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Speaker 1: Monday November twenty eighth edition of the program. We have
Speaker 1: Elon Musk calling out Apple because they're telling us that
Speaker 1: Apple might pull all advertising from Twitter. What is going
Speaker 1: on here with the platform wars online we'll discuss. Plus,
Speaker 1: China has a major uprising on its hands, at least
Speaker 1: by Chinese Communist Party standards against the insane COVID lockdowns?
Speaker 1: Where does Fauci? Where does the Biden administration stand on
Speaker 1: all of that? And a US player does an excellent
Speaker 1: job handling a hostile question from a member of the
Speaker 1: Iranian press propaganda about the US men's national soccer team
Speaker 1: in the World Cup. We'll get into all of that
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Speaker 1: let's I gotta start with this. The situation over at
Speaker 1: a Twitter is fascinating because you have a free speech
Speaker 1: platform that is going right now that had been essentially
Speaker 1: a left wing province for over a decade. Right they
Speaker 1: were able to control it, They were able to perhaps
Speaker 1: throw elections with it the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop.
Speaker 1: I mean, the stuff that was going on was egregious, egregious,
Speaker 1: what was happening. And here, for example, is how he
Speaker 1: kurts over Fox News, pointing out that journalists who are
Speaker 1: supposed to be about free speech and the free exchange
Speaker 1: of ideas, the lib journals hate the new Twitter because
Speaker 1: they want the suppression of conservative ideas. Play twelve. When
Speaker 1: you see this newspaper headline opening the gates of Hell,
Speaker 1: that might be a subtle clue that you're not getting
Speaker 1: an unbiased report. But that's how the latest decision by
Speaker 1: Elon Musk is described in a Washington Post news story,
Speaker 1: with that from a Harvard instructor who also says Apple
Speaker 1: and Google should consider booting Twitter off the app store.
Speaker 1: Pluck for the headline, Elon must made clear from the
Speaker 1: start he's a free speech advocate who would end permanent
Speaker 1: bands in most cases, and most journalists preferred the old rules,
Speaker 1: which usually penalize conservatives. Now, Musk is fair grain for criticism,
Speaker 1: but how about a token effort to include a couple
Speaker 1: of voices who don't think he's taking us all to hell?
Speaker 1: You know, he's making it a better platform, which so
Speaker 1: many people already see. Notice that he's apparently fired something
Speaker 1: like seventy five percent of Twitter employees, and it's running fine,
Speaker 1: and it seems to be getting better all the time.
Speaker 1: It seems like there are constantly upgrades being made, and
Speaker 1: there's a lot that's being done that is making it
Speaker 1: a place where you can actually get a fair shake. Now,
Speaker 1: this is a good thing. The journals are terrified about
Speaker 1: this because they've gotten used to inform nation dominance over
Speaker 1: a long period of time. They've gotten used to getting
Speaker 1: exactly what they want from companies like Twitter and YouTube
Speaker 1: and Facebook and you name it. Obviously, Alphabet owns Google,
Speaker 1: Google owns YouTube. But it's the same basic idea. You
Speaker 1: understand what's going on here. And the fact that now
Speaker 1: Tim Cook is one Elon called them out on a
Speaker 1: tweet earlier today pulling ads from Twitter. So now Apple
Speaker 1: won't advertise on Twitter. Why Because Twitter is a place
Speaker 1: where you can actually share ideas that are, oh, I
Speaker 1: don't know, in line with the science, the actual science
Speaker 1: on COVID when it comes to masks, vaccines. You can
Speaker 1: express your doubts about an election or an electoral process
Speaker 1: in some capacity, Yeah, that's right. These are things that
Speaker 1: in a healthy and free society people can do. Now
Speaker 1: they can be they can be shouted at by other people,
Speaker 1: and you know there's going to be vigorous debate, and
Speaker 1: that's all fine. But why should we accept that there's
Speaker 1: only one group, one part of our society, one part
Speaker 1: of the political spectrum, that is going to be in
Speaker 1: a position where they're able to do this makes no
Speaker 1: sense at all. It's crazy. It's crazy. And so finally
Speaker 1: we're seeing a pushback against this. But the fact that
Speaker 1: Apple is pulling ads and then may even pull the
Speaker 1: Twitter app from its app store. So now now they're
Speaker 1: doing what they're trying to run the playbook of parlor.
