Elon Musk RESTORES Jordan Peterson, Babylon Bee, Says FREE SPEECH IS BACK, Woke LOSING Their Minds
Elon Musk RESTORES Jordan Peterson, Babylon Bee, Says FREE SPEECH IS BACK, Woke LOSING Their Minds. Leftists claim that the website is on the verge of collapse despite it working just fine.
While Elon claims free speech is back and he has unbanned some he outright refused to reinstate Trump pending a decision later and others like Jones himself.
This is still a massive blow to democrats who now want an FTC probe exposing their corruption for what it truly is.
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Today is November 18th, 2022, and our first story.
Elon Musk has begun restoring accounts.
The Babylon Bee, Jordan Peterson, and Kathy Griffin are back!
And he says free speech is now the rule of Twitter, but not freedom of reach.
However, despite that, he's still saying he will not reinstate Alex Jones and there's been no decision made on Trump, so we will see.
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That's the diversity they talk about.
A special screening only for black people.
Interesting.
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Now, let's get into that first story.
He says the new law of the land is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach, which is an improvement.
It's a bit better, but it's far from perfect.
We'll get into some of the hypocrisy.
Elon Musk is outright refusing to reinstate Alex Jones, but we'll get to that.
For the past 24 hours or so, there's been an ongoing rumor that Twitter was on the verge of shutting down.
A brilliant play by leftist organizers, who are evil, by the way.
When Twitter started banning conservatives, conservatives started creating alternatives.
We saw websites like MindsGab, Parler, Getter, etc.
They did not lie to you in order to get you to sign up, for the most part.
I mean, there's salesmanship and stuff like that, and I can't pretend like I know everything, but For the most part, they said, hey look, they're banning people.
Come join our platform before you get banned.
But this was true.
Parler started taking off and then all of a sudden, Silicon Valley coordinated and destroyed Parler.
Now, the left is pushing the lie that with no engineers, Twitter will shut down.
It's clever organizing.
Convincing people you're going to lose your following unless you sign up for Mastodon or Tribal Social or one of these other websites.
It was all a big lie.
Twitter's not going anywhere.
There may be some issues, but Elon Musk is cleaning house.
Now, okay, fine.
It's possible the website shuts down, but I really doubt it.
On the surface, Twitter may appear like a big, powerful website, but at its core, it's rather simple.
You don't need all these weird features.
You don't need a human rights team.
How does that make sense?
Right now, the left is freaking out because Elon Musk was locking out certain Twitter employees, shutting down the office, calling in engineers at the last minute, and they're all screaming, well, it's been fun, Twitter!
There was this big obituary thing they did, and now Twitter's bigger than ever.
More users than ever, says Elon Musk.
And to be honest, he published an image of their, I believe it was their monthly, their daily active users, I'm sorry.
I think it was.
And he can't lie about those numbers because he's selling these numbers to advertisers.
I mean, he can lie physically, but if he does, he'd be committing fraud.
So I believe him when he says, Twitter is bigger than ever.
Now with the return of Jordan Peterson and the Babylon Bee, it's probably going to get bigger yet again.
I'm not so convinced that Kathy Griffin will attract any particular usage, but you know, sure, fine, whatever.
The left is screaming out saying, this is BS.
This is a threat to the public good.
And it's going to cause crises of our elections.
Man, these people are evil.
And they are crying about it.
Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks comes out and says they don't believe in free speech.
And it's all lies.
Look, these high-profile leftist individuals who run big companies, I know they're smart enough to run big companies, so they know they're not being honest when they lie about what's going on.
Trying to claim that the right thinks free speech means you can't get fired for going on Twitter and disparaging your boss.
Yet nobody's saying that's free.
I mean, there's free speech.
These Twitter employees are still on the platform, smack-talking.
Elon's not banning them.
He's just saying, you shouldn't work here.
You're a threat to this company.
And they are disparaging it.
But I'm gonna tell you outright.
As good of news as this appears to be, I, uh, I don't care.
I was actually a bit offended when one user told Elon Musk to reinstate Alex Jones, and he outright just said no.
Okay, fine.
I'm not really offended.
It's just kind of like, are you kidding me, dude?
Maybe he's joking.
Maybe it's a troll.
Who knows?
Maybe he's simply saying, not the next thing he'll do.
He tweeted, what's the next thing Twitter should do?
Someone said, bring back Alex Jones.
He said, no.
No?
You want me to pay you money, but you're not going to really bring about free speech?
Elon claims it's free speech now, but not freedom of reach, and he explains it.
That would include bringing Trump back, and Alex Jones, and Milo, and Laura Loomer, and many others that were banned from the platform.
So we'll see if Elon is being genuine, or if he just thinks there's a market opportunity to reinstate some of these accounts.
We'll see.
But let's get into this.
And then I want to show you the outrage from all of these leftists freaking out, their lies and disingenuous tactics trying to justify why people should leave the platform.
Here's the news from the post-millennial.
Babylon Bee, Jordan Peterson, Kathy Griffin back on Twitter.
Elon Musk tweeted.
New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.
Negative slash hate tweets will be max deboosted and demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter.
You won't find the tweet unless you specifically seek it out, which is no different from the rest of the internet.
I completely agree.
This is akin to what I had been saying already.
Maybe Elon listened to Bill Ottman of mine's, or my tweets related to this, that if someone posts something that breaks the rules, you simply put it in the shadow realm, the nether regions of Twitter.
Now look, Twitter's under no obligation to amplify your speech, but removing you from the platform for your opinions I think is wrong.
If someone wants to follow your account, they should be allowed to.
So they will go to your page and find it.
That's fine, in my opinion.
The problem, however, is the overreach.
What does a negative tweet mean?
What does a hate tweet mean?
Isn't the tweet from the Babylon Bee that got their page suspended also a hate tweet?
Or is your opinion something different?
Elon will have to create a logical framework for what constitutes a hate tweet.
But I've said this a long time.
For a long time.
YouTube, for instance.
YouTube has no obligation to place my videos in the algorithm so everyone sees it.
They have no obligation to sell ads on my video and then give me the money.
Now that creates problems, and I'll be completely honest with you.
Why are we doing promo spots on this channel?
I rarely do.
Yo, YouTube is basically stripping revenue from this channel.
Just this one, don't ask me why.
Maybe it's because I'm talking about election stuff.
Who knows?
But revenue on the past few videos I've done, dropping like 90%.
So, I'll pick up a direct sponsor, which more than covers what YouTube is stripping away.
It is what it is.
But I don't think YouTube's under an obligation to be my ad sales guy.
I got an ad sales guy, so if they're not going to deliver, I'll find someone else.
Fine.
What I don't think is that YouTube, Facebook, Twitter should be deleting free speech.
They don't have to promote it, that's fine, but I'm on the platform the same as I'm using a phone.
Now, Elon Musk may claim to say that this is free speech, but I don't buy it.
First, let's take a look at some of the things he said.
In response to this, he added, Note, this applies just to the individual tweet, not the whole account.
Now, I agree with that too.
If you tweet something and they deem it to break the rules or whatever, I get it.
It could threaten advertisers.
Advertisers don't want to have a toothpaste ad running next to war footage or something.
But you got to define what that is.
And that means you as an individual on your account, you don't gotta worry about this all the time.
Now here's the reality.
This already was the rule of Twitter.
Shadow banning and silencing and all that stuff.
But, it looks like Elon Musk is basically saying, we're not going to permanently ban you for the most part.
So, okay.
The Babylon Bee says, we're back!
