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Hold The Line w/ Buck Sexton - 06-08-22

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A would-be assassin was apprehended outside the Maryland home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh last night - the foiled attack comes after a month of heated rhetoric by Democrats, who have encouraged demonstrators to protest outside the homes of pro-life justices, Buck breaks down the latest. Plus, one of the most liberal cities in America is putting progressives prosecutors on blast - former NYPD cop, John Cardillo, joins Buck to discuss if the recall of the San Francisco D.A. will send a message to soft-on-crime prosectors across the country.

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You're listening to the Buck Sexton Joe podcast, make sure you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeart Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts. I would be assassin was apprehended outside the Maryland home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh last night. Police say Nicholas Roski, who was armed with a gun and more by the way, was taken into custody just one block from the Kavanaugh family's house, was apparently upset at the High Court's draft decision, which

would overturn Roe v. Wade. The futal attack comes after a month of heated rhetoric by Democrats who have encouraged demonstrators who protest outside the homes of pro life justices. I'll take a look at the growing threat of left wing violence and the Democrats that are fueling it into Night's welcome to hold the line. I'm Buck Sexton. We were warning about this as soon as the leak of

the Supreme Court draft opinion happened. It was meant to create an environment of tremendous pressure and environment really of fear for the conservative justices on the Court. The idea being that there would be so much fury and rage out there that none of the justices who were going to overturn Roe v. Wade would feel like they're personal

and their family's safety was guaranteed anymore. So this is something that we were concerned about on the right from the very beginning, and sure enough those concerns have proven to be all too real. Washington Post put out a story on the would be Kavanaugh assassin that had some details. A California man carrying at least one weapon. By the way,

it was a pistol, It was also a knife. It was also a crowbar ziptized near Brett Kavanaughs Maryland home, has been taken into custody by police after telling officers

he wanted to kill the Supreme Court justice. The man, described as being in his mid twenties, was found to be carrying a weapon, burglary tools, and people speaking on the condition of anonymity, etc. Okay, so they found a guy near Kavanaugh's home who says he wanted to kill Justice Kavanaugh because of Rov Wade, obviously, who had burglary tools, who had zip ties perhaps to take hostages of Kavanaugh's family members, who had a pistol on him, and who

was wearing a tactical vest So this is a terrifying lunatic Obviously, this is somebody who has to be taken seriously and has been taken into custody and is being charged with attempted attempted murder. So this though, doesn't just come out of nowhere, It comes in specific response to left wing attempts to undermine the safety of conservative not

all judges, just conservative justices on the Supreme Court. And people are furious about this because there have been protests that, in violation of clear federal statute, have been allowed to happen at the homes of judges like Kavanaugh. This is a violation of federal law. People should be absolutely furious that this has been allowed to happen. And DOJ's Merrick Arland, the Attorney General, responded today, and this is what he had to say. This kind of behavior is obviously the

behavior that we will not tolerate. Threats of violence and actual violence against the justices, of course, strike at the heart of our democracy, and we will do everything we can to prevent them and to hold people who do them accountable. For that reason, last month, I accelerated the protection of all the justices residences twenty four seven. Also last month, I met with the Marshal of the Court.

I convened a meeting with her as well as with the Deputy Director of the FBI, with the Director of the Marshal Service, and with our own law enforce our own prosecutors to ensure every degree of protection available as possible. Okay, about the protests at the homes of judges and violation of federal law meant to intimidate members of the judiciary, that you protest at somebody's private home to frighten them and their wives or their husbands and their children. That's

why these left wing activists are doing it. By the way, the group Ruth sent Us has already put out a tweet saying that they will tonight after and attempted, or rather a would be assassin of Justice Kavanaugh was taken into custody. The group left wing radical pro abortion lunatics Ruth sent Us says that they're going to be back at Kavanaugh's house protesting because the law apparently doesn't matter.

The laws not an impediment to Democrats, insane left wing pro abortion activism, and this entire environment, by the way of justice, is under threat. It comes from the left.

It comes from Democrats, and the Democrats at the top, who could have from the very beginning, who could have said things to calm everybody down, to respect our system, to make sure that this kind of mentality of intimidation, never mind what we saw here, which was a would be assassin and an attempt at violence against a judge.

