
	Are we alone?
	Yeah.
	If you're gonna call me out, I'm gonna f*** you up!
	We have an invested interest in this process, and they don't know what we're doing behind the scenes.
	And it's really unfortunate that they want to pick on us because they want their babysitters back.
	Laura Laundie, just FYI, you guys have the meeting, oh.
	We have the meeting open to the public right now.
	Uh-uh.
	Nuh-uh.
	That's what Lori just said.
	They're all stupid.
	No.
	Like, no one can be a check or balance because they're all dumb.
	Yeah.
	You know, she looks pretty crazy, but she's not really gonna F anybody up or anything.
	That's the thing, when women talk.
	Careful, though, Gerald.
	She said, if you, what, if you test her, she will F you up.
	Oh, my gosh.
	Don't test her.
	That's what you get, Gerald.
	That's what you get.
	That's what you get.
	Thanks, Dad.
	You just get your ass whooped.
	And I couldn't do anything back.
	Talk shit gets shot, fam.
	I believe in equality.
	You hit me.
	I'm sorry.
	I believe in equality entirely across the board, except when it comes to the military standards and push-ups.
	Then you ladies can do a lot less.
	Because we want to make sure that we send an equal amount of you out into the battlefield to die first.
	Progress.
	Frontlines, here you go.
	I want to be in battle.
	Okay, great.
	Do a pull-up.
	Well, you don't have to.
	Here's a 50-pound back.
	Let's see if you can do the jog and put the rest of your unit in danger.
	Thanks, sweetheart.
	Just be sure to strap down those kits so that they don't distract anybody.
	Imagine, we're considered sexist because we're like, no, no, no, we want the women and children to stay home while we protect them.
	Well, why don't you think that they're as capable out in the front lines?
	I do not.
	Why is that?
	They can't do one pull-up.
	I rest my case.
	I mean, I could build more of a case, but I don't think I need exhibit A through Z. No pull-up, I rest your honor.
	Done.
	Not all women.
	Of course not.
	Yeah, not all women.
	I knew a pregnant friend of mine, Eric, who's out there watching.
	Good friend of mine.
	Looks like the guy from The Incredibles and Incredibles 2.
	You've met him.
	He tells all the stuff.
	And his wife is a very small, petite Asian lady.
	And she did six pull-ups when she was seven months pregnant.
	Wow.
	That's like a dip belt.
	Like, Kourtney's strong.
	I wouldn't put Kourtney in battle.
	Kourtney's insanely strong.
	Yeah.
	By the way, Kourtney's speedy recovery with her surgery.
	You should see her.
	She just had jaw surgery.
	Her face is all puffy.
	She looks like every sibling interviewed in the true crime dramas.
	Like, I never expected that to happen and go down like that.
	She's a good man.
	What is it with the eyes?
	I don't know if that face is trustworthy.
	I care nothing about my face.
	This is the way my face is.
	What's wrong with the way I talk?
	Okay.
	It's not permanent, so it's okay, Kourtney.
	Oh, here's another one.
	A judge granted a motion to ban comparisons of George Floyd to Jesus Christ.
	Oh.
	So this was yesterday.
	Judge Peter Cahill granted the motion after a witness made the analogy.
	I think we have a clip, don't we?
	Yeah.
	Here, this is the analogy.
	Your Honor, we would agree that specifically as worded, the court could grant this with respect to the, shall we say, parties identified specifically in that motion.
	I have to ask, how did this even become a motion?
	Is his mask stapled on?
	Is that a turtle shell ashtray?
	I think, Your Honor, one of our witnesses mentioned something like this.
	We do not.
	Really?
	Prepare your witness by telling them that analogy absolutely will not come anywhere close to being admitted.
	Which brings me to today's question of the day.
	Again, the best thing you can do is comment for the YouTube algorithm or some other questions with Rand Paul.
	But is George Floyd, in fact, the second coming of Jesus Christ?
	Hell no!
	Listen, listen, all opinions are welcome.
	However, if you answer anything other than, what's that?
	Then you're wrong.
	Hey, by the way, before we move on, you can follow me on Instagram, Ladder With Credit.
	That's where you have some lifestyle stuff.
	I'm not banned there yet.
	Not yet.
	Give it time.
	And this is a live show Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m.
	Eastern.
	That's the best way to tune in.
	And next Tuesday is, what is it?
	Is it March 16th?
	That's when we're doing the one-year anniversary to celebrate the 15 days to slow the spread.
	So on Tuesday, tune in.
	We will have all of the predictions, what came true, what didn't, which rights you gave up.
	Hint, it's all of them.
	And, uh, yeah, well, aside from abortion... They gave you slow shit.
	Yeah.
	Aside from abortion, you can still have abortion up until an afterbirth in Virginia.
	Just make sure you let them swab you first.
	Yeah, they didn't slow those procedures down.
	We wouldn't want it to be an unsanitary, unsafe abortion.
	Be sure to use some Purell on that coat hanger.
	So, also send your chat, people who are on the blaze, MudClub.
	What do you want us to talk about with Rand Paul?
	This is my question though, too, is how do they ban, like the George Floyd trial, how do they ban an analogy saying that it's inadmissible as opposed to actual evidence?
	I don't know.
	I mean, the judge's eyes were all I needed on that.
	Oh!
	I think that means we have someone to answer.
	I think we have someone to answer this question for us.
	My half-Asian lawyer, Phil Richman!
	With some updates.
	By the way, you guys are still on Twitter, right?
	Yeah, last time I checked.
	Hey, before we get into the Twitter stuff, what is that, the inadmissible, when someone just says George Floyd is Jesus Christ?
	Because maybe they in fact think he's Jesus Christ.
	Yeah, so federal and state rules of evidence that govern the trial, they have a rule in the 400s, Rule 403, it's about relevance.
	Relevance is defined as very broadly, a couple of specific categories, but one of them is does the prejudicial effect outweigh the probative value?
	And usually comparing someone who died in a criminal trial to a holy figure is going to sway the jury and not actually be evidence.
	So that's why you can say, I don't want you to make that argument.
	Right.
	Okay.
	Is it just me or does his audio suck?
	Do you want me to do this like the old Johnny Carson?
	I'm gonna jump in there.
	Hey.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So here.
	We'll just do it this way.
	Let's get in there.
	Does this work better and you can shut off his lav?
	Alright.
	I'm speaking across the microphone.
	Hello.
	You're still fine.
	I can hear you good.
	Update really quickly for people who don't know.
	So we were banned on Twitter.
	Let me make sure I get this right because I don't want to get sued.
	Yeah.
	I don't want to have to pay the retainer for that long.
	I sent a sign in blood too, which I thought was a little weird.
	So on Tuesday, while we were live on air, I was locked out of my Twitter account.
	Banned for 12 hours.
	And what was the reason Twitter gave?
	Uh, it was blank.
	Right.
	Also known as none.
	Also known as what the fuck.
	Right.
	Oh well, now this is going to be banned on YouTube.
	Then yesterday morning, just turn off his lav and I'll work this for you because he sounds like he's talking in a pool.
	Like I said, today's a disaster.
	We didn't plan on being banned and slandered.
	Then yesterday morning, the suspension increased to 6 days, 21 hours.
	And then every time we log in, it's still 6 days and 21 hours.
	Let me correct you on that.
	It was actually 6 days and 9 hours.
	Then 3 hours later, it went up to 6 days and 21 hours.
	And for about four hours last night it just froze.
	And every time you would refresh it would say, yes, you're still at six days and ten
	hours.
	Oh, but three hours later you're still at six days and ten hours.
	And now finally someone is letting it count down.
	Right.
	Now, what was the reason given?
	Because there's three now, three Twitter suspensions.
	And look, like I said, I just want to do my job.