Let that sink in.
Let that sink in, absolutely.
Elon Musk said, freedom Fridays.
One user said, start unbanning, where is the Babylon Bee?
Akir The Don responded, dreams come true.
The Babylon Bee has returned, and there it is, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, he's back, he says, thanks, Elon Musk.
With Michaela Peterson just down there saying, perfect.
Wonderful.
And then we have this brilliant transaction.
Elon Musk says, what should Twitter do next?
Next, next, next.
One Twitter user says, bring back Alex Jones, and he says, no.
Okay.
I'm not a fan.
Elon could have ignored it.
He could have said maybe.
He could have said not yet.
He said no.
Now I'll be fair.
We're looking at a major net positive with what Elon Musk is doing.
But saying no outright to this, I don't trust Elon.
He says they haven't made a decision yet on Donald Trump.
Why not?
Donald Trump didn't break the rules.
They just removed him because they were like, he's an insurrectionist.
Why no decision there?
He then says no to Alex Jones.
Alex Jones got banned because he was yelling at Oliver Darcy and calling him mean names.
Well, I thought Elon Musk's rules were that they would just ban those things, send them to the Shadow Realm.
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Maybe Elon is saying the next thing he's going to do will not be to bring back Alex Jones.
But I'll see you when I believe it.
I'm sorry, I'll believe it when I see it.
There you go.
I think the first thing he should do is unban Project Veritas and James O'Keefe.
But we will see.
Now, I want to commend and give credit to the leftists who were making up fake stories to try and cause a mass exodus from Twitter.
And it partly worked, but I don't think it'll work for long.
Rolling Stone ran this story the other day.
All Twitter offices closed as hundreds of employees resign.
The Twitter CEO gave employees until Thursday to decide whether to leave or commit to an extremely hardcore culture.
I talked about this in an early morning segment, but basically what they did.
Was they started telling everybody, look, I got an inside source at Twitter saying, Twitter can't exist.
It's going to shut down.
Because he fired everybody.
And then they started, all these journalists got together, like all of them, and said, Twitter obituary.
It was fun while it lasted.
What they were trying to do is convince regular people that unless they were in control, you were going to lose all of your followers.
Oh no!
But you've worked so hard on your followers!
Better sign up for Mastodon before it's too late!
That's what they were doing.
Creating a sense of urgency.
No.
A lot of people did sign up for Mastodon.
But Mastodon bans things that are illegal in Germany.
It's like, well, what?
Sure.
Maybe not every server, but I think that's what Mastodon actually says.
And it's also very hard to use.
I, again, mentioned this earlier.
I have a Mastodon account I set up a long time ago.
I have no idea how to find it.
So, it just doesn't exist as far as I'm concerned.
Following this news, we got more news.
From Zoe Schiffer.
New.
Email from Elon to the engineering team.
Anyone who can actually write software, please report to the 10th floor at 2 p.m.
today.
Before doing so, please email me a bulletin point summary of what your code commits have achieved in the past six months.
Elon Musk is also asking for up to 10 screenshots of the most salient lines of code from Twitter engineers.
Again, no context as to what this is about.
We know Twitter's engineering teams have been gutted by layoffs and resignations.
What's next?
Yesterday, Twitter told employees the offices were closed and badge access was suspended.
In an email to remote Twitter engineers, Elon Musk says he wants to speak to people on video.
Only those who cannot physically get to Twitter HQ are excused.
But if possible, I would encourage you to fly to San Francisco to be present in person.
He'll be at the office until midnight.
I am having a difficult time believing this is real, and I am looking at the emails.
So we shall see.
We shall see.
Oh, man.
Chris Hayes had a really interesting take on this.
He said, more seriously, without Google Reader as a fallback, I honestly am not sure how to synthesize the amount of info I need to do my job if this thing goes down.
Deliciously honest.
Thank you, Chris Hayes, for telling us how much you rely on the platform.
And I mean that legitimately.
A lot of people do.
It's kind of crazy, though.
I don't.
I record like, what do we do, three and a half, four hours of content per day?
Yeah, four hours of talking per day.
I don't need Twitter.
I will say, rather ironically, the overwhelming majority of this segment is tweets.
But that's because this news is particularly relevant to Twitter and it's breaking on Twitter.
But I do a lot of stories, and almost all the stories I do are based on news articles.
And we source our own news.
We have original reporting at TimCast.com, and we use a lot of original reporting.
We do a lot of the Daily Mail, yep.
And I'll tell you exactly why.
The left screams about it.
Dude, I won't, I got no problem saying it.
I'll pull up a ton of sources, and the Daily Mail's already compiled all of it, in like a very long piece, breaking it all down, and I'm like, man, these guys nail it.
They work hard.
A lot of tabloid garbage too, but hey, it is what it is.
When they're talking about stories like this, they'll have like a thousand words on it within an hour.
Impressive.
Now, it's fair to say that Twitter helped speed this process up, creating these articles, but not all of it.
Many journalists have become lazy.
They've not been fact-checking.
So, Chris, this is why you get so much wrong.
The Covington Catholic kids?
Yeah, not helped by Twitter.
So, fair point.
A lot of people will be hurt by that, but I'm not going to cry about it.
Here's Thomas Zimmer.
He is a visiting professor from Georgetown.
Democracy in its discontents.
Here's what he writes.
Oh, begin the whinging and the crying.
He writes, the world's most important political communications platform, a virtual public square functioning as an essential part of democratic culture, destroyed within weeks, willfully or not, hard to tell, by some tech oligarch, and no one even tried to stop him.
A historic disaster.
Dude, you're saying that on Twitter!
The platform is still there!
He goes on, I have no snark in me, no sarcasm. I find this devastating. An outrageous failure
to protect a public good that has significant democratizing effects from the destructive
meddling of narcissistic elites who are being guided by a fundamentally anti-democratic worldview.
For those who are rightfully concerned about the seemingly impending destruction of the
virtual public square, we We just discussed Musk, Twitter's importance, and the libertarian to far-right tech oligarchy's anti-democratic project in the new episode of our podcast.
These people are deliciously evil.
You know, it's like, it's fun to watch them whinge.
But it's funny.
It's fun.
They're like, allowing people to speak and stop censoring their political ideas opposes democracy.
Talk about fascists.
All I wanted was less Nazis on this platform, Elon.
So please ban people like Thomas Zimmer.
Not really.
They should be allowed to speak as well.
But hey, what can I say?
Literally all we ever wanted was an edit button and fewer Nazis, says Jacob Rubishkin, a reporter for Inside Elections and formerly of NBC News.
And he says, but when the world needed him most, he vanished, and it's Ashton Kutcher, for some reason.
Fewer Nazis.
Uh-huh.
Bro, there's like almost no Nazis on the platform.
But they just lie because they're in a cult.
Yeah, it's one big cult where anyone who's not in the cult is a Nazi.
So, when you allow people under the platform to actually speak, it's, oh no, it's more Nazis.
Yeah, okay dude, that old lady who said learn to code ain't a Nazi.
In fact, her husband probably fought the Nazis, but sure.
Kurt Wagner says Elon Musk, a self-described free speech absolutist, has fired at least two senior Twitter engineers who called him out publicly on Twitter.
And another one, he says.
Oh yeah?
Okay.
Let's break this one down.
In this tweet from Cenk Uygur, he says, Elon Musk is firing everyone who criticizes him at Twitter.
Right-wing free speech advocates are always the first to strike down their critics.
They want to protect their speech, not yours.
They love cancel culture.
