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Why is Chris Cuomo still?
Every story, Glenn, talking about Donald Trump.
Every single story.
He must have gone seven or eight stories.
All of them, Donald Trump.
The man is not the president of the United States.
His political party has no power in Washington.
None.
None.
And eight straight stories to start your show about Donald Trump and what he did or is doing.
This is why I didn't let Stu talk about Chris Cuomo until the very end of the show because he's irrelevant.
Chris Cuomo is irrelevant.
They're like four people watching him.
However, on the other side, NPR.
now is saying that
the Blaze,
Breitbart and
the Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro,
he's evil, you know.
We've all gotten together and now
we are duping the American
public because they don't know we're
conservatives.
And we're starting to become
such an influence
that we are dwarfing
the things like the New York
Times or NBC. We're
Dwarfing them online.
Well, that's got to stop.
Ben Shapiro stops by to talk about that and so much more.
You don't want to miss a second of today's podcast.
You're listening to The Best of the Glenback program.
The shirt that Sarah is wearing cost.
She's wearing a Peloton T-shirt.
Mm-hmm.
And I know what Pelotons cost.
And they are stupid.
expensive.
Yeah.
Stupid expensive.
And then they add on the monthly fee, which is all right.
I've just spent multiple thousands of dollars here.
Are you really going to charge me $60 a month or whatever it is so I can stream classes?
We all know YouTube is free, guys.
Like we all, we, come on.
Really?
You're going to do that?
And of course they are.
And it works.
And they're all millionaires.
And soon they're all going to be building their own rocket chips.
We're going to be the only ones without a rocket ship.
We're the only one without a rocket ship.
Yeah.
It's just sad.
Which is funny because the story you always tell to new employees about me is don't start building a rocket ship.
Right.
Glenn will say, you know, maybe we should all, we should all go to the moon and feel change his mind.
And so don't start.
We all have multiple unfinished rocket ships in our backyard.
Yes.
That's what's to always tell people.
It's important to know when you need to build the rocket ships.
Rockinship, yeah.
Yeah. Soon. I think it's coming. I think it's coming soon. So, so seriously, do you get, do you get a free t-shirt when you buy the $5,000 treadmill or whatever it is?
No, you get 100 classes or 100 bike rides gets you a free t-shirt.
A hundred bike rides get you a free Peloton T-shirt.
Now, to be clear, you have to buy the bike and pay the monthly fee and do 100 classes to get the T-shirt.
So not free.
Right.
It's definitely not funny.
You know, I could print one that looks exactly like that and sell it to you for 20 bucks,
where that t-shirt probably cost you close to $6 grand?
Well, the funny thing is, too, it's like a $3,000 or $4,000 bike.
It's $60 a month or whatever it is for eternity.
And the worst part about getting that t-shirt is doing 100 classes to me.
Like, the thing I want to do least is actually do the biking.
I don't want to be on it.
I don't want a cycle.
Nope.
No.
No.
But that's why we look like we do.
My, uh, exactly right.
Uh, my wife just got a Pilates machine.
It's coming.
What is a Pilates machine?
I have no idea.
It looks like a medieval torture thing.
It does.
It's like, and she's like, you're doing Pilates.
And I'm like, I'm not doing Pilates.
Oh, you should definitely live stream that on Instagram.
You should, I'm going to wear, I'm, you know what'll make it, you know what'll make it stop?
Mm.
My wife saying you got to do Pilates is if I'm,
if I start wearing a leotard and I'm going to.
You keep threatening these things.
I think you just like wearing leotards.
No, I've never worn a leotard.
I just know what I would look like in a leotard.
It would not be good.
No.
It would not be good.
It wouldn't exactly be a night at the ballet.
Agreed.
And she would not want it to be publicly posted.
So she would allow you to get out of exercise.
She would be like, no, no, I can't.
No, I can't.
Internet's down, whole world.
Yeah, whole world.
The whole world is down.
People are trapped in their house, Glenn.
It's not good.
Don't do that to them.
And I'm like, I'm not doing that to them.
This is just like the way I like to exercise on my new Pilates machine.
What the hell is Pilates?
I mean, it's just like yoga.
Only it's strengthening and flexibility and, you know,
supposed to make you leaner and taller and it's awesome.