	Yeah.
	Right?
	But I have no idea.
	Do we know what it is that got me banned?
	Well, you did get three emails.
	And every single one of them was that standard form email.
	Probably a lot of folks have seen it where it says, you violated the rules.
	And then their form email has a spot there where they say exactly what it is.
	And in every one of those, they went ahead and told you the reason.
	Specifically, colon, blank.
	No reason.
	Now is this some legal jargon that I'm not familiar with?
	Well, you know, it might be, but not in the United States of America.
	No.
	So, maybe if you live in communist Russia, or Venezuela, where the law doesn't matter, then maybe that might be a reason, but not here.
	I think you mean socialist haven.
	And when you said Russia, you meant to say Bernie Sanders' honeymoon location.
	Paradise.
	I did.
	Yes, exactly.
	These people are running your government.
	Hope you like your stimulus.
	So this is one of the things that's... Yeah, yeah, take it.
	I'm gonna let you... I'll speak off mic because you keep having to adjust it here, so then I'll just ask questions from afar.
	Okay, so here we've heard time and time again whether Jack Dorsey is in, you know, giving an Axios interview, or he's in front of Congress, or he's just tweeting... Chasing his volleyball.
	Exactly.
	He just...
	He took a bunch of ayahuasca and he's up in northern Saskatchewan, you know, out there learning to get with nature.
	He says over and over, we tell you what the reasons are, we let you know what the violations are, we're up front, we're clear, we uniformly enforce our policies, and that's the way it is.
	Except here, it's not just once.
	This is three weeks now with three separate alleged violations with not a single reason.
	But here's the thing, people out there will go, well, why do you need the reason?
	You can tell what post it was for, right?
	No.
	None of them are even connected to the post.
	That's it.
	It doesn't even say what post was the one that was violated.
	And by the way, the only thing is I'll say, hit the notification bell so people are subscribed because notifications don't mean a whole lot before I give the mic over here back to Bill.
	Oh boy.
	Hey, what's going on?
	What's happening?
	Hey, can we bring up CNN really quickly?
	Hold on, Bill.
	I'm Lauren Fox on Capitol Hill and this is CNN.
	What?
	Is that on roof?
	What's on roof?
	is that on roof?
	is that Troy Jr?
	oh oh god damn it what the f**k
	you'll never take me back you bastard oh my god
	oh my god oh my god
	who is this guy?
	He's our intern, actually.
	Well, you know Doc Choi.
	It's his son, who interns here.
	Look, there's been a rise in anti-Asian hate crime.
	You guys know.
	So, there's a breaking point for everybody.
	Let's be sure to check on him, though.
	Wait for the facts, though.
	Wait for the facts.
	Okay.
	So, Bill, my lawyer, is this also in line with the law, and again, Twitter's own practices, but legally, where does this line up if they don't give a reason?
	So this is exactly the point we've been making with other tech platforms.
	Y'all can set the rules however you want to set them, but if you're going to advertise and draw in consumers from the entire United States, the entire world, creators, people who are advertising and say, we enforce our policies in a certain way, and then you don't actually follow your own rules, that is anti-competitive.
	You've got one media company trying to hurt another media company, and it's deceptive.
	Literally consumers are out there going, hey, No, they don't ban people without giving reasons.
	They don't enforce Twitter suspensions and then reset the clock seven different times in a 24-hour period without saying anything.
	Who would do something?
	Twitter would do something.
	Twitter is doing that something right now.
	I gotta be careful because you're here.
	You said that Jack Dorsey was trying to get with nature, okay?
	Listen, that's a layup.
	That's a layup for an analogy of him schtuping a moose.
	And of course, we don't mean it.
	That's a hard schtup.
	Especially in Ruddington.
	I mean, here's the thing.
	The moose is an innocent victim in all of this, right?
	Let's just be clear, okay?
	I don't want to, you know, put consent on the moose when the moose is not consenting.
	No, exactly.
	Meese can't consent.
	So what have you done since I pay you so much?
	What have we done?
	At this point, because it doesn't feel good for me.
	Right.
	So here's a couple of things.
	So let's go back to the one that was three weeks ago, which feels like a million years ago at this point, where they actually shortened the ban after we sent a notice.
	They didn't respond.
	They didn't say, oh, actually, here's where you violated.
	They didn't do any of that stuff.
	They just said, oh, OK, we'll shorten the 12-hour ban.
	Now this time around, we've sent multiple legal notices.
	We've went through every platform of appeal that's available, right?
	This is what they say.
	They go, well, there's always a way to be able to appeal it within the system.
	No, not actually true.
	But we went through and we found other ways to be able to do it.
	We've contacted their legal department directly.
	We've contacted their trust and safety department actually directly.
	And to this moment, until right before we're on air, still no response at all.
	They haven't even given us the reason.
	Right.
	At all.
	Bill, are they outsourcing to the same customer service team that Facebook uses?
	Because they do the exact same things.
	They just don't get back with you.
	They don't give you reasons for suspension.
	It might be.
	I mean, it could be a call center in Omaha.
	It could be a call center in Calcutta.
	Nobody knows where they're actually subbing these out.
	It's like all big tech.
	Right.
	Exactly.
	And every time they do one of these things they go, well you know a sub of a sub of a subcontractor gave it to his cousin's dog and like he hit the wrong button.
	Right?
	But they did this same thing with a sitting president.
	They've done this thing across the board.
	They've had multiple instances of their inability to handle the kind of issues that are endemic to having a large platform.
	Essentially what they're proving day in and day out is that they can't uphold their own policies at scale.
	Which means if they can't Hold the power responsibly.
	They can't have the power.
	They need to be held responsible.
	This kind of bad faith action is exactly what isn't protected by Section 230.
	Hey, hey, can I say something?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	What, five days ago we got Halls Twins TV, right?
	We got this long email.
	Pretty much they were saying we're inciting violence.
	Why would you do that?
	I don't know.
	It's terrible.
	Our Hodge Twins TV is gone.
	Deleted.
	They didn't tell us which video violated piloting, they just gave us this long list and never explained to us which video violated piloting.
	Is this Vimeo?
	No, this is Hodge Twins TV, Vimeo.
	It was a pay-per-view channel on Vimeo.
	Vimeo?
	Well, leave it to, you know, it's the stereotype of the angry black man.
	They're still, it takes a while for them to be deprogrammed, even at Vimeo!
	Yeah.
	They wouldn't hurt a fly.
	Unless it was one of those albino flies.
	A rooftop Korean.
	See what happens?
	Yeah.
	That's dangerous.
	Yeah, and they won't tell us exactly what we did.
	They just said, you're bad people.
	Well, listen, don't give them an argument.
	I wouldn't use your defense.
	No.
	Right, right, right.
	What is the 230 thing?
	This is the thing, look, because you have all these conservatives who they live for just, they just want to be like, look, I was banned.
	I've not been banned.
	I've been suspended.
	And we've obviously, we've had people who've committed actual slander, libel on Twitter with people photoshopping swastikas, accusing me of everything under the sun, right?
	And nothing gets done or it doesn't get done for a long time.
	And then you get locked out.
	I get locked out.
	I want to know what the rules are.
	Like with YouTube, for example, we said, okay, what are the rules?
	and the rules aren't what we initially thought the rules to be because then they created
	two, three, four sets of guidelines. Now YouTube has community guideline violations, they have
	advertiser-friendly guidelines, and then they have borderline content. Well, who determines
	that? Nobody really knows. It's not really told. But at least they have some kind of
	a vague page, and they do answer. There is an appeal process. I would say this with YouTube
	with the appeal process. It sucks when they're like, no, this is hate speech, but they tell
	you. Twitter doesn't give any kind of a reason. So my point is, look, with this, if they can
	do it to someone like me, and I don't want to, but I'm not going to self-censor to the
	point of being dishonest on Twitter. And so if I end up losing it because I say, look,
	happy International Women's Day, I'm celebrating the brave and beautiful trans women of Saudi
	Arabia. If that's the reason, then they should take it up with Saudi Arabia, who, by the
	way, Twitter bans my tweets in Saudi Arabia sometimes because it offends the Islamic sensibility.