Speaker 1: Remember they did a parlor all over again. They pulled
Speaker 1: it from the app stores, and then they eventually, when
Speaker 1: that wasn't enough, they shut down it's aws. Amazon shutdown parlors.
Speaker 1: Servers just kick them off the internet effectively. Sorry, oh
Speaker 1: you thought that we were just a company providing a service. No,
Speaker 1: we're woke too. They're looking to try to do that. Now.
Speaker 1: It's going to be more difficult with Twitter because Elon
Speaker 1: is a billionaire many many many times over, has tremendous
Speaker 1: not only connections in Silicon Valley, but also an understanding
Speaker 1: of these systems. So it's gonna be hard for them.
Speaker 1: But Apple may be picking a big fight here and
Speaker 1: it's one that we absolutely have to see when I
Speaker 1: don't know if what ends up happening is people start
Speaker 1: switching over to the Android phone, Will Google, which is
Speaker 1: a left wing company as well, will at least allow
Speaker 1: Twitter to exist on its platform if Apple won't, or
Speaker 1: even will Elon Musk maybe consider being in the in
Speaker 1: the game of making phones. Is that the next thing?
Speaker 1: I know that seems crazy, but look, the guy makes
Speaker 1: electric cars, he makes batteries, now he owns Twitter. There
Speaker 1: are a lot of things that he very well could
Speaker 1: do here and we shall just have to see how
Speaker 1: this plays out. But it's very important, I mean, for
Speaker 1: free speech, for the future of this country. It is
Speaker 1: absolutely critical that this mission continue. Of having at least
Speaker 1: one platform, just one platform online of the social media
Speaker 1: variety that allows for the free and open change of ideas,
Speaker 1: it would be a game changer. I think people need
Speaker 1: to recognize that it is absolutely essential. And Apple, it
Speaker 1: just goes to show you there are people that run
Speaker 1: these companies, even some of the most storied companies in
Speaker 1: the world, A lot of them are either scared of
Speaker 1: the wokeness or their work themselves, and until they feel
Speaker 1: real economic consequences to their decision making against freedom and
Speaker 1: free speech, they're going to continue to do it. Speaking
Speaker 1: of the consequences for free speech, let's talk about China
Speaker 1: and what's happening there with these protests. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: something of an uprising against the COVID lockdowns. Where's the
Speaker 1: Bide administration on all this. We'll get into that in
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Speaker 1: for a second, and what is what is going on there? Fauci?
Speaker 1: First of all, Fauci's on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.
Speaker 1: How can you be apparent? How can you be an
Speaker 1: American at this point point and not find Fauci utterly contemptuous?
Speaker 1: I really mean this, I really want to know. How
Speaker 1: is it possible that somebody could listen to this, this
Speaker 1: awful Fauci. You know we're talking maybe about doing more possible,
Speaker 1: maybe locked down in the future of the schools, and
Speaker 1: not just feel like something really gross has occurred. This
Speaker 1: guy has admitted no wrongdoing, and he's still out there.
Speaker 1: He hasn't even admitted that he was wrong, never mind
Speaker 1: wrong doing, won't even admit that what he said wasn't true.
Speaker 1: Here's doctor Fauci telling Face the Nation hosts Margaret Brennan that,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe I don't know, should schools close down?
Speaker 1: Tough call? Play clip one. So coming out of the holidays,
Speaker 1: should parents expect schools to shut down? I don't know, Margaret,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. When you talk about shutting down schools,
Speaker 1: there's always just exactly, there's always the collateral issues. So
Speaker 1: you have to balance and you do it in real
Speaker 1: time depending upon the viral load of disease in your region.
Speaker 1: So you have to have the local authorities evaluate on
Speaker 1: a situation by situation basis the potential collateral deleterious effects
Speaker 1: with the effects of what might happen if you have
Speaker 1: so many kids getting infected. This is just totally untrue
Speaker 1: because it's not a tradeoff between the great things that
Speaker 1: can happen as a result of lockdowns, the benefits versus
Speaker 1: the draw it's all drawback. There's only drawback. But Fauci
Speaker 1: hasn't accepted yet that lockdowns were not just a bad idea,
Speaker 1: they were entirely wrong idea. There is no aspect of
Speaker 1: them that made any sense. There's nothing about lockdowns that
Speaker 1: were a good thing from a health perspective. And what's
Speaker 1: interesting is that there is the largest country in the
Speaker 1: world right now, China, where lockdowns are still ongoing, still
Speaker 1: happening in China, it has not stopped. And here is
Speaker 1: a CNN reporter on the Chinese COVID protests that have
Speaker 1: broken out. Play five. I'm in the center of a
Speaker 1: protest in Beijing right now. They're chanting that they don't
Speaker 1: want COVID tests, they want freedom. They've been chanting this
Speaker 1: for hours. People have gathered here in the center of
Speaker 1: Beijing to protest the COVID measures. We are in Tayang District.