The Democrats could have gone in that direction of calming everybody down, of respecting our institutions, of saying this is but no, actually, here's what they were saying after the draft was league watch. War has been declared on the American woman. How dare they tell a woman what he can do and cannot do with her own body. We are not going back now. They're trying to criminalize our bodies. Yes, they're trying to move towards Stace rights, and we all

know what stace rights means. The Founding Fathers didn't recognize abortion as a fundamental right because the Founding Fathers were racist, misogynist jerk faces who didn't believe that women had any rights at all. Fifty years of rights, the decades of president that has just been spit on and thrown away in this draft. Opinions no one is safe. This overturning Row will be a mass criminalization event. And honestly, at

this point, I think we're all right. So the question the legitimacy of the court read like an anti abortion activist wrote it, not a Supreme Court justice. I mean, these people are are deranged. I mean the ones that are appearing on TV talking about this stuff. Look, the Democrats, for all their talk about the safe for institutions and the threats agains are democracy, they're reckless when it comes to the tone that they use, specifically around Supreme Court

decisions that don't go their way. Because the Democrat Party is effectively, if you're trying to trying to bring it down to its essence, they approach everything with the mind of a spoiled child, or perhaps a spoiled teenager. My way or I scream and kick and shout until I get my way. There's nothing more than the needs of the collective Democrat Party at any point in time, our way or the highway our way, or we'd burn it all down. Flashback here to twenty twenty. Just want to

remind everybody the kind of stuff now. Chuck Schumer did afterwards apologize for this because this was way over the line. But here's what the Remember this Chuck Schumer, he is the Senate majority leader and was at the time, and here he is saying in twenty twenty, yeah, Kavanaugh, get ready for it. Watch. I want to tell you, Gore Zuch I want to tell you Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these

awful decisions. Streme Court justices have lifetime tenure, So what the hell is that supposed to mean? You won't know what hit you? Well, what's he gonna do? Write I'm a strongly worded letter. He can't fire him, can't do anything about it, is Well, what's he gonna do? Oh yeah?

And if you're saying, well, that was twenty twenty and Schumer apologized, Okay, Well, after the League of the Supreme Court draft just a couple of months ago, the White House Press Secretary Jensaki had an opportunity to say, hey, don't protest outside of judges Holmes. It's gross and it's also an assault owner system and it's illegal. This is what the then White House Press secretary actually said. So

I know that there's an outrage right now. I guess about protests that have been peaceful to date, and we certainly continue to encourage that outside of judges homes, and that's the President's position. But the silence is pretty deafening about all of the other intimidation that we've seen to a number of people. Oh the other intimidation, what is she talking about talking about judges. We're protected under federal law from intimidation. And the White House officially saying, yeah,

those protests are fine, No, they're not, they're illegal. Actually, we can't read the statute. By the way, speaking of illegal, where's the violence, where's the rage coming from? Right now? It's not the people who may get their way and justice would actually prevail and babies would be living that otherwise would not. It's not the pro life side of this is the threat right now, despite what the Biden

government may say. Might wanted to take a look at this, a map showing five attacks on pro life pregnancy centers just in recent weeks. Offices in Madison, Wisconsin, and Buffalo, New York have been fire bombed. Reportedly, offices in Nashville, North Carolina, Washington, DC, and Hollywood Florida were vandalized, spray painted, windows smashed. Because the left is the mob, the rage mob of the sanctimonious morons. That is what the left

in America is. The base of the Democrat Party has turned into all right, voters in San Francisco sent their far left district attorney, chess At Boudin packing in a landslide recall vote yesterday. We'll have more on that with conservative commentator for NYPD Officer John Cardillo. Look, I don't know if you saw this, but there was a recent story about an Arizona real estate agent who found the home she lived and was listed for sale. Not a big deal, right, But wait, hold on, she wasn't actually

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progressive prosecutor on notice. Finally, the first time ever, San Francisco has recalled its district attorney, Chessi Budan, as voters hold him responsible for a surge in murders, violent crime, and shameless shoplifting. So will this recall send a message to soft owned crime prosecutors across the country. Let's ask former NYPD coppend conservative commentator John Cardillo, John, good to see him. Hey, Baco is good to be again. So this is a good thing. It's not a seismic shift, right.

I'm sure they're going to replace when the mayor London Breed puts forward his replacement and they have elections, they're going to replace him with a Democrat to San Francisco. But at least it's moving in the right direction here.

