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TWR Monday | Alex Jones UNBANNED · The Whitfield Report

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  Now broadcasting from the Next Gen. conservative studio in
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  It's been a while since we've had a Monday show, but we've got
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  listen on the YouTube Music app, which also does podcasts that
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  YouTube and which disappear. I will be very interested to
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  know that for sure, and I suspect with today's episode
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  this will be kind of a litmus test.
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  See whether or not the show can actually maybe go back onto
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  YouTube full time or you know, if we'll stay mainly on Rumble.
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  So this will kind of be a witness test folks.
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  But today's topic first and foremost is the big news of the
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  weekend. Over the weekend that happened,
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  which is that Alex Jones was reinstated on X, formerly known
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  as Twitter by Elon Musk and company.
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  This occurred after Musk conducted a poll over the
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  weekend, or wait no late last week, in which he basically
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  asked if Alex Jones should be reinstated or not.
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  So for those of you listening on audio only, let me read this for
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  you. So let's see, on December 9th,
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  2023 at 11:48 AM, Elon Musk asks in a poll reinstate Alex Jones
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  on this platform, Vox Populi, Vox Day.
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  In essence, there were over 1 million votes on the platform
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  about this, almost 2 million actually.
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  The poll results were pretty overwhelming in favor of
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  reinstating Alex Jones on the X platform.
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  It was 70% yes to 29% yes with over a million votes.
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  Pretty staggering overall. And we'll get into kind of why
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  this is important, you know. But I I do want to kind of
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  before we get into that, I I want to preface this by kind of
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  saying that contrary to what some people may think, I am not
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  necessarily the biggest Alex Jones fan.
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  In fact, I I actually, I don't hate Alex Jones anymore.
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  But when the. But when I first started my
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  podcasting career way back in 2008, back before really the
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  mainstream knew who Alex Jones was, I actually despised Alex
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  Jones mainly because he was the 9/11 was an inside job, you know
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  conspiracy theory guy. And I thought the notion that
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  the government could portray 911 and that the US government would
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  bomb its own, you know, would basically commit a terrorist
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  attack on its own people. I thought that was, you know,
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  absolutely offensive and nonsensical.
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  And so I, you know, I was one of the first people, way back when
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  to rebuke Alex Jones. And what I thought at the time
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  were some of his crazy ideas. Now that was when I was in my
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  early teens starting out, you know, in podcasting over the
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  years, you know, as things have kind of progressed, I have come
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  to realize that Alex Jones, like him or not, like all his
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  viewpoints or not, is is right about some things and has been
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  right about some things. Most notably, ladies and
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  gentlemen, with with the fact that Big Tech would be in bed
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  with the, you know, government to basically censor their
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  enemies for a lack of a better term to, you know, derank their
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  political opposition specifically with the left and
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  with the globalists. In regards to 911 itself, let me
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  just say this, I still think that Alex Jones is partially
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  wrong. I do not believe that the
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  government indeed perpetrated the 9/11 attacks themselves.
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  There still is not enough evidence out there to convince
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  me of that. What I do believe is true is
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  that the government was massively incompetent, that the
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  intelligence apparatus was too bureaucratic and there were too
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  many. You know, there was basically
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  too much red tape between the intelligence agencies because
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  people always say, oh, well, the CIA knew about, you know, the
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  CIA knew about the, you know, potential terrorist attack
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  before it happened. So they must have been in on it.
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  Well, you know, that's bureaucratic red tape that
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  basically got in the way of, you know, people communicating
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  effectively and preventing the terrorist attack from happening.
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  So that kind of where I hold the government responsible for is
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  basically, you know, the fact that they sat on their hands and
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  you know, the fact that the bureaucracy was too stuffed up
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  and stifled to really, you know, do anything, which is still a
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  massive fuck up and heads should roll for that alone.
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  And I mean, I'm not just talking about like people losing their
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  jobs. I mean like that's, you know,
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  that level of incompetence does maybe deserve to be jailed.
