0:00

The DHS leaked,

0:02

the Department of Homeland Security, massive

0:05

leak coming out today documents.

0:07

emails, text messages showing

0:10

the buddy buddy relationship between

0:12

the Department of Homeland Security, our national

0:14

security agencies. and

0:16

Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia,

0:19

Google, and even JPMorgan Chase.

0:22

So much to dig into today and

0:25

In order to go through all of it, I am joined

0:27

by Joel Barry, the managing editor of

0:29

everyone's favorite website, the Babylon

0:31

B. But first, I'll remind you guys

0:33

that tickets are now available. December

0:36

seventeenth to the twentieth, Phoenix, Arizona America

0:38

Fest, joined Charlie Kirk,

0:40

Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, myself, Benny

0:43

Johnson, Josh Hollie, Kenny McMany, Canada's Owens,

0:45

Tim Pool, Lawrence, Howard, Mike Lendell,

0:47

Warren Beaubert, and Natalie Stuckey. Whipp. promocode

0:49

postal twenty five percent off at am fest dot

0:51

com security tickets immediately am fest

0:54

dot com promo code postal.

1:05

You would certainly concede that if the

1:08

adult offspring of the president of

1:10

the United States or the vice president were compromised,

1:12

that

1:13

would be a national security threat. Right?

1:15

We

1:15

speak through our filings in court, and

1:18

we speak through our actions in

1:20

in in open court. So I

1:22

will speak to this. Where's the laptop position?

1:25

know where Hunter Biden's laptop is?

1:28

Again, I'm not gonna talk about any potential

1:30

ongoing events. know where it is. I said, you don't

1:32

know where it is. I'm not gonna talk about any

1:34

ongoing issue. You can't hear me telling us you follow

1:36

the facts in the law, but you can't even follow laptop

1:38

that you guys have had for three years. We follow the facts

1:40

in the law, and we speak in open

1:43

court about impeachment. you aren't speaking

1:45

about this, but you know who is speaking about it? The

1:47

whistleblower from the FBI who've gone

1:49

to senator Grassley and said that

1:51

you guys purposefully

1:53

take any information that is that

1:55

is derogatory about Hunter Biden and

1:57

you go and rat hole it so that you never

1:59

have to speak about it in any circumstance. But

2:02

the good news is you're not the only ones with

2:04

that laptop. Well, ladies

2:05

and gentlemen welcome aboard. today's edition of

2:08

human events daily powered by turning point

2:10

USA. Today is October thirty first

2:12

twenty twenty two, Anno Dominique. It

2:14

is all Hallow's Eve.

2:17

Today, we've got an

2:19

incredible story for all

2:21

of you to dig into. Newly

2:24

leaked documents. from the Department

2:26

of Homeland Security. Everything

2:29

you thought was going on, it's

2:32

actually worse. we've got information

2:36

that was first leaked to the intercept of

2:38

meetings that were held between the Department

2:40

of Homeland Security, the FBI.

2:43

Twitter,

2:44

Facebook, Wikipedia, JPMorgan

2:48

Chase, and many other big

2:50

tech firms that started in twenty

2:52

twenty and have been on going throughout

2:55

the years and months since. All

2:58

about sensuring disinformation,

3:01

content moderation, shutting

3:03

down your freedom of speech,

3:06

here on the Internet. We're gonna break this down

3:08

and get through all of it joining me today.

3:10

Is the great Joel Berry, managing editor

3:12

of the Babylon B. Joel, thanks for coming on.

3:15

Thanks for having me. Appreciate it. So

3:17

this first story and and, you know,

3:19

as we sit here, it's trending on Twitter.

3:21

It's currently number four Obviously,

3:23

you guys can't see that because Babylon B is locked

3:25

out of Twitter, but we've got

3:28

text messages and emails now that

3:30

basically tell us that

3:32

these tech firms, which include Wikipedia,

3:34

by the way, and Google and all the rest, even Chase,

3:37

a financial institution, are

3:40

working hand in hand With

3:42

the government to

3:44

center stories like the Hunder Biden

3:46

laptop, that's confirmed by the way, the

3:48

giant guy, who was just fired by by

3:50

Elon. We'll talk more about that in the next segment.