	We're at least at 25 different countries that Twitter has somehow found a way to actively and instantly determine whether or not it's violating those countries' laws.
	But yet they cannot figure out a way to let an American citizen for an American company know What was the post that created an alleged violation or even what the reason was?
	This is what I'm saying over and over again is that these companies have developed and created for themselves so much power that they're unable to actually exercise it in good faith.
	They simply can't.
	They can't even enforce their own rules or not enforce them in the right way.
	They've entrusted it to AI, to robots, to subcontractors, every instance.
	And this isn't just conservatives.
	This is happening to people across the board.
	And yet nothing is being done to actually curb that, whether in Congress, certainly not happening under this administration, but also the question of the courts.
	And if someone's going to have to step up, we're doing that action as well.
	But Twitter itself is now one of the ones that is the most egregious on this front, and I don't think Jack Dorsey in Hiawaska is going to do anything about it.
	Well, it depends.
	That moose might have some leverage.
	Hey, look at this picture of you mounting me!
	It's the same evidence I've always had!
	I just tweaked it a little!
	Uh, here's the thing.
	What can be done for people who are old enough to watch Rocky and Bullwinkle?
	Yeah, well, yeah.
	Yeah, it's a classic.
	By the way, Rocky was... Rocky was... Yeah.
	Oh, Bullwinkle!
	You shouldn't look at that lady in that dress!
	Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho!
	I have rock-hard antlers, Rocky!
	And then Boris and Natasha, the commies coming in, tying people to train tracks.
	That wasn't some sick role-playing.
	Classic.
	Done they do right.
	You've been a mountie for 12 years.
	You don't know how to get on a horse not backwards?
	It's difficult.
	I'm retarded now!
	So the best way, really?
	The best way at this point is you've got to vote with your clicks.
	Your tweets, everything else like that.
	Whether you're sending a message, it's continuing to share stuff that they don't want to be shared, share it as much as you can.
	Go ahead and like those folks who are doing it, or go find them on other platforms.
	I mean, just the simple existence of Mug Club or other platforms that are making this happen, whether it's Parler, your Rumbles, your other things like that, they're where the advertisers are going, wait a minute, this is not an effective strategy.
	The only thing that apparently matters to them is their pocketbook.
	That's the only thing they're going to listen to, and we can affect it.
	Every one little tweet, maybe not by itself, but all of them together.
	So, while we're taking the fight on the legal side, folks can take that side, whether they're sitting at home, whether they're in their grandma's basement, whether they're at the bus station.
	It doesn't matter.
	You can get on those apps and make your voice heard.
	Well, I think it's important, too, for everyone out there to understand Section 230.
	It was very interesting.
	Twitter sued Texas AG Paxton.
	And they said that AG Paxton was leveraging them to try and infringe on their exact words, editorial decisions regarding what is on... Editorial!
	They used the word editorial!
	So my question is at that point, how does that, how do we juxtapose that with 230?
	Explain to people, I know we've described this ad nauseam, but the reason that these platforms are not held liable at all.
	It's because of 230, which, if the New York Times, for example, just puts up something, they're held responsible.
	That's slander.
	Like if it says, like, hey, Gerald, you know, Gerald beat me up in a bathroom stall with George Michael, right?
	If someone at the New York Times writes that, they can be held responsible.
	If someone puts it up on Twitter, well, they're not held responsible at all because of Section 230, but then they, in their own lawsuit, say, well, no one can infringe on our editorial guidelines, and it's all opaque.
	Well, it's one of the best analogies is, are you going to hold AT&T liable if a criminal decides to call on a cell phone that goes across an AT&T line, right?
	You're going to say, no, this is utility just because the city provided water.
	Was the city now liable for the fact that that water was used to make the best meth in the country?
	No, not at all.
	So, what we're looking at now is the question of, are you more like... There's a reason that Great Lakes still has the crown for meth.
	Great Lakes Water Meth!
	The pH is on point.
	But what are they now closer to?
	Does AT&T, does the water company, do they exercise editorial functions?
	Do they selectively decide on a guideline basis who are going to be their customers?
	No.
	You sign up, you pay the bill, you're in.
	But when you look at the New York Times, they look, they edit, they decide, they cut, they have guidelines for what they're going to put on there.
	They have whole teams that are doing that.
	And that's when you now look at what is more of these platforms.
	What are they more like?
	Are they more like the utility that's letting anyone go, say anything they want, and we're just providing the vehicle for it?
	Or are you coming in and actually exercising editorial function?
	Use their own words exactly like you said.
	This again isn't about we're telling you how to run your business.
	This isn't saying the government should come in and run your business.
	It's run your business in an honest way.
	And if you were honestly editing, you're honestly held liable for it.
	Right, exactly.
	Now look, I don't want to...
	And Gerald, you have a question?
	Yeah, well the analogy actually gets worse, Steven, like you said with the New York Times.
	With the moose?
	It gets even worse!
	So it's like the New York Times putting out that story and then blocking my account, the
	Twitter blocking my account and saying you can't...
	That's what happens.
	And they can just... Wait, wait, wait!
	Twitter blocks your account?
	No, no, no, no, no.
	I'm saying... It would be like that.
	We always get screwed.
	I would believe it.
	I would believe it if they blocked your account.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	I'm saying that's what it would be like.
	It's like the New York Times tweeting out a story about me that's false that I should be able to sue them over and then Twitter locking me out of my account so that I can't defend myself.
	Right.
	Right?
	That's exactly what it's like.
	That's what Twitter is doing when they block people for, oh, 12 hours.
	Oh, it's just a couple of days.
	Oh, we'll fix the problem.
	No!
	This is strategic.
	You're doing this stuff on purpose.
	Yeah.
	Or at least it's very coincidental.
	Look, Half-Asian Bill, I know you have to get going.
	My final question here is, look, I don't want to, because... Please join Mug Club.
	I don't have...
	We don't like getting banned.
	I don't want to have to sue Twitter.
	We're doing the Facebook lawsuit, which I know we can't do.
	We can't give you a bunch of updates right now, but the wheels are in motion!
	What do we do with Twitter?
	Twitter?
	What are we gonna, what's on, is everything on the table?
	So everything's on the table.
	All of the options are available.
	But this is, this is, I will tell you, and most good lawyers will admit that the legal
	system should be the last resort.
	And unfortunately Twitter is essentially pushing us to say you better go to the last resort.
	Because Congress isn't doing anything.
	The President's not doing anything.
	Not gonna do anything.
	The Vice President, who's really in power, isn't gonna do anything.
	The state legislatures may.
	They're trying.
	You still look at these various states that are trying to enact legislation to try and do something about it.
	Thank God that they're doing that.
	But really, ultimately, we're gonna have to figure out all the ways we can do it.
	Speaking of, I'm gonna get out of here to go work on it.
	I gotta go suit up.
	Go suit up!
	Do it!
	Thank you, have a... I have music in my ears.
	You know what, I will... Sorry, I need to readjust it for... Is he going to... Oh, he's going to... Okay, sorry, he's got to go suit up.
	Yeah, okay. Gotcha.
	Hey, Bill, what's going on?
	You just told Steven you're going to suit up.
	You already had a suit on for the whole show.
	Yeah.
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	They don't want to ban that?
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	Right.
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	This is another story here, the head of border security, before we get to Rand Paul.
	And again, people on Mug Club, send in your questions.