What do you think? Yeah, I mean, look one thing about chest Look get into this guy, ratible as they come, right, Aaron's for whether underground members, convicted killers, contemporaries of such illustrious luminaries as Bill Ayres and Assata Shakur, who the Joanne Chesimard right a bit on these, I mean, just radical, radical terrorists. But here's the thing. Jesse Bodin did not do one thing that he did not tell people he was going to do any campaigned. Nothing was a surprise

with this guy. He laid out the blueprint during his campaign then executed it to the letter. San Franciscans is radical leftist. Fuck. Maybe they don't really like the real life version of these utopian which are really dystopian policies they promote because he didn't do anything. He didn't say he was going to do. Here he is last night, by the way, in his concession speech, here's Jesse Budan, soon to be the former District Attorney of San Francisco. Watch.

People are angry, they're frustrating, and I want to be very clear about what happened tonight. The right wing billionaires outspent us three to one. They exploited an environment in which people are appropriately upset, and they created an electoral dynamic where we were literally shadow boxing. I mean, this is amazing. We just try to take this is amazing.

The right wing billionaires are sixty percent of San Franciscans voted to kick this clown out of office because they're sick of the home invasions, the assaults on the street, the theft, the armed robber, you name it. And why does he think they're all so upset? It's this guy is like a lunatic. Oh, I mean, but didn't you see the adm and cameras that that hidden footage of Hilarry Ellison and Elon must upping raw sewage and herowin needles on the streets of San Francisco. I'm the guys

out of his mind. Look, he was letting bad guys go free. He wasn't prosecuting worse bad guys. And he and so many other Democrats have abandoned quality of life crimes. They won't even touch him. Which we know. You and I know this, right, we both in some fashion with the NYPD. You were over there on the intel side, I was there on the law enforcement side. We know that when you addressed with Rudy Giuliani, get addressing quality of life primes typically leads to a reduction in the

bigger crimes. This had nothing to do with anyone or anything other than you're so polite in the way you say his name as well. Chessebo'dan's refusal to be a prosecutor. He wanted to be a far less activist, not the chief law enforcement officer, the chief prosecutorial officer of the city of San Francisco. It's amazing, John, because as we all know, there was a thirty percent increase in homicides

in nationwide in twenty twenty to twenty twenty one. George Floyd Movement and BLM and all this played into this, of course, But the progressive prosecutors. They had already been seeded into all these different city bureaucracies in the years leading up to this, in part because I think of the media stoking a racial panic over the election of

Donald Trump. Right, So twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, you start seeing the Chessa bou Dan and you know, the Kim Fox and these other Larry Krass, you know, these progressive prosecutors taking office. And it wasn't just that they had one year. The next year, twenty twenty two to twenty twenty one, was also terrible in these cities, So we knew it wasn't just a pandemic blip or whatever crap they were saying at the time, the lies they were telling.

In San Francisco, for example, twenty twenty two versus twenty twenty one, larceny so far this year up twenty percent, assaults up eleven percent, homicides up eleven percent, rape up nine percent. So they had a terrible year of crime rise across the country, but in San Francisco, San Francisco specifically, and keeps going. John, I think that was what people disabled. Enough is enough, Yeah, I mean it goes back to addressing those quality of life crimes, right, the broken windows

pleasing strategies. You know, you and I talk about this a lot, and so sometimes I don't delve into it when we're on air. But it's important to understand that maybe you have new viewers, which I'm sure you do with your audience grows who or maybe younger, they don't understand what we're talking about. And simply put, what Rue Giuliani his police commissioners understood in New York City in the nineties when they manage a crime reduction, crime felt off a cliff in New York is if you go

after the little things, the big things follow. Very simply put, if you arrest the guy or a shoplifting or jumping the turnstile in a subway not paying the fair oftentimes when you run their information after the arrest, you find they had warrants for delany robbery, delany burglary, felony. Has solved some of these bigger crimes. And by getting those people off the street, returning them on those warrants to a judge, you were you sing crime across the board again,

these progressive das. I'm so glad you brought up. Larry Krasner in Philadelphia. He was really George Soros' first experiment with funding far left district attorneys to affect social change in the wrong direction. And look where Philadelphia is today. It's a mess. I have phillipops reach out to me on Twitter on Facebook all the time telling me how

bad it is. But it's very simple. If you address the quality of life crimes, if you actually enforce the law as crazy as it sounds, buck crime drops, and when you do the opposite, prime rises. The big city crime spike isn't just San Francisco as I know it a moment ago, John, and again in its second year of rise right twenty twenty, twenty twenty one was the worst year pretty much ever for a one year crime spike nationwide twenty twenty one verse twenty twenty two, though