Yeah.
Being strong and flexible, that just streams.
It's a glad back, doesn't it?
Yeah, it does.
It's like yoga.
Yoga, I've done yoga before.
Have you ever done yoga?
No.
Yeah.
I've done yoga before.
It's the most intense, like, I don't know.
You know, you're like, you know, do the gladfish or whatever.
And do it for, you know, 20 minutes.
And it is so strenuous.
At the same time, it is so relaxing, I fell asleep.
It's the only I was like.
I was going for it and then I was
And the yoga instructor said
Mr. Beck, are you sleeping?
I'm like, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
This is really good.
I mean, it's strenuous, but I'm so relaxed.
I'm so relaxed.
It's time for a nap.
So you should leave now.
And they did.
And they never came back.
Points for me.
Yeah.
Points for me.
Did you do that in a leotard?
No, I didn't do that in a leotard.
That's when I could have worn a leotard.
You know, now, now I'm only threatening it because, whoa, no one wants to see me in that.
So do I look like a Pilates guy?
I may not look like it, but do I look like it?
Because this is the one my wife says, you will really like that.
Because I've tried all of it.
I hate all of it.
Hate all of it.
You mean exercise?
I mean walking.
I mean to the refrigerator.
I hate it all.
I hate it all.
you've got the Wally lifestyle
it's the one you want right
like isn't that it wasn't no actually
I you know what I really would like
except now you would have to be running because
of all of the people that are trying to kill you
and stab you my best
exercise was walking in the streets
of New York and
remember I mean nobody could keep up with me
I'm a fast walker and I was
in shape because I would walk a lot
in New York City because I liked it
because every time you'd
see something new. The good thing too
there is there's a lot of trying to escape threats because everybody walking on the street wanted
to kill you.
Yes.
So it had, I mean, my adrenaline was going.
It was really good.
Yeah.
It was really good.
And I really liked it.
But there's no place else like New York City.
You know, you walk.
It's like, let's go for a walk in the neighborhood.
I've seen it.
Nothing's changed.
Maybe, maybe Bob has the station wagon out.
in front of the house instead of in the garage this time.
I mean, I just get bored so fast.
Yeah, it's so boring.
Like there's no homeless vomit anywhere in your neighborhood.
None.
There's no needles to avoid.
I mean, when you're exercising, let's say, in New York or San Francisco, you have to,
you're always seeing, there's a new poop on the street.
Yeah.
A new needle over here.
You know, somebody trying to urinate on you, you know, five yards ahead.
I've heard right now, New York and San Francisco,
are great for exercise because you're constantly fleeing violent attacks.
Yeah, it's great.
And there's no cops around because they've banned them all.
So it's really great.
It's a great way to get your heart rate up.
And I can get the I Heart New York t-shirt for Lesson you paid for the Peloton.
So I like that.
Last night I watched a special we were talking about with Bo Burnham.
I watched it with my
daughter,
Hannah, my second oldest.
Yeah, if you missed the conversation yesterday,
this guy who,
a comedian,
sort of,
who was pretty well,
pretty well known
for Netflix specials and stuff,
gave up on comedy
like five years ago
because he had really extreme anxiety
was about to come back
and start performing in January 2020.
And then as he tells it,
the funniest thing happened.
And he did an entire comedy special
from inside one room of his house over quarantine.
I think he was in L.A.
I'm not sure.
Not sure.
But either way, he was locked down, I guess, for basically a whole year.
So it took a whole year to do the special.
Just him with a camera in one room.
It really is an amazing piece of work.
I've never seen.
I watched this a second time I've watched it.
And I've never seen anything like it.
And I think, you know, it's so frightening about it.
It's very funny, and at the beginning, it's, it's, I'm just warning, it's very offensive in its language.
It's a comedy special on Netflix, though, probably expected for most people.
Correct.
But it is, and it's, and it's kind of light and trivial at the beginning.
But it took him a year locked in his house, and the guy is unstable.
And it's almost like watching a real Truman.
show except he knows he's trapped you know what I mean um it's the closest thing I was
watching it last night I'm like I've never seen anything like it and then I thought it's kind of
like the Truman show where where the guy is is trapped in this weird situation this make
believe situation and we're just watching him really deteriorate um he is mentally um
fragile, I would say.