When they're the ones doing the canceling.
Okay, let's break this down for these guys who, I can only assume, are being willfully obtuse.
It is not free speech to crap all over your company and your boss.
Well, let me say that.
It is not censorship if you get fired because you were crapping all over your company and your boss.
It is not cancel culture if you are fired for disparaging your company and your boss.
It is cancel culture when you get censored, shut down, and silenced for your opinions.
It is cancel culture if you are fired from your job because you were having a private discussion or because you said something in the past.
It would be cancel culture if Elon Musk was firing some guy because 10 years ago he tweeted a naughty word and then he bought the company and says, I don't like what you said back then.
It is not cancel culture.
If you're working for a company and you say, my company is garbage, my boss is a piece of crap, and then you get fired.
Now, many, to be fair, may argue that working at a company and saying something nasty and then you get fired is cancel culture.
I don't necessarily think so.
I do think, depending on the institution, you should be allowed to tweak your mind.
I also recognize, if you're a representative of a company, and you say something like, overtly racist, and they fire you, I'm like, eh, well, depending on what you said, I can understand why that's damaging to the company and why they don't want to be associated with it.
The real problem with cancel culture is, in good faith, I would say this.
If you tweet a naughty word and your company fires you, in good faith I'm saying, well, like, I understand that.
Because we don't want people to disparage their companies and cause problems for them.
The issue.
If someone were to come out, you know, we've had people at Timcast tweet really nasty things and post things and I'm just like, I'm not going to fire you for it, I'm just going to tell you, like, be mindful and have more tact.
But, and even if it could be damaging, I understand there are limits, and the limits are the activism.
The real problem of cancel culture doesn't come when someone is fired by the company, it comes when the activists organize and create fake campaigns.
Well, I guess they're real campaigns, but they go after advertisers, try to get them to pull out of the company to cause damage, and then the person caves and fires the individual.
That is cancel culture.
The problem is the activists who are using Twitter to organize.
So, Cenk.
And to Kurt Wagner.
If, wait, isn't Kurt Wagner the name of Nightcrawler?
I don't know, maybe I'm wrong.
Anyway, I digress.
The X-Men, you know?
It is not a free speech issue.
Elon is allowing them to speak, but he's just removing them from the company where they clearly have disdain for the company.
And it's not even about something they said that's naughty, it's about a risk to the internal systems.
If they came out and said something like they believed in wokeness and critical race theory and Elon fired them, I'd be agreeing with you.
I'd say, hey, you know, look, you probably shouldn't do that.
Right now.
Twitter migration is trending.
This is what you get from Mastodon.
Alex Vranis says, I don't know, he's got 18,000 retweets on this.
Who's this guy?
Just a he-him, 710 followers, but he got 20,000 retweets.
He says, Mastodon may not replace Twitter, but at least it has better leadership.
Meet Eugene, CEO of Mastodon Social.
And surprise, surprise, it's a tweet revealing them to be in a cult.
He says, if anyone has any questions about the platform and the Fediverse, I'll be happy to answer them.
Someone asks, why do you silence the alt-right instances?
And he says, Nazis are bad and I do not want to give them a platform for recruiting.
The person responded, a platform for recruiting?
Haha, Nazis haven't been around for a long time.
And the guy says, that BS doesn't work on me, man.
Okay.
Here's the point.
You're in a cult, Eugen.
You're in a cult.
To go around screaming Nazis all the time... Yeah.
If someone says, listen, the Nazis have been gone for a long time.
Yes.
You can clarify like, bro, I'm just speaking colloquially and referring to people who are like racist white supremacist types.
Fine.
But the issue is, with the cult, anyone who's not in the cult is a Nazi.
And that's why I say, bro, you're in a cult.
Because the language you use is of the cult.
You could explain your thoughts, and I'd say probably not, but if you are speaking in words that are directly representative of the cult, well, then you're probably in a cult.
Oh, here we go.
Ken Klippenstein.
He put out a really great story about the government was colluding with big tech.
He tweets.
Oh, cool.
Quote, negative tweets as defined by a right-wing billionaire are going to be throttled.
My friend, I hear you.
I am also concerned of this.
But bro, why didn't you come out when the other billionaire was in control and doing the exact same thing?
Literally, the exact same thing.
Forgive me if I don't take you seriously.
Ah, and here we are.
Hal Singer!
Who is this Hal Singer on Twitter?
Managing Director of Econ One, Adjunct Professor at Utah Econ.
He says, if I had Biden's ear, I'd tell him to seize Twitter's assets, hire back the former employees, and convert the site into a truly digital non-profit public square.
And he says, looks like there's a Twitter handle devoted to this policy worth a follow.
And he says, all these libertarians in my replies quote tweets saying, we love, love, love the repression of workers' liberties, particularly in the form of fealty pledges, so long as they come from a powerful employer in the private sector, blah, blah, blah.
This guy is really dumb.
Also getting these, you can't nationalize a company in the USA tweets, blah, blah, blah.
He is very dumb.
Suraj Hajmi says, now that's what I call a fascist.
I'm gonna slow down there, my friends, and say, sure, sure, sure.
I get it.
You know, wanting Biden to seize the platform now that Elon Musk is in charge.
But I don't completely disagree with him.
You know why?
Because if the federal government did seize Twitter, the Constitution would apply, and boy would that open the floodgates!
So bring it on, leftists!
Nationalize Twitter!
We got a Constitution going on!
You know what that means?
Right now, Elon Musk is saying that he's going to not amplify certain speech.
Sure, if you're following someone and they say something naughty, Twitter says they're not going to show you it.
You have to seek it out yourself.
I actually respect that.
I do think it's probably better if you follow someone you get their post.
Probably better that any post that breaks the rule is just blurred or something.
If the federal government were to seize Twitter, you know what that would mean?
I can follow anyone and they must deliver.
The post office, as far as I know, has limited discretion in deciding not to deliver your mail.
I mean, if you have like a dog and there's a threat to someone's safety, totally get it.
But I'm pretty sure the post office can't be like, we've politically decided not to service your account.
Yeah, that's probably illegal.
I mean, you know, maybe I'm wrong.
But on free speech grounds with Twitter, there's a difference between receiving packages and hearing someone speak.
Imagine if the federal government had the right to disable your phone number.
Like, just because they didn't like what you had to say.
Yeah, that'd violate the First Amendment.
So, uh, by all means, dude, let the government nationalize this.
I'd love for that to be the case, that we have free speech.
Ah, yes, and here we are with the Washington Post.
Jeff Bezos can't be happy about this.
How to download your tweets in case Twitter shuts down permanently.
What I find truly amazing in this whole arc is the news cycle doesn't care about Twitter, but for some reason, wow, it's dominating the news.
Just goes to show you that these journalists live in a wacky Wally world bubble, and they think it's the most important thing ever.
They're scared they're going to lose their Twitter followers, which they use to score free donuts and better seats on airplanes.
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We had a few viral stories last week with Elad Eliyahu's coverage in New York of this big protest.
And I bought Twitter Blue for it to get the verification badge.
So y'all know it actually is the account and it's verified and all.
That's official.
And I haven't bought it on my personal account, the one with the actual big following, 1.4 million followers.
Thank you for following me.
I mean, it's crazy that people follow me.
And I appreciate it.
But I don't know if I'm going to spend the $8, even for the verification badge.
Now look, initially I said I would pay $8 for expanded services.
But Elon Musk came out and said he's not going to reinstate Alex Jones.
And he said it rather definitively.