	Why are you kicking your brother in the head?
	What's going on?
	He just told me to wake up.
	Yeah, I asked you when you came in if you needed some caffeine.
	I'm awake.
	And you said you'd prefer some crack.
	I've got some Coke over here.
	Whoa, whoa.
	No, come on.
	I've got some Coke.
	No, no.
	We do math.
	You guys do crack.
	And then we all do heroin.
	I want the white man stuff.
	I want the good stuff.
	I want the cocaine.
	I want no damn crack.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Meth is not the good stuff.
	It's not cleaner than crack.
	It's just that the poor white man is more responsible with his money.
	Well, he doesn't care about his teeth very much.
	Doesn't care about his teeth at all.
	Yeah, no, exactly.
	Very English of you.
	Weston Price.
	So, Trump to Biden has been trending everywhere, and we want to get to Whitmer in a second, then Rand Paul, which I'm really looking forward to, but the head of border security, is the head of border security, I don't know,
	Roberta Jackson, I see this person all the time, claimed that the border crisis is
	because of Trump's lack of humanity, which was discouraging people from coming,
	which by the way, listen, before I even get to the next part, I'm okay with.
	Um...
	And then, later in the clip though, she went on to admit that it actually was Biden's fault.
	And I know you think that I'm making this up, so I have the clip right now of Roberta Jackson sandwiched together.
	It's a coincidence that as soon as Trump and his immigration policy were on the way out, and Biden and his stated policy were on the way in, this historic surge at the border started.
	Well, first of all, one of the things I think is important is we've seen surges before.
	Surges tend to respond to hope.
	there was a significant what for a more humane policy after Four years of you know pent-up demand, so I don't know
	whether I would call that a coincidence But I certainly think that the idea that a more humane
	policy would be in place may have Driven people to make that decision, but perhaps more
	importantly it definitely drove smugglers to Express information to spread disinformation
	That's the moment where she realized she screwed up.
	I think it's a reflection of how migrants feel at a particular time.
	Have you seen that lady, by the way?
	That's unfortunate.
	You know what?
	I've watched, and I don't always watch the clips, I read a lot of the time, so sometimes I don't see the clips of these people, but that's Roberta Jackson, right?
	Oh, it's actually Jacobson.
	That was a typo.
	Oh, it's Jacobson!
	Not Jackson.
	Sorry.
	That's right.
	Why was I saying Jackson?
	That was me.
	I don't know.
	I got two black guys here.
	Jackson's a common name.
	Stop it!
	Easy to mix it up.
	It's not even a joke.
	Didn't we, uh, didn't I pick out an old lineman in Stephen Knows Sports?
	You did.
	By just saying... Jackson.
	I don't, I said, uh, uh, Marcus Jackson.
	Named me one o-line in the NFL, and I said, let me pick the name of a large, 350-pound black man with an under 5'40", and Marcus Jackson is actually a person.
	So that's what I was thinking of.
	Unbelievable.
	It's not racist.
	How'd it work with Tyrone Jackson?
	Well, you did it with a soccer player, too, right?
	With Silva.
	Yeah, Silva.
	Thiago Silva.
	But no, that was so... I just watched that clip for the first time, and I realized, you know, it's unfortunate, but I did recognize her from somewhere.
	You know, thankfully we're in a good position still, fiscally speaking.
	Oh, good, geez. Turkey action.
	So this is what's great about this, by the way. And this is a, you know what,
	comment. Question, another question of the day, of course, is George Floyd Jesus Christ.
	Yeah.
	Maintain that.
	But another one here is, let's say, because Donald Trump, when they say was a lack of compassion, but what's the lack of compassion?
	It's people, it's referring to these countries, for example, as shithole countries, right?
	That was considered racist, but then we say, look, there's this pent-up demand.
	Hold on a second.
	Wait, wait, wait, wait, Jacobson.
	Pent-up demand?
	Pent-up demand from what?
	Why would there be pent-up demand if they don't live in shithole countries, right?
	There would be no pent-up demand to leave them.
	So they said, okay, that's racist.
	And then Donald Trump said, well, look, you're saying they're not shithole countries.
	Let's send them back.
	Let's not allow them to come in here in record numbers.
	What's a lack of compassion?
	Putting up a border wall?
	Enforcing our own immigration laws?
	Like every other country?
	You want to find out who's really nationalistic and racist?
	Go down to Mexico, ask them how they feel about Hondurans and El Salvadorians.
	Can we build a wall?
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Did you build a wall?
	We don't have money, we shoot them.
	Sometimes we just put we put landmines on the road so we blow them up in their van
	Since when were you supposed to give people breaking the law hope
	Yeah.
	When was that?
	You see El Chapo, I see hope.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's like bank robbers going in and there's a lot of bank robberies now and oh well that's actually because we removed all of the security features and I guess it gave them hope that they would make it out alive with money.
	Yeah, back to you.
	Give me your insurance register!
	Alright.
	He thinks me seeing a dreamer over there.
	You little rascal.
	You hopeful little bitch.
	Got a bright future.
	I'm just so, I'm just so fed up with this.
	I think it's hope and humanity.
	Really?
	Okay.
	So what's the hope now?
	The hope, and by the way, you're putting more people in cages.
	Record numbers.
	I saw that.
	Unbelievable.
	I don't know when it became considered racist.
	When it became considered inhumane to simply send people back.
	Disney El Paso, Steve.
	To their non-shithole country!
	To their wonderful country, which, by the way, sees the same record number of would-be migrants to places like Mexico, because it's a shining beacon of hope for all to see!
	You know what, Steven?
	It's beautiful.
	We had a show in the United Kingdom.
	We was on immigration hold for two hours.
	They put us in cages and everything, right?
	Well, rightfully so.
	We actually had to pay like $1,800-some-odd.
	We had two show schedules.
	Yeah.
	Sold out!
	I was coming from the United States.
	The United States is not a shithole.
	We went there and they said we didn't have the right visa.
	Detroit.
	So they said you needed a visa.
	Yeah, our visa wasn't correct.
	We had to pay $1,800 just to be able to stay to do our shows.
	Even though we were sitting beside each other, we couldn't talk to each other.
	Really?
	What?
	How did they make that happen?
	I don't know.
	Did they put like glass up between you two?
	No, we were just sitting there looking at each other like...
	Okay, he's not looking.
	What are we going to do?
	What, did they think you guys were Islamic?
	Did you have the beard?
	They knew who we were.
	They said they were fans.
	They said that we were going to stay in that country and get on welfare.
	I was like, you people are so racist.
	Did they say that really?
	Yeah.
	We had to sign documents saying we were not going to stay and get on that welfare.
	Listen, you're welcome to stay in our country, love, so long as you don't marry into the royal family.
	And please, let's just say we're not speaking with each other.
	We don't need any chance of Allah.
	By the way, Mecca's that way.
	We don't need any black babies in this royal family.
	Aren't you a gorgeous bit of dark chocolate?
	You little Cadbury eggs!
	I experienced that crap in Canada, too.
	You people don't realize this in Canada, in Quebec, they're racist.
	Whoa, you people.
	They're very racist.
	We don't have as many blacks.
	I experienced that crap in Canada too.
	You people don't realize this in Canada, in Quebec, they're racist.
	Whoa, you people.
	They're very racist.
	You people.
	What do you mean by you people?
	Did I just say you people?
	I meant black people.
	No, no.
	With French Canadians, you people.
	So they are racist with black people.
	With all black people.
	I am trying to say French Canadians are often very racist.
	Now they're not racist in the sense that they hate black people.
	They're just racist in the sense that it's okay to stereotype.
	So they'll be like, you'll be sitting, you'll be talking with them, and I'm like, hey man, you Americans, you're so racist, that's the problem.