He's a genius.
You are watching a genius.
I think this guy is the most gifted and one of the smartest guys I have ever seen in performance.
I mean, it is, it's performance art.
You've never seen anything like this before.
But when it hits intermission about halfway through, he realizes that COVID and the isolation is going to keep
going at the beginning of the video it's kind of light because he's like it's you know it's going to be
over soon and then six months into it he's still making the video and he's he is realizing are we
ever going to leave lockdown but his especially in the second half his discoveries of what's real
and what's not uh are phenomenal i really i really i
so want to play some of the stuff on the air because the commentary about where we are, you're watching,
you're watching this guy in one of the most real performances you've ever seen.
And while he has kind of a breakdown on screen, I don't think that that's the real breakdown.
I think that is him reenacting the breakdown.
But the breakdown you know is real.
And he.
he's coming to the understanding that the internet and and what's going on in the world right now is
blowing us apart and he he's just so clear while he is losing his mind he's so clear on
on what the problems are.
And I doubt we agree on things,
except the diagnosis of the problem.
And he has one song.
I just want to play a little bit of it.
He has, this is towards the end.
And it's, let me play,
play the beginning of it.
It is, it's really remarkable.
Pick the street, I'll meet you.
I mean, here he's, he's, he's, A, his music is beautiful.
But then he's saying goodbye.
I'll meet you.
I'll meet you outside.
I'll meet you on the street.
But we're never coming back.
We're never coming back together.
I'll be on the other side of the street.
It's, it is such a brilliant piece of work.
and last night when I was watching it,
I was overwhelmed with a feeling that it was almost like dropping a pin.
You know,
when you drop a pin on a map on the timeline.
This guy, I mean, in that song it talks about, you know,
you say it's, it's ending,
but it's already over.
And nothing you can do to change it.
And it's, it is such a weird, dystopian almost piece, but it's real.
And I felt like it was dropping a pen in the timeline.
I feel like this special would be or should be looked at possibly in the future as the first real sign in mass culture that the collection that the collection.
that the collective knew.
And because I said to my daughter about halfway through,
I said, what do you think of this?
She said, well, it's funny, but it's all true.
And I said, yeah, I know.
And it's not like, it's not true because it's Marxist
or anti-Marxist or anything like that.
It's true in its feeling.
This guy is so wide open to feelings.
and he knows he's got the collective zeitgeist nailed,
unlike anything I've ever seen.
His name is Bo Burnham,
and it is a special called Inside.
And you can find it on Netflix.
It is just warning if you were somebody that is offended by language,
and it is very edgy, very edgy for anybody who is,
Not used to the, you know, culture as it is today.
But it is, watch it all the way through.
It's absolutely brilliant.
And as Bonhofer said, not to speak, is to speak, not to stand, is to stand.
God will not hold us blameless.
And I've always said that's so true because there's no excuse.
We all know.
And I think this special points out, we all know.
we all know what's coming.
You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
Mr. Ben Shapiro.
Welcome.
How are you doing?
Well, I found something out, and I don't think this is true.
You would have said something about it,
but I don't want to ambush you here, but I've heard that you're Jewish.
Is that true?
Well, I can't believe everything here.
Look at how he's stumbling around this.
I think he's Jewish.
Holy cow, man.
It's out now.
I mean, you might as well live with it.
I just thought you always wore.
Next you'll be telling people.
Next you'll be telling people that I like,
in control of space laser.
Oh, my gosh.
I don't know.
I heard.
We don't talk about these things.
I swear to you,
you told me that that little,
that little hat you wore was just too small.
It was a gap that you had as a kid, and it was too small.
And I believed it.
That's, okay.
Well, Ben, we'll get.
I tried to keep it going as far as I could go in.
Gosh, you know what, Ben, it is what's going on now is as insane as what I just said to you.
It's just insane what the mainstream media is, is now trying to portray.
There, now there was a great article.
Congratulations on the article from.
NPR, a great article where they have, they have deemed that you are a great danger now because of
what you're building over the daily wire. And they point to you and to us and to Breitbart.
And they say that you are affecting millions of people and they don't know that you're a
conservative. They have no idea that the daily wire is.
really a conservative
outlet.