3:53

It was a part of this. Microsoft executives,

3:55

they got a text message from the one guy saying,

3:58

We need the platforms need to become

3:59

more comfortable in their relationship

4:02

with the government. That's verbatim text

4:04

messages from Microsoft executive. that's

4:07

coming out in this. Some of the other

4:09

topics that are they're telling us include

4:11

the origins of COVID, even up

4:13

up to and including Biden's withdrawal

4:16

from F Afghanistan was something

4:18

that they were looking at stopping

4:20

the spread of what

4:22

is going on? Why are our

4:24

tech companies essentially becoming

4:26

agencies like out of nineteen eighty four. Howard

4:28

Bauchner: Yeah, well, III

4:31

think it's something that we all kinda suspected

4:33

was going on, and it's it's really

4:34

even though almost it's it's kinda not surprising

4:37

to see these, it's it's still quite a

4:39

shock and it's it

4:41

it really kinda confirms

4:43

what I've thought about these big companies

4:45

in the sense that they're kind

4:48

of a way for the government to

4:50

to do what they have always wanted

4:52

to do that the constitution won't allow. You know,

4:54

they they kind of launder their censorship

4:56

through these these big tech

4:59

firms

4:59

And it's something that we all we've all kind of

5:02

felt. We felt it in the Twitter algorithm.

5:04

We've kind of felt that thumb on the scale

5:06

of our of our discourse as we're interacting

5:09

on on different

5:10

platforms. And and

5:11

to see it confirmed like this is just wild.

5:14

But, again, they're kinda not surprised.

5:16

Well, it's

5:16

crazy to me is that, you know, a

5:19

a place like the Babylon B would get

5:21

targeted so much, whether

5:23

it's for misinformation or

5:25

hate or whatever. I mean, you guys do

5:28

satire. It's jokes. It's

5:30

meant to be funny and obviously good satire.

5:32

Obviously, has a little bit of a sting

5:34

to it, so it has that realism edge to

5:36

it. But why is it that satire

5:39

is so dangerous to this group

5:41

of people? Well,

5:42

yeah, I think satire is something that the

5:44

the right is kind of only recently

5:46

waking up to, but it's something that the left has

5:48

been good at for for decades. I mean, going

5:51

back to, you know, Solowinski's rules for

5:53

radicals, you know, he talks about the

5:55

the power of mockery, and

5:57

it's something that the right has never really employed

6:00

effectively. So I think when the bad loans,

6:02

B started doing what we're doing, I

6:04

I think the left immediately recognized the

6:06

power and the danger that it it opposed

6:08

to to them and to their narrative and

6:11

to their agenda. And

6:13

I think, you know, the people who

6:15

knew knew that it had to be stop one way or

6:17

another. And they came at us, you know, more blatantly

6:19

in the beginning, you know, with with

6:21

Snopes and fact checks. And now

6:23

it's a lot more sneaky. Now it's done through the

6:25

algorithm. and as we know now

6:28

through these kind of backdoor meetings

6:31

with the government. You know, that's in our

6:33

book, the the Babylon B Guide to Democracy, we

6:35

talk about in one of our chapters,

6:37

the the fourth branch of government being the

6:39

corporate branch. And that's that's essentially what the

6:41

government's done is they, you know, all these

6:43

things that they they are unable to

6:45

do, the constitution doesn't allow them to

6:47

do, they can accomplish

6:49

through the deep state, through the regulatory agencies

6:51

in partnership with these corporations that

6:55

have grown so powerful and

6:57

their relationship with the government is

6:59

more important to them

7:01

than their relationship to consumers, to

7:04

advertisers, and things like that. And so

7:06

I I think what what Elon's doing is pretty

7:08

exciting just kind of going in there and blowing it

7:10

all up. No.

7:11

I agree. And and I wanna get inside in the next segment

7:13

because I the way I keep looking at it

7:15

is, these people have had so

7:17

much power for so

7:19

long, really in the past six

7:21

years, they've had the ability to

7:23

just become super powerful

7:26

Right? These these are preternatural powers that

7:28

are beyond it. It's sort of like, you know,

7:30

when you're in the matrix, the agents have

7:32

more power than everybody else. Right? Like,

7:34

except for Kean Rees. But all know Keanu

7:36

is the most powerful human ever lived. But

7:40

they they, you know, they have the ability to teleport and

7:42

jump and fly and do all these things. And

7:44

so, these hall monitors, the

7:46

school norms, the censorship, the

7:49

organizations, the disinfo

7:51

journalists, and they're out there crying on MSNBC

7:53

this morning saying, well, we we can't

7:55

ban Elon. There's nothing we can do.