	You're like, yeah, yeah, no, listen, I think that's horrible.
	It's wrong to hate, you know, everybody as to be equal, yep, yep.
	And blacks are lazy as fuck, man.
	I'm like writing the next sentence.
	I swear to you.
	So there's the Ligue des Langues, I think is what it's called.
	People can fact check me.
	We have some Montreal fans there who want to get out.
	Sorry, I can't get you all on work visas.
	But no caravan can come from there.
	So they have the language police in Canada.
	People don't understand this.
	When people talk about discrimination in the United States, I say, well, you know, I've faced some systemic discrimination in Canada.
	They go, what do you mean?
	You're white.
	I go, it's a French province in an English country where I was forced to go to French schools.
	Just because my mom was born in Quebec.
	If you have one parent born in Quebec, you have to go to French school.
	They thought I was learning disabled until, through a loophole, I was allowed to learn geography and math in English.
	Thank goodness.
	If I wanted to open Stephen's Diner, apostrophe S, I would be fined out of existence because it's not French, right?
	So they call this thing Pure Laine, is the term.
	That literally translates to pure wool.
	Purity test.
	Racial purity, where they only want pure, European, blooded French people.
	Sounds like Nazi Germany.
	Well, it's not.
	It's not.
	You know, the worst is you get some looks and someone with a rat tail, you know, telling you to get out, man.
	Go up there to Gaspé with the moose and Jack Dorsey, okay?
	We know you're gonna have a spit roast, you two.
	Then, what happened is, they created this because they were trying to expel all the English people from Quebec.
	And so, a bunch of Haitian people started migrating to Quebec because they're French.
	And they're like, oh, yes!
	No, man, we can't have that!
	So then they started trying to get rid of the Haitians.
	There goes the neighborhood Haitians.
	Oh, hell.
	Man, I don't want people from, how you call it, that shit-hole country.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	We don't want that.
	They're just seeking asylum.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, dreamers.
	Hey, yeah, you two, hey, me, you come here, me too, I'll seek asylum because all the Haitian darky gonna make me crazy, man.
	And they don't realize it's racist.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, speaking of this right now, the disaster at the border, Trump responded.
	I miss that man already.
	This is his response yesterday.
	When is Senator Rand Paul going to be coming out?
	It's got to be soon, right?
	Yeah, in about 20 minutes.
	Oh, 20 minutes.
	Okay, good.
	So we can do our Whitmer segment.
	And by the way, send in your questions for Rand Paul.
	So yesterday, President Trump released this.
	I hope everyone remembers when they're getting the COVID-19, parentheses, often referred to as the Chinese virus vaccine, that if I wasn't president, you wouldn't be getting that beautiful shot for five years.
	That wonderful hole-in-one shot.
	So good.
	At best.
	And probably wouldn't be getting it at all.
	I hope everyone remembers.
	And you know what?
	Here's the thing.
	He's not... He's not wrong.
	Is this- are we- can we go back?
	Oh.
	I never go back!
	What- is that- what is that- That's Troy Jr.
	What is he saying?
	He'll never go back?
	Where?
	I don't know what he's talking about.
	Can we do a research on that?
	I think we got some right here.
	Oh, yeah.
	We need to be better about our background checks here at the office.
	Those are some good tats.
	Why did the Hodge twins get a background check and not Troy Jr.?
	Because he's Asian.
	For obvious reasons.
	He seemed like a nice kid.
	But Donald Trump's not wrong.
	Think about this for a second.
	Joe Biden, every Democrat opposed Operation Warp Speed, and that's why I'm not anti-vax.
	People say you're anti-vax.
	Look, I'm not anti-vax at all, and I'm not even anti this vaccine.
	I know some of them have used apparently embryonic stem cells to be developed, and in which case, morally, ethically, I'm against that kind of medical experimentation, because you can use adult stem cells, right?
	I just have weighed the risk-rewards for someone like myself, where the side effects are ironically, in some of the vaccines, worse for someone who's young and healthy, worse in some cases than the virus itself, and I think that older people who are susceptible, like I've always said, we should be quarantining them, we should be locking them in Buffalo Bill's basement, all old people, out of humanity and compassion, they should get the vaccines first.
	That's all it is.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And you remember everybody who came out when Donald Trump said, yeah, we're going to have this in, what, October, November or something like that.
	They said, no way.
	Maybe before the election.
	They said, no way.
	And they also said, Kamala Harris, I believe we've covered it several times, saying, I'm not going to take Donald Trump's vaccine.
	Like, he was, you know, pouring beakers into each other in his basement, writing these things.
	He was breaking Trump.
	Yeah, exactly.
	He's just reminding people.
	And by the way, I think we've stumbled onto a fun character.
	You started out in, like, a Jack Black slash Donald Trump voice.
	Yeah.
	It could be kind of fun.
	It could be interesting.
	Listen, buddy, I'm gonna play him in the biopic.
	Biopic.
	My pecs get in here!
	Um, so, yeah, no, this is remarkable, but again, this would not happen if not for Operation
	Warp Speed.
	Let's just look at this really logically.
	Let's be reductive.
	That's reductive.
	Just like I said about women can't do pull-ups, they shouldn't be on the front lines, I'm okay with it.
	So, let's be reductive with this.
	Operation Warp Speed meant removing government bureaucracy, red tape, allowing more medical developments to happen at warp speed.
	So, who typically supports Deregulation, removal of red tape, while allowing personal accountability, holding companies responsible, as opposed to having the FDA put a vaccine on the shelf for nine years because it might give you a slight tummy ache.
	Giving the right to the consumer and a speedier path to market.
	Does that sound like...
	Conservative idea?
	Or does that sound like Joe Biden's idea?
	There's a reason Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Cuomo said they wouldn't trust the vaccine.
	And by the way, now they want you to all take it immediately.
	And again, I just want people to be able to take the vaccine if they want it.
	Yeah.
	And if you're confused as to who does this better, just point to any other vaccine in history that's been developed and rolled out in less than a year.
	Just point to one.
	Right?
	Yeah.
	I have no idea.
	I'll wait.
	Is there one?
	There's not.
	Do you know how long it took to build the Empire State Building?
	Do you guys know this?
	Because you don't remember the World Trade Center, it took about 12 years for them to put something up?
	After?
	Empire State Building, 10 months.
	Really?
	Yeah, someone in the control room can find it there.
	I might be off by a month or two, it was under a year.
	Some people plummeted to their death with their lunchboxes.
	It happens.
	Before we thought safety first.
	That's exactly what they thought.
	Throw enough bodies at those 140-story steel beams, you get it done.
	Who do you think hit first, a body or the lunchbox?
	Well, I don't know.
	Terminal velocity is reached at a certain point no matter what.
	It just depends on how quickly they reach terminal velocity.
	Is there a sandwich in the box or no?
	I have no idea.
	That's a good question.
	Is there a drink in the box?
	That's a lot of weight.
	Either way, you have some time to think about it.
	That's what I would hate the worst.
	Yeah.
	Just gotta think about it for you.
	You have to inhale for your second scream.
	You know what you need?
	I should have conserved energy.
	I've still got a while here.
	Maybe I should take this time to tell people to put a rope on.
	This doesn't keep happening.
	It's a really good idea that we all have on the way down.
	How about some carabiners?
	You might as well have your lunch on the way down.
	Yeah.
	This is from the Empire State Building website.
	It's a little bit more than 10 months, but it was just one year and 45 days.
	One year and 45 days.
	Alright.
	That's pretty fast.
	I think you guys are wrong.
	I think I might have been the finishing touches.
	Empire State's wrong?
	I don't care about the crown molding in the Empire State Building.
	That's true.
	Could I walk through the building?
	That's how long.
	10 months.
	Or could you fall from the very top?