How can they possibly
say something like it's marked
at the bottom of every single
page of every article?
How can they possibly say that?
It's insanity.
It is crazy, but it's
perfectly predictable because right now when you watch
Joe Biden and the New York Times
and the entire media
and democratic infrastructure combined
to basically say that social media
is the problem and needs to be
reigned in and the social media needs to quote unquote cut out misinformation. By misinformation,
they don't actually mean things that are wrong. They just mean stuff they don't like.
It's not anything of a surprise. They've been doing this since 2016. So before 2016,
I know everybody has a short memory. Before 2016, everybody in the media love Facebook,
right? His Facebook was the place where Barack Obama won the 2012 election.
Facebook was he had figured out these brilliant strategy. Then Trump wins in 2016.
And they've got to find some rationale for why Hillary Clinton, the worst candidate in American
history lost. And it can't.
be that she's the worst candidate because that would mean she was the worst candidate. It's got to be
something else. And so what they come up with is it's Facebook. Facebook allowed Russian dissemination
of disinformation. Facebook allowed dissemination of disinformation via the Trump campaign and all this.
Now, there was a subtle shift that happened here where the critique went from Russian disinformation,
which would be, you know, that actually has a definition. That would be active foreign intervention
in an American election via false propaganda to misinformation. They shifted from disinformation,
which could be targeted to misinformation, which now includes anything they don't like.
So they will just scrub the Hunter Biden article because that is quote-unquote misinformation,
even though it's true.
And in this NPR article, they ripped daily wire not because we report things that aren't true.
They admit in the article that we don't report things that aren't true.
Professor or not conservative, and you give context for information in a way that leftists don't like.
This now constitutes misinformation.
And that's what this entire campaign is about.
They're a thing that has happened with regard to how we consume information in the United States.
It used to be, or the blaze, and you'd go directly there.
And then because social media is so convenient, these or Breitbart from their news feed on Facebook,
and the left noticed that all of the dissemination of information is now centralized in one place.
And then they said, okay, well, what if we just now bottleneck that?
What if we just train these conservative organizations by telling the disseminator of information
to NPR is doing right now?
They're trying to reestablish an establishment media monopoly with the help of the Democratic Party.
And apparently your taxpayer dollars is NPR.
They're trying to do all of that by basically pressuring Facebook into preventing anything they don't like from every single way today.
It would be bad if it was coming from the New York Times, but it's coming from NPR.
That is an arm of the U.S. government.
I mean, that is paid for by the U.S. government, our tax dollars, go to pay for NPR.
And it is probably the closest we have to an actual state media outlet.
And with everything that the White House has been saying about, you know, we're flagging and, you know, we're hoping that Facebook is going to stop these people who are killing people with their misinformation.
You, they have said this about almost everything.
The latest is just COVID.
You know, everything that the right or that liberty lovers or constitutionalists have been talking about,
every time since 2008, they have been saying that that's going to get somebody killed.
We're just fomenting a revolution or whatever.
This is the open door to the end of the First Amendment.
And I don't see anybody outside of conservative circles really talking about this and taking this seriously.
This is really dangerous.
Oh, it's super dangerous.
And if it were Trump doing it, you know that this would be an assault from the press.
Trump said a mean thing about someone from the press.
It was like, wow, the First Amendment under attack.
Now you have the White House deliberately saying the social media should shut down things the White House doesn't like.
And the entire press is sucking it some in the corner or cheering it on.
I mean, there's an article from Kara Swisher, who's just terrible in the New York Times.
And she's been basically every article she writes about why Facebook should do what she wants Facebook to do.
And she had an article about Biden's comments the other day where he said that Facebook was killing people,
which again is absurd. First of all, it assumes that human beings don't have agency.
They can't actually do risk assessment for themselves and take a look at the fact themselves.