Look, you don't have to like Alex Jones, but under the rules of Twitter, as he's stating them right now, Alex should be allowed back on the platform and any negative tweet or hateful tweet, like when he was yelling at Oliver Darcy, who got him banned, that would just be suppressed.
Not even really that, it would just be relegated to Alex's Twitter account.
You've got to go find it.
It won't appear in your timeline or anything like that.
If Elon's not going to abide by even what he's claiming his own policies are, then why should I trust this product is going to be worth paying for?
Well, for the time being, I'll say this.
I may eventually sign up.
We'll see.
Maybe in a couple months.
Because I want Twitter to succeed.
Especially under Elon Musk.
Bringing back Babylon Bee and Jordan Peterson I think was a good move.
So I want there to be success here.
And I know Elon needs there to be success.
So with that being said, I'll tell you what I did.
I bought a big ol' ad on Twitter.
It is our Ka-Ma-Ga-Ma-Ga t-shirt.
It's the one of Donald Trump going Super Saiyan.
I did it kind of as a gag, but it's a big ad buy.
Here's what I want to see.
I see a bunch of corporate press.
They have the official badge.
Why?
Why do all of these corporate left-leaning journalist organizations get an official badge?
Because they're advertisers?
Okay.
How much do I gotta spend to get an official tag?
Do I get to be double verified, Elon?
I just bought a big ad spend.
On my t-shirt.
And we've already sold 400.
I think today we may have sold 100 or so shirts or something like that.
The ad hasn't even turned on yet, by the way, so thank you for buying the shirt.
But if I put this shirt up and it makes money, well then I'll keep advertising because I made money, right?
So I committed $25,000 to this ad buy.
Hey, I said it was a lot of money.
Because I want to see, and I'm confident, that we will make more money in shirts by advertising.
That's the point.
I want to see if Twitter works.
If we sell a couple thousand t-shirts, we will have made back that money we spent on ads.
So I don't think I'm going to lose anything.
And if that works, we can run ad campaigns for other shirts.
And if that works, we are going to be successfully selling political silly t-shirts on Twitter and we'll keep doing it.
Do I get a double verification then?
That's what I want to see.
I think Twitter ads work.
I do.
We've already made money.
I mean, I posted a tweet.
We sold them my shirts.
Ad hasn't even started yet.
So we'll see.
Surprisingly, they haven't started the ad because I think there's a skeleton crew at Twitter and they have to like manually review it and press go.
So, you know, we'll see.
I don't know.
But I'm not too happy.
I'm not too happy.
What I mean by that is I'm happy, but I'm not, like, as happy as I could be.
And that's especially over the Alex Jones thing.
I want to see Project Veritas reinstated.
I get it if Alex Jones is dangerous and volatile and Elon's like, bro, I can only do so much.
But you understand that's the way it goes.
That when Elon says, I can only do so much, Rest assured, when the advertisers pull out, eventually, he'll start giving in.
More importantly, he's making a big bet.
He's making a bet that there's more free speech people than anti-free speech people.
But if the free speech people say, Elon, I'm not giving you the money because you won't reinstate Alex Jones, then he has to rely on advertisers.
And if the advertisers say, I'm not giving you money because you reinstated Jordan Peterson, then he's got no money.
So, I think he's got to pick a side.
And I think that side is going to be free speech.
And I think he's going to have to reinstate Alex Jones.
You want me to spend money on this platform?
That's what it's going to have to be.
I get it.
For the time being, I've made a decent commitment on an ad campaign to see if the platform works, and I'm convinced it will.
And in good faith.
I don't want to sit back.
I'll put it this way.
I said I wasn't going to get Twitter blue until I started reinstating people.
They did.
Several people over the past week or so were reinstated.
It was interesting to see.
Now he's brought back the Babylon Bee?
Okay, okay.
He has shown me that behind the counter, he's making the grilled cheese.
Now I'm confident the grilled cheese is for sale.
I'll put some money behind that.
But, I want to see improvement.
So, that being said, ladies and gentlemen, crazy days indeed.
I'll leave it there.
Next segment's coming up at 8 p.m.
tonight over at YouTube.com slash TimCastIRL.
Thanks for hanging out, and I'll see you all then.
The Twitter implosion is reportedly upon us, but I can't seem to see it anywhere.
So, if we're talking about implosion in terms of Elon Musk firing tons of people, well, yeah, that's actually happening.
But the company shutting down?
Okay, let me slow down.
For those of you that don't know and don't care about Twitter, I will say it is a relatively important place for a news feed.
I mean, what I use it for mostly is following political personalities and news organizations' journalists to see what they're talking about.
Most of the people I follow, it's like journalists and news organizations and then like political commentators.
So it is interesting because it is useful.
Someone will break news right away and I'll see it there faster than anything else, which is great.
But I could also just, you know, go to news sources directly because typically people are posting things from news sources.
But there's also memes and stuff like that.
So look, there's value here, right?
But for too long the company has been beholden to woke activists.
Why?
A study I covered quite a ways back found that digital marketing, in terms of Twitter communities, completely overlapped with Democrats.
Kid you not.
They actually had this bubble chart where they showed what people tweet about and who they interact with.
Conservatives are over here, Democrats are over here, digital marketing specialists are right here.
So here's what happens.
A big brand says, we want to spend $20 million in ad buys.
A handful of woke activists start spam tweeting at them.
The company then says, we're not going to advertise on Twitter until certain things are removed.
That's why you saw the censorship for the most part.
Elon Musk knew that.
And it's why he pushed Twitter blue so heavily as soon as he got in.
Like, guys, we need subscriptions.
We need it now.
Because otherwise, this company is just going to keep melting.
There was funny news, I guess.
SpaceX, I think it was, buying a big, getting a big ad buy.
On Twitter, and they're trying to make it seem like Elon's trying to prop his own company up.
But apparently SpaceX is just starting to advertise across the board in other places as well.
But anyway, I digress.
Last night we got word from the departing Twitter employees who are crying about it, and they won't shut up, that the website can't last.
That it's going to shut down.
This is the last day.
I have a feeling, actually, that Twitter may hiccup.
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised.
Some of the things Elon has done have been, like, eye-rollishly bad.
Double verification!
Yikes, bro, come on.
Because he wants to keep the advertisers, but also wants people to get verified, because he needs a subscription revenue.
So anyway, what we're being told...
Is that the Twitter, when we wake up, would no longer be there?
Well, sure enough, it's still there.
Everything's running, and Elon eliminated almost all of the staff.
All that's remaining now is around 10%, reportedly 10% of the company, and everything's still working.
Now, what I'd like to do is, for the sake of schadenfreude, Show you the videos of these people quitting, and then we'll actually talk about what's going on in the future of Twitter and why this is all a good thing.
Elon Musk fires the overwhelming majority of employees at Twitter, and it's a good thing.
So, they say in the Daily Mail, Twitter could lose 75% of its remaining 3,700 workers as hundreds resign overnight.
Ruthless Elon Musk locks staff out of offices to stop potential sabotage, and trolls critics, including AOC.
Well, good for him.
Let me show you this thread.
DM of Engineering on Twitter.
Funny, on Twitter, right?
Says, from Twitter Engineering to Elon Musk, goodbye.
And then, here we go.
With the salute emoji, we have Pavan.
He says, my watch ends today with Twitter 1.0.
It was an honor.
One person, Stefan, I resigned.
Another person has me blocked.
I don't even know who they are, but hey, how about that?
But I guess, if you're laughing because he was firing them, like, okay, I agree, that's kind of funny.