	Yeah.
	Why do you... This is a dumb question.
	Why do you think people scream when they fall from a tall building?
	I would just be like...
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	I guess it like eased the anxiety.
	It's something to do.
	It just eased the anxiety of the whole issue, you know?
	Yeah.
	I'm not sure.
	It doesn't sound very easing.
	They don't look very calm.
	It's releasing.
	That's what it is.
	What do you want them to do?
	Sing a James Taylor song while they film?
	The guy's probably complaining, my wife put mayonnaise again on the sandwich.
	I can't believe it.
	Damn it, Sally.
	First bullet from the building and then this.
	In my mind, I'm going to Carolina.
	There you go.
	Nope.
	It's Carolina Street.
	Still hurts!
	James Taylor was wrong!
	Um, alright.
	Paulie... Cause I'm free!
	Free falling!
	Tom Petty was a dick, man.
	So.
	Speaking of Cuomo, by the way, let's go to Governor Whitmer.
	Sometimes it does feel good to be a little... Actually, I don't want to say good to be vindicated, because this is horrible.
	Seniors have died at record numbers there in Michigan.
	Michigan is worse than New York, I believe, in a lot of ways.
	Certainly in principle, and I'll get to that in a second.
	But now that everyone's talking about Governor Cuomo, it has brought Governor Whitmer back into the spotlight.
	And for people who don't remember, we've been covering this for a very long time.
	This is what's so funny to me, when people have been saying, with Governor Cuomo, they've been going, how did this go on and nobody noticed?
	Okay, people noticed you decided to ban the stories from social media.
	Do you want to know why people didn't notice?
	And by people, I mean you, you dumb son of a bitch.
	The reason that you didn't notice, not our audience, but the rest of the audience, the rest of the people in America, the reason you didn't know is because of the same, for the same reasons that I've been suspended from Twitter for six days without any reason or cause.
	The Hunter Biden story of him doing crack with his niece nude in a stand-up shower at the Andaz.
	I don't know, I don't want to disperse the good reputation of the Andaz nice hotel, but the point is, remains, I'm creating a mental picture.
	For the same reason that post was punted from social media, you never know about it because they control the flow of information.
	People like me.
	Us, people like Rush Limbaugh, God rest his soul, there were plenty of people covering the Cuomo situation.
	There weren't so many people covering the Governor Whitmer situation, but that's just because not a lot of people had access to the information, and Michigan doesn't come to the front of your mind when you're thinking about major states with incredible corruption, so it's a state that's near and dear to my heart.
	Born there, lived there for another seven years recently.
	I love it.
	I love the state of Michigan, and I just hate the people.
	Not all the people, the ones who elected the lady whose stockings will undoubtedly roll up under a house.
	So, on Monday, Macomb County Prosecutor Peter Lucido, do I have that name right?
	It's not Jacobson?
	Peter Lucido announced that Governor Whitmer may be facing actual criminal charges.
	If we find that there has been willful neglect of office, if we find that there's been reckless endangerment of a person's life by bringing him in, Then we would move forward with charges against the governor.
	Of course we would.
	Nobody's above the law in this state.
	Especially not when Pugsley Adams enforcing it.
	Pugsley Adams?
	It's probably too white of a reference.
	You know, you seem like more of a Munsters guy.
	So Monday, also, Charles LaDuff filed the final complaint in the case against Whitmer.
	Here's the thing.
	Most people know about, obviously, Cuomo's nursing home scandal, right?
	With even AOC calling for an investigation.
	And if AOC calls for an investigation into a Democrat governor, he must be doing something really bad.
	Okay, that's not as like a little bit like if AOC is polling everyone in the state party saying all right have
	the tides Have the tides turned right let's investigate Cuomo
	But a lot of people don't realize that Whitmer is actually a lot worse than Cuomo again in practice because her
	policies Actually ended up putting not just not just returning old
	people who were sick to old folks homes young people young sick people into old folks homes
	Here's an episode that we did on it half a year ago This is the man who was beating an old person old folks
	home in Michigan and more than half a year Okay, all right, that's enough horrible right yeah listen
	That's it's still tough for me to watch today that guy that old man by the way that old man
	Ended up starving himself to death. Yeah, he became depressed starved himself to death Pete
	I remember when we first covered the story we didn't know that that was the reason that young man was in the nursing
	home I thought it was a worker, somebody beating him up at some point.
	Yeah, like a nurse or something.
	But no, it was just a guy who had COVID that was put in that was a young guy.
	Right.
	And even his dad said, my son should not have been there.
	He said, I don't know how many balls were dropped for this to happen.
	My son should not have been there.
	And while the media was ignoring Whitmer and fawning over Cuomo, we were the first ones to really sort of bring some national attention to it.
	And by the way, this one is specifically for Michiganders out there.
	Folks in Michigan, what do you think has happened to your state?
	Honestly.
	I mean, people think of the Midwest as the heartland of the country.
	There's been no accountability for this broad.
	Can I say that?
	I think you can.
	I mean it in disrespect.
	Definitely.
	We even went, and then hold that thought, but we even, so for people who don't remember, we went to Michigan and held a rally with thousands of people and that resulted in thousands of FOIA requests, which we'll come back to because that's relevant right now.
	Let me say in no uncertain terms, Governor Whitmer Her policies have directly led to untold deaths of Michigan seniors, thousands, and you have been, at worst, deliberately misled.
	And at best, Deliberately misled about those numbers.
	Michigan's tracking, and it's the only state with these comparable states, doesn't include assisted living facilities, adult foster care facilities, or homes for the aged.
	In Michigan, it's 34% coming exclusively from some nursing homes.
	You know how many those are?
	1,967 deaths coming from about 440.
	How many currently active licensed facilities are there in Michigan?
	Over 10 times that amount, folks!
	I say this, President Trump, if you are watching, that I and the people of Michigan all would like to say in unison, Governor Whitmer, you want to conduct that investigation?
	Donald Trump for mishandling COVID?
	All right, sweetheart, you first!
	Michigan, I love you!
	God bless!
	Let's make it happen!
	And by the way, the only coverage of that was there were a couple hundred people who showed up and then did any of them try to kidnap Whitmer?
	That was the only coverage.
	So that's why you haven't heard about it.
	And I've never done a rally like that, ever.
	Again, I have a 97-year-old grandma in Michigan who's been directly affected by these policies.
	Friends have been directly affected by these policies.
	And by affected, I mean...
	Dead.
	So, uh, matters to me.
	And I just, this is the problem with three, four companies controlling the town square.
	People die.
	Sure, I get banned because I, uh, point out the obvious fact that it's child abuse to put a four-year-old on puberty blockers.
	You know, tomato, no dick.
	But it can actually get to the point where information that could save people's lives doesn't get out, and so you have people, politicians, who are no longer accountable, and people die.
	There was a bipartisan bill in Michigan, by the way, to put a stop to this, and she vetoed it.
	Democrats and Republicans said, you've got to stop doing this.
	No.
	Under the guise of emergency powers.
	Well you know the reason is because you care about the seniors that are actually affected by this and what it seems like Governor Whitmer cares about is her image.
	Yes.
	And what people think of the state of Michigan and her job of it because you know her star is rising or at least was before all of this happened.
	But if you look at the numbers according to the CDC per 100,000 so per capita they're the 11th worst state right the country in vaccination and they're blaming the
	former administration by the way
	as at the time this article that we're gonna get to in just a second there were
	seventy percent of the vaccines that were sent there were just sitting in hospital well yeah so let me so this
	is what it so that was back then we're just talking about yes yes and by the way
	can still go to a lot of credit comment slash Whitmer death toll so this
	got trending the thousands of signs
	put up in Michigan where you can submit your own FOIA request
	right just to find out the actual death number because it's far higher than is
	Way higher.
