June 10, 2020 - Liberty Hangout - Kaitlin Bennett
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| Why would you mass import millions of people every year who don't care about those things and in fact want to import their own third world culture here to America? | |
| My parents didn't sacrifice everything to come here so that we could live in a banana republic that looks like Duterte under the Philippines. | |
| *Outro Music* | |
| So as we discussed with Andrew Torba of Gab.com in our last video, social media censorship of conservatives is only getting worse as we move closer to the presidential election this November. | |
| One prominent conservative is coming off of a brief suspension on Twitter for supporting law enforcement during the Black Lives Matter riot. | |
| I wish I could tell you what she wrote, but I'm sure it would get us flagged for even repeating it. | |
| Which is why you need to sign up for Liberty Hangout.tv right now to watch this full interview and find out what it was that Michelle Malkin tweeted that got her banned. | |
| Over the last few decades, Michelle Malkin has been one of the fiercest defenders of right wing values. | |
| She's a columnist, an author, a public speaker, and an entrepreneur. | |
| But most importantly, she's a mother, and she's recently become the target of a smear campaign. | |
| Not by the left, but from the establishment conservatives for refusing to bow down to the mob. | |
| Thank you so much for joining us tonight, Michelle. | |
| Oh, it's my pleasure, Caitlin. | |
| It's great to join you. | |
| Guys, I can tell you right now that this interview is gonna be way too spicy for YouTube. | |
| So please visit LibertyHangout.tv if you want to watch this interview in full. | |
| But before we dive into some of the topics that might be more spicy, can you tell us what your thoughts are on all of the riots going on across the country and if you think the Trump administration did enough to stop the violence? | |
| When it first broke out, I said, I've seen this movie before, and I have. | |
| In fact, it's how I cut my teeth in journalism when I was about uh your age in my early 20s. | |
| I was an editorial writer and columnist at the Los Angeles Daily News, and uh I was hired maybe three or four months after the LA riots, and uh my career really took off when I questioned so many of the social justice narratives that laid the groundwork for uh the riots and in the aftermath of the Rodney King incident, | |
| the lies that have been told over and over again about the police and um about the supposed institutional racism of our country. | |
| And over and over again, whether it was in 1992 or 2012, 2014, 2016, every time we've had these outbreaks, these paroxysms of violence, uh the people who perpetrate them get rewarded, not punished. | |
| And it's just a perpetual recipe, right, for for more and more violence for more and more ashes to be strewn across the country, and to answer your question about President Trump, I was fuming that first week of the riots. | |
| Uh I he was nowhere to be found. | |
| He had an opportunity on um the Friday press conference where he gave a a bizarre little statement about pushing back against the WHO and some vague action that they were going to take against a small percentage of Chinese foreign student visa holders. | |
| It was so tone-deaf, he ran away from questions uh bombarded at him by the the press regarding the the by then it was five days of uh chaos and and anarchy. | |
| Uh then he bunkered down for the weekend, and it wasn't until what, the following Monday, which would have been this past Monday, that he started tweeting in all capital letters, law and order, great, right? | |
| Um and I think what it does is it exposes this battle that's been ongoing since day one between his instincts and the rest of the swamp that has uh really kind of overflown into the West Wing. | |
| Obviously, one of the biggest issues that you're most passionate about is social media censorship. | |
| in fact, you've been so passionate about the issue that we know that it's led to some contention among other notable right wing organizations because you refused to stand with your colleagues when they called for the deplatforming of other right wingers. | |
| But before we get into that situation specifically, can you tell us why you've been so passionate about fighting against censorship online? | |
| So much of my own success has been because just like Caitlin mentions, Justin, I didn't ask for permission. | |
| I planted my flag in the internet world in 1999 was when I had my first eponymous website. | |
| And then when the blogosphere took off and there was software that was that was freely available that made it much easier to sort of conquer that medium, I was self-funded. | |
| I did not have big billion dollar philanthropists. | |
| And so my heart has always been with the grassroots citizen journalism.com. | |
| And it was such an exciting and promising time to sort of operate under the impression that uh our free speech was unfettered and that the cream would rise to the top. | |
| And then after I started uh Twitchy, which is a Twitter curation aggregation site in 2012, I started to notice that hashtags were starting to get suppressed. | |
| My follower count was frozen. | |
| And um in those early days we called it Twitter gulag was the hashtag that people would be targeted by a small army of uh left-wing smear merchants and trolls, and they would organize and they tried to pick off um people who are not prominent, right? | |
| It was sort of low-hanging fruit for them because these are people who had would have no way to fight back. | |
| And you know, we called that out eight years ago, and it's just become more um systematic, it's just become uh you know, more of like a formalized system for the left to pick us off. | |