Number two, it assumes that Facebook is purposefully disseminating false information about COVID,
which is just a lie. It assumes that they are, in fact, a publisher, not a platform,
which is kind of hilarious since the entire leftist support for Facebook is rooted in Section 230,
which suggests their platform, not a publisher. So she writes in this piece,
backing Joe Biden, saying that Facebook is killing people, quote,
attempting to stop falsehood by claiming to offer good information is like using a single sandbag
to hold back an impossibly fedded ocean. It's like that when it comes to a range of once and
and I now divisive issues from election integrity to critical race theory to whatever,
keeping this country in a constant state of twitchy confusion. So now she's giving away the ballgame
there, right? The idea here is not that the Democrats care about cutting down on quote-unquote
COVID misinformation. If they wanted to cut down on COVID misinformation, perhaps they should
stop Dr. Fauci from talking.
She's now reversed himself on every major position he ever held from masking to the efficacy of vaccines without masks to school reopening.
But put that aside, she's now broadened it out from COVID to everything.
She literally says everything, right, that Facebook should police all the things because otherwise people can tell lies about things like critical race theory.
And by lies, she means the truth because she's a believer in critical race theory as most of the members of the left wing New York Times editorial board are.
So it is the great danger to the country that the information, that the information,
informational distribution mechanisms are now being leveraged into top-down control by Democrats.
Now, listen, I don't think that the heads of Facebook, particularly Zuckerberg, have a congenital interest in doing this.
But I also don't know that they have the stones to actually stand up to this effort for a long period of time,
which is why I've called on people who listen to my show and people who read DailyWire to subscribe to DailyWire and subscribe to The Blaze and subscribe to Fox Nation or anywhere else they get their conservative news because pretty soon,
distribution is going to be completely revised by an authoritarian left.
So the arrogance is usually where people, they just, they, they overplay their hand. The left
overplays their hand all the time. But I feel like they've overplayed their hand for 10 years now.
And it doesn't seem to be an overplaying. How, how, do you see this changing at all, Ben? Are we,
where are we on this
timeline of
losing freedom?
So I think that
I really believe the future of the country
and the only possibility that we stay together as a country
is going to not be because
of anything we, the conservatives, do
or even anything the radical left does.
It's going to be the people in the middle. Do the people in the middle
decide that they are going to stand up to
this stuff or do they just go with
whoever is the loudest voice and just
appease that that loud voice?
And that includes people who are sort of the
moderate liberals. You remember there's that Harper's
weekly letter last year where 150
liberals wrote this piece about
how council culture was bad. They had their obligatory
kind of slaps of Trump, but then they did
the cancel culture as bad routine.
And the question for them is, are you just trying
to keep the Overton window open for yourself
or are you willing to expand that to people
who don't actually agree with you? Because
if it's only the former, the country's not going to survive,
if you say, listen,
we, the liberal side, we may agree with leftists
on a lot of their utopian goals, but
we are not willing to shut down conversation, destroy individual rights, shut down the First Amendment in order to achieve those goals.
So maybe we'll get to Utopia later, but at least we won't have destroyed the country.
If they do that, the country can survive.
If they decide to move along with the left because the left has some of the same political priorities,
then we will fall apart as a country because there is no way that the right is just going to sit still for this.
And with everything that is going on, I mean, we're really disturbed, Ben.
what is your research show on what's happening with justice and the FBI, especially on this January 6th thing?
I mean, FBI looks like it's possibly involved in it.
You know, they were now involved with the Whitmer thing and that's kind of going awry.
I mean, we're in a really dangerous place.
What are you feeling or hearing about what's happening legally with just January?
sixth. Well, obviously, the sort of resources that the government is devoting everybody
from January 6th, while I'm perfectly fine with people who violate the law going to jail,
me too. There is obviously a wide disparity between the resources devoted by the federal
government to prosecuting people on January 6th and the complete willingness of pretty much
everybody to just shrug and, in fact, cheer rioters last year doing $5 billion in damage,
$2 billion in insured damage to major cities around the country. I mean, that disparity
is pretty obvious and wide.
As far as sort of the January 6th of it all,
I think it'll followed the sort of theorizing about the FBI
and its involvement with January people wanted to go in
and do something stupid, petty, foolish, and criminal.
But February 6th is to me not the quote-unquote FBI involvement.
I think we already know that there are problems with the FBI
from the entire Mueller investigation.
The big problem to me with January 6th is the attempt by the left
to use January 6th as the tool to silence everybody.
