MAY 05 2022 — ELON MUSK CALLS OUT GEORGE SOROS CENSORSHIP AGENDA
Elon Musk secures $7 billion in funding for Twitter, and blasts Media Matters, Secretary Mayorkas testifies amid criticisms of new disinformation board, Pope Francis has come with a statement blaming NATO for starting the war in Ukraine, and finally, the ‘buy now, pay later’ mentality is sending the Tiktok generation in a downward debt spiral.Here’s your Daily dose of Human Events with @JackPosobiec To get $150 off each 3-month supply of ‘My Patriot Supply’ go to PrepareWithPOSO.com and ...
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Today's headlines.
Elon Musk secures an additional $7 billion in financing for Twitter blasting media matters and the people behind them.
Next, Secretary Mayorkas testifying amid criticism of the new disinformation bureau here in the United States.
Third, Pope Francis coming out saying that NATO played a role in starting the war in Ukraine by barking at Putin's door.
And finally, buy now, pay later, is sending generation TikTok spiraling into debt.
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Twitter has become kind of the de facto town square.
Really important that people have both the reality and the perception that they're able to speak freely within the bounds of the law.
My strong intuitive sense is that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization.
Well, Elon Musk is out.
What's going on with the deal?
What's happening with Twitter?
Let's do an update on that because this is the fight for freedom of speech.
He has announced that he has secured $7 billion in financing.
Now that goes to the total $44 billion of the sale price for Twitter.
Going to be taking it private.
Of these partners, you're looking at some of the biggest names in financing on Wall Street.
The fact of the matter is, it looks like the street is getting behind this deal.
Which at first, people are saying it's not going to happen.
It's never going to happen.
It shouldn't happen.
No.
It's happening.
They're looking at this thing.
They're looking at the financing of it.
And they say, you know what?
We trust this guy.
We're going to get behind him.
So he has that ability.
And he's always had that ability throughout his career, going all the way back to PayPal, going back to the start of Tesla, eventually with SpaceX.
He knows how to work that chain, whether it be VCs.
In California, or whether it be the street in New York.
He's got the ability to do that.
We've seen him, of course, work across the world.
And by the way, people have said this about me.
They said, are you going to bring up the fact that he works in China?
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
We talk about it all the time.
We talk about the fact that he's got a plant in Shanghai.
We talk about the fact that he's got that showroom in Xinjiang, the same area where the Uyghurs are, and he works directly with the CCP. He's got a Weibo account up where he tweets pro-CCP statements frequently.
So the question is, what are we to make of Mr.
Musk?
And what are we to make of his stance for free speech in the West?
We also know, by the way, that he's providing the Starlink system to the Ukrainian government and the Ukrainian army.
Which we had indications was actually being used to conduct drone strikes on Russian forces.
And so when you look at this thing, Elon Musk really is almost something of a sovereign citizen himself.
No, no, no, not like the actual sovereign citizen movement.
What I mean to say is he's got the ability to make moves on the world stage the same way that potentially A small government might be able to.
He's got that level of influence.
And you've seen some other people with that level of influence in the world.
Donald Trump is certainly one of those.
If he wants to use it, he has the ability to have that influence around the world.
People like Julian Assange, right?
Julian Assange has that level of influence.
And you've seen, of course, the attacks on him because of that.
Edward Snowden, I put in that group as well.
But because Elon Musk is making these moves, he's ruffling some feathers.
But what's amazing, what's absolutely amazing, Is he's going after these people.
So Media Matters, attacking Elon Musk.
Media Matters, David Brock.
Clinton World, those people are leading a massive group, and they put out this letter, I guess.
It's some huge letter, and let's read some of the names.
Access Now, Accountable Tech, Black Lives Matter, The Center for Countering Digital Hate, Face the Music, Friends of the Earth, GLAAD, Kairos, Beauty Matters for America, NARAL Pro-Choice, The Sparrow Project, Stop Online Violence Against Women.
The Women's March is attacking him.
What did Elon Musk do?
He tweeted out, Who funds these organizations that want to control your access to information?
Let's investigate.
His very next tweet was a tweet directed at George Soros.
And he said, George, slide into my DMs.
You got Elon Musk now directly calling out George Soros and others that fund these organizations and specifically for the censoring and silencing of speech.
