Nov. 1, 2022 - America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes
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Once again, with respect, the respect that we deserve. | |
| From this day forward, it's going to be only America first. | ||
| America. | ||
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America First! America First! America First! America First! America First! America First! America First! America First! America First! America First! America First! America First! America First! America First! America First! America First! America First! America First! | |
| America First! America First! America First! America First! America First! | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| You're watching America First. | ||
| My name is Nicholas J. Fuentes. | ||
| We have a great show for you tonight. | ||
| Very excited to be back with you here tonight on Monday. | ||
| We have a great show for you tonight. | ||
| Lots to get into. | ||
| I apologize it's so late. | ||
| I'm, you know, that's my fault. | ||
| So I'm mean. | ||
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But we're gonna get this show on the road one of these days, you know. | |
| Maybe tomorrow. | ||
| Tomorrow is November 1st. | ||
| First day of the month. | ||
| First day of a second chance. | ||
| 2-2-22. | ||
| Alright, but we're gonna get into the show. | ||
| I do apologize though. | ||
| I'm looking at the time, I'm like, the time just keeps getting later. | ||
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That's why you gotta just start it eventually. | |
| But we did. | ||
| So our featured story tonight, we're talking about Twitter. | ||
| Is that our featured? | ||
| Featured story tonight is about Twitter.com. | ||
| Major developments happening at the website since Elon Musk took over last week, which we celebrated. | ||
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And it's kind of a mixed bag. | |
| Some good things, some bad things. | ||
| Although, the message of the show tonight is that we're gonna have to reserve judgment. | ||
| And I don't say that as a cope. | ||
| Some are gonna say, oh you're coping. | ||
| I'm not because it could be good. | ||
| It could be bad. | ||
| We just don't know yet. | ||
| He took over the company on Thursday. | ||
| It's Monday. | ||
| This is a company with a 30 billion dollar market cap and thousands of employees. | ||
| It doesn't change in three days. | ||
| And there are some reasons to be optimistic. | ||
| There are some reasons to be pessimistic. | ||
| Either way, no changes have actually even been made. | ||
| So we can't judge what the new trajectory of the company will be until we start to see the changes, which will not happen for some time. | ||
| I would say I'll give it until the end of this year. | ||
| Before I'll say we have a good idea of Where things are gonna go and even then I think that's early, but I would give it a couple months To to let it without judgment. | ||
| That's what I'm saying. | ||
| I'll give it a couple months to with to withhold judgment reserve judgment and if it's still bad by January then we're in trouble and | ||
| So a few of those developments include he dismissed the entire board today We covered on I think it was Thursday that he fired all of the top brass he fired the CEO the CFO the head of the trust and safety team and I think one additional person as well his name I forget and Then today he fired everybody on the board. | ||
| So now he remains the sole board member and Parag is What's his name? | ||
| Parag... I don't know what's in here. | ||
| Whatever. | ||
| Parag Gupta. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| The CEO, he was let go on Thursday, but he remained on the board until today. | ||
| So they were all dismissed. | ||
| So he's now the CEO and the sole board member. | ||
| He's the dictator of Twitter. | ||
| That's a good development. | ||
| The other development is he froze all the moderation tools of all of the people that manually suspend users. | ||
| They're still AI, they still have their contractors, but the moderation team in San Francisco, I think it is, all their tools have been taken from them. | ||
| That's another good sign. | ||
| On the contrary, there was the largest ban wave since January 6th on Twitter over the weekend which they banned almost everybody, like every Groyper remaining. | ||
| They got them all. | ||
| They got Brandt, they got Paul from CancelProof, they got LavrovGroyper, they got everybody. | ||
| People that have been around forever. | ||
| They got Spinachbrah, they got TikTokGroyper, they got nearly everybody. | ||
| It was comparable to January 6th. | ||
| I can recall a few major ban waves and there was a ban wave last December. | ||
| Those were the big ones. | ||
| This is like one of the all-time biggest ban waves. | ||
| This is probably maybe the third biggest ban wave I've ever seen. | ||
| So that's bad news. | ||
| And the other bad news is that Elon said that he is going to appoint a council Which will be entrusted with enforcement of community guidelines, which will be made up of a diverse group, which means Jews. | ||
| Which means there's going to be Jews on there who kill Jesus. | ||
| There's going to be some Jews on there who have the blood of Christ on their hands and who hate the goyim, think we're animals. | ||
| That's what diverse means. | ||
| Some dreidel spinning, goyim hating, Christ killing. | ||
| And he said that he's not going to reverse any permanent suspensions until that board is convened. | ||
| So we're not getting our accounts back anytime soon and it depends on what the hell this board is gonna be. | ||
| Because if it looks like all the other boards and all the other companies in all the world, you know, fat chance it's gonna be freaking World Jewish Congress times a billion, you know, times six million. | ||
| The six millionth World Jewish Congress convening at Twitter headquarters. | ||
| So we'll talk about all that. | ||
| We'll also be talking tonight about a really big important report from The Intercept. | ||
| Which shows new leaked documents from the Department of Homeland Security, which show that the government is intimately involved in censorship. | ||
| And we talked about this, I want to say, one or two months ago. | ||
| It was the Missouri Attorney General who uncovered some documents in a lawsuit, and that showed this very big exposure between social media and various factions within the administration. | ||
| You had Facebook having weekly meetings with the press office, with the Department of Defense, with the Department of Homeland Security, with the Pentagon, with all the national security brass, the FBI. | ||
| And we knew about that a couple months ago. | ||
| Well, it's even broader than we previously thought. | ||
| This particular report is about the DHS, Department of Homeland Security. | ||
| They shut off your Facebook, they shut off your Tesla, whatever. | ||
| They just start shutting stuff off, pulling plugs, like Ant-Man or Grey Matter from Ben 10. | ||
| You know, they jump in the robot, they just start pulling plugs. | ||
| And I think a lot of people on the left thought that that was fantastical, that that doesn't happen. | ||
| Well, according to this report, that is literally what they do. | ||
| DHS goes to facebook.com slash something something something, it's in here, and they log in, and then they delete content. | ||