7:57

He can spread whatever he wants

7:59

and promote this and go after

8:01

that. And it's like, yeah, that's how the Internet

8:04

was. That's how the world is on

8:06

a regular basis. You know, if you and I are

8:08

just talking in per and there's no intermediary.

8:10

But what they've used is these platforms.

8:12

We look at a minute left as a way

8:14

to stifle that communication.

8:17

Yeah.

8:17

Well, I mean, you might remember the early

8:19

days of YouTube. I remember, you know, when when

8:21

Ben Shapiro Klipsch used to go

8:23

viral, and and and people would

8:25

be convinced. I I I've talked to many people

8:27

who who who became conservative

8:29

through the YouTube algorithm until they wised up

8:31

and and realized that it was helping

8:33

conservatives because our message is powerful.

8:35

That's why they had to shut it all down.

8:38

That's why they had to shut it all down. That's why Twitter

8:40

shut down periscope because people like me and

8:42

others, and then all it was all conservatives. All

8:44

conservatives that were doing well, that's why I

8:46

tweeted Elon. He's talking, like, bringing Vine back. I said,

8:48

bring Perrisco. let me live

8:50

stream. Don't give me any special

8:52

favors. Don't give me any special, you

8:54

know, guidance or powers or

8:56

advance whatever. No. You want me to pay something? I'll pay

8:58

something fine. whatever it is.

9:00

I just want the same playing field as

9:02

everybody else. And by the way, the

9:04

government needs to get Out

9:06

of its stay tuned to be right back here, Joel Barry

9:08

managing the editor of Badlandi.

9:13

All across country Americans are discovering that if

9:15

we wanna change this nation, we have to change the

9:17

way the marketplace works. What

9:19

corporations are seeking to divide us big

9:21

banks are freezing the accounts of people who

9:23

disagree with their political views, and our supply

9:25

chain is dependent upon countries that

9:27

actively work against our values. In

9:29

this time, for a change that change starts with

9:31

you and your wallet. That's why I am

9:33

proud to partner with public square, the

9:35

largest directory of freedom loving businesses

9:37

our nation has ever seen. Public Square

9:39

is the first app to connect freedom loving

9:41

Americans with their local community and the

9:43

businesses that share their values.

9:45

Whether you want to support a a restaurant that

9:47

only buys from local farms, a coffee shop that took a

9:49

stand against the COVID mandates or a bank that would never

9:52

cancel you for political views. Public

9:54

Square is your guide. just download the public

9:56

square app from the Apple App Store or Google Play

9:58

create a free account and begin your search. You

9:59

can also list your business for free so your

10:02

local community can find you today.

10:04

DOWNLOW THE APP TODAY PUBLIC Square THAT'S PUBLIC Square

10:06

PUBLIC SKU. Reporter:

10:09

Elon Musk SAYS HE'S HE'S putting his

10:12

forty four billion dollar deal to

10:14

buy Twitter on hold until the

10:16

company can back its estimate of how

10:18

many bots are on the platform. So

10:20

why is Musk so concerned about

10:22

bots? Twitter has

10:24

said that less than five percent of

10:26

its daily users are false

10:28

or spam accounts. But Musk, who

10:30

struck a deal to buy the social media site

10:32

on April twenty five, is skeptical.

10:35

Tweeting three weeks later, my offer

10:37

was based on Twitter's SEC filings

10:39

being accurate. Musk

10:41

also said Twitter CEO, Parag

10:43

Agrawal, refused to show proof

10:45

that fake and spam accounts make up less

10:47

than five percent of users.