	We know that it's way higher.
	Governor Whitmer just, she punted it.
	She said, I don't have to do it.
	Why?
	Under the guise of emergency powers.
	Okay, well those are going away.
	They were just stripped from Governor Cuomo.
	Let's see that happen with Whitmer and then she'll have to at least answer some questions.
	But let's go through the misdeeds that have been committed since then.
	Like you said, back then, just record number of old people who she was snuffing.
	And in October, she ignored the Supreme Court's order striking down her months of executive orders, saying that the emergency powers were necessary.
	She, again, denied the FOIA requests.
	Like I said, Cuomo has been stripped of those, so that gives us a path moving forward now, where, no, no, no, no, you can't shut down churches, keep pot shops open, and not disclose the numbers of nursing home deaths.
	And then here's, like, I think we have a clip of what you were talking about.
	Noah, if you want to understand Whitmer, okay, I picture a non-Whitmer.
	And I remove all reason and accountability.
	Because here she is, blaming all of it on, you guessed it, you guessed it, Donald Trump.
	The feds are slow-walking the process of getting the addresses to Pfizer for some reason I cannot get an answer to.
	We have Michigan hospitals and nursing homes ready to administer this vaccine.
	And the bottleneck appears to be the White House.
	What was that?
	Up here.
	We got Rand Paul.
	Okay, well, Paul, let me just wrap this because Rand Paul's gonna want me to point out Governor Whitmer.
	By the way, she was wearing, she fashioned Ted Nugent's guitar strap into a shirt.
	So, she blamed it on Trump, but once Trump was actually gone, Whitmer failed to allocate enough vaccines for seniors.
	She didn't allow vaccines for 65-year-olds until January 11th, and as of January 1st, only 25.7% of the vaccines supplied by the federal government had been administered.
	She's just letting it sit there.
	Just last month, she quietly extended restaurant limitations until March 29th, when they were set to expire on February 21st.
	I know several restaurants that will never open again, one of which employs 19 people.
	Oh, that makes sense.
	shut down the restaurant and she originally eased up on the restrictions.
	This is what's so telling. She eased up on the restrictions two days after
	Biden's inauguration. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah, that makes absolutely sense. You
	know, we have a clip here but I don't want to have Rand Paul continue waiting.
	It's just a propaganda clip of Governor Whitmer doing a Santa Claus thing to try
	and teach kids to be communists. However, you can still go to
	Go to allatranscatter.com slash Whitmer death toll or michigan.gov We have the site up here where you can submit your own FOIA request.
	Simply wanting transparency in the actual number of senior deaths at those facilities in Michigan.
	Keep her accountable.
	This is how you win.
	I believe that we have coming up right now, Senator Rand Paul.
	Do we have Senator Rand Paul?
	I think we have someone sitting there waiting.
	As we wait for Senator Rand Paul here again, we want to take some of your questions.
	Do we have a stinger for Rand Paul?
	No.
	No, we don't.
	Okay.
	A Senator stinger?
	Like a walk-in song?
	Well, I was going to say that we can play the Santa clip, but instead, let me tell you, there's several reasons I want to have Rand Paul on.
	First off, he is the candidate I agree with most who also aggravates me.
	Don't you love him?
	Why?
	Why is that?
	I just feel like he does that with a lot of people.
	I don't think there's a candidate, I don't think there's any politician out there who I agree with more on issues, if you were to do one of those political compass useless tests, than Rand Paul.
	But I do, and I say that because you can just see other people getting irritated here when he was talking with Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine, doctor, and providing actual scientifically accurate medical information.
	You can just see the frowns.
	We have a clip and then we have Senator Rand Paul.
	Do you support the government intervening to override the parents' consent to give a child puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and or amputation surgery of breasts and genitalia?
	You have said that you're willing to accelerate the protocols for street kids.
	Will you make a more firm decision on whether or not minors should be involved in these decisions?
	Senator, transgender medicine is a very complex and nuanced field.
	Thanks for informing the practicing doctor.
	I would certainly be pleased to come to your office and talk with you and your staff about the standards of care and the complexity of this field.
	Let it go into the record that the witness refused to answer the question.
	The question is a very specific one.
	Should minors be making these momentous decisions?
	For most of the history of medicine, we wouldn't let you have a cut sewn up in the ER.
	But you're willing to let a minor take things that prevent their puberty, and you think they get that back?
	It's a trick question.
	I love it.
	They don't.
	They do not.
	I love it.
	By the way, talk about reverse logic.
	This was a video that was banned from YouTube at the LGBTQ town hall where they were teaching people how to transition children and get funded by the government.
	And I asked them, I posed as someone who had a transgender child, I said, look, you give them the puberty blockers and then if they decide that they're not trans, you take them off it and they probably go back.
	It's like, oh, hold on a second.
	How about we do the opposite of that?
	We are not.
	We are not.
	And how about that doesn't work the right way.
	He asked the question, they don't just get that back.
	You put them on these puberty blockers for a reason.
	And what are they making these decisions at 12, 13, 14 years old?
	Sometimes even sick.
	Yeah, I was about to say, sometimes even earlier on in life, they're not capable of making
	this and all Rand Paul did was say, I have a legitimate question that parents across
	the country right now are asking.
	By the way, it's not just, can the kid make the decision?
	It is, at what point does a seven-year-old get tied up with an activist group that then takes the right of their parents away so that the kid can make the decision legally, even if their parents disagree?
	That logic would be like, so look, you guys have done fitness videos for a long time.
	That's how they became really popular.
	Strapping young lads.
	So, it would be like someone coming to you for fitness advice.
	Like, hey look, I haven't done anything.
	What should I do?
	And you go, look, Take Trenbolone, and then afterward, if you find it doesn't give you the results you want, it can just go to, you know, lifting weights and eating right.
	Right.
	But, you know, that's between consenting adults, you know?
	No, exactly.
	It's illegal, but it's consenting adults.
	I don't see what's the rush with a small child.
	They can't even consent.
	They are not even at the legal age of consent.
	How could you let a small child remove his genitalia, or a female, and take puberty blocks?
	It's just sick.
	It's just beyond reason.
	It is, to be honest.
	Think about that.
	That's one thing that people don't talk about.
	They are not of the age of consent sexually, but they are making decisions that can forever change their sex life.
	Imagine this, right?
	It's part of the wonderment of life.
	When you go through puberty, you know, that first time, maybe, for me, it was that... It was awesome.
	I was like, look, there's hair growing.
	Yeah.
	I was like, that part of the Jerry Maguire tape got a little bit worn.
	We didn't have the internet back then.
	But the point is, just VCRs.
	The point is, imagine that you think your parents have, you know, have done right by you.
	You get put on, or you get a sex change, puberty blockers, and then once you reach your teenage years, you find out that you're one of the significant percentage of transgender individuals who will never be able to, being blunt, achieve an orgasm.
	Or what?
	I would just, man, it's no point in living.
	That's what I'm saying.
	That's why I wake up.
	I don't think they put that in the questionnaire.
	Go ahead.
	I just want to wake up in the morning.
	For what?
	To bust nuts.
	I knew that's what I was going to say.
	He's saying that like a black man busting his nuts.
	Oh my gosh.
	Do y'all have some merch for that?
	I just want to go deep inside.
	This is a family show.
	We were assuming that it was corn nuts.
	Especially if you're doing it in a circus tent in the USSR on your honeymoon.
	Why do more people not talk about the fact that Bernie Sanders went to the Soviet Union for his honeymoon?
	Yeah.
	By the way, this wasn't like last year or something like that.
	This is when it was really unpopular.
	This is when it was really bad.
	It's like going to South Africa during a party.
	And by the way, you know that wasn't his decision.