| The government deletes content on Facebook. | ||
| Unilaterally. | ||
| And it talks about how they put in 5,000 takedown requests for content recently. | ||
| And a third of them were agreed to by social media. | ||
| So they can log in, they can take it down, they request things to be taken down. | ||
| And social media largely adheres to the guidelines that are set forward by the government. | ||
| And now they're planning to expand that even further. | ||
| And they're going after misinformation in particular categories, which include basically everything. | ||
| Race, the war in Afghanistan, and particularly the withdrawal, the war in Ukraine, COVID, vaccines, elections. | ||
| Like literally everything. | ||
| All the news of the last three years is a critical topic that is vulnerable to misinformation. | ||
| The DHS will not regulate. | ||
| That's the news. | ||
| So we'll get into that report. | ||
| Should be a pretty good show. | ||
| Before we get into all that, I want to remind you to smash the follow button here on Cozy to get a push notification whenever I go live. | ||
| Smash the follow button. | ||
| Also, follow me on Gab Telegram, Parler, True Social. | ||
| Links are down below. | ||
| I've been posting some good stuff. | ||
| My Telegram's been exploding lately. | ||
| I posted something the other day. | ||
| It got 150,000 views. | ||
| Pretty good. | ||
| So I'm popping off on Telegram. | ||
| You gotta follow me there. | ||
| You gotta follow me on the others, because who knows when I get back on Twitter. | ||
| My last Burner account got banned on, I think, Saturday. | ||
| Spooky Goblin. | ||
| Didn't even make it to Halloween. | ||
| I thought I was in the clear. | ||
| I had 5,000 followers. | ||
| I was there for 48 hours. | ||
| I got like a million impressions on that account. | ||
| I run a Twitter account for 48 hours. | ||
| I get 5,000 followers. | ||
| I get tweets. | ||
| They get hundreds of thousands of impressions. | ||
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I'm that good, okay? | |
| How good am I at Twitter? | ||
| I'm that good. | ||
| Some people, they accumulate followers over a decade. | ||
| And they get a million followers. | ||
| They get a, you know, two million followers. | ||
| And they get engagement because they've just accumulated so many. | ||
| You know, or they have these group chats where the group chats retweet their stuff or whatever. | ||
| And a lot of people couldn't build the following back up if they just, if they came back as a different guy. | ||
| People follow you because you're so-and-so. | ||
| Or they've just followed you over the years and they just forgot to unfollow you or something. | ||
| But if they disappeared and then came back later, could they get the following again? | ||
| Probably not. | ||
| Me? | ||
| I lose my account every day. | ||
| I die every day. | ||
| I die a horrible death. | ||
| My soul is ripped from my Twitter account every day. | ||
| I face a judgment. | ||
| And every day I get it back. | ||
| Every day I get it back. | ||
| Bangers. | ||
| Bangers. | ||
| Big tweets. | ||
| Impressions. | ||
| Group chats. | ||
| Big follows. | ||
| Big tweets. | ||
| Big impressions. | ||
| Big videos. | ||
| Big engagement. | ||
| Fuck you! | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| I got probably a million impressions on my latest account. | ||
| People say, your viewership on Cozy is fake. | ||
| I get 100% of the people that watch the show to follow me on Twitter in two days? | ||
| On 36 hours? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| But I got 5,000 followers. | ||
| I've got an army. | ||
| Okay, I've got an army of Groipers. | ||
| And I've just got this prodigal Twitter mind. | ||
| I was raised, I was born on Twitter. | ||
| So I was doing pretty good and I thought I was in the clear and then I got cut down unexpectedly. | ||
| Like Order 66 by the Clone Troopers. | ||
| I was leading the charge, maiming the Jew, okay? | ||
| Exposing subversive Jewish influence and then I just got cut down by my own guy, by Elon Musk. | ||
| Spooky Goblin, gone but not forgotten. | ||
| The communion of alts. | ||
| The communion of alts. | ||
| Is that blasphemous to say that? | ||
| The communion of alts and the life of the verified account. | ||
| The second account to come. | ||
| Is that blasphemous? | ||
| I mean, I don't think so. | ||
| I'm kind of just joking around. | ||
| But it is a tragic thing. | ||
| I lost my account and then the news media reported on it. | ||
| It was in Apple News, so everybody saw it. | ||
| I'm sure all my friends and fa- well, I don't really have any friends, but all my family, I'm sure, and people that used to be my friends saw it. | ||
| So... So it's a big deal. | ||
| It was on the front page of Drudge Report. | ||
| This spooky goblin's making waves. | ||
| Well, anyway. | ||
| So follow me on all that stuff. | ||
| Happy Halloween! | ||
| I hope you had a good holiday. | ||
| I didn't really do anything. | ||
| I'm gonna- I'm a grown-ass man. | ||
| I didn't do anything for Halloween. | ||
| Yeah, I didn't dress up, obviously. | ||
| Didn't even eat any candy. | ||
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Didn't even eat any candy. | |
| I got chicken flautas from this Mexican place. | ||
| I got coffee. | ||
| I had pumpkin creamer. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Had a piece of dark chocolate. | ||
| Does that count? | ||
| I just eat that because of the anti- I hope you had a good Halloween. | ||
| I mean, whatever. | ||
| I didn't do anything this weekend. | ||
| I didn't do anything tonight. | ||
| I was gonna stream last night. | ||
| I was gonna make a big to-do. | ||
| You know, UX said that we were gonna stream Phasmophobia on Sunday, and so I got all excited, and I got all ready to go, and he texts us at 8 o'clock and says, hey, is everybody ready? | ||
| And I was asleep, naturally. | ||
| But you know, I woke up at 8.30, and I said, hey, where is everybody? | ||
| Nowhere to be found. | ||
| Nowhere to be found. | ||
| He was gone. | ||
| I guess I got, uh, guess I got tricked. | ||
| Guess I got tricked this Halloween. | ||
| I said trick or treat and I guess I got tricked. | ||
| No treat. | ||
| So I tried anyway. | ||
| I tried to get the squad together. | ||
| Vader, he rolls out of bed at 9 o'clock. | ||
| This vagabond. | ||
| Although he'd been asleep all day. | ||
| I took a little nap. | ||
| He had been asleep all day. | ||
| And it took him probably three hours to get it together and log on where he doesn't even show his face or anything. | ||
| What do you got to do? | ||
| He's sort of in some kind of... There was overcast, there was fog everywhere. | ||
| I went to go get food and there was fog everywhere. | ||
| It was kind of a vibe. | ||
| So, that's that. | ||
| Anyway, what else we got? | ||
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What else we got on the menu? | |
| Say goodbye to the pumpkin. | ||
| Should I kill this thing? | ||
| Where's my knife? | ||
| Where's my gun? | ||
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No, kidding. | |
| I don't have weapons. | ||
| Should I cut it up with the sword? | ||
| I kind of want to. | ||
| Let me go get the sword. | ||
| Should I? | ||
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I don't know. | |
| It's going to make a big mess. | ||
| I'm going to break. | ||
| You know I'm probably going to break something. | ||