Elon Musk going up against George Soros.
That's just the headline, folks.
We're just reading it here.
We're sitting back watching, saying, what will happen when these two titans of industry go at one another?
Will they be able to come with some sort of deal?
Basically, he's saying, George, what are you doing?
I just want freedom of speech.
It seems like you're trying to shut that down.
Do you have a separate agenda, George?
Do you have a problem with what I'm doing?
Let's chat.
Let's hop on the phone.
Slide into my DMs.
This is amazing, right?
Literally the guy buys Twitter so he can call out his old buddy George and say, what are you doing?
This isn't about that anymore.
This isn't the 1990s.
It's not the 1970s.
We're going to have freedom of speech on the Internet, and we're going to make sure that no one is able to shut it down.
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Senator, I am ultimately responsible for the hiring of Ms.
Jankiewicz to be the executive director of the Disinformation Governance Board.
In my capacity as the secretary, I bear responsibility for that.
I understand that she is an expert in disinformation.
Yes, indeed, spreading it.
When the department picked her, was the department aware of her TikTok videos?
They're really quite precocious.
Senator, I was not aware of those videos.
So we're back on the disturbing and terrible saga of Nina Yankovic and poor Secretary Mayorkas.
I know not poor Secretary Mayorkas.
I don't want to pour out too much sympathy for this guy.
But you look at this video, and Senator Kennedy is just eviscerating him.
I love how he has that Southern gentlemanly charm, that Southern charm, right?
Where he just is so sweet as he walks right up to you and rhetorically, you know, just tears you apart.
And that's what he's doing.
He goes, were you aware of this?
Were you aware of that?
Later on, he actually says, I think what you should do is you should go back to your office.
You're a nice guy, but I want you to go back to your office, find the person...
Who recommended Nini Ankovich for this position and fire him?
Because that wasn't good advice.
I mean, it's amazing, right?
Because as he's asking basic questions, you've got someone that you're setting up this disinformation bureau suddenly with, you know, no law or, you know, any type of legal backing behind it whatsoever.
But instead, you're just going to do it, you know, because.
Why not, right?
Ron Paul, of course, was completely right about what they would do eventually with the Department of Homeland Security.
But, but...
He says, did you pick someone to run this thing who's, you know, I don't know, kind of seen as impartial?
Someone that people have a lot of respect for.
Someone that people really on both sides of the aisle say, you know what?
That's the kind of person that we went in there to call balls and strikes.
Someone who's completely seen as above board, credible, and trustworthy.
Is that who you picked?
Or did you pick a crazy Harry Potter girl from TikTok?
Well, unfortunately, It was somebody from TikTok.
And he says, did you watch the videos?
No, I didn't watch the videos.
Did you look at her history of spreading disinformation?
Whether it be on the Hunter Biden laptop, or it be these connections between Trump and Russia and the Steele dossier, which were always completely false.
Oh no, we didn't look at that at all.
Not to mention, why are we even having something called a disinformation bureau here in the United States?
Doesn't make any sense.
Never made any sense to begin with.
But what's really amazing, and I want to go back to this theory, because I've got this theory of the case on Nina Yankovic, that every time that I watch either Jen Psaki be questioned about her or Secretary Mayorkas, I think I get a little bit closer to confirming what I initially thought about this.
Nobody's really sure who hired her.
None of these principles were actually briefed on this thing.
Remember, they originally said that they wanted the Disinformation Bureau, or whatever they're calling it, the Ministry of Whatever, that they wanted at the NSC, which would attach it to the White House.
But even the NSC and the White House were like, we don't have anything to do with this.
We're going to push that aside.
But they couldn't get rid of it completely, so they ended up sticking it at DHS. And they put it on Mayorkas' plate.
And Mayorkas didn't want it.
And even Vice President Kamala Harris said, this thing is a joke.
It's going to blow up in your face.
Nobody's going to want this.
But people like Jen Psaki and people on Team Biden were pushing for this up and down because they said, well, it's about COVID and it's about this.
Originally, it was going to be out COVID. And really anything that was going on with the White House, right?
And I think the dirty little secret in all of this is that the fact checkers obviously are in communication with the White House and they always have been, right?
And so whenever there's a problem, whenever somebody accidentally reports something true, particularly with COVID, they would call up the White House.