San Francisco's up seven point eight percent. In New York City though with a new mayor, up thirty eight percent, Los Angeles eleven percent, Chicago thirty five percent, Philadelphia of

twenty two percent. Philadelphia last year had its all time murder record, and it's just running slightly below that pace six months into twenty twenty two, John, I I just want to know what your take is on I've got a theory that in some of these cities they're realizing that the progressive prosecutors, I mean, that's just essentially suicidal for the city. But bringing in a kind of mainstream democrat who's still a little, you know, wishywashi, that's not

going to turn the momentum around. They're gonna need a Giuliani like figure to come in and say there's a new sheriff in town. I mean, New York City is the proof of that, right, Eric, Eric Adams. I mean, the guy who was in New York City police officer, retired as a New York City Police captain, and crime is rising in New York City. Why because instead of being a leader, instead of saying I had twenty three years in the New York City Police Department, I made

it d behind my name. But I know what works and I know what doesn't to reduce crime. What's he doing. He's deferring to guys like Alvin Bragg, the bar left Manhattan distric attorney that won't process get anyone for anything. He's down beholding the radicals in the New York City Council, and crime is rising. Also important to notice city like Portland, Ted Wheeler, one of the furthest left mayors in the

United States. There was a period in those years you mentioned Buck twenty one, twenty two, twenty to twenty one when Portland saw an eight hundred percent increase in murders. This is unheard of. We haven't seen these numbers since the seventies. Crazy, but we'll see if people are waking up, even Democrats they got to wake up too, because they've managed to take over and now destroy their own cities. John, my friend, always words of wisdom. Good to see it,

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Texas over a video going viral. Take a look. Drag show in Dallas invited children to walk the runway during an event called Drag Your Kids to Pride, which is drawing attention of Texas lawmakers, with one representative planning to introduce legislation which will ban children from being allowed to attend drag shows. Watch. It's sad that we're at this point, you know, we look we have a lot of laws

to protect kids in Texas. We don't want them get tattoos, they can't go in sexual, sexually oriented businesses, they can't go in liquor stores. And then, of course children need to just grow up and be children. They don't need to be sexualized. They don't need to be presented with this where they're putting money into men's underwear. It's just

not appropriate for children at all. So, Rob, what was your first reaction to just seeing these videos that have been shared widely all around the internet in recent days of the drag your kids to Pride event. Well, the thing about it is is that this has been going

on actually for the past couple of years. I mean I sounded the alarm about this in my first book, Always a Soldier, there was a young drag kid named Desmond is Amazing who was around nine to ten years old at the time that was dancing for tips in a Brooklyn gay bar at three am. So I'm really glad that the rest of the conservative movement is sort of catching up to the far left LGBTQ stuff that has been going on over the past couple of years. So when I saw this, I was shocked, but not surprised.

I think it's morally repugnant. I think it's silly and stupid. And it's not that the parents here. It's not so much that the parents are terrible parents and they really shouldn't be allowing their kids to do all of this stuff as well, But it's also the business owners that are at play here. So these are I don't know if they're local gay bars or if they're just regular spaces, etc. But I think that the answer really is to go after these gay bars and go after these places of

business that are allowing the stuff to happen. You have, you know, kids sashing up and down in establishment that sells liquor around a bunch of adults. That's not okay. I'm not entirely sure that introducing legislation to sort of banned this these sorts of events legally is the best thing to do, because I think as a gay man, I remember when it was illegal for gays and lesbians

to sort of congregating public. Of course, this is not the same thing in any capacity, But I don't think that going after banning it with legislation is the right move. But I think that you should attack these places, in these spaces that are allowing this to happen legally, who owns these spaces? What are the liquor license laws? What are the laws that say whether or not kids can be around during adult entertainment? Because what drag shows are

and what drag is is adult entertainment. This was never intended for children. And the only reason that we're seeing this stuff over the past couple of years is because the far left LGBTQ has gone so insane what they're indotrination that they want to push this stuff on little

kids and it is just not okay. Yeah, why do you even to that point, Rob, Because I've spoken to numerous friends from within the gay community who are outraged at the sexualization of children or putting this kind of sexuality in front of children, and again resent the notion that the gay community is supposed to just go along with what the transactivists in the LGBTQ plus community are demanding when it comes to kids. Yes, Well, the thing about this is is that, like I said, this isn't