| Should I do it? | ||
| Should I get the sword? | ||
| Should I get the knife? | ||
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I kind of want to get the knife. | |
| What do you think? | ||
| The sword's just impractical. | ||
| I'm not gonna do the sword Ali says no no No! | ||
| Get the knife. | ||
| Compromise. | ||
| I'm not getting the sword. | ||
| I'll go get the knife, okay? | ||
| Nick the knife. | ||
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All right. | |
| Okay, alright. | ||
| You ready? | ||
| Eat it! | ||
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I'm not gonna eat it. | |
| I'm not eating it. | ||
| I'm not gonna eat it. | ||
| Can you eat it? | ||
| Is it edible? | ||
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It's probably not. | |
| All right. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Well, I'm happy. | ||
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I don't know about you. | |
| That's good enough for me. | ||
| What do you think? | ||
| We think. | ||
| We happy? | ||
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Okay, well that's just gonna be a pain in the ass to clean. | |
| Okay. | ||
| Alright, well that's done. | ||
| What else, what else can you do? | ||
| I'm not eating it. | ||
| Muckbong. | ||
| More! | ||
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Mendo more. | |
| Leave the knife in it? | ||
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Oh, good idea. | |
| Where? | ||
| How about here? | ||
| There you go. | ||
| How about like this? | ||
| How about like that? | ||
| Is that good? | ||
| That's kind of cack. | ||
| There it is. | ||
| Okay, there it is. | ||
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Got all these freaking pumpkin boogers everywhere now. | |
| Gross. | ||
| Got a little pumpkin seed here. | ||
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Ew, it's all wet. | |
| Okay. | ||
| Well, that's our show. | ||
| Thanks for watching. | ||
| Fake out. | ||
| How's the hair? | ||
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Okay. | |
| All right. | ||
| So let's move on. | ||
| Let's get into our super chats. | ||
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Is that good? | |
| Is that good? | ||
| It's a good angle. | ||
| Should I destroy him more? | ||
| I kind of want to break it out more. | ||
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Nah, we'll do it maybe later. | |
| All right. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So our first story, I want to talk about DHA. | ||
| from John. | ||
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I'm giving him a hard time. | |
| I'm giving a hard time. | ||
| We love Doyle, but I saw this clip from years ago On one of the clip channels. | ||
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I was like, oh boy. | |
| We've all been there. | ||
| We've all had our we've all had our moments I'm sure you could pull up my Halloween shows. | ||
| I'm saying goofy goofy shit, but But I was about to do I was that's sort of like An inside joke that only I understand because I saw it today, but I was gonna say, hey, you thought that was scary? | ||
| How about this government overreach? | ||
| I saw that clip. | ||
| Jason Voorhees body count was 108. | ||
| Hitler out of that, all right? | ||
| You can call Stalin, you know, I like Stalin. | ||
| Maybe you don't like Stalin. | ||
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Okay. | |
| You don't like Mao. | ||
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Fine. | |
| You leave Adolf Hitler out of this. | ||
| We're gonna have a problem. | ||
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A big one. | |
| You leave him alone. | ||
| You leave Adolphus Hitler out of that. | ||
| Authoritarian leftist governments killing millions. | ||
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Hey. | |
| You want to pick on Mao? | ||
| You want to pick on Stalin? | ||
| No complaints from me. | ||
| You leave Hitler alone. | ||
| That's my one rule. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| That's my one rule. | ||
| You're done. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| You're done. | ||
| No, but I kid, of course. | ||
| Just a little fun Halloween clip. | ||
| I would consider myself a Doyle-head. | ||
| We're Doyle-heads. | ||
| I just want to make that clear. | ||
| I don't want him to think I'm coming at his neck. | ||
| I'm just... I'm just cacking at one of the old clips, okay? | ||
| I'm just having a little cack at one of his clips. | ||
| He put Hitler in it. | ||
| What's the story with that? | ||
| Well, leave Hitler out of it. | ||
| Why you gotta go and attack Hitler? | ||
| It's those secular Hitlers you gotta worry about. | ||
| Okay, right-wing Hitler's your biggest friend. | ||
| It's those secular Hitlers that you got to worry about. | ||
| Those Zionist Hitlers? | ||
| Those religious Hitlers? | ||
| There's this Jewish Zio in the Con Inksy named Andrew Meyer. | ||
| I forget why we don't like each other. | ||
| We just don't. | ||
| We go way back. | ||
| I forget what the beef was about. | ||
| Probably he's Jewish. | ||
| And that was his beef with me. | ||
| That was his beef with me, not my beef with him. | ||
| And so he put out this article to Kanye, addressed to Ye, and said something like, um, what was the usual, I'm a secular Jew, I'm an atheist Jew, we're there, or no, no, I'm sorry, the opposite, I'm a religious Jew, I'm a Zionist Jew out there, there are Jews that are on our side, but the ones that are, are not tripping over themselves, telling you, no, no, no, I'm one of the good ones. | ||
| It's those ones! | ||
| It's not even really Jews, it's just those types of ones. | ||
| Those aren't, those aren't the based ones. | ||
| The based ones don't even really talk about themselves. | ||
| They just talk about the issues. | ||
| So, that's how I see it. | ||
| And even, you know, Bishop Williamson has said this, and others have said this, and you know, it's not, it's like anything. | ||
| Not all X's are like that. | ||
| But when they are based, they're not writing articles telling you, look over there! | ||
| Don't look over here, look over there! | ||
| I'm cool, I'm cool! | ||
| That's like, no. | ||
| Sorry. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| And I wanted to talk a little bit about Ye before we get into the news. | ||
| You know, I was reading about him today. | ||
| And I never realized this, but I was looking into this very closely. | ||
| I was doing a close reading of some of his lyrics on some of his songs. | ||
| And then I made this huge discovery here. | ||
| So, Life of Pablo was his, I forget which number it was, it was his what? | ||
| 7th album? | ||
| Yeah, 7th album in 2016. | ||
| seventh album in 2016 and seventh solo album and when he first came out with that album nobody really knew what he meant by it life of What does life of Pablo mean? | ||
| They thought, did he mean Pablo Escobar? | ||
| The clouds and Paul is blinded for three days. | ||
| He's Saul. | ||
| He's Saul and then he becomes Paul. | ||
| Figures in the New Testament. | ||
| And one of the most important figures in the early church and preaches the Bible to the Gentiles and transforms Christianity. | ||
| And then I read, I read that section, and I read it from the King James Bible because that's probably what Kanye reads. | ||