The White House would call up these fact checkers.
This is what we're pretty sure is going on.
And then they would say, hey, you got to fact check this stuff.
You got to take it down from Instagram.
You got to take it down from Facebook.
You got to get away from all these places.
So that's how government censorship works here in these United States currently in modern day America.
But what they're doing, what they're doing now is they've stuck it over at DHS. And so they've got to make some, you know, papered over argument.
Well, it's not going to be about that because it's illegal immigrants and sure, whatever.
Right.
It's a law enforcement entity.
And it's kind of, kind of, a redheaded stepchild because nobody wants to own this thing.
Nobody wants to take credit for having to have to do this to set this thing up.
And when it comes to Yankovic, when they look at her record, nobody is even willing to defend it.
Yeah, Jen Psaki will make some comments about, oh, well, she had this fellowship with the Clintons in Ukraine.
So that's...
Wait, wait, wait.
It's like every time you learn something new about Nina Yankovic, you want to ask more questions about it.
Like, what do you mean she had a fellowship with the Clintons?
And what do you mean that she was...
It was the Clinton Fulbright Fellowship for Public Policy, to be fair...
And she was advising the Ukrainian ministry.
She's actually from the Ukrainian ministry.
That's where she was working.
And now she wants to do that here in the United States.
Who is this person?
Why do we have a thing like this?
Why is 1984 coming true more and more every day?
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Pope Francis is making headlines for a recent comment that he made speaking to an Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, stating...
That NATO's barking at Russia's door may have led to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
And he said that he has offered to meet the Russian president in Moscow.
In an interview with the Italian newspaper, Pope Francis reflected on Russia's aggression toward its neighbor and said, well, he might not go so far as to say NATO's presence in nearby countries provoked Moscow, but it perhaps facilitated the invasion.
He also condemned the brutality of the war.
And compared it to a civil war in Rwanda.
What's interesting if you go to the actual Italian paper here's what they printed.
Pope Francis' concern is that the war for the moment will not stop.
I've got a translation of it, machine translation.
He also thinks about the roots of this behavior and about the reasons that pushed Russia to such a war.
He said perhaps the barking of NATO at Russia's door prompted the head of the Kremlin to react badly and unleash the conflict and anger that I don't know if it was provoked, but perhaps eased.
Yes.
He then also said when they asked him the question of supplying of Western weapons to the Ukrainian resistance, he said, I can't answer.
I'm too far away to the question of whether it is right to supply the Ukrainians.
But he did also make a point where he was talking about the Spanish Civil War.
And he said there was a situation that wars were being tested before the use of weapons.
And this was the point, right, to test the weapons.
And he said there was a situation recently, two or three years ago, at the port of Genoa, which is in Italy.
He's talking to an Italian paper.
Obviously, it lives in Italy, in Rome, in Vatican City.
He said.
Workers of the port of Genoa were transporting weapons from a large freighter to a transport that would eventually send them to Yemen.
In Yemen, the Saudis have been in war for several years now.
The port workers said they didn't want to transfer the weapons, and they said, let's think of the children of Yemen.
It's a small thing, but a nice gesture.
There should be so many like that.
Now look, I've been a critic of Pope Francis on a lot of things.
For a lot of his participation in the cover-ups of sex scandals, for some of the criminals that were posing.
Right?
The devout priests.
I've been critical of him for not calling out Biden, for his, President Biden, for his, you know, claiming to be a devout Catholic while not supporting any of the positions of the church whatsoever.
Right?
And I've also been critical of just many of his liberal stances in general.
You know, why is the Pope getting into these issues of global warming or prompting this stuff?
The Pope should be standing for morality in the world and conducting the preachings of Jesus Christ, spreading the teaching of Jesus Christ.
You don't really hear him talk about that very much.
But what's interesting to hear is that he's got the entire neoliberal Western establishment up in arms against him because he dared question.
He dared question whether or not NATO and the expansion, the rapid expansion of NATO across the continent of Europe right up to and now including Russia's historic border, the buffer, right, with NATO. With Western Europe being that state of Ukraine.
The word Ukraine, of course, meaning at the border, right?
That's literally what the word means.
So at the border.
Russia has always viewed it as a borderland.
Traditionally, it has been a borderland with Western Europe, Belarus as well.