Speaker 1: This is the city center. This is also where the
Speaker 1: authorities have urged people to stay at home because the
Speaker 1: COVID outbreak is severe here now. The area is also
Speaker 1: important because this is where the American embassy is over there.
Speaker 1: There are many foreign embassies over here, there is a
Speaker 1: heavy police presence. I am surrounded by a police They're
Speaker 1: telling me to shift in a little bit. And if
Speaker 1: we just turn the camera around, you'll see there is
Speaker 1: a row of police. There is mostly young people who
Speaker 1: have gathered here, and many people are also holding white
Speaker 1: papers in their hands, which is a sign of solidarity
Speaker 1: against censorship, a sign of solidarity against censorship. To do
Speaker 1: this in China requires real bravery, because the Chinese Communist
Speaker 1: Party will make people disappear, imprison them, torture them, execute
Speaker 1: them for being any kind of threat to the regime,
Speaker 1: for speaking out against the kind of control that chijin
Speaker 1: Ping absolutely demands. And so what we see here is
Speaker 1: in China, the zero COVID policy continues on to the
Speaker 1: point where even the Chinese people who are used to
Speaker 1: living without freedom, are used to an authoritarian government, are
Speaker 1: used to the totalitarianism of the Chinese Communist Party. At
Speaker 1: some level, they're saying this is just intolerable. They had
Speaker 1: a fire in a building in western China in the
Speaker 1: Xinjiang province, and ten people died because they wouldn't let
Speaker 1: them leave the building because of COVID rules. So there's
Speaker 1: a fire, people are dying in a fire, and the
Speaker 1: Chinese authorities are saying, sorry, COVID's too dangerous for us.
Speaker 1: We have to keep our zero COVID policy. Think about
Speaker 1: how orwellian this is. It's a zero COVID policy, they say. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: they've had lots of COVID. They're setting records right now,
Speaker 1: so it's never going It's never zero COVID. It never
Speaker 1: has been zero COVID. The virus spreads if humans interact,
Speaker 1: if humans live their lives, there will be COVID out there.
Speaker 1: It will spread to people. That's what's going to happen. Ah.
Speaker 1: But you see, even in our own country, there is
Speaker 1: still a desire among some democrats. There's still people on
Speaker 1: the left who think that there's something to be said
Speaker 1: for the Chinese approach, that they take the virus really seriously.
Speaker 1: And the Bide administration said, oh, well, COVID zero is
Speaker 1: not our policy. Okay, But what about speaking out about
Speaker 1: how heinous and evil it is. Well, they won't because
Speaker 1: Fauci's out there is still saying, you know, maybe we've
Speaker 1: got to lockdown schools. Maybe we I mean, here's Fauci
Speaker 1: earlier this year, this year praising China for their lockdowns.
Speaker 1: Play too there. Complete lockdown, which was their approach, the
Speaker 1: strictest lockdown that you'd never be able to implement in
Speaker 1: the United States. Although that prevents the spread of infection.
Speaker 1: And remember early on they were saying, and I think accurately,
Speaker 1: that they were doing better than almost anybody else. But
Speaker 1: lockdown has its consequences. You use lockdowns to get people
Speaker 1: vaccinated so that when you open up, you won't have
Speaker 1: a surge of infections. The problem is that the vaccines
Speaker 1: that they've been using are not nearly as effective as
Speaker 1: the vaccines that are used in the United States, the UK,
Speaker 1: EU and other places. Now that's actually not the problem
Speaker 1: with lockdown. Notice he just says their vaccines aren't good enough. No,
Speaker 1: the whole concept is wrong. See this is the part
Speaker 1: where you have to really drill down. This is the
Speaker 1: part where you have to see Fauci for who he
Speaker 1: really is. All lockdowns, all shutdowns were wrong. What we
Speaker 1: did in this country was what China is still doing
Speaker 1: is wrong. And the Democrats, many of them here in America,
Speaker 1: for them, it's just a matter of time. Oh we
Speaker 1: get another really bad COVID season, maybe it's time for
Speaker 1: some lockdowns. They won't give this up, and I think
Speaker 1: at some level it's because they like to be told
Speaker 1: what to do, but also they refuse to admit that
Speaker 1: they were wrong. Now here's something I've been watching some
Speaker 1: of the US men's national team play soccer. I've seen
Speaker 1: I've seen all the US men's games. I've also watched
Speaker 1: some other some other games in the in the World Cup.