generally coming from gays and lesbians. This is coming from the t Q plus fringe. And I have a lot of game lesbian liberals that follow me as well. And the thing about it is is that they're fed up with all of this stuff as well. They think that not only is a making a mockery out of whatever the LGBT community was, but it's also setting us back decades and decades and decades, and we fought for and secured the rights that we have to just want to

be free like most other Americans. The freedom to get married, the freedom to serve in the military, the freedom to work and be prosperous in a capitalist society without the sort of threat of being fired for who we are. This sort of drag queen story, our sexual sexualization of children, all of this other stuff is so far removed from any of that stuff. And these game lets being liberals

are so afraid of the mob that exists online. They're so afraid of the t fringe that has overtaken the entire movement that they are afraid to stand up and speak out against something that they know is morally wrong and they know is setting their movement back decades. Here's one of the attendees who clash with protesters that they drag. The Kids Are Pride event today in Dallas. Young people are the symptom of a dying society, and you know it an shut the shut up. You shame on you,

shame on you, shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on you, shame on you. You sh Now, just to be clear, that was actually a few days ago. That was when the event happened. That video was from a few days ago. But um, rob one thing that I think was was really jarring for a lot of folks.

If I saw a bunch of of parents with children, you know, eight year olds, seven year olds, that's what it looked to be about the age of the children there at a at a strip club with women who were doing the same moves, adult actual females doing that same stuff. I'd say, this is wildly inappropriate. And I don't think there are any parents who would say that wasn't that that's in you know, that's appropriate. But there were parents with the kids. I mean, clearly you see

someone there. You know they're not Trump voters, but like, what is that? Well, the thing about it is is that the sort of far left fringe is indoctrinating their kids and all of this stuff, and they think that it's cute, They think that it's fun. Did you see the woman that was screaming. I mean, she's got all of the signs of being an absolute lepist. You know, she's got the green hair, she's got the love is Love t shirt as she screams expletives as somebody that

does not agree with what she's doing. And so it's not so much that these drag events are happening, because that is going on as well, but it's also the moral failing of the parents of these children, because the parents are so far left and the parents are just being led by this sort of far left gender COLTQ ideology and they think that this is what's being what being accepting, and what being inclusive and all of this

stuff is all about. It's repugnant and it's actually scary that these people are out here raising kids and thinking that this is an appropriate setting for their seven eight nineteen year old kids to be and by the way, not only taking the kids to drag events like this.

There's a new show called Generation Drag on Discovery Plus about literally seven, eight, nine, ten eleven year old drag queens, So kids that are that age that are actually drag performers dressing up in women's clothing and doing exaggerated sexual moves and doing all of these things that drag performers do. I'm not inherently against drag. I think, like I said, it's a very popular art form that is for adults.

What I'm against is bringing children into these spaces and telling children that it is okay for them to participate in this. It is deeply, deeply morally wrong. Yeah, it's about It's about the kids here. It's about the children. So that's the big difference. I know you know this, and I think people are really wondering what the heck is going on here. Rob. Appreciate you being with us,

all right, Thanks Budd. Twitter has officially caved to Elon Nut's demand for unprecedented access to social media platforms internal data, just days after the billionaire threatened to walk away from a deal to purchase the company if it didn't comply. We'll have more on that with former Facebook employee and director of the Tech Policy Center at the Heritage Foundation, Parah Frederick when we come back. Each morning, the President of the United States receives a highly classified briefing on

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your morning. Billionaire Elon Musk seems to have won at least one battle against Twitter. Earlier this week, Must threaten to walk away from a deal to buy the social media company if it didn't allow him and his legal team full access to its internal data to address concerns

about the number of spambots on the platform. In a letter to Twitter, must attorney wrote Twitter's latest offer to simply provide additional details regarding the company's own testing methodologies, whether through written materials or verbal explanations, is tantamount to refusing mister musk data requests. Twitter's effort to characterize it otherwise is merely an attempt to obfuscate and confuse the issue.