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  But I don't necessarily. I still don't believe that the
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  government would willingly fly two planes into the building and
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  cause a crisis about that right. I do, however, think that the
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  government fully used 9/11 as an excuse to implement the Patriot
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  Act and to enact a mass surveillance state as a result
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  of the attacks. And Alex Jones was aptly right
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  about that. You know, in essence he was
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  right about, you know, colleges and universities basically
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  pushing this, you know, massively left wing Marxist
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  communist propaganda on young students, even going so far back
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  as like grade school and I'm under school that, you know,
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  that's pretty much taken, you know, as truth now.
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  Pretty much. But anyway, even if I disagreed
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  with everything that Alex Jones said, and for a long time I was
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  kind of in that position, I never thought that Alex Jones
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  should have been completely censored off Twitter, Facebook,
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  YouTube or any platform. Because outside of the
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  exceptions of, like, basically threatening people's lives and
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  making active threats that would break the law, I'm pretty much
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  of A free speech absolutist, you know, with those exceptions.
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  And I thought it was very troubling that Alex Jones was
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  banned basically all of every single platform basically within
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  one day. And subsequently many of his
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  employees with Infowars were as well.
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  So Alex Jones is back on Twitter or X and overall, you know, the
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  platform hasn't shut down. Nothing has really broken off or
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  been damaged or anything like that.
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  You know that the the, the X platform or the Twitter
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  platform, whatever you want to call it, is still functioning,
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  contrary to what some people believe.
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  You know, it's amusing because a year ago when Elon first bought
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  the platform, everyone's saying, Oh my God, it's going to fall
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  apart, it's going to be unusable, it's going to be
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  horrific. Twitter's going to get run into
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  the ground within a year. Elon has no idea what the hell
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  he's doing, all of that right. And I'll be honest, you know,
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  over the past year or so, I would say there have been some
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  significant improvements to Twitter.
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  There have also been some bugs on Twitter.
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  So I want to say that the platform is completely fixed,
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  but by and large I I would say that the platform is still
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  usable in some ways more so than before.
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  Elon is trying to simplify the code base.
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  I I know that for X, and I mean it has its bugs, but so does you
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  know, Rumble and you know all these other alt tech platforms
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  and even like Instagram and Facebook, you know, they're
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  still buggy too. So I would say that as far as
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  usability, you know, X or Twitter or whatever you want to
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  call it is still kind of way the same way it was prior to Elon
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  taking over. What's different, at least from
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  my observation, is that there is more of a wide variety of
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  opinions on Twitter. You don't necessarily see it's
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  not a hardcore left wing echo chamber any more, like was.
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  It's more balanced. There are still left wingers out
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  there like Keith Olbermann who are still on the platform.
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  And if you want proof of that, just Scroll down here to this,
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  you know, tweet right below Elon's pole where he basically
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  calls Elon a a failure and a coward.
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  Right. Elon Musk, I mean Keith
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  Olbermann, who is one of the most, you know, deranged left
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  wing lunatics on the platform and still, you know, on the
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  platform. And yeah, Ed Krasenstein, who is
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  who, you know, Ed and Brian Krasenstein who are very left
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  winger as well, are still allowed on the platform.
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  So as far as X itself goes, really not too much has changed
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  as far as functionality goes. Now the reason why this is a
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  story, and the reason why I'm covering this is because of
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  another thing realized. It's Alex Jones coming back to X
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  slash Twitter. Basically, the corporate media,
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  ladies and gentlemen, is now reporting that basically Twitter
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  is losing ad revenue because of this and that advertisers are
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  pulling away from Twitter as a result of this news.
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  OK, let's go to NPR here because they wrote a big thing on this
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  today. And yes, I know gravel, gravel,
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  it's NPR. But let's let me read the the
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  headline for this because I this is kind of the meat and potatoes
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  what I want to get into here folks, but all right.
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  OK, so headline from npr.org Elon Musk Allows Controversial
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  Conspiracy Theorist Back on at Alex Jones Back on X Elon Musk,
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  owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, announced on Saturday
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  his decision to allow Alex Jones back on its platform.