If you voted for Trump, you were in favor of it?
of January 6, which means you're dangerous, which means that really we should be,
takes with such a breach of democracy that you must continue to give us unalloyed power
at the federal level in order to stop things like January 6th from happening, a continual
focused by the Democrats on January 6th, the blowing of it.
The worst thing to happen in modern American history, when in reality, if security does
its job, January 6 never happens in the way that it happens, right?
The big failure there is what the Senate Intelligence Committee said it was, which
was a clear apparatus of law enforcement to stop people from invading the capital in the
first place. In reality, it was several hundred people who broke into a building. Yes, many of them
intent on doing grave harm and they should go to jail for that. But the notion that it was like an
insurrection about to overthrow the American government. It's insane.
On the alloy power is insane. I mean, it was not about to overthrow the American government.
The place was cleared within two hours. The Congress led, by the way, by Mike Pence, the Trump's
Vice President, and Mitch McConnell in the Senate led the certification of the election. So, like, at what
point was American democracy truly in danger? That's why when you hear these stories of these
stories about top generals at the Pentagon saying things like, well, you know, it was the Reichstag fire,
and this is all hit with him. Ben Shapiro, who I have tremendous respect for. You know, I met a,
I met a kid. He was probably, gosh, 12 or 13, I think. I met him backstage at CPAC, and I looked at him,
and I was talking to him, and I said to him, you remind me of Ben Shapiro. When he was, with,
and he was your age, you know, you were, when did you go to college?
Like, 15?
But if you said that to that kid, yeah, I was 16.
That kid had some real hard teenagers ahead of him.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he does.
He does.
But you've been a great, great force.
We have about a minute here, Ben, two minutes.
Tell me the thing that you're most concerned about
and the thing that we can actually make an impact on.
So right now the thing that I'm most concerned about is the wokeification of corporations.
The use of business to cram down particular viewpoints on the rest of the American public,
inside your business place, threatening you with firing if you don't post the proper Black Square
or the proper gay pride message, like that kind of stuff.
If that continues, then we are going to completely bifurcate as a country.
And it is an area where we can successfully push back in the same way that a lot of people
have pushed back in the educational sphere.
All it really requires is for you to politically unionize with some of your friends,
it really is like a very core group of radical leftists who renormalize these institutions by
taking advantage of people not wanting to cause controversy, have HR issues. And so if you can
be loud and proud on the other side and outnumber those folks, then you really can get your
institution to just go back to kind of weapons down, no politics in the workplace, which would
be, I think, the best available outcome there. Any doubt in your mind that the giant corporations
are using the Great Reset are headed that way? And they're using the market.
as fuel, but they'll eat the Marxists when all is said and done.
You know, I think that they think they'll eat the Marxists, but we'll find out.
It'll be a pitch battle.
I mean, a lot of the corporations thought, you know, that in the early days of the Russian
revolution that things would end up well for them, they didn't.
A lot of the corporations thought in the early days of the Nazis that things would end up
great for them, not so much.
So it turns out that when you get in bed with the government and with people who love
government, you shouldn't be surprised when you get screwed.
So I think a lot of these people think they're in control, but they are not, I think.
Ben Shapiro, great work at the Daily Wire.
Give Jeremy and everybody my best.
Thank you for all of the years of service that you've done and what you're working on now to keep us and the rest of the world free.
Thanks, Ben.
Appreciate it.
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All right, so Summer has arrived, and with it comes all of those amazing
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This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
I want to talk to you a little bit about misinformation.
And the problems that we have here in America.
And it's really not complex.
It's really not.
Why are we having these problems?
Why are we seeing things like the numbers of people who don't believe that we walked on the moon suddenly double?
Why is it happening?
Why is it that people don't believe in institutions?
Is it propaganda?
Is it been misinformation?
Is it coming from the right?
Is it coming from the left?
Is it intentional or is it an accident?
Well, we've been heading down this road for a long time
because people didn't know who to trust,
but there wasn't a way to actually go and get information
elsewhere. The internet has changed absolutely everything. And so now we can get different information.
We can get real information and we can get bogus information. And when the officials are not in line
with the American people, and that doesn't mean that we don't agree or we don't ever disagree.
what it means is when people hear an excuse, for instance, you're going to the store and you're paying 11% more for milk than you were just a couple of months ago.