10:48

So Elon Musk, if you've

10:50

been on Twitter this entire past

10:52

weekend, you know, I'd encourage you to

10:54

go there, of course, follow us at human events

10:56

pod on Twitter. This

10:58

has been a sea change kind of weekend

11:01

because He's tweeting stuff about Paul

11:03

Pelosi. He's

11:05

tweeting internal messages from

11:07

Twitter inside their internal like, it looks like a

11:09

message board or maybe a Slack channel. he's

11:12

going into the nuts and

11:14

bolts of Twitter itself, and

11:16

he owns all of this. He owns your direct

11:19

messages. He owns the direct messages. You know, that little

11:21

terms of service. You have to click there. Every

11:23

journalist in the world, guess what? He owns your

11:25

DM's now. Elon Musk owns them. That's what the terms

11:27

of service state. All this

11:29

stuff, it's it's like Neo going into the

11:31

matrix, you know, what happens if I press this button? What

11:33

happens if I press that button? And

11:35

he just, by the way, dissolved the entire Twitter

11:38

board, which obviously is a step towards going private.

11:40

So he's the sole member of the Board of

11:42

Directors of Twitter now. He's going to be taking

11:44

it private Joel, we know what really happened here.

11:46

Don't we? This all started with

11:48

the lockout of the Babylon B

11:50

and Elon getting mad about that and

11:52

decided to do something about it. It isn't it.

11:55

Yeah.

11:55

Yeah. It's all it's all our you know, thank

11:57

us. It's all your fault. because

12:00

you dev gave you a Rachel Levine. That's it.

12:02

That's all comes down to that. Yeah. It's I

12:04

mean, well, you know, Elon's been a a fan

12:06

of comedy for a long time. I I

12:08

remember years ago him talking about how much

12:10

he loved the onion, and know,

12:12

years later, how he he kind of

12:14

switched over to the b. And and

12:16

so I, you know, I don't think that we were the

12:18

sole reason by by any means,

12:20

but it may have been kind of maybe the

12:22

straw that broke the camel's back. I don't

12:24

know.

12:25

Well, what's what's amazing to me though

12:27

is looking at this the

12:30

news as we're facing it. It seems as

12:32

though he's going through bit by bit because I

12:34

saw at one point, it's not just Elon. That's

12:36

what people need to understand. It's like the only guy mean,

12:38

of course, the you know, you see him with the

12:40

same coming in. It's very, very strong

12:42

visual persuasion. NEO into entering

12:44

the matrix, taking it over from the architect's

12:46

chair. But There was a guy who

12:48

got fired on Twitter, a senior product

12:50

coordinator, who actually

12:53

tweeted that the reason that he was fired

12:55

is because Elon's got his whole team

12:57

from Tesla, now come over

12:59

to the platform, and they're going through the

13:01

code line by line. And they're

13:03

looking at the coders and saying, look, We're

13:06

just checking to see if you haven't

13:08

posted anything into the code in

13:10

the last six months, the last four

13:12

months, or if you're not posting a lot, now

13:14

they're going to you and ask having efforts like that

13:16

seen in office space. Right? Say, what what would

13:18

you say you do here? And

13:20

they're basically if you don't have answer,

13:22

they're giving you the boot. And this guy said they were doing

13:24

that. And then a couple hours later, he goes, well,

13:26

I've been fired from the Bird app.

13:29

Wow. Well,

13:29

that's I mean, I I kinda am I'm

13:32

really excited to see what comes out over the

13:34

next few weeks. I think we've all kind of just had

13:36

this sense that there's Shananagan's

13:39

going on in the background. I I

13:41

just recently, I I

13:43

was looking at the race think it was

13:45

it Mike Lee who's running in is it Utah

13:48

for for Senate there?

13:50

the And the the the leftist

13:52

that he's running against. So I just kinda did a

13:54

little comparison of the of their Twitter

13:57

profiles. You know, Mike

13:59

Lee, more followers than

14:01

the leftist and

14:02

his tweets might get, you know, fifty,

14:04

sixty likes a piece, whereas the leftist is

14:06

getting, like I mean, every single one of his

14:08

tweets the last couple have been going viral five people. And the

14:10

question is why why is that? Is that -- What's going

14:12

on? -- is that right.

14:14

Obviously, there's, you know, there's a question of

14:16

is Twitter showing favorability towards

14:19

that, people who's verified, who's not verified,

14:21

I like that he's talking about opening up

14:23

that process. And there's this whole

14:25

sense though, but let's let's tie the two together

14:27

because do you think then so is

14:29

they have this relationship, I guess, with the

14:31

federal government. They're working with the FBI,

14:33

they're working with DHS, how

14:36

amenable is Elon going to be to that?

14:38

Because it seems to me, like, not at all,

14:40

really.