Kind of funny.
Yeah, here's where we end up.
Jim Bianco says supposedly Twitter lost 90% of its staff.
The fear is this app stops working soon.
Or is the real fear that it does not and it sends a powerful message to the rest of Silicon Valley and even all of corporate America about the true staffing needs.
Which brings me to this video.
Somebody posted this video.
Elon Musk responded to it.
So I watched it.
And Carl Icahn talking about how he fired an entire building of people.
12 floors.
I do think he could have made the story a bit more concise.
8 minutes and 34 seconds.
But boy was this video a hoot.
Let me break it down for you.
Carl Icahn.
He bought a boxcar manufacturing company, or something like that, and he says, the real genius is, you get these great tax incentives.
You can write down the boxcar six, seven years, but keep it for 40, so it's basically free, you know, after a certain amount of time.
The government's incentivizing the production of these things.
So he says, he goes into this Third Avenue, I think he's in New York, and he's trying to figure out what these people do.
And they can't explain it.
They say, it's very arcane, but we'll show you.
And then he says, okay, I don't understand what you're doing.
And they're like, well, you know, we can explain it, but it's very hard and difficult.
He says, okay, whatever.
He explains how he wants to go find the COO in St.
Louis.
They do the manufacturing down there.
And they say, no, no, no, don't talk to them.
They're going to freak out and they're going to think you're going to start firing people.
And he's like, okay.
So he secretly calls the COO and says, I want to meet.
He goes down and meets the guy.
The guy explains what they do and he says, I get it.
I know exactly what you're doing.
And then he says, let's grab a drink.
He has a drink with the COO and he asks the guy, what are they doing?
Back in, I think it's in New York.
And the guy says, he says, if you, I'll give you the gist of it.
Fire all of them and I need 30 less people.
He said, how many people do you need to make this work?
And he goes, less than 30, minus 30.
And he goes, what do you mean?
And he goes, if you fire every single person in that office, 12 floors, I will need 30 less people here to manage them.
And so he's talking about how he's like, what?
This guy's crazy.
So he hires some consultants, professor, and they go into the New York office, 12 floors of people, and they start going through and asking everybody what they do and putting together a report.
After a few weeks, they come back with this big book and say, here's what they do.
And then Carl's like, I'm not gonna read that.
Tell me what they do.
And they're like, Mr. Icahn, you've been straight with us, so we're gonna be straight with you.
We have no idea what they're doing.
So, he went in and he FIRED EVERYONE.
And that's true.
That's what happened.
And he goes on to explain something.
You get these companies, they make a lot of money, the CEO's rich, they don't care, so they just keep these people on.
They don't get rid of them.
Well, eventually a new owner comes in and says, I'm not gonna keep paying these guys, I wanna make money.
And that's what happens.
And this is what's happening now with Elon Musk.
They're going through this period where, for a long time, the company had money, And so the company decided we're just going to hire people to do whatever they want and just kind of roll with it.
And then what happens?
People don't even work.
They don't even show up.
In that viral video from Veritas, one guy's like, I work four hours a week.
Or maybe even less than that.
They show up, they get massages, they play with Legos, they drink wine, and they do nothing.
Yeah, that's crazy.
So Elon Musk, this is what he's doing.
He's purging.
He's trying to find the people who actually make the site work.
Then, I'm willing to bet, he says to them, just like the story from Carl Icahn, Tell me what you need.
And the guys who actually do the work are going to be like, I could use a guy, you know, to do X, Y, or Z, and he's going to be like, okay.
He's going to eliminate the bloat, eliminate the massive overhead, get the costs way down, and this is always what he planned to do.
So here we go, ladies and gentlemen.
Ed Markey on Twitter.
You know him, you'll love him, Ed Markey, Senator, Democrat.
He says, Twitter is already on privacy probation and we're seeing fresh chaos every day.
That's why I'm joining Senator Blumenthal and asking the FTC to investigate any breach of Twitter's consent decree or other violations.
No company is above the law and Twitter must answer to the FTC.
Oh, here we go.
In this video from MSNBC, Amy Klobuchar threatens Musk.
We have no rules when it comes to do they get to keep their immunity when they're actually amplifying hate speech and misinformation.
There are ways.
We could put rules in place.
This could be a major focus for Congress next year.
No, it couldn't.
Because the Republicans have Congress.
So keep spinning your wheels.
But notice this.
What corruption truly looks like.
These individuals did nothing.
For years, Twitter was sowing chaos in politics.
Hunter Biden laptop story is just the most recent example, I suppose.
Probably not the most recent, but the most impactful.
They did nothing.
But now that Elon Musk is taking away their narrative machine, well, everybody loses their minds!
Sure.
Look, I think Elon Musk knows what he's doing.
It doesn't mean he will be successful.
But I think he knows what he's doing.
It's funny, someone tweeted, it may have been Cat Turd, I don't know.
Cat Turd's a Twitter user.
And they were like, Elon Musk is making self-driving cars and people think he can't make a self-driving Twitter.
Yo, Twitter is nothing complicated.
It's so simple that Mastodon exists.
Open source alternatives.
There's a bunch of different versions of Twitter.
There's Parler, there's Gab.
To an extent, there's mines.
Mines is kind of more like Facebook, but you know, they all function basically the same.
You make a post, people can see it.
What Twitter really is, is a hub.
It's a centralized hub that is hard to break.
People want to be here, so they are.
Even these people who are complaining about Twitter, saying it's going to shut down and they're quitting, They're still doing it on Twitter!
They're like, I quit Elon, I'm gonna tweet this right now.
He's got you by the balls.
Y'all are addicted, you're stuck in the machine.
Hey, I wouldn't care if Elon Musk hit the delete button.
Because I think Twitter's caused a lot of problems.
Driven people insane.
But, I prefer Elon Musk fix the problem.
Deal with the bots.
No longer will we see advertisers get harassed.
This is what Elon Musk needs to say to them.
And I hope he has, and I hope he understands this.
Because he's had meetings with advertisers.
He needs to say, when you get inundated by tweets of people saying they're angry, those aren't real people.
I am going to delete the bots, Verify users so you will actually know what your customers want.
Increasing the value of the platform for you.
Give it a chance.
That's what's happening.
It's always been this way.
Sock puppet accounts.
And activism, don't get me wrong.
So we put on an event in Pitman, New Jersey.
And there's a theater there, and across the street was a small little brewery.
And I don't think they exist anymore, but They started, at the last minute, anti-fuck streamists from across the country started threatening both venues.
They threatened the theater that they were gonna burn it down, so the theater cancelled our contract and said, sue me.
And I was like, are you kidding, dude?
Like, breach of contract, outright.
Okay.
Well, the brewery across the street was getting inundated with phone calls from people saying, like, why are you hosting these people?
And it's a cult, that's why.
And Twitter allows these cultists to organize.
And these were real people.
One guy calls in and he says, I'm upset that you're hosting this event and I'm not going to give you my business.
And the owner was just like, do you even live here?
And he was like, no.
Like, where do you live?
The guy lived in San Francisco.
And she's like, I don't care about your business.
And then hung up.
And I was just like, you see, this is it.
They get inundated with phone calls from people saying, we're angry.
And you know what?
It might work on big corporations who are too stupid to realize it's a troll campaign.
But the best part is when you're a small business serving a local community and you're like, bro, you don't live here.
Why do I care?
Like the people who buy from me are my neighbors.
I know who they are.
When it comes to national level stuff, Twitter is a disaster.
Now, I don't know how Elon solves that problem.