And then you hear the president say, there is no inflation.
You know that's not true.
When somebody says to you a gives a reason or excuse and it just doesn't feel right, it's like,
that's not true.
You're more susceptible to going out and hearing something that might be an absolute lie,
but it fits the scenario.
And so you lose the trust of all of the institutions because you figure out they're lying to you now,
and they've been probably lying to you for a long time,
which opens up all of the doors of, now I don't believe we went to the moon,
all the crazy stuff.
There's a good number of people now all over the world that believe that chips are inside of the vaccine.
Absolutely not true.
However, with all of the other actions that have been done by the elites in our world, it's gaining credibility because you don't know if you can trust them.
I would never think that the FBI had infiltrated groups and had been setting them up for a political agenda.
For instance, the Whitmer kidnapping.
It appears as though that wasn't something that they stopped.
It was something that they fomented and stopped.
I don't know if that's true.
I don't know how much of it is true because who do you talk?
trust to give you that news.
You trust the FBI?
Never in my life did I not think that I would trust the FBI.
I don't trust the FBI now.
Why?
Well, because it doesn't seem like they ever get punished for the things that they're doing.
For instance, lying to a FISA court.
This is one of the worst things that you can possibly do.
one guy changes a report actually physically changes the situation on what they're presenting to the court and saying,
this is why you should give us access to everything because he is not part of us.
He's never worked for us.
He's never done any of these things.
When the exact opposite was true and the FBI went in and changed the,
the documents to fit their narrative. Once you do that on something that you're going after a
president of the United States, I have a hard time believing you wouldn't do that to me.
I mean, if they did it and got away with it with somebody like the president of the United
States, do you think they give a flying crap about you? Now, that doesn't mean that the FBI
is bad. I believe that the vast majority of the FBI agents,
are good, but what's happening at the upper end is what's trouble.
Do you believe, let me play, let me play cut one here.
This is Saki clarifying that Facebook, the post, the tagging, and what they're really doing.
I want you to listen to this.
First of all, we've not asked Facebook to block any individual posts.
The way this works is that there are trending, there are trends that are out there on social
platforms you're aware of them we're aware of them anyone in the public can be aware of
them there's also data that we we look at that many media platforms like many of you
also look at data in terms of trends so what are they saying here they are saying
that they're not interfering with Facebook they are just saying Facebook you should
take action against anybody who is is providing you with misinformation
and that's it.
Do you believe that?
I don't, but I have nothing to back it up.
But I don't believe that.
And if you think that makes me a radical,
let me reverse the scenario.
If Donald Trump said exactly the same thing,
do you think the other side would believe it?
See, the problem is we're losing faith in our institutions,
but then everything has,
has become politicized that the exact same thing can be done by one president and half the country
thinks it's okay and the other half thinks they should go to jail for it. And then the D is
switched to an R or vice versa and all of a sudden the entire population switches because we're
not talking about principles anymore. All we're talking about is politics. We've long
the trust in anything but a political letter, R or D, that is extraordinarily dangerous.
And how is this happening?
You know, all I heard about for the last six years is what a liar Donald Trump is.
Okay.
All right.
Let's accept that that's true.
Just accept that all of that is true.
Well, let me give you some example.
of the other side and Joe Biden.
Why are we having so much,
why are we having problems right now
with thinking that Nazis are coming to get us?
Well, the misinformation about neo-Nazis.
Biden launched his presidential campaign
in April 2019 by claiming
that President Donald Trump
had referred to the neo-Nazis
and white supremacist
in Charlottesville, Virginia as very fine people.
We know that's not true.
We know it's not true.
We have the audio tape of what he said.
He was not saying the neo-Nazis and the white supremacists.
In fact, he said those were bad people.
But there were also other very fine people who felt things were being changed
and they were standing and going for that reason.
And you can't put all.
all of them into the same bucket.
Misinformation.
Did the media further that?
Did social media further that?
Or did they flag it and say, this isn't true?
The only way anyone will have credibility is when they say,
this was a lie, this wasn't true, and call out their own side.
It's why we do it.
And we get a lot of heat from people who are.
are just, and I understand it. I really do understand it. We are in a situation where it's literally
becoming life and death. It's literally freedom or slavery. And so you don't want anything to
hurt your side, but we cannot be on the side of anything but truth. Only those who have
some credibility will be able to lead in the future.