14:41

Yeah, it

14:42

it doesn't seem so. I

14:45

I think of all the people in the

14:47

world to to do the job, Elon

14:49

seems to kinda most fit the bill because

14:51

he's he's not he's motivated

14:53

by other things that kinda transcend,

14:55

you know, money in partnerships with the government.

14:57

He said again and again that, you know,

14:59

that an application where people

15:01

can have a free discourse

15:03

is he he sees it as essential

15:05

to the future survival of humanity.

15:07

So he's cut He's he's not really

15:09

motivated by money here. And III

15:11

don't think he'll be really too take too

15:13

kindly to these secret government

15:15

partnerships. And I think one thing that we're learning

15:17

too just the previous stories that,

15:19

you know, it

15:22

you

15:22

know,

15:22

Twitter and social media is still powerful and

15:25

and the government is going to do whatever they can

15:27

get away with. If they can wield that

15:29

power to further their

15:31

agenda, if they can wield it against

15:33

you, they will do it as long as they

15:35

can, as long as no one stops them.

15:37

How much? No. I was

15:39

gonna

15:39

say, how how much would you love to be sitting in that

15:41

meeting? the very first time that the

15:43

FBI rolls in this Elon Musk at the head

15:45

of of Twitter in San Francisco.

15:48

Elon, you know, there's a story coming out. You know,

15:50

we've got a new laptop It turns out

15:52

Hunter left one in in

15:54

Shanghai, and we've got it. We we're we're we're out, you

15:56

know, Steve Madden and Jack Posobic got a hold

15:58

of it, the Avalon beads. going through it

16:00

right now. We're gonna need you to shut that down.

16:02

And Elon is just sitting there going

16:04

No. I'll

16:05

tweet this out. would tweet

16:07

it. Yeah. Right. He would start live he starts

16:10

live streaming. FBI just came into

16:12

my office. This is interesting. Here, I've

16:14

got to play some pictures of the agents.

16:16

And that's why they're panicking. They're they're panicking

16:18

because they they see that they've lost a

16:20

very, very important tool in

16:23

losing Twitter. And so I I think

16:25

that the attacks you know, we see this attack

16:27

against his his ad revenue. We

16:29

saw this these bot accounts, these three hundred

16:31

bots that that spam Twitter with, like, fifty

16:33

thousand racial slurs on Friday. That's

16:35

I bet you that's all coming from the left. I bet you

16:37

that's all coming from the left. It's it's all manufacturing.

16:40

It's all it's sabotage. It's all sabotage.

16:42

Absolutely. Yep. I I agree. Yeah.

16:44

So I, you know, I I think if it's not

16:46

this, it's gonna be others, and and I think we

16:48

have to kinda be aware that

16:50

any of these attacks, we we have to be

16:52

willing to look past them and find out what the the real

16:54

motivations are until things settle

16:56

down for sure. completely

16:58

agree. And and I I love the idea of him

17:00

saying, look, you know, people are gonna be left back on

17:02

Jordan Peterson. I mean, I I imagine

17:04

Babylon B. It's something that he would look

17:06

at. I I've called

17:08

basically just for general

17:10

amnesty. Complete general amnesty on

17:12

all lifetime I think idea of a

17:14

lifetime band, and that's something that Elon has talked about

17:16

as well, is just ridiculous. Right? How can

17:18

you ban a person forever from the platform? I

17:21

mean, if they're not conducting, you know,

17:23

criminal act piviti. Right? If it's it's first

17:25

amendment protected speech, why are you

17:27

banning someone for a lifetime? You know,

17:29

take out a tweet or, you

17:31

know, get, you know, a lockout? That's one thing. We

17:33

can talk about all of that. But if you're gonna take

17:35

someone down for their entire life now, it doesn't make

17:37

sense. Yeah. Especially when you consider

17:39

the people that are still on Twitter. Yeah.

17:41

Right. You know, it was a nice entity.