Mister Musk has made it clear he does not believe that the companies lacks testing methodologies are adequate, so he must conduct his own analysis the data he has requested as necessary to do so. After Twitter had about forty eight hours of deliberation, it appears Musk will receive the information he asked for. Let me now to discuss Former Facebook intelligence analyst and director of Heritage's Heritage Foundation's Tech Policy Center Para Frederick Carrett, thanks for being with us, orts,

thanks for having me. So let's start with what is it forever and at home? You know, people work in this stuff and the media care a lot more about the Twitter situation, I think than everyday folks. But so explain to us what the issue was here. There are too many bots on Basically, Elon, as the purchaser of Twitter, wants to know how many fake accounts there are? Is

that what this is exactly? And the lawyers, the letters that are flying between the lawyers, Elon's lawyers at least, are saying that this is a clear material breach of the takeover agreement because Twitter has said we're not going to let you look under the hood in this way. We're not going to reveal proprietary information. They're calling it private information that they don't want to reveal to the

public about their bot counting and their spam methodologies. So Twitter has itself publicly said that we the platform has compized of only five percent bots, but Elon said, nah, I've done a little digging with my own people, and we're thinking it could be upwards of twenty percent bots of composed of you know, what the platform is, or the automated accounts that are on the platforms vice the

real legitimate, authentic users. So that's what this is about, because if Twitter is comprised of twenty percent bots, then Elon's not getting his money's worth out of this platform. It doesn't Hey, it's not real political discourse that's going on. It's not real authentic users that are engaging with each other.

It's you know, those automated accounts that push various you can push propaganda, you can push advertising, you can push all sorts of crazy things, you know, strings and puppeteers from statelingdactors like the CCP can run rampant on these platforms too. So Elon wants to know what he's paying for, and Twitter has thus far said, We're not going to let you in on that, because all of that is

proprietary to us our private platform. In an article on the Verge, they wrote that Twitter will give Elon Musk fire hose data access to settle bot complaints, and Twitters preparing to grant Elon Musk unprecedented access to platform data in an effort to address his concerns about automated accounts. So this firehose of data they're talking about, how could

they assume that? I mean, if someone's going to buy your company, don't they and you have an agreement with them that they're looking at they're doing their due diligence. How could they hide this? I mean that's it just seems like this is so basic. Yeah, no kidding, And that's why I think what's going through Elon's head as well. He wants to make sure that he's what he was promised is what he's actually getting. So if that firehose of data comes at him, you know, Elon knows a

lot of smart people in the industry. I hope he has an army of data scientists, of programmers, of people who can actually comb through this data and make sense of it. That would be great and look and basically double check the methodologies for counting and all of these spam accounts, So that would be fantastic. But you're right,

it's the most basic thing. And what I think this actually does end up highlighting buck is the fact that these tech companies they do not operate with transparency as one of their major goals or one of their major values of whatsoever. If Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, has to beg and beg and beg to get access to a platform that he should ultimately end up owning, then this is a problem. Think of what the average American user gets when they sign up for

these tech companies. It ain't transparency. Well, what do you what do you think he may find here? Because there's clearly some sensitivity on the part of the current and hopefully soon to be former Twitter leadership about their data, their practices. Do you have some sense of what Elon could be looking at beyond just bots? You know, Twitter's had a long heads up right now, so they've had

time to or try to clean up their act. There were reports initially when the deal first emerged in the public eye that they were sort of mining their p's and q's, that they were halting all a product, tinkering and any sort of different sort of evolutions of their product from being shipped so that remember, everyone was experienced on the conservative side at least that those uptick in user counts and whatnot. So I think they've had a while to try to clean up their act and get

those content moderation processes. If they don't want Elon to investigate and look at what they're doing that's obviously been very biased, they're probably cleaning that up right now. They've probably had a lot of time to clean it up, as you know, we in the intelligence community to burn all the documents and whatnot would have done before we're getting out of embassies overseas. So I think it's I think they've been given a lot of lead time to

clean up their act. But you know, Elon's good and again he has really powerful friends who are good at this stuff too, So we'll see. I think they'll be able to ferret something out for the American people to look at. Do you think this transaction, the purchase of Twitter, which could have enormous implications for our information ecosystem on the new side, just free speech implications in general, Do you think Elan's gonna actually end up the owner of Twitter.

Based on what you're seeing, you know, book, I think it's fifty fifty. And just in terms of what Elon's thinking himself, he could be walking away or he could again be setting himself up for those more advantageous terms and actually trying to get this platform added discounts. So at this point, you know, I was a little skeptical in the beginning. Then my hope really really spiked. But look at what they're throwing at him. Remember when the

board took those poison pills. Look at the Joint SEC and DOJ investigations by the Biden administration reportedly into his other business dealings. Look at the sexual misconduct allegations. I mean, these people are throwing every thing they can at Elon.