| Um and then there's just sort of a more larger principle at work, which is I always found it to be an incredible blessing that I could make a living running my mouth off or you know, dashing something off on a computer and and just boop, you know, putting it out into the ether. | |
| And um and it just it enrages me and it saddens me that there are so many young people for whom that opportunity has been completely denied simply because they have views that go against the grain of both the left and and con Inc. | |
| So that's my motivation. | |
| And I would say that particularly over the last um six or seven months, especially, Justin, um, it's just clear to me that at this stage in my career I need to do everything I can to help the next generation. | |
| I'm gonna be 50 in October. | |
| I've spent more than half of my life doing this. | |
| And the mistake that a lot of people in the conservative movement have made is that they don't invest in young people, they don't invest in the future. | |
| And um, and to the extent that they have, they're pouring tens of millions of dollars down the drain in con ink groups that um you know, whose first instinct is to uh capitulate to the leftists that they say they fight. | |
| Talking about uh, you know, open borders and con inc and everything, you wrote a whole book about it last year titled Open Borders Inc., which everyone watching can go get it right now on Amazon. | |
| And I think the strong stances you take on immigration sometimes confuse people since you're Asian. | |
| Why, as the daughter of Filipino immigrants, are you so passionate about closing our borders? | |
| Well, I only have one homeland, and I think probably that's what confuses a lot of people, because so many um minorities who operate in in the public square uh don't have loyalty to one country. | |
| And you know, this is supposed to be what assimilation meant. | |
| I have no allegiance to uh the Philippines. | |
| I was born here, I was raised here. | |
| Um I was raised to appreciate and ingrained in founding principles. | |
| I don't apologize for uh the historic American nation. | |
| And it's bizarre what we're seeing now, just to connect it to all of the kneeling and genuflecting. | |
| Um, you know, not just of the usual suspects. | |
| Okay, you know, it's one thing for Jacob Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis, to kneel in front of George George Floyd's casket weeping, you know, on display with the theatrics. | |
| But this this just this morning, I tweeted out a picture that was on Ted Cruz's Instagram of George Floyd with sprouting, he's now sprouted angel wings. | |
| Um, and you know, Ted Cruz sounding like Ben Crump. | |
| Um, what is wrong with you? | |
| And so, whether it's with regard to those issues or with regard to American sovereignty, um, you know, I've had increasing clarity, and that's largely because, as the daughter of Filipino immigrants who sacrificed everything to get here, you know, it is in my self-interest to have a functional immigration system that is yes, picky, yes, discriminatory. | |
| Um, and for conservatives especially to think about what the electoral consequences of mass migration are on their party and on the agenda that they say they embrace. | |
| So you care about guns, you care about abortion, uh, you you care about taxes and regulation and socialism sucking. | |
| Well, why would you right? | |
| Why would you mass import millions of people every year who don't care about those things and in fact want to import their own third world culture here to America? | |
| My parents didn't sacrifice everything to come here so that we could live in a banana republic that looks like Duterte under the Philippines. | |
| Although Duterte is doing some pretty good things, I have to say. | |
| In any case, so the idea that there's some sort of hypocrisy in me, Um calling for stricter limits, calling for um overall uh mass migration freezes and immigration moratorium. | |
| In fact, it's it's the it's the most rational, self-interested um policy position to take. | |
| But now here we come back to you know, conservatism inc's pathology. | |
| Um, because you'll see that for like the longest time, and this is still the case, many of these people, um, if they're not already bought off by open borders inc forces, like fine, um Coke and uh uh US Chamber of Commerce and these types. | |
| Okay, we get it. | |
| We get your financial interest. | |
| But you take so many of these ranked file Republicans who say, oh, well, we're not against legal immigration, we're just against illegal, as long as they come here the right way. | |
| And it's like, well, yeah, but and how many numbers and where from? | |
| And they just are completely stumped. | |
| And this is in large part a problem that conc um cooked up to to prevent these people from asking these questions or you know, having it even occur to them. | |
| And so that's why the groupers were so important, because it forced people like Charlie Kirk to have to confront it. | |
| And now he sounds like Nick Fuentes every day. | |
| That interview was so cool. | |
| You guys are definitely going to want to watch our entire interview with Michelle Malkin, and you can do that right now by signing up at Liberty Hangout.tv. | |
| I love Michelle because she is in a lot of ways like me. | |
| She's honest, she's bold, and she makes no apologies for her beliefs. | |
| If the conservative movement needs anything right now, it's leaders who aren't afraid to stand up for what they believe in and won't give in to the outrage mob. | |
| This is probably one of the most uplifting discussions you'll ever hear. | |
| And to do that, go to Liberty Hangout.tv right now, where you can not only watch our interview with Michelle, but immediately gain access to exclusive shows from myself and the team. | |
| We'll see you guys over there. | |
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