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  Jones generated controversy for spreading false wild conspiracy
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  theories, claiming that a New World Order was sacrifice
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  raising children on a California compound, that the US government
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  had weather weapons that triggered catastrophes like
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  major floods, and the FBI Director, Robert Mueller was a
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  demon, which that last one was hyperbole, folks.
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  Shortly after being formally reinstated on X, Jones and Musk
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  joined Vivek Ramaswamy, Laura Loomer, a self-described crowd
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  Islamophobe who has been banned from some platforms and others
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  in a live chat on Sunday. I'm telling you, they want us
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  silence to what we said to Jones, blah blah blah.
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  You know that they they talk more about this whole, you know,
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  conversation that Jones and Musk had.
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  OK, now here's the meat and potatoes of this article folks.
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  It is unknown how advertisers who have been pulling ads from X
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  over Musk's endorsement of anti-Semitic comments will
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  respond to Jones returns. OK, let me read that again.
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  It is unknown how advertisers who have been pulling ads from X
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  over Musk's endorsement of anti-Semitic comments will
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  respond to Jones's return. OK, NPR.
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  What specific anti-Semitic comments has Elon Musk endorsed?
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  Citations, please. But now you know it's NPR.
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  They won't. They won't give it to.
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  They won't give citations. Scrolling down, basically they
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  talk more about the you know, about Jones alleged you know
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  Sand Hook comments and the whole crisis actor thing, blah blah
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  blah. OK.
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  So the whole article continues on.
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  It's and it's basically how Jones made horrific comments
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  about Sandhook. Quote UN quote.
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  But suffice it to say ladies and gentlemen, the bottom line here
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  and what I find so interesting is this section right here,
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  right? It is unknown how advertisers
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  who have been pulling ads from X over Musk's endorsement of
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  anti-Semitic comments will respond to Jones's return.
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  OK, so this is what I really want to focus on here here
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  ladies and gentlemen, because this is really, this is really
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  the the heart and soul of this for me is this whole notion that
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  having Alex Jones or Ruin one who is right center on the
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  platform is somehow dangerous for advertisers on the X
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  platform, right. This is an argument that really
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  makes no sense to me, that having Alex Jones on the
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  platform would somehow cost advisors for being on X because
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  see, the way ads work online is you target your demographics
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  basically. So this whole notion, I I know
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  what the argument is. The argument from the left and
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  all these social justice freaks is basically that it'll be
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  dangerous for advisers because Ford might not want their
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  advertisement to be directly under one of Alex Jones's tweet
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  because that might be seen as an endorsement of some kind, right?
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  That is the that's the argument, folks.
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  It's a very stupid one. But that is the argument none
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  the less, basically, and the reason why it's so stupid to me,
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  it's fairly obvious, but the fact that we even have to go
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  over why it's stupid is ludicrous.
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  On these social media platforms, most of these advertisers, they
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  pop up in your feed, you know randomly on the feed because the
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  advertiser has targeted you as potential, you know, viewer and
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  or and or potential buyer, right.
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  So let me give you an example, just, you know, just kind of how
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  stupid this whole thing is, right.
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  So and let me kind of flip the tails here, right, because this
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  is, this is kind of a good example, right.
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  So back in 20, back in 2020 when the George Floyd riots happened,
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  there were several Black Lives Matter accounts that were
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  actively calling for cops to be killed and for officers to be
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  basically taken out. And underneath some of those
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  tweets you would see ads for anything from, you know, Ford
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  pickup trucks to the Sony PlayStation to Budweiser
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  advertisements, just as an example.
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  Now, the argument that some of these people might make, by the
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  logic of the left, is that because the Budweiser ad
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  appeared below this Black Lives Matter tweet about all cops
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  should be killed. That must mean that Budweiser
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  endorses cops being killed, right?