Speaker 1: I like soccer a bit. I'm not a super sports
Speaker 1: watcher in general, but I like soccer a bit. And
Speaker 1: the captain of the men's team today because we got
Speaker 1: a big game tomorrow where the US is going to
Speaker 1: be playing Iran. But Tyler Adams, who's the I believe
Speaker 1: the US men's captain, certainly a celebrated member of the
Speaker 1: US men's national team, He was asked a question by
Speaker 1: an Iranian journalist. Listen to the way this journalist sneers
Speaker 1: at Tyler Adams. You say you support the Iranian people,
Speaker 1: but you're pronouncing our country's name wrong. Our country is
Speaker 1: named Iran, not to Iran. Please, once and for all,
Speaker 1: let's get this clear. Second of all, are you okay
Speaker 1: to be representing a country that has so much discrimination
Speaker 1: against black people? In its own borders, and we saw
Speaker 1: the Black Lives Matter movements over the past few years.
Speaker 1: This is this is straight out of the Soviet playbook.
Speaker 1: With the Iranians are doing trying to compare the moral
Speaker 1: failings of the US and the moral failings of Iron. Well,
Speaker 1: basically they say Iran has no moral failings. Iran is
Speaker 1: a Before I get you into this, I want to
Speaker 1: note that the US men's captain here did a phenomenal
Speaker 1: job in responses. Let me play his response, go for it.
Speaker 1: My apologies on the mispronunciation of your country. That being said,
Speaker 1: you know, there's discrimination everywhere you go. One thing that
Speaker 1: I've learned is that in the US, where can tenuing
Speaker 1: to make progress every single day. I grew up in
Speaker 1: a white family with an obviously an African American heritage
Speaker 1: and background as well, so I had a little bit
Speaker 1: of different cultures and I was very, very easily able
Speaker 1: to assimilate in different different cultures. So you know, not
Speaker 1: everyone has that that ease and the ability to do that,
Speaker 1: and obviously it takes longest to understand and through education,
Speaker 1: I think it's it's super important, Like you're just educating
Speaker 1: me now on the pronunciation of your country. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a process. I think as long as you see progress,
Speaker 1: that's the most important thing. So first of all, he
Speaker 1: handles it perfectly, and we are proud as Americans of
Speaker 1: him and of the whole US men's team for competing
Speaker 1: and and for doing doing well so far. They just
Speaker 1: held England to a draw. But we're just proud that
Speaker 1: they're out there representing the US well. And he handles
Speaker 1: the question beautifully. But Iran is a bigoted country, treats
Speaker 1: people from the lgbt LGBTQ community terribly as we know,
Speaker 1: treats them as though they're criminals, still will imprison and
Speaker 1: even execute people from that from that community, and also
Speaker 1: is a very racist society in its own way. Ethnic minorities,
Speaker 1: racial minorities in Iran are treated terribly. So it's just
Speaker 1: a lie. The whole thing is a lie. But notice,
Speaker 1: notice it's so interesting to me that there there will
Speaker 1: be those in this country who say, yeah, they'll actually
Speaker 1: the left in this country at some level, we'll cheer
Speaker 1: on Iran's attacks against America because anti Americanism is always
Speaker 1: fashionable for left wingers, as we know. And it's look,
Speaker 1: I just I think that the team captain here did
Speaker 1: a phenomenal job responding, and Iran Iran versus Iran. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a tomato tomato thing, all right, so back off.
Speaker 1: Plenty of people say, we speak English, we don't speak
Speaker 1: far Sea, so we're going to pronounce things a little
Speaker 1: bit differently. But it was the whole thing. It was
Speaker 1: so condescending. Mean, he was really sneering at the US
Speaker 1: captain here, and I really hope, I mean, the best
Speaker 1: way that this could be handled is at the US
Speaker 1: men's national team just absolutely kicks their butts tomorrow, case
Speaker 1: the Iranian's butts tomorrow. I really hope that happens. Thanks
Speaker 1: for rulling with me here on Buck Sexton's show more tomorrow,
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