| And this is what it says. | ||
| It says in Acts 9, 15, But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way, for he is a chosen vessel unto me. | ||
| To bear my name before the Gentiles and kings and children of... In a recent interview, he said, don't call me... Don't call me an artist. | ||
| I am a vessel. | ||
| And he also said this on Drink Champs. | ||
| He said, God is the only artist. | ||
| I am a vessel. | ||
| He says this constantly. | ||
| And so, it totally synced up. | ||
| Because in 2016, he puts out this album comparing himself to Saint... Up here in the Book of Acts. | ||
| It says... | ||
| About Saul it says and straightaway he preached Christ in the synagogues that he Jesus is the Son of God But all that heard him were amazed and said is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem and came hither for that intent that might bring them bound unto the chief priests But Saul increased the Moor in strength and confounded the Jews which dwelt in Damascus, proving that this is very Christ. | ||
| And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him. | ||
| But their laying await was known of Saul, and they watched the gates day and night to kill him. | ||
| And then it's like, okay. | ||
| So... | ||
| Now, is this just me reading too much into it, or does it kind of track that Ye says he saw the ultralight beam? | ||
| And it's... I'm surprised this didn't get more coverage. | ||
| Well, I guess I'm not, but it's a really important story. | ||
| This is from The Intercept. | ||
| And we complain about censorship, and we say that that's killing free speech, and that's... | ||
| against the first amendment and they say well technically because they're so smart they're see they're really well read and they know what they're talking about they say well technically the first amendment only applies to the government not to private enterprise which can do whatever it likes and there's about a million problems with that argument first and foremost being that almost all the big tech companies were started by the government | ||
| The internet was created by the government and entities like Google were created by the government. | ||
| Almost all the big tech companies and all the people that work at the big tech companies have their origin with the national security apparatus. | ||
| Look into it. | ||
| That's not what this show is about. | ||
| But if you look closely enough, the idea that there's some kind of free enterprise thing going on with Big Tech, it just flies in the face of what Big Tech is and always was. | ||
| And so it's the origin of the internet and the origin of the tech, the giant tech of the government, specifically the national security apparatus, is very broad and it's very alarming. | ||
| A lot of people don't even know that. | ||
| Because of course, where did these companies start? | ||
| Almost all these companies started in the Ivy League or very high-level research universities. | ||
| And the research universities and the Ivy League schools are totally in bed with the national security apparatus. | ||
| Where do you think the federal government farms out its best talent? | ||
| Ivy League schools. | ||
| Research universities. | ||
| So like Mark Zuckerberg. | ||
| Anybody see the movie Social Ration on these platforms has worked in the era of censorship starting in 2016. | ||
| And this new report sheds some light on that and I'll read the report to you. | ||
| It says, quote, the Department of Homeland Security is quietly broadening its efforts to curb speech that it considers dangerous, according to an investigation by The Intercept. | ||
| Years of internal DHS memos, emails, and documents obtained via leaks and that ongoing lawsuit in Missouri, as well as public documents, illustrate an expansive effort by the agency to influence tech platforms. | ||
| Behind closed doors, requests for false or intentionally misleading information. | ||
| Microsoft executive Matt Masterson, who is also a former DHS official, texted Jen Easter... ...network. | ||
| You were running the Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Apparatus for the government. | ||
| Now you're an executive at Microsoft, one of the big five. | ||
| And he's texting a director of the DHS that these companies have just got to get more comfortable with government. | ||
| Yeah, nothing to see here. | ||
| In a March meeting Laura Demlow and FBI with Elon Musk, it's not about free speech. | ||
| It's about information that challenges the security of the American state. | ||
| That is always the issue. | ||
| That is why they did censorship in the beginning. | ||
| That's why they're doing it now. | ||
| It is the so-called national security imperative. | ||
| What other big news stories have there been other than those things since March 2020? | ||
| Can you think of anything? | ||
| Because when I think of the last two years, I think about quarter one, two, and three of 2020 was COVID pandemic. | ||
| Quarter 3 and 4 of... Quarter 3 and 4 of 2020 and Quarter 1 of 2021 is election fraud. | ||
| Quarter 1, 2, 3, and 4 of 2021 was the vaccine, placed throughout 2021. | ||
| The withdrawal from Afghanistan, which was the summer of 2021. | ||
| And then in 2022, the war in Ukraine. | ||
| the vaccine placed throughout 2021 the withdrawal from Afghanistan which was the summer of 2021 and then in 2022 the war in Ukraine what else is there what are the other big stories I I'm hard-pressed to even think of any other than maybe inflation, although I would consider that part of Ukraine. | ||
| So, in other words, they're getting involved in all of it. | ||
| They're not even hiding it. | ||
| It'd be one thing if they said, and you would still scrutinize this, but it would be one thing if they said one issue. | ||
| It'd be one thing if they said, well, the vaccine is just such a critical thing that we've just got to regulate that. | ||
| That wouldn't be okay, of course, but it would be limited. | ||
| It would be narrow. | ||
| But they're coming out there and saying, we're gonna control all the information about all the news, which was in vogue before the Trump presidency, after January 6th turned into misinformation creates terrorists. | ||
| Therefore, anyone promulgating alternative narratives about Mustemeyer. | ||
| And then, around the time of the pandemic, around the time of COVID, they said that it was vaccine misinformation and election misinformation. | ||
| Which were undermining the government and causing violence. | ||
| The Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot, which they attribute as violence, caused lone wolf, high casualty, antisocial violence. | ||
| So now the government's got to be in the business of the veracity of the news. | ||
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Any of it. | |
| All of it. | ||
| Whether it's about George Floyd, or it's about Ukraine, or the election, or the vaccine, or the pandemic, or inflation, or whatever. | ||
| As long as there are issues, and as long as people care about them, DHS says that if people are free to create and form their own opinions and promulgate them, it will cause terrorism. | ||
| It will cause people to go out there and blow shit up and communication between people. | ||
| Totally nightmare stuff, and we all said that in 2021. | ||
| It was obvious. | ||
| They said DVE, domestic violent extremism, was caused by misinformation, emerging narratives that could cause violence, and they sent people into the telegram group chats and so on. | ||
