The Highwire with Del Bigtree - ARE WE IN A FREE SPEECH RECESSION?

Episode Date: July 19, 2024

New data from the organization, The Future of Free Speech shows that free speech is trending towards a recession across the world. On the heels of this data, the Supreme Court chose to not hear Murthy v. Missouri based on standing, furthering concerns of free speech rights in the United States. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

COVID's over and a lot of people will say, well, that was, you know, that was a time where we had to censor people, but now we can speak again. That's not really the case because we have, you know, arguably a issue that's just as large as COVID. We have a president in the White House right now that a lot of people have pointed out has cognitive issues and that they're accelerating. They pointed that out for years. And people have talked about that on social media. People have been censored for talking about that on social media. Right. And so. Because that's disinformation, information that hurts the government. point out that your government may not be capable of doing the job they're doing, you can be censored for those reasons. Right. And the bigger picture to point out, there may be other people

that are controlling our country than the president. And so the everyday people are left to watch the CNNs and the MSNBCs and listen to people like Joe Scarborough, who in just in March of this year had this to say about President Biden. Take a listen. Okay. Start your tape right now, because I'm about to tell you the truth. And F you, if you can't handle the truth. This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever. Not a close second. And I've known him for years.

The Prasinski's have known him for 50 years. If it weren't the truth, I wouldn't say it. Obviously a fan. And he says he knows them. Like, it sounds like the family's been known for 50 years. It sounds like they go to dinner together. So, you know, he clearly thought he was in good shape, certainly telling us you should trust this man more than you ever did before.

Yeah, not objective journalism there. Not saying, you know, I know him, but I'm going to put that aside. And let's talk about some relationships. We're not getting that, but the majority of the country will get that. And so something happened that a lot of people have already seen. He had a debate with Donald Trump. And the debate went something like this. Let's take a look.

Okay. Yep. You'd be able to help make sure that all those things we need to do, child care, elder care, making sure that we continue to strengthen our health care system, making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the COVID, excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with, look, if we finally beat Medicare. Thank you, President Biden.

Yeah. And so I watched it. Literally overnight, literally overnight, whatever's left of the power centers of corporate media all turned and started sounding like independent media. And here's Joe Scarborough, just several months after that clip we watch. Right. I know him. I love him. He's smarter than he's ever been more coherent than he's ever been before.

Yeah. I think we have a clip of that. Now he's saying this. Listen to Joe. I think we have to ask the same questions of him. that we have asked of Donald Trump since 2016, and that is, if he were CEO, and he turned into performance like that, would any corporation in America, any Fortune 500 corporation in America, keep him on his CEO?

If this were Donald Trump time and time again, we talked about, the Goldwater, where is the Barry Goldwater, to walk over and tell Richard Nixon it was over, to tell Donald Trump it was over. And now the question is, do Democrats need to do the same thing of Joe Biden? It's obviously a huge shift. I was watching this and I, you know, we complain about mainstream media all the time. We've been calling it propaganda. It is no longer news. But to watch CNN, and MSNBC, all of these networks that have been propping this up, covering up for the fact that we have a president that isn't doing any press conferences, basically helping hide him from the world,

calling it fake news every time an independent journalist puts out a video of a stumble, of a stutter of everything saying, oh, it's being taken out of context, finally the whole world watched, and we saw what was happening there. And you're right, it is censorship, because censorship is not just blocking a person's ability to speak. is blocking those of us from being able to hear and see the truth. And that is what is happening.

We are now watching mainstream media fighting for its life, trying to explain itself, why is it you've been lying to us all this time? And this is a big moment for them, because this is narrative control. There's a lot of ways to control the narrative without heavy-handed censorship, but this isn't about an election.

What they're trying to hide is the current situation in the White House. This is about our sitting president in the White House. Forget about elections. This is about the cognitive ability of a leader to lead. And if he can't do it, who's leading? That opens up a big, big question for the rest of the country and the world. Who is running the country? Absolutely.

Jeffrey, amazing reporting. As always, got some big news coming up at the end of the show. You're a huge part of everything that we've been achieving here. Of course, being here at Freedom Fest is always a great place to celebrate what we're doing. We try to have an unbiased perspective on all this, but just bring the science. Just incredible work. It's great to spend some time with you here live. Likewise. Thank you, Del.

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