And those people who have credibility are the ones who will just tell you the truth and say,
you know what, that's just the way it is.
I'm sorry.
I know that doesn't make people happy.
But we were wrong about this.
But they didn't do that.
The misinformation about the coronavirus vaccine.
Can we please play, let's see, is it cut one?
I think it's cut one on Biden and Kamala Harris talking about the vaccine prior
to the election.
So let's just say there's a vaccine that is approved
and even distributed before the election.
Would you get it?
Well, I think that's going to be an issue for all of us.
If and when the vaccine comes,
and it's not likely to go through all the tests
that needs to be ended trials that are needed to be done.
When we finally do, God willing, get a vaccine,
who's going to take the shot?
Who's going to take the shot?
You're going to be the first one to say,
put me, sign me up.
they now say it's okay.
And the question of whether it's real when it's there,
that requires enormous transparency.
You've got to make all of it available to other experts across the nation
so they can look and see.
So there's consensus.
This is a safe vaccine.
If the president announced tomorrow we have a vaccine,
would you take it?
Only if it was completely transparent
that other experts in the country could look at it,
only if we knew all of what went into it.
If Donald Trump can't give answers
and the administration can't give answers
these three questions, the American people
should not have confidence. But if Donald
Trump tells us that we should take it, I'm not
taking it. Okay,
who is the anti-vaxer here?
That's incredible. That's an incredible
montage. That is, that's unbelievable.
I asked the staff to, we could have
more. I asked the staff
yesterday, can you just put together
the montage of
these guys saying,
I'm not going to take the vaccine, and
calling into question. Now, why
did they do that? They only did that to play on people's fears and hype it up, that you can't trust it.
Now, there may be reasons you can't trust the vaccine. It is, it's completely new, a completely
new way of making vaccines. It was rushed, but it seems to be safe. I mean, it's the biggest
trial in human history. And we are just trying it on people, but we were in a situation where we
needed the vaccine. And it seems to be working. It seems to be good. Now they are coming after
people who have these questions when they're not being transparent. They are not saying to people,
just look at it. Just look at it. And you decide. And let's have a debate. There is no debate.
there is no debate.
They're telling us.
Now think of how evil this is.
They're telling the American people that is the misinformation from the right.
And people like me who say, if you want to take the vaccine, take the vaccine.
I think it's probably okay.
I don't know.
And nobody will know for 10 years.
But I don't think there's any chips in it or anything else.
So take it, especially if you're vulnerable.
They say that that is dangerous misinformation.
And it's coming from the political right.
Well, when you find out that the people who are not getting vaccinated are African Americans and Hispanics,
that's where the lion's share is.
When you hear that, are they are Hispanics and,
African Americans, are they suddenly listening to the Daily Wire and to Glenn Beck?
Ben Shapiro?
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
You, of course, New York Times, they would say that we're all white people and we're all conservatives.
So how is that?
Because it's not about the vaccine.
It's not about saving lives.
It's about politics.
Misinformation.
So the White House says they,
have to stop misinformation.
And they're starting with the coronavirus.
And they are partnering, their own documentation says they are partnering with social media
to stop misinformation.
Okay.
So what happens the misinformation about police officers?
What happens about all the misinformation about what was happening with Antifa and the riots?
as they were attacking a federal courthouse in Portland
and calling for the end of the United States of America.
Biden said that the feds were brutally attacking peaceful protesters.
Why don't we have, why don't we trust the media?
Why don't we trust and just line up and do whatever we're told to do?
Because there are too many lies.
and almost everything that is happening in our world today is happening because the government has violated the Bill of Rights and they have lied and caused these problems.
How about the misinformation about China's threat to the U.S.? Biden says they're not a threat during the campaign? They're not a threat.
Trump banning was hysterical xenophobia when you could.
go to when you couldn't go to China.
How does he have any credibility on China now?
The misinformation on the military debts, the misinformation about the economic
reopenings, the misinformation about Trump and Lafayette Square, the Hunter
Biden laptop, that wasn't misinformation.
These are out and out lies that were happening.
And is anyone talking about banning those things?
You know,