But dealing with the sock puppets and the bots is the first step.
Of course, people will always be able to use the internet to organize, but you can make it a little bit harder, I guess.
As for those that are fleeing to Mastodon, I love it.
I got no beef with Mastodon.
I like the Fediverse.
I actually think it would be really cool if Twitter federates.
Probably not gonna because there's investors who want to see a return, but federates is basically You can create a server.
I can log in to any one of these apps and follow you on that server.
So, like, at Timcast, uh, you know, Timcast at and then, like, the server name, you know, server.server or whatever, right?
And then you can be using whatever instance you want and follow me on a different server.
Unless, of course, they block the servers and they do that.
But Mastodon's fairly woke.
Right now, there's millions of people signing up.
The only problem?
Yo, it's so difficult to use.
And I'm not trying to drag mass on it, because I do like the tech.
I do like decentralized technology.
But they're very woke, you know?
They ban people for, like, whatever.
I think Gab is on the Fediverse.
So you can, you know, I'm pretty sure you can be on Gab and, like, follow someone on some other platform or something.
But I think they blocked Gab servers, so whatever.
Anyway, the code is not particularly complicated.
Here's the issue.
I have a Mastodon account.
I have no idea how to find it.
Like, you can't just log in.
No joke.
When Mastodon, years ago, was popping up, I signed up, and I have an account somewhere.
And it's like Timcast or something.
I don't know.
And so I try logging in.
I'm like, how do I find my account?
It's like, we don't know.
And I'm like, okay, well, I don't know either.
So, whatever.
And when you want to sign up now, there's like a wait list.
They have to like review your account, and they pre-ban people, so it's like, dude, okay, whatever, man.
Twitter is going to be the hub because Twitter is fun and funny.
Twitter uses an all- it's at an all-time high, and Elon Musk is laughing about it.
The more they write about it, the more we talk about it, the more people want to join the party.
Don't you want to be here, man?
Looking at all these Twitter employees be like, Elon Musk asked me to work, so I quit.
Okay.
It's like that video of that woman who was like, Starbucks made me work 8 hours this weekend!
I have to work Friday and Saturday!
There's so many customers!
Welcome to the job!
These people haven't worked!
It's funny.
I love the idea of Star Trek.
This future where people just want to work.
No.
No.
Uh-uh.
We're not cultivating that.
You know, they try and play this idea like when there's no currency and people don't need money, they're able to just do what they want.
And I'm like, no they won't!
They're gonna sit around and complain.
They're gonna find a fake reason to complain.
They're gonna come up with some wacky cult religion and then go around screaming because they need purpose.
I am not confident the Star Trek future is upon us based on what happens to people.
You know, you see them on TikTok and Twitter when they finally have to work and they're like, uh, we need a union.
Okay dude, I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.
No, you know what?
I'm going to save it, actually.
But we've got big plans in the works.
I've talked about the cafe that we want to launch, so I will put it this way.
In the works is a plan for a cafe with proprietary products, and I want to open them next to Starbucks.
And then I want to tell those Starbucks employees, we'll pay you better if you work for us.
Starbucks, not a fan.
I don't like these big corporate chains, and you know what?
I was thinking about what we can do in terms of changing how business works.
I want to open a cafe that has a rev share with its employees.
All of them.
And the employees actually get to vote on the people they work with and who they hire.
And if the company doesn't make money, I don't care.
I don't intend to pull profits from this cafe.
Here's my plan.
I'm gonna open a cafe with proprietary products next to or near Starbucks location.
We have one in mind.
I want to hire a bunch of people and tell them the money you make is minimum, right?
I'm not saying a minimum wage.
We're going to pay you a base salary and it's going to be good.
And you will get a rev share every month.
We will put 20% of the profits into the Rainy Day Fund so that in the event there's a slowdown or a recession or something, the money will still be there to keep the company open and y'all will keep your jobs.
But, outside of that, rev share across the board for all staff.
Got a staff member who's causing problems?
Then there's going to be a semi-hierarchical structure where y'all get to vote and say, this person should not be working here.
They do not deserve the tips we receive.
Y'all can figure out how you do tips.
You want it individually?
You want it split?
Up to you, man.
Up to you.
And then I want to see how Starbucks is able to handle that.
Because I want to make a place that's not driven by profit, but driven by community ownership and a cooperative, essentially.
And I think we can do it.
And I want to see people who succeed through hard work.
And here's my bet.
These people who are crying, like, I have to work eight hours.
We're not going to have any of those.
Because the other staff members are going to be like, dude, if you can't handle this, you can leave.
But when we get more customers, we make more money.
It's one thing I never liked about these businesses.
I worked at a Jamba Juice.
And when the rush comes in, you're like, I'm not getting any more money because there's a rush.
It's just stressful.
And so, the employees would say things like this, I don't care if they leave, I still get paid.
I'm not the one making money.
And I'm like, good point.
So, those are my plans.
Anyway, somewhat unrelated to what's going on, but I'm really excited.
I want to open that cafe and just be like, guys, if you don't want the customers, if the customer is being mean to you and you don't want their money, by all means, you can— I recommend being polite.
But I want to see hardworking people who want to succeed make a business succeed.
And we're going to make a new kind of business.
Because I believe in putting my money where my mouth is.
Apparently, Elon Musk does, too.
And we got to build a culture that weeds out these lazy people.
So, I'll leave it there.
Next segment's coming up at 1 p.m.
on this channel.
Thanks for hanging out, and I'll see you all then.
Be warned, my friends.
There be spoilers ahead.
Not that I think most people actually care about Black Panther Wakanda forever, but I am going to include in this segment conversation about how I think the Black Panther movie is extremely racist, and in that I will be spoiling some key elements of it.
I was talking to Dave Landau, the comedian, and it was just so funny.
I kind of wish we record some of the banter before the show, because it's hilarious.
But we'll get into all that first.
Here's the news!
University of California Santa Barbara's Black Students Union holds free Black Panther Wakanda Forever Screening but asks white students not to attend.
Yeah, because, you know, diversity.
But, like, not that kind of diversity.
The kind of diversity where everyone is of the same race.
I guess.
The screening event was described as a Black-centered activity curated to support and affirm Black people and Black joy.
The school's media relations department denied that Wednesday's event was exclusive and said no student is precluded from registering or attending.
There have been a number of segregated or racially preferential events revolving around the movie's release on college campuses.
The original Black Panther movie and its sequel became moments of specific cultural significance for the black community.
That one feels like an opinion.
I mean, it may be, considering they're doing these events.
But let me just break it down for you.
If they're going to ask white students not to attend, And then say, but we didn't force them not to.
Okay, dude.
Yeah, okay, right.
So if a bunch of white people put up a big sign saying, like, we'd prefer it if people of specific race didn't enter the building, they're gonna walk right in and be like, well, no, this seems like a place that I want to be.
No, they're gonna be like, yeah, I'm probably gonna stay away from that because these people are nuts.
But this is what you get at universities.
Now, I must attest to the fact that this movie is insanely racist, okay?
First, I love talking about this, so you're gonna hear it again.
But, uh, so there's a scene, right?
Queen Ramanda goes to the UN or whatever, and she's like, I will not give you vibranium!
And they're like, urgh.
And so, uh, they're returning to Wakanda, and you know Wakanda is, it's got a force field, right?
And so what happens is it shows two black guys, drums slide out, like wood panel drums, with water, and they start banging on the drums, and that opens the force field, and I'm just thinking, like, How is that?
Are you kidding?