| They contracted it out with private firms to get around the Constitution. | ||
| And they turned the war on terror apparatus inwardly. | ||
| Afghanistan ended and then they declared war on the enemy within. | ||
| Using Patriot Act, Operation Echelon, the NSA, all of that. | ||
| The article goes on it says the extent to which the DHS initiatives affect Americans daily social feeds is unclear. | ||
| During the 2020 election the government flagged numerous posts as suspicious many of which government is flagging lots of content and Big Tech is taking a lot of it down. | ||
| Not all of it and not most of it but they're 35% is not an insignificant amount. | ||
| If the government is flagging thousands of posts Presumably big ones. | ||
| Presumably they're not policing the guy that gets one like or one share, but presumably that's 5,000 big posts in a short time period. | ||
| And Big Tech takes action on a third of them in a year. | ||
| The research was done in consultation with CISA, the cybersecurity infrastructure security agency. | ||
| Prior to the 2020 election, tech companies including Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Discord, Wikipedia, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Verizon Media met on a monthly basis with the FBI, the CISA, and other government representatives. | ||
| According to NBC News, the meetings were part of an initiative still ongoing between the private sector and government to discuss how firms would handle misinformation during the election. | ||
| So I remember Me, Sneeko, and Destiny did a panel recently, and Destiny said, Wikipedia wouldn't lie! | ||
| Wikipedia isn't part of Big Tech! | ||
| Big Tech is in bed with the government, but Mark Zuckerberg went to a hearing! | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Literally, it's more extreme than what we were saying. | ||
| So that's not just the big social platforms. | ||
| It's also the networking platform, and it's also a telecom giant, and it's also the online encyclopedic forums. | ||
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Not really. | |
| I mean, not really. | ||
| Discord is like a social communications platform, I would say, as opposed to a pure social media platform like a Twitter or Facebook. | ||
| And we can split hairs. | ||
| Obviously, they all do different things, and the point is that all of them are affected by this. | ||
| It's not just a strict, narrow, select few number of platforms with billions of users and where content can go viral, but it's also these other ones you don't think of very much. | ||
| Wikipedia is meeting with the FBI. | ||
| What is the implication there about information? | ||
| If Google gets its bios and profile about information from Wikipedia, you know, what does that say about all this collusion between the tech companies and between the tech companies and the government? | ||
| They're all in on it. | ||
| The telecom company's search engine, the search engine and YouTube, the search engine and the ad platform, the search engine and the encyclopedia, the social platforms and the service providers. | ||
| The service providers and, you know, they're all connected. | ||
| And they all are, quite literally, meeting on a weekly or monthly basis with the White House Press Office, with the FBI, with the Department of Homeland Security, with the intention of collaborating, including on disinformation. | ||
| They're all involved. | ||
| And who owns these companies? | ||
| Who owns the companies? | ||
| Facebook makes its money from advertisers. | ||
| Who are the advertisers on Facebook? | ||
| Giant corporations. | ||
| Wall Street. | ||
| Who runs and controls Wall Street? | ||
| The board. | ||
| Who controls the board and the composition of the board? | ||
| ESG? | ||
| The stock index? | ||
| They say there's a diversity quota to be listed now? | ||
| SEC? | ||
| Exerting the SEC a government institution? | ||
| The banks? | ||
| Who do the banks answer to? | ||
| The Federal Reserve? | ||
| Who else does Wall Street, who else does Big Tech answer to? | ||
| Who owns so many of the shares of the big companies, particularly the S&P 500 or the S&P 50 or the S&P 5? | ||
| BlackRock, Vanguard, the big financial firms. | ||
| So it's a lot more interconnected than people think. | ||
| People think that there's this checks and balances or they've got separate domains or something. | ||
| And there is some truth to that. | ||
| But Washington and New York and Silicon Valley are all intimately connected. | ||
| They're connected with Boston. | ||
| It's like and I'm trying to help you guys understand that they're all connected with a deep level of interdependence and complexity. | ||
| The Ivy League and research universities. | ||
| That's where all the smart people go. | ||
| That's where all the programmers go. | ||
| That's where all the big brains go. | ||
| They're plucked from the universities by the private sector, by the public sector, by the government, by the IC, the intelligence community, or by big tech. | ||
| And big tech and the IC swap places. | ||
| Or they're picked out by private enterprise in New York, by the big financial firms, by the corporate world. | ||
| And they all start out there. | ||
| They're all plucked from there. | ||
| And then they're all in business together. | ||
| They're all trading places in what we would call the revolving door. | ||
| And on an institutional level, they're all connected. | ||
| A company like Twitter was publicly owned. | ||
| And so who did it answer to? | ||
| Who runs Twitter? | ||
| The board. | ||
| Who does the board answer to? | ||
| The shareholders. | ||
| What do the shareholders look at? | ||
| The finances. | ||
| Who controls the finances? | ||
| The advertisers. | ||
| Who are the advertisers? | ||
| The big corporations. | ||
| Who owns the big corporations? | ||
| Banks. | ||
| ESG as well as DEI regulations from oversight bodies and government. | ||
| And so right there is why can't Twitter, why can't Jack Dorsey who's a West Coast Free speech guru, ideologue, tech evangelist. | ||
| Why can't he make Twitter free speech? | ||
| Because he doesn't control Twitter. | ||
| Who does control Twitter? | ||
| Well, the bottom line. | ||
| It's the shareholders. | ||
| Shareholders are the financial institutions. | ||
| And who makes up the revenue that meet the bottom line that the shareholders care about? | ||
| The advertisers. | ||
| And who are the advertisers? | ||
| The big corporations. | ||
| So Jack Dorsey doesn't really run Twitter. | ||
| He never did. | ||
| And neither did Parag, whatever. | ||
| And who's really running the corporations? | ||
| If there is guidance being handed down to the corporations about the composition of the board, who's really in control? | ||
| And if they answer to regulators, and if they answer to the financial institutions to give them the equity, or the big institutions that control the shares, who are they liable to? | ||
| So things are not as they seem. | ||
| The idea that everybody's who they say they are, that it's about the chair, well, that's the president of Twitter you're talking about. | ||
| Well, that's the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee you're talking about. | ||
| Where does the money come from? | ||
| Where does the power come from? | ||
| Who exerts influence? | ||