And so the question, of course, is not necessarily one of should the war be happening?
And he condemns that.
He says, we don't want this war.
We are anti-war.
And if you remember, Pope John Paul II also condemned the Iraq War and condemned the United States invasion there.
But what he's saying here is perhaps we should look at both sides.
And perhaps we should understand what led this war to happening.
Kind of amazing to hear something like that from a world leader of his stature.
Could we at least look at both sides of the situation?
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Buy now, pay later.
You just heard that was JP Morgan.
They're pushing this new thing.
What is buy now, pay later?
Well, it's another way to get you deeper and deeper in debt.
And no, I'm not going full Dave Ramsey on you, but I do absolutely support Dave Ramsey and everything he says about getting out of personal debt.
Now, I know there's some people out there, they say, look, you know, I use my credit card, I pay it off, I get the miles, we do this, we do that, we go to trips.
Got it.
Sure.
Understand.
Personally, I'm not a credit card guy.
I've never had a personal credit card in my entire life.
When I was in the military for travel, we had this, like, government credit card that we used, so I can't say I've never had a credit card, but I never had a personal credit card.
I've got a car loan.
I've got a mortgage on those specific items.
But in terms of using a credit card, I've never wanted to live that way.
I wanted to make money, spend the money that I've got, live within my means, call that frugal, call it conditional.
I don't know what you want to call it, but that's just how I've always been.
But listen to this, and this is the story out of San Francisco Gate.
This is the new debt.
The new way to get the next generation of debt.
And of course, J.P. Morgan is pushing it.
So here it is.
Do a quick scan of TikTok, and you'll find trendy young people casually blowing hundreds or thousands of dollars on clothes and jewelry, often set to the clattering, bass-boosted din of Florida rapper Saucy Santana's fittingly titled Material Girl.
Plenty of these influencers, florists, Get the goods.
They flaunt for free.
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They present an easier, more seamless alternative to having to type out your credit card information again and again.
So it's a new version of a credit card that goes right through the app.
And all you can do is just right there, your point of sale becomes immediate for these items.
Buy now, pay later.
They're known as point of sale loans.
So you can get your haul for the latest fit when you go and use your point of sale.
Buy now, pay later.
But what is this?
What is this really?
And when I went on Spillover with Alex Clark, I talked about this.
And I said, outfits and clothing, Rent the Runway, is a specific example of this.
You'll own nothing and you'll be happy.
They don't want you owning things.
This is the World Economic Forum.
This is Davos.
They've got their meeting coming up in May.
It was delayed, but they're all going up there to Switzerland again to talk about everything they're going to do to put you in debt and put the next generation in debt.
They want millennials, they want Gen Z, they want you in debt.
But you've got to get the latest outfit.
You've got to get the latest haul.
Now you can get in debt just by going on TikTok.
Of course they're doing it on Instagram too.
You go right through buy now, pay later.
Buy now, pay later.
Isn't that amazing?
But you notice you never own.
They don't want you to own.
They want you to owe.
Because they want you to be renters.
They want you to be debt slaves.
And they want you stuck in debt and in this cycle of debt for the rest of your life based on a consumer materialist culture.
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What did we talk about today?
Elon Musk securing $7 billion in equity for Twitter, blasting media matters, and calling out everyone's favorite Hungarian billionaire.
Second, Secretary of America's testifying amid criticism of the disinformation board's Third, Pope Francis says NATO may have started the war in Ukraine by barking at Putin's door.
And finally, buy now, pay later, sending the TikTok generation spiraling into debt.
That's where they want you.
But before we go, it's time for today's history break.
So today is Cinco de Mayo.
But what's Cinco de Mayo all about?
It's a celebration of the defeat of the French Empire's invasion of Mexico in the 1860s, taking advantage of the U.S. Civil War.
Napoleon III, Spain, and the U.K. wanted to institute regime change in Mexico to a pro-French, pro-European government.
After the Civil War ended, the U.S. aided Mexico with weapons and thousands of volunteer soldiers.
Cinco de Mayo is the date of the Battle of Puebla.
Mexico won the battle, but France would go on to occupy nearly the entire country installing Maximilian von Habsburg as the Emperor of Mexico.
However, due to widespread guerrilla warfare, Napoleon III withdrew by 1867, and Maximilian was later executed.