And if he ends up actually confirming that the bobs are only at five percent or in an area that Twitter sets they are, I really really hope he does, and I really hope he takes over breaks the ideological monopoly that these big tech companies have over Americans and uses it as a force for free speech in the world, as he says, So I hope it goes through. Right now, I think it's fifty fifty to be completely honest, do any of these free speech devoted platforms that have been

popping up in the last couple of years. I mean, you were at Facebook, which is kind of the granddaddy of all this, if you will, right, I mean, the biggest one and the one that really got the whole social media revolution started. So do you think that whether it's Getter or truth Social or any of them, could they maybe brett Parlor, could they maybe break out? You know,

I think it really depends on their underlying technologies. So there's a company called Rumble that you're familiar with, the YouTube competitive petitor, and there they have their own cloud hosting services. There's other even specifically designed cloud hosting services that are for free speech, like righte Forge. So you know, it depends on if they make themselves themselves invulnerable to something like Amazon Web Services yanking a Parlor off of

their cloud hosting services. So conservatives, if they build with that full digital stack in mind and have an acknowledgement that the infrastructure actually matters, not just the platforms sitting on top of those cloud hosting services and those servers, then I think they have a chance at survival. But if they just ride on top of what these big

tech platforms have already built. Then you know there's always the chance that you're going to get snuffed out or you have to be beholden to the ideology of these companies and what they're pushing. There are always appreciate it. Thanks for being with us, Thanks Bud. As the American economy continues to suffer, the White House apparently thinks things are great. We'll have that video for you with quick kids,

stay with us. The Biden White House continues to live in fantasyland when it comes to the US economy, and CNN says both sides are a threat to Supreme Court justices. Really, we have those stories and quickets, let's get right to it. Look, the Biden regime is just barely holding on. It feels like in any given day there poll numbers are terrible, the economy is not good. People are upset. It wasn't

what was promised. They seem really incompetent. Everything the Afghan withdrawal debacle, the giant war that's broken out in Europe, the price of gas inflation, the wide open border crime rise in major cities all across America. It's been a disaster, disaster, The economy, though, is where it really stings for the Biden team because people vote based on that kind of stuff.

You know, the economy is stupid, right. We all remember that Brejean Pierre is the White House Press Secretary, and she tried to explain to everybody yesterday that the economy is actually, you know, better than it has been historically. Watch. We understand that people are feeling feeling this. They're feeling the increase of prices, which with food in particular right

now and gas. That is something that we understand. What we're trying to say, what I'm trying to say to you is that the economy is in a better place than it has been historically. And so we feel here at this administration and other experts as well, is that we feel that we are in a good position to take on inflation. We are in a good position to really start really working on lowing prices, a good position

to do those things. They've been in charge for eighteen months. Now, all of a sudden, they're in the position to make the economy good. What's been going on for the last eighteen months, folks, there's wondering, Yeah, after taking only handful of questions At Tuesday's news briefing, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre left the briefing room. One reporter says, um, watch this one. Can you take some of the economy

we need? That wasn't by the way, that you could hear a little bit of a doocey from Fox News there, But that wasn't him. It was some other reporter who said, we need a longer briefing, as in, like, you gotta tell us something here. Okay, there's a White House Press brief you yet have stuff to say. It's a big government, a lot of things going on right just want to

get out of there as soon as they can. And then there's this look that the Libs are desperate right now because they know that their side, the pro abortion, pro killing of babies, and you know, pro destroy the integrity of the Supreme Court if they don't get their wayside um looks pretty awful right now anybody who's paying

attention to what's happening. So they're gonna do this whole Oh but the threat against the Supreme Court justices, you know it comes from both sides politically, No, it doesn't, but CNN's trying that. Watch This certainly contributes to this

overall threatned landscape. We've been talking a lot about the major concern here with this abortion ruling from federal officials, and they've been sounding the alarm on this for about a month, is that Supreme Court justices will certainly be potentially targeted by violent extremists who are angered over this pending ruling that is poised to strike down Roe v. Wade. This is an extremely passionate issue. There are emotions on

both sides. Federal officials have made clear over and over they believe the risk truly comes from both sides of this abortion debate. It does not actually come from both sides of the abortion debate. We all know what's going on. We all know that the lunatic Biden voters who think that murdering babies is a constitutional right, they're the ones that Supreme Court justices unfortunately, have to be concerned about now when it comes to safety. They're all bidenote truth.

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