Like, yo, they know how to drive cars and use buttons, dude.
Like, it's just so insanely racist.
That, in their minds, the minds of the creators of this film, these Disney people or whatever.
They're of the mind that if black people in Africa were not colonized, they would have developed technology based on drumming.
Yeah, dude, come on.
That's, like, so incredibly racist.
Native Americans have drums.
White people have drums.
White people play drums all the time.
In Europe, they played snare drums.
There's no trope of, like, white people expanding and deciding that playing the drums was the appropriate way to make computers work.
But anyway, apparently, because the movie is overwhelmingly black cast and centered around Africa, it's supposed to be good and not racist.
So there's a kind of paradox in this film, or in this entire cultural moment, where you have the Black Students Union cheering this stuff on when the movie, in my opinion, overtly racist.
But hey, far be it from me, I'm not black.
If y'all like it, I got no beef.
But let me just point out, As I pointed out before.
So the ship passes through this force field.
The force field opens up because they're playing the drums.
They're banging it with their hands.
And then they come in.
And they show you that scene to let you know.
The most powerful nation in the world!
Is what Queen Ramona says.
Has a force field you can't get in.
Except for the Central American guy.
You know, Aztec, Mayan.
I think he's from Honduras.
So they're not really Mexican, because Mexico's a country.
But they're able to breach Wakanda through the river.
So this is what happened.
So most of you probably saw the segment I did last time on this.
But, you know, so Dave Landau is hanging out.
Comedian, you know him.
He was on the show last night.
And before the show, we were talking, like, Wakanda Forever comes up, and Ashley St.
Clair is there, and she said something about it, and then I was like, have you guys seen it?
And they were both like, no.
And I was like, oh, dude, you guys gotta see this movie!
You know?
And so, here's what I said.
I said, what's, okay, so it's basically like kind of a Mexican guy, right?
Central American, I know, but like, we do have a problem with Hondurans and Guatemalans crossing the borders as well, right?
So you have the Central American guy, Who breaches Wakanda, bypassing its great barriers, the most powerful nation in the world, through the river.
And they're like, how did he get through the river?
And I'm just like, oh no.
And Dave's laughing like, no way.
Like, come on.
And then I said, what's a racial slur for a Central American person crossing into the United States illegally?
And everybody understood right away why it's, like, deeply racist to have a Central American guy breach Wakanda, dripping wet, rising from the water.
Because there's, like, a derogatory term for that.
And then the best part was when I was like, so Dave, you know, he knows what it means.
Like, someone who is emerging from the water, and they are wet.
You get the point.
And then I was like, and how do you think they defeated this Central American who broke into their country and day without a beat goes, did they dry him off?
Yes!
And he was like, no, come on.
And I was like, yes, they dry him off.
And I kid you not, the ending scene is showing his back singed, like water evaporating off of it and burns and he collapses.
And he was like, so it's the greatest movie ever.
I was like, dude.
This is what they call diversity, alright?
This is diversity.
Whatever, man.
I feel like watching this movie, and you know what else, like Dylan Mulvaney and all this stuff, all this woke stuff they're doing, it's like a throwback to the 20s and like minstrel shows.
I'm not kidding.
Look, having two black guards, African guards, banging on a drum with, like, there's water on top of it, and they're like, ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da, and then it opens up the force field, I'm like, you gotta... That would be like having a Native American running around doing that thing with, like, woo-woo-woo, or whatever.
And it's supposed to be like, it's funny because in Black Panther, in Wakanda, they have this like virtual tech like Tony Stark has, same thing, where the computer screen floats in the air or whatever and they can like spin things, they can like grab an object and move it and then grow and then do all that stuff.
And I'm like, so they understand these kinds of controls, they have these wristbands with balls on them, they press a button and it can project holographic images, but you still insist that they're gonna bang on drums to open, and this is what they're saying as a celebration?
Alright, this is what I was saying about Dylan Mulvaney.
So, you guys probably know Dylan Mulvaney, the individual who was doing the hiking heels thing.
And I'm like, come on.
They're just making fun of you.
Or I guess that's what people really want.
So, it is, I guess.
Take a look at this.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
I'm just so confused.
antihero, representation takes a step forward in Wakanda forever. I'm just so confused.
They're cheering on this depiction of a superpowered Central American
who breaks into this country through their river and is wreaking havoc and they have to dry him off
It was really funny when Dave said, do they dry him off?
And I was like, yes!
And he was like, so it's the greatest movie ever!
And I'm like, do you under- like... I'm not saying this to him, I'm saying this to you guys.
Do you understand why that's a joke?
The joke that Dave was making?
That it's so insanely racist?
Oh man, look at this from the Enquirer.
Wakanda Forever, The Sea With a Black Panther, is a triumph of representation.
Are you kidding me?
It's like, you know, we try so hard to say, like, we understand why minstrel shows are bad, and we don't want to do that stuff.
And then they basically start doing it again, and we're like, okay, like, they're cheering it on.
They are cheering it on.
Here we go.
They say I saw the first Black Panther in Atlanta.
It was packed.
Chadwick Boseman.
Hey, rest in peace, man.
He was a cool dude.
But I got it, but I didn't get it.
I understood the thrill that comes with seeing yourself reflected on a screen in a position of power, like Idris Elba in all the movies he's in.
Come on, man.
It's not like there's no movies with, you know, powerful black characters.
Will Smith is a superstar, and most of his movies bomb anyway.
Anyway, he says, I understood the thrill that comes in seeing yourself reflected on a screen in the biggest mass entertainment there is, but I still watched from a respectful emotional distance.
Wakanda forever brought me in close.
As a Mexican who doesn't think his family line started at Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes and then proceeded unsullied through New Spain and beyond, I was incredibly proud to see actor Tanak Huerta play Namur As an anti-colonialist bronze demigod, even the goofy trappings that date his origin to the golden age of comics, the ankle wings, the pointy ears, the green shorts, cannot undercut the dignified strength the Mexican actor brings to the role.
First introduced in 1939's Marvel Comics No.
1, Namor, they used to call him, was half-human, half-Atlantean, and so they basically decided to make him Central American, and they say indigenous, but...
Like, the weird thing is, like, indigenous.
White people are indigenous to Europe.
Like, you can call them indigenous, but just Central American.
It's like, that's who they are.
Like, you know what I mean?
Anyway, they took inspiration from the legendary city of Talocan.
A genius idea by director Ryan Coogler, they say.
If the original Black Panther showed an African nation able to live up to its full potential unspoiled by colonizers, applying the same wish fulfillment to Mesoamerica now seems obvious.
Okay, let me explain something for you.
In the lore of this film, what happened was, in the 1500s, a bunch of Mayan individuals were suffering the pox and disease from the white settlers.
And so, their shaman finds this vibranium-enriched plant.
He mashes it up and makes some kind of drink with it, which turns the people into fish people.
I don't know why, they don't really explain how that makes sense, but hey, it's magic.
Movie magic.
So all of a sudden, these people are now fish people.
They immediately start going, and they jump in the water where they can breathe.
One lady was pregnant at the time, so her kid became kind of a hybrid.
That is Namor, aka Kukulkan.
Here's the funny thing.
When they finally show the city of Talokan, The kids are playing with a ball in a stone hoop, and everything looks like they've never advanced at all.
They run around wearing, like, they're basically mostly naked.
They don't have any special technology.
They ride whales.
They don't have spaceships like Wakanda.
Yeah.
The only thing they really have technology-wise is a big ball of light in their city that's made of vibranium or something.
I don't know.
But they have spears.