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  Well, no, that's that's stupid. Unless Budweiser themselves were
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  to come out and make a tweet saying that if I just see their
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  ad directly blow a tweet that's controversial, all I'm going to
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  assume is that I'm seeing the ad because that's where the
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  algorithm put in my feed. But I don't assume that every ad
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  that is below a tweet is an endorsement of said tweet,
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  right? Same thing with YouTube videos
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  and even podcasts to a certain extent.
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  Now podcasts are a little different because if it's like a
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  host red at if it's a host red advertisement, then that's all
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  no different because obviously you're paying for the host to,
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  you know, read the ad. But if it's just like a 32nd pre
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  roll ad for like you know again Budweiser or Ford Trucks or
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  whatnot and it's automated, well I'm going to assume that that's
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  just the ad advertising agency or what it or what not.
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  Putting that stock advertisement in front of the podcast before
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  it begins Play Right advertisement does not
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  necessarily equal endorsement of something.
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  And this is something that primarily people, generally
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  people generally understood this back, you know, before 2016.
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  You know, it's pretty funny because Alex Jones had been on
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  Twitter and Facebook and YouTube for years and years and no one
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  had really had a problem with him seriously, up until 2016.
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  Once Trump ran and then he became, he went from being this,
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  you know, kind of obscure figure to all of the sudden the biggest
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  boogeyman on the left, right. But prior to that, none of these
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  advertisers knew who Jones was much less really than cared on
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  him. So, you know, and the fact that
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  Jones tweets were on there, like I never heard anyone, I've never
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  heard anyone say I'm not going to buy Ford truck because I saw
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  my son advertisement directly blow a Joe Biden tweet, right.
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  So therefore Ford must endorse Joe Biden, right.
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  No one has ever said that. So it's kind of ridiculous,
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  right? Most people, your average
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  consumer knows that advertising does not equal endorsement when
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  it comes to business products. And so the logic that Alex Jones
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  is, you know, that that's going to cost X, you know, advertisers
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  in the tizers in the long run. I don't see that happening
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  unless a lot of these left wing activists continue to pressure
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  advertisers to drop, you know, advertising from X.
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  But they've been doing that pretty much since Elon Musk took
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  over the company because Elon is the new big bad for wanting free
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  speech. So it doesn't really matter in
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  the long run. No, I think Alex Jones being
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  back is a huge win for free speech overall, even if you
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  don't agree with him. I think it's better to have more
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  voices than less overall. And I mean, I would go so far as
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  say, and I don't like, you know, any of these people, but like, I
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  would say that even people like Nick Fuentes and even people
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  like Ethan Ralph, both of whom I despise, they deserve to be back
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  on Twitter Slash X, so long as they don't threaten anyone or,
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  you know, caused an actual harm. And I I don't mean just, you
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  know, words. I don't mean the whole words
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  equal violence type of harm. I mean like actual you know,
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  violence. And that doesn't, that does
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  include doxing. I will say that.
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  So but I don't think like necessarily hate speech should
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  even Nestle get you banned off Twitter.
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  I, you know, I tend to think that the only way to combat hate
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  speech is more speech, and that seems so fundamental to many of
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  us who are kind in my circle, but it needs to be said none the
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  less. So like I said, you know Alex
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  Jones back on Twitter, that's the big news, at least for this
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  first portion of the week. Corporate media is right about
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  it. And yeah, not too much else to
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  say about that. Also, the other big news is
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  like, I guess Tucker Carlson is starting his own, like website,
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  but that's not really all that surprising.
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  It kind of seemed like he was going to, I guess start his own
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  payable website, you know. It seemed like a fairly obvious
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  step for him, not really surprised.
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  I will be curious to see where it goes in the long run, but
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  overall I think it should be pretty good.
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  And I I don't know if I'll if I'll sign up yet but if I do
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  I'll be sure and let people know how it is.
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  All right. So there's just a quick one for
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  you folks. Hope you all are having a good
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  start to your week so far. I'll see you on Wednesday with
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  Max, and until then, God bless God save this great nation, God
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  to freedom, legacy, in that order, and we'll see you on the
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  next episode. Thanks for listening to the
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