| Follow the money, follow this entangling web of influence. | ||
| That's what we're trying to unravel here. | ||
| And it's interesting because in my conversations with Bunnell, he seems to represent the real opposite side. | ||
| Not necessarily a guy who says he's a leftist, but a guy who's an apologist for the system. | ||
| Who says the system is what it is. | ||
| It is what it appears to be. | ||
| It is what it says it is. | ||
| It is essentially Effectively for everything that matters significantly as it seems to be. | ||
| The elections seem to be democratic. | ||
| The government seems to be in charge. | ||
| When Twitter censors people it seems to be coming from the censors of Twitter. | ||
| And I'm the guy over here saying it's a little bit more complicated than that. | ||
| That there is such a thing as complex interdependence. | ||
| And you cannot look at the chair, you can't look at the building, or the name on the chair, the name at the desk, or the name on the building. | ||
| You gotta look at the people. | ||
| You gotta follow the money. | ||
| You gotta understand how these things work. | ||
| And so, a DHS worker Working at Microsoft as an executive at the weekly meeting with DHS talking about how big tech needs to accept government is not surprising. | ||
| And the leaders of Wikipedia and Discord and Reddit and Facebook and Twitter and Verizon getting on a call with the FBI every month to discuss disinformation? | ||
| Not surprising to me. | ||
| And the White House Press Office calling up Facebook and getting a reply in 30 seconds that they're going to take down a particular post about COVID? | ||
| Not surprising to me. | ||
| So, everybody wants you to think about, this is the biggest takeaway here. | ||
| This is what I want the young people to internalize. | ||
| You are constantly being hit with a barrage of propaganda that wants you, it's really about misdirection. | ||
| It's not about necessarily telling you something that isn't true, although sometimes it does. | ||
| It's about convincing you to look somewhere other than where the truth is. | ||
| That's what it's really about. | ||
| So, for example, when I went to high school and I got into politics, I was reading Milton Friedman. | ||
| And he wrote books called Free to Choose and Capitalism and Freedom. | ||
| And he talked about these very vague, abstract, nebulous concepts about the free market and taxes and an individual's economic rights and their political rights. | ||
| And it was really about a lot of things that aren't real. | ||
| And that's what all of these institutions are about. | ||
| It's about inculcating people with these big ideas, not details. | ||
| Think about political economy. | ||
| Don't think about imports and exports. | ||
| Don't think about what America makes. | ||
| And what it sells, what it exports, and what it imports. | ||
| Don't think about the Teslas and how they're built and how you build the batteries and where you get the lithium and who produces the lithium and where it's produced. | ||
| Don't think about the beryllium. | ||
| Don't think about the copper. | ||
| Don't think about the zinc or the nickel. | ||
| Don't think about... Don't think about those things. | ||
| Don't think about, you know, what we stand for is the free market. | ||
| Don't think about BlackRock. | ||
| Don't think about Wall Street. | ||
| Don't think about how a person makes money or where the spending power resides in the country. | ||
| Who's rich? | ||
| Who makes one rich? | ||
| Where do fortunes come from? | ||
| Who creates fortunes? | ||
| Which institutions have the spending power? | ||
| The billionaires or the institutions they control or the states? | ||
| Who controls the spending power of the state? | ||
| Politicians are the donors that put up the money for the politicians to benefit from the spending power of the state. | ||
| And really all that's required is just a little bit of critical thinking. | ||
| But there's no fancy infographic, there's no cartoon that explains this. | ||
| There's a handy cartoon that explains how freedom to buy and sell goods makes the GDP go up and makes efficiency go up. | ||
| Okay, well that really doesn't mean anything. | ||
| There's a whole lot of money being poured into these fancy infographics to teach you that a, you know, a particular bill which you haven't read and you know the details of is like free market because of this, because of economic liberty. | ||
| That's a bunch of crap that doesn't mean anything. | ||
| What is wealth? | ||
| How is America gonna be wealthy? | ||
| Where does money come from? | ||
| What is wealth? | ||
| What is, you know, where does it come from? | ||
| How is it made? | ||
| How does a nation have wealth and how is it distributed? | ||
| These are the important questions and the same is true of power too. | ||
| So, that's what I would say the difference is people go on and on about and by the way that only just that only just goes to show how facile and stupid it is to write 30,000 words about trannies. | ||
| You know, and I'm not trying to be venomous here, but that is really the crux of the disagreement. | ||
| If Stephen Bunnell sees it fit to write a 30,000 word essay about trans discourse and girls that identify as boys, or vice versa, and things like 9-11 and like debanking and the no-fly list and Shel Nadelson and the revolving door and the iron triangle is just sort of like hand waved away. | ||
| Oh, I don't really know what that is. | ||
| I'm sure that's all above board. | ||
| Anyway, let's get into the weeds on who's really a girl or not. | ||
| Let's write 30,000 words and attach 10,000 footnotes about, you know, these trannies that like being trannies and these trannies that really do believe they're the other. | ||
| You know, it's like, seriously? | ||
| Tell me where the beryllium comes from. | ||
| I don't care! | ||
| Tell me where the beryllium comes from. | ||
| Tell me where the hafnium comes from and its applications. | ||
| That's what I'm interested in. | ||
| And I want to know who wrote the Clean Break Memo and I want to know who working at Big Tech was working in the National Security State and who working in the National Security State was working at Big Tech. | ||
| I want their names. | ||
| I want to know who they are. | ||
| I want to know their background. | ||
| I want to know who they know. | ||
| I want to create a giant cork board and map it all out with yarn. | ||
| And you're over there writing 30,000 words about... Well, I think that boys who become girls shouldn't play water polo with the girls because they're still technically men and they're strong. | ||
| Oh, but all that other stuff? | ||
| Yeah, it checks out. | ||
| Yeah, it checks out. | ||
| I'm sure 9-11 was what the government said it was. | ||
| I mean, the government can't, they can't lie. | ||
| They can't! | ||
| It would be, I assume it's impossible for them to cover it up. | ||
| You know, and it's like, okay. | ||
| So, as I've said before, it's not a question of ideology and he's over here and I'm over here. | ||
| It's a question of depth. | ||
| We're down here, you're up there. | ||
| Okay, we're down here digging and digging and you're up there. | ||
| Talking about whether a protester can use self-defense or whether a boy is a girl. | ||
| So anyway, that's that. | ||
| But I want to move on. | ||
| I want to get into Twitter itself. | ||
| I want to get into Elon Musk and some of the changes being made at Twitter. | ||