	His wife was like, I don't know, maybe St.
	Louis.
	She's like, how do you feel about fighting a bear?
	I booked the tickets!
	No return flight!
	Alright, we have Senator, I believe, Senator Rand Paul.
	We just showed that clip of him with Dr. Rachel Levine.
	Senator Rand Paul, can you hear me, sir?
	Good morning.
	It sounds kind of crazy.
	I'm not sure I want to be on.
	I'm not sure I want to be hosting.
	But I just showed that clip of you with Dr. Rachel Levine.
	First off, my question to you, Senator Rand Paul, is how did it feel to have someone sitting there at this hearing informing you of the subtle and nuanced details of transgender medicine, of which I'm sure you were not privy?
	Yeah, I thought maybe Dr. Levine was going to say, now son, you can't understand this and I'll come and talk to you.
	Bless your heart.
	We're just not sure you can understand the nuances of giving little kids hormones that change their sexual appearance.
	But no, I think that when you look at the actual issue, it's horrifying to think that the people Biden is appointing would actually say that a 10-year-old's opinion would override their parents' consent.
	So a parent says, no, don't get anywhere near my kid.
	And the 10-year-old says, oh, I want to go to a gender clinic.
	And all of these people who have already become activists and zealots for this, many of whom have done the surgery to themselves, are there telling your 10-year-old kid how brave they are and how it's a great thing for their kid to want to do this.
	And the parents object, and they would take a 10-year-old's word over their parents.
	or 10-year-old's opinion. See, I think that nobody in America believes that. I think maybe
	less than 1% of America actually think that's a good thing.
	But everybody's afraid of the media because the media will beat the hell out of you and
	say you're a big hater if you bring it up. Well, yeah, you were trending on Twitter as
	transphobic that day when again it used to be that you could say, look, you want to put on
	a dress, put on makeup, as an adult, do whatever you want to do, that's fine.
	As a libertarian, more libertarian-minded person, it doesn't infringe on my life.
	The only issue is when we're talking about women's sports.
	But it used to be, and by used to, I mean two years ago, still a relatively safe position to say, but you can't let kids transition.
	No, no, no, we don't want to let kids transition.
	The good news is, if she were to call you son, you could demand some testosterone pills, throw her for a loop.
	Yeah, because that would be some kind of gender hate crime to refer to me by my gender at all.
	No, I think the thing about it is when you talk about this, they're also lying to you.
	They're saying, oh, it's all reversible.
	Well, there's two different things they want to do to your children.
	First, they want to delay puberty.
	There is a certain reversibility to that drug.
	But when they get to be 14, they give a girl massive amounts of testosterone, enough to grow a beard, a beard better than your beard, probably.
	That's not saying much.
	See what I was saying?
	I was saying this before.
	Senator Rand Paul is the person with whom I agree the most and still irritates me.
	Here's the thing is, you give a 14-year-old girl that much testosterone, she grows a beard, she doesn't go back to the appearance of a girl.
	It changes things forever and a 14-year-old can't make this decision.
	But they begin grooming these children at 10, because the so-called psychological evaluation is a bunch of people who have changed their sexual appearance through surgery or hormones, telling the child it's okay.
	Do you think anybody is at the gender dysphoria clinic saying, well, you might be careful, this could be permanent, maybe you'll change your mind?
	Right.
	The American College of Pediatrics has looked at this and 85 to 90 percent of these children who are confused work it out and end up not doing this.
	If you leave them alone, don't give them medicine and don't affirm and coach them into believing that it's a good idea.
	Left to their own sort of desires.
	Most kids will kind of grow out of this.
	There's a large association... It's actually over 90 percent.
	It's up to 98, depending where you... I think the source you used was 90, but it depends on the age, you know, where you do the cutoff.
	It's up to 96 or 98 percent.
	Now, people don't know this, the number of children who transition, if you put them on hormone blockers, is zero.
	So there's a direct correlation right there between intervention, which we know in any other scenario obviously would be considered medically risky, and the outcome of the child.
	Yeah.
	And but this is a bigger debate even just beyond the specific issue of whether or not children should override their parents wishes at such a young age and to do something that I think is potentially irreversible.
	And I think it's really just a crime.
	And yet, this is being mainstreamed, and these people will be in charge of a trillion dollar budget at HHS.
	Right.
	And a lot of that budget will go towards government care of children.
	So, will this Dr. Levine be able to get her radical views into the minds of children?
	Well, when you have a trillion dollar budget, I'm sure this doctor will find a way.
	Yeah, but with HHS, a trillion dollars is like a take-a-penny-leave-a-penny jar.
	One of my co-hosts here, Gerald, has a question, I believe, and then we're gonna have to go to YouTube only because they don't like this.
	Yes, Senator, I had a question.
	Mug club only, I assume.
	Mug club, yes, yes.
	We have the party of science, right, on the other side saying you have to always follow science, follow science.
	Well, how can we when they keep changing what science is?
	I think, isn't that the point you're bringing up?
	Like, you guys are not following the science?
	Especially as a doctor, yeah.
	Well, actually, nowhere is this more apparent than all the COVID.
	You know, there's been a million different opinions by Dr. Fauci.
	He's been on both sides of every issue.
	But the one thing consistent about Dr. Fauci is that when he lies to you, he's lying for your own good because you're not You're not smart enough to make decisions.
	You might choose not to be vaccinated if he tells you that herd immunity takes 90%, so he's been telling you 70% because he wants to convince you to take a vaccine.
	Likewise, on the masks, the reason he has admitted that he lied I don't know what the lie was because masks probably don't help at all anyway.
	He says, oh the mask will help the mask.
	Well, but he didn't want you to buy the N95s because the N95s are the only mask that actually probably works to a certain degree.
	That's the one the doctors use and he was afraid that the public would buy them and there wouldn't be enough.
	So he lied or you know misspoke or Told you what he thought you were capable of hearing at your low intellectual level.
	And this is a problem.
	This is, you know, Fauci is the paragon of elitism and that he knows better than the rest of us.
	But in a free society, it's the opposite.
	Every individual assesses their own risk, whether you're going to cross the road, whether you're going to wait for a green light, whether you're going to get in a car, whether you're going to get on a motorcycle, whether you wear a helmet, whether you take a vaccine, whether you get the disease.
	Those are individual decisions in a free society, and we can't forget that.
	And before we go to MuggsLonely here really quickly, didn't he mock you on the mere concept
	of herd immunity or am I misremembering that? At every point that he disagreed with me,
	he turned out to be wrong when you examined the evidence.
	And I know that's a surprise.
	That's a shocker.
	But I'll give you probably the worst one, and this one hasn't been publicized.
	In our first meeting in March of last year, as the disease was just starting to go through that first peak, I raised my hand and said, Dr. Fauci, don't you think in some of these very sick individuals that high-dose steroids might work?
	We've used it in other conditions like this where the lungs fill with fluid as a last gasp sort of thing.
	And he says, oh no, we've tried that.
	That doesn't work.
	Well, it turns out the most important thing you get if you have to be put on a ventilator is IV steroids at a high dose to try to save your life.
	And it has actually brought down the mortality by 80% using IV steroids.
	So he's wrong on everything.
	He's wrong on immunity.
	He said, oh, kids could get sick and they might have Kawasaki's disease.
	Turns out the death rate among those under age 25 is one in a million.
	It's less than the seasonal flu.
	Now, it's more dangerous than the flu for older people, but for younger people, this is actually less dangerous than the seasonal flu.
	So for young people, one in a million, you're saying there's a chance.
	Alright, we're gonna go really quickly to Mug Club Only.
	Everyone watching here, send your questions for Senator Rand Paul, Dr. Rand Paul.
	YouTube, thank you, but we don't know where this is going, so you can... I'll be polite.

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