And, uh, that's it.
So, is this movie basically saying that if Central Americans were left to their own devices, they would remain underdeveloped relative to today's cultures?
And that's supposed to be not racist?
Dude.
Look, I gotta tell you, there's no real way to cut it without it being racist.
Like, the other argument is that the only reason that black cultures in Africa didn't succeed and become bastions of great technology was because they didn't have a rare material that no one else had.
Like, Wakanda is only successful relative to all other African nations because they had access to a metamaterial.
I just feel like you're undercutting these other countries.
Like, Kenya is actually really nice.
And there were great empires in Africa.
You had Shaka Zulu.
Dude was a powerful warlord.
Terrifyingly skilled in combat.
But sure, I guess.
Anyway.
They say it is painful.
It is also painful.
After all, to see the wonders of Talocan and those in Wakanda before it, is to be reminded of thriving real-world civilizations conquered, destroyed, and cast away as subhuman.
I don't know if it was the Mayans, I think the Aztecs, but they were, like, ripping people's hearts out and doing really messed up stuff.
Like, white people in Europe also did messed up stuff too.
I'm saying, like, hey, we get over that.
There are differences in the horrors of slavery and the brutal conquest of Latin America, but their vestiges are largely the same.
For too many in America, and I use that term broadly here, to mean the whole continent, whether you're black or brown, you are greeted with suspicion.
Always the other, even in your own country.
Okay, Namur is a bad guy.
In the movie, he, like, for no reason attacks Wakanda and, like, mercilessly kills people.
They say he's an anti-hero.
He's not.
He's literally a villain, a despot who wants to go to war for no legitimate reason.
He says, sooner or later, they'll come for us, so I'll kill them all.
Of being harassed by police while out walking, of taxis passing him by before stopping for his blonde girlfriend.
Sound familiar?
Yeah.
Racism is alive and well in Latin America, and Wakanda Forever is not going to change that.
You know what will, though?
Disney set for layoffs!
Targeted hiring freeze and limiting travel.
Dude, you can't... I just... Here's my advice.
Why don't you make a movie with characters and don't make their racial and cultural components part of the story?
Like, I don't mean that completely.
Obviously, it can play a role.
Like, Black Panther is from Wakanda.
That's fine.
But why are you making them bang on drums to operate computers?
That's just weird.
How about the city of Talocan could have also been, like, reasonably developed?
Instead, it was like stone huts underground.
People were swimming around, and they turn blue when they leave the water or whatever.
I don't know why.
Maybe because they're oxygen deprived?
So, yeah.
My advice to Disney is, um, you know, you can have telecon.
I actually think it's an interesting concept.
It is.
And, um, I guess the challenge is just that they were like, you have to dry him off to defeat him, and it's like, oh no.
And his back, it is very wet, and so they dry it off.
You get the point.
I kind of feel like if there's one thing the woke people did get right is that, like, white people don't understand their cultures or whatever.
And I mean that.
I mean, I'm not surprised that, like, a dude from Ireland doesn't understand Mexican culture.
Like, that's normal.
You're not from the same places.
That being said, I don't think race is the real issue because you can be white, born in Mexico, and truly understand Central American religions and cultures and things like that.
But the thing is, when an overwhelmingly white industry, I guess, makes a movie that's based on racial stereotypes, the woke people cheer for it.
So what do you expect to happen?
Here we go.
Chappix says Disney will be conducting a rigorous review of the company's content and marketing spending, with all of these efforts being overseen by newly formed Cost Structure Task Force.
The layoffs and cost-cutting news hits four days after Disney presented rough quarterly earnings as a result, or earning results, which sent the company's stock tumbling to its lowest price in more than two years.
Yeah, well.
What are you going to do about it, Disney?
You can keep making stuff like this.
They're saying that Wakanda Forever isn't going to cross a billion dollars.
I mean, it's a crazy thought.
You know.
I do want to mention some other funny bits here, too.
Let's dive into this while we're here.
Former Luigi actor John Leguizamo says Chris Pratt's Super Mario movie has backwards casting.
It kind of sucks.
Huh?
John Leguizamo?
What are you talking about?
Okay, hold on.
Is John Leguizamo even Italian?
Having two white actors voice Mario and Luigi.
Mario and Luigi are white people!
Oh no, look at this.
John Leguizamo is a bit critical of Universal and Illumination's upcoming Mario Brothers movie, which stars Chris Pratt and Charlie Day as Mario and Luigi.
Oh, Charlie Day is Luigi.
Dude, for real?
That's awesome.
Charlie Day's great.
Leguizamo, who brought Luigi to life opposite Bob Hoskins, Mario and Luigi are literally white European plumbers.
backwards having two white actors voice Mario and Luigi.
He said, I'm OG, a lot of people love the original.
I did Comic-Con in New York and Baltimore and everyone was like, no, no, we love the
old one, the original.
They're not feeling the new one.
I'm not bitter.
It's unfortunate.
Mario and Luigi are literally white European plumbers.
They're Italian.
Mario and Luigi!
That's their names, dude!
What is wrong with these people?
You know what?
Whatever, man.
I'll be interested to see if Chris Pratt can pull off an Italian, semi-Italian accent or something.
Pratt's casting as Mario in the movie has been seen controversial ever since the Guardians of the Galaxy actor joined the movie.
Pratt told Variety ahead of the film's trailer debut that his Mario voice was unlike anything you've heard in the Mario world before, but the trailer left many fans baffled as Pratt just sounds like himself more or less.
Pratt said he worked really closely with the directors to craft the perfect Mario voice,
adding, We tried out a few things and landed on something that I'm
really proud of, and I'm pretty sure he just talks like himself.
Like it was almost spoke out.
But the movie saying, The movie rebuild was a good idea, but too bad they went
all white, no Latinx in the leads.
Groundbreaking colorblind casting in the original.
So, when two Italian characters are played by two white guys, it's a problem.
These people's brains are just broken.
I'll tell you what John Leguizamo is really saying.
What he's really saying is, Why didn't I get the role?
I should have been Luigi.
Keep crying about it, dude.
Keep crying about it while they have segregated movie showings or whatever.
Alright, alright.
I don't know, man.
I don't know how we can... I don't know how you can have an activist base complaining about all this wokeness and then calling for it as long... Here's my point.
Here's what I'm trying to say.
Everything they complain about was put into a movie seemingly to insult them and they cheered for it.
John Leguizamo exemplifies the absurdity and the lies of the cult so perfectly when he's mad that white actors are playing white characters.
What is going on?
You know what?
Whatever, man.
I just love that Wakanda Forever is just one of the most overtly racist films.
After we were walking out of the theater, everybody was like, did anybody else notice?
And we're like, yeah!
And we're all laughing about like, wow!
So who are we?
No, serious question.
You know, I don't like racial stereotypes, but apparently the left really, really does.
Like, everything is about its racial components and identity and all that stuff.
I guess they're white supremacists with guilty consciences?
Or I guess for the black and brown people who support these things, they're actually just ethnocentric?
Or whatever?
I saw this video where a white teacher says he's an ethnocentric person so he's racist and he thinks his race is superior.
And all the kids are like, so you're racist?
And he's like, I didn't say that.
What he's saying is everyone is racist, they just don't want to admit it.
And so he's in trouble now.
And the funny thing is, that's actually what the woke people claim.
That's their core tenet.
So.
John!
Buddy!
Keep complaining.
Go see Wakanda forever.
Give him your money, I guess.
Because, like Dave Landau said, so it's the best movie ever.