| And I don't want to spend too much time on this because there's really not a ton to say and then we'll look at our Super Chats. | ||
| So our featured story is about the Elon Musk takeover of Twitter, and the gist is very simple. | ||
| There are some developments we're watching closely, but we can't really make anything out of them just yet. | ||
| And the big developments include that he has fired the entire board of Twitter. | ||
| So we fired the top officers on Thursday, which was the CEO, the CFO, the head of the trust and safety, And then today he dismissed all the board members and became the sole board member. | ||
| So he's now the CEO, the chief officer. | ||
| He's also now the sole director, the sole board member. | ||
| So he's got absolute control over the company. | ||
| Very epic. | ||
| That's development number one and this is a story. | ||
| It's his quote. | ||
| Elon Musk has dissolved Twitter's board of directors, cementing his control over the social media platform. | ||
| The reforms he is contemplating include changes for how Twitter verifies accounts as well as job cuts. | ||
| The Washington Post has reported that a first round of cuts is under discussion that could affect 25% of Twitter staff. | ||
| He is now the sole director of Twitter. | ||
| The nine ousted directors include former chairman of the board Brett Taylor and the former chief executive Parag Agrawal. | ||
| Mr. Musk's takeover has drawn widespread scrutiny as he signals plans to overhaul how Twitter has moderated the spread of information on its platform, including from sources such as state media, politicians, and celebrities. | ||
| Mr. Musk said the company would create a new council to govern those decisions, and that no changes would occur until the council is convened. | ||
| On Monday, Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat, said that he had asked the government to review the national security implications of the deal, given the large stake of the company held by firms tied to Saudi Arabia. | ||
| Oh, really? | ||
| Mr. Murphy wrote on Twitter, we should be concerned that the Saudis, who have a clear interest in repressing political speech and impacting politics, are now the second largest owner of a major social platform. | ||
| Oh, now they're concerned? | ||
| The Saudi Crown Prince Al-Waleed was one of the biggest shareholders. | ||
| He was always one of the biggest shareholders up until I don't know when exactly, but that was true before the deal. | ||
| That was true before Elon Musk acquired his 9% stake at the beginning of the year. | ||
| It's Crown Prince. | ||
| What's his name? | ||
| Al-Waleed something something Al-Waleed. | ||
| He was always behind the big financial institutions One of the biggest shareholders of Twitter. | ||
| Always. | ||
| But now that Elon Musk has taken over the company and is the CEO and the sole director and by far and away the biggest shareholder, he took a private, owns a majority of the shares, now they're really concerned about the ties to Saudi Arabia. | ||
| Seriously? | ||
| It's just like what we covered on Friday or Thursday. | ||
| All these Twitter employees saying we're pawns of the billionaires. | ||
| Who owned Twitter before Elon Musk? | ||
| Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia? | ||
| And Paul Singer and BlackRock. | ||
| Oh, but now you're concerned about being pawned to billionaires. | ||
| Same thing with this Democrat senator. | ||
| Oh, well now he's concerned about a Saudi prince owning a large stake. | ||
| He has owned a large stake for I think the last seven years, maybe longer. | ||
| Now it's a big problem. | ||
| Really? | ||
| We hate to interrupt your regularly scheduled programming of being dominated by foreign governments, transnational corporations, Jewish billionaires, now a rogue class traitor like Donald Trump, Elon Musk, or Yale become your boss. | ||
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| Uh-oh! | ||
| Now I have a big problem with that. | ||
| This is reprehensible! | ||
| Seriously? | ||
| They want to go back to the Illuminati. | ||
| It's not okay that a billionaire is controlling it. | ||
| They need the Illuminati billionaires, the Jew billionaires. | ||
| So he decapitated the leadership. | ||
| That's good. | ||
| Because as we know, the board was standing in the way. | ||
| The shareholders are standing in the way. | ||
| The board was standing in the way. | ||
| So as far as I'm concerned, him firing the chief officers and dismissing the board, that's two steps closer. | ||
| Taking it private and buying out all the shareholders, that's another step closer to free speech. | ||
| All of these positions were against free speech. | ||
| The officers, which were biased. | ||
| The board, which answered to the shareholders and they were biased. | ||
| And the shareholders. | ||
| Because the shareholders are looking at the bottom line. | ||
| And sometimes the bottom line can be, excuse me, can be deceiving. | ||
| If you're going to do a major corporate transition, probably the shareholders are going to punish the company. | ||
| If that means a short-term loss, if that means a radical, experimental, new, novel approach, shareholders might not like that. | ||
| So shareholders are gonna depress the price if big, crazy things are going on. | ||
| And if they see red, and if they see media pressure ADL coming in... | ||
| And of course the board is used to answering to them. | ||
| They've got a business mentality as opposed to a sort of entrepreneurial mentality, which is slightly different. | ||
| So he's three steps closer as far as I'm concerned with the buyout, firing, the dismissal of the board. | ||
| Three steps closer to getting Twitter to free speech. | ||
| That's a good one. | ||
| The other big development is he froze all the moderation tools. | ||
| And this is another report. | ||
| It says, quote, Twitter Inc. | ||
| has frozen employee access to internal tools used for content moderation and other policy enforcement, curbing the staff's ability to clamp down on misinformation ahead of a major U.S. | ||
| election. | ||
| Most people who work in Twitter's trust and safety organization are currently unable to alter or penalize penal Penile. | ||
| Penalized accounts that break rules around misleading information. | ||
| Offensive posts and hate speech except for the most high-impact violations that would involve real-world harm. | ||
| Those posts were prioritized for manual enforcement, they said. | ||
| People who were on call to enforce Twitter's policies during Brazil's election did access internal tools on Sunday, but in a limited capacity. | ||
| The company is still utilizing automated enforcement and third-party contractors, although the highest profile violations are typically reviewed by Twitter employees. | ||
| On Friday and Saturday, Bloomberg reported a surge in hate speech on Twitter. | ||
| That included a 1,700% spike in the use of a racist slur, and that slur is nigger. | ||
| On the platform, which at its peak appeared 215 times every five minutes, which is a lot of times, apparently. | ||
| Is that too many times? | ||
| Who's to say? | ||
| According to data from Dataminr, an official Twitter partner that has access to the entire platform, the trust and safety team did not have access to enforce Twitter's moderation policies during this time. | ||
| Yoel Roth, Yoel Roth, a Jew, Twitter's head of safety and integrity, posted a series of tweets on Monday addressing the increase in offensive posts, saying that every few people see the content in question, Since Saturday we've focused on addressing the surge in hateful conduct on Twitter. | ||
| We've made measurable progress removing 1,500 accounts and reducing impressions on this content to nearly zero. | ||
| We're primarily dealing with a focused short-term trolling campaign. | ||
| That's the other development and the moderation tools being frozen is good but this report is not good and it's playing out exactly like I said. | ||
| They generate a report about a billion percent increase in hate speech. | ||
| A billion percent increase in anti-Semitism or racism. | ||
| And that creates the impetus for an advertiser boycott or for some high-pressure campaign. | ||
| We already see it. | ||
| It's already being reported. | ||
| The n-word was tweeted six million times since Thursday. | ||
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| And penalizing 1,500 accounts which includes like literally probably 800 Groypers. | ||
| No joke. | ||
| I was going through some of the surviving Groypers Twitters and they lost 75% of their followers. | ||
| 75% of the people they followed. | ||
| 75% of their group chat. | ||
| So out of the 1,500 people that got banned like half of them were us. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| And we didn't do that! | ||
| We didn't do that! | ||
| They banned Paul. | ||
| Paul didn't tweet the N-word. | ||
| They banned Brant. | ||
| Brant didn't tweet the N-word. | ||
| They banned Lavrov. | ||
| He didn't tweet. | ||
| They banned me. | ||
| I didn't tweet the N-word. | ||
| I called people Jew a lot. | ||
| I said, hey, shut up, Jew. | ||
| And I didn't mean it like... I meant it sort of tongue-in-cheek. | ||
| But I didn't mean it as a trolling campaign. | ||
| I meant it like, hey, you're Jewish. | ||
| And you're trying to trick us all. | ||
| So that's not a trolling campaign. | ||
| That's protected. | ||
| So the freezing of the moderation tools implies there's a reform happening. | ||
| There's a suspension. | ||
| There's a reorganizing happening. | ||
| But this big purge doesn't bode so well. | ||
| So those are the big updates. | ||
| I mean, again, we can't make any judgment. | ||
| And I'm not coping because it could be really bad. | ||
| It could be really good. | ||
| Full disclosure, I am optimistic. | ||
| But whether it's going to be good or whether it's going to be bad, no decisions have been made yet. | ||
| No changes have been made yet. | ||
| The company was acquired on Thursday. | ||
| So... Elon Musk has even said himself that they've not actually even made any changes to enforcement. | ||
| So some people saw me get banned and they said, oh, Elon banned you. | ||
| Oh, Elon took over and they still banned you. | ||
| Which implies that something changed. | ||
| When in actuality, although Twitter changed hands, It's really the same regime. | ||
| It's the same enforcement regime that banned me. | ||
| It's not like Elon logged on and said, oh, he's gone. | ||
| And that was our decision. | ||
| They have not made changes to the moderations. | ||
| We're still getting the same moderation from before. | ||
| And Musk said that he will convene a board. | ||
| And once the board is assembled, then they will make decisions on how the moderation will change and whose bans may be reversed. | ||
| It's really not going to know until then what the changes even will be and what an effect they are. | ||
| So it's premature to make any judgment. | ||
| I would caution against being optimistic or pessimistic. | ||
| Some people are coping and they're saying, see, this is fine. | ||
| And it's like, I won't go that far. | ||
| I wouldn't say it's fine. | ||
| It's still a very, still a very tenuous, precarious situation. | ||
| I wouldn't rush to say it's fine. | ||
| I also wouldn't rush to say it's over. | ||
| I wouldn't say we're back. | ||
| I also wouldn't say it's over. | ||
| I would say stand back and stand by. | ||
| I wouldn't say we're back. | ||
| I wouldn't say we're so back. | ||
| I also wouldn't say it's so over. | ||
| I would say stand back and stand by for MAGA night at the White House. | ||
| Because we will have a better idea of what this is going to look like maybe within a few months. | ||
| And then we can say, is it working? | ||
| Is it not working? | ||
| Is it going well? | ||
| Is it moving in the right direction? | ||
| But right now, nobody knows. | ||
| So that's my take on that. | ||
| But so far so good. | ||
| He didn't immediately capitulate to everything. | ||
| So that's that's good. | ||
| He's still holding out. | ||
| And the deal was completed. | ||
| We didn't even think that would happen for some time. | ||
| So the deal was completed. | ||
| I'm still happy about that. | ||
| And there are some causes for optimism here. | ||
| But Like everything, I don't believe it until I see it. | ||
| I've been doing this for a long time and sometimes things seem too good to be true and that's because usually they are. | ||
| And so I don't believe it until the thing happens. | ||
| You know, they told me I was off the no-fly list in March. | ||
| And then I went out to get on a plane, and they sent me away. | ||
| Because I was on the Quad S list. | ||
| Which I didn't know! | ||
| I thought they sent me away for the same reason. | ||
| They told me in March that I was actually let off in November, but I didn't know. | ||
| And I was on the Quad S list from November until June. | ||
| But so in March, they sent me an email and said, hey, we reviewed it, you're off. | ||
| I said, whoa, great news! | ||
| I went to the airport, I booked a round-trip flight, and they said, we can't get you on. | ||
| I said, well, why not? | ||
| I'm off the no-fly list. | ||
| I told them, I said, I just got off the no-fly list. | ||
| And they said, well, the problem is it's a round-trip ticket because we have to check you in. | ||
| Because it's under the same reservation you're flight to and from, we have to check you in at security here. | ||
| But also at the airport that you're traveling from to return, which we can't do from here. | ||
| They said, you got to rebook it as two one-way tickets. | ||
| I was like, what? | ||
| So I was just like, I'm just still on the no-fly list. | ||
| So then I submitted another trip and then I went back to the airport two months later. | ||
| I bought a one-way ticket and I was like, oh, okay. | ||
| I'm in. | ||
| Then I tried to fly home and I was banned from American Airlines. | ||
| Then I tried, then, so I flew to Tampa. | ||
| And I was like, wow, I flew, I win, I got a first-class flight, I'm hanging with Baked Alaska, I got to the airport to fly back home, and they said, you can't fly. | ||
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I said, what? | |
| I just flew, I just got off the no-fly list, I'm on Quad S, is that it? | ||
| And they said, no, I'm banned from American, and I'm banned from Delta. | ||
| So I was like, maybe I'm banned from all the, maybe I'm banned from all the airlines. | ||
| So I booked a United flight. | ||
| And I think there are still a few that are not banned from Anyway, so the point is it's not it's not over until it's over. | ||
| I don't believe it until it happens Because you know you they always pull the rug out from under. |
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