17:44

Right. So we we've all seen you know, they set

17:46

up well, Alex Barrington or

17:48

Alex Barrington, and got back on because they set up a three strike rule for

17:50

COVID misinformation, and then they banned him

17:52

after one strike. Right? So they weren't even

17:54

following their own three strikes rule

17:56

and that's how in his lawsuit, and I

17:59

think that's one as well, by the way,

18:01

where Baronsons said that

18:03

he's going to Elon Musk to

18:05

see if because obviously, the settlement was made with Twitter. Now

18:07

Elon runs Twitter. He said, look, you

18:09

know, can I go public with the

18:12

full details of my

18:14

settlement? Joe Barry, stick with us one

18:16

more segment. I wanna hold you over because we gotta

18:18

talk about something else that's going on down

18:20

in Houston, Texas with the true

18:22

to vote folks. Okay.

18:24

Here's how it

18:26

works. Charging higher interest is

18:28

how banks make more money.

18:31

take a lot more of your hard earned money if

18:33

your credit score is just okay,

18:35

but not great. Scoremaster

18:37

is the new science in accelerating credits

18:39

scores and control of your money, not

18:41

the bank. Say your credit is seven hundred

18:43

and you're borrowing five hundred grand to

18:45

refi your home. starting at

18:47

Scoremaster could save you over seventy five grand

18:50

over the life of your loan. That seventy

18:52

five grand is your money, not

18:54

the banks. That's the genius

18:56

behind the Skormaster, three

18:58

week rule. What's the three week rule?

19:00

Well, especially now a soaring

19:02

interest no matter what your credit score before you apply for any

19:04

loan, auto lease, or credit started

19:06

scoremaster. It only takes a minute to get started

19:08

and you can add sixty to a hundred points

19:11

in about three weeks. Life has enough

19:14

regrets. Don't add paying

19:16

higher interest rates to the

19:18

list. Visit scoremaster dot com slashposo

19:20

for your special seven day trial. Again,

19:22

your special seven day trial is waiting for

19:24

you at scoremaster dot com slashposo

19:26

link in the description. I

19:28

think the operative

19:31

word that we saw across twenty twenty,

19:33

despite the continued

19:36

refrain that it was the safest

19:39

and most secure election ever.

19:42

In fact, in our opinion, it was

19:44

quite the opposite. Lawlessness

19:48

seemed to rule the

19:49

day. we

19:52

must commit all of

19:54

us to now being engaged in the

19:56

process for the betterment of

19:58

the process yes, continuing to

19:59

vote clearly, but

20:02

also to help to support your

20:04

legislature legislators to to

20:06

work in community to reach candidate

20:08

of your choice and ask how you can be involved

20:10

in elections. Be a part of

20:12

the solution. We must find our

20:15

way back. we must find our way back

20:17

to the sanctity of the vote that

20:19

unites us as Americans. We

20:22

can find our way back. So

20:24

that's Catherine Engelbrecht of True The Vote. She's sitting

20:26

there with

20:27

Greg Phillips, but she's not sitting

20:29

and hearing today. She's sitting

20:32

behind bars in a

20:34

federal prison. Why?

20:36

Because she's being held in

20:38

contempt along with Greg Phillips.

20:40

Over this case, where they claimed

20:43

that Eugen Yu, who was the CEO

20:45

of Konnect. Right? There's a little bit of a

20:47

convoluted story here. They claimed that he was

20:49

storing data on servers in

20:51

China.

20:51

Well, he sued them for for

20:54

defamation. Then he

20:54

gets arrested by the feds for

20:57

storing data on servers in China.

20:58

But some reason, the defamation case is still

21:01

going through, and they're refusing

21:03

to give up a confidential informant

21:05

that they claim is where they got this

21:08

information from the judge

21:10

holds them in contempt. So as we sit here

21:12

right now, Joel, Katherine

21:14

and Greg are behind bars.

21:16

Is this normal? Is this how

21:18

our country usually works? This seems a

21:21

little different to me. I don't know. This seems like

21:23

something that you'd see in like I don't know

21:25

China or Cuba or I mean, not

21:27

not that you can vote there. Maybe Russia. I don't

21:29

know. It's it's this is, like, the whole story

21:31

is insane to me. Yeah.

21:33

I you know, say what you will about the election.

21:35

You know, I don't know everything that

21:37

went down. To

21:40

me, the the insane, like,

21:42

foaming at the mouth, forceful

21:44

opposition to any attempt to even

21:46

raise questions or do any

21:48

checking or investigation is more telling to me

21:50

than anything else. I I just the

21:52

the whole reaction of from the

21:54

left, from the government to anyone just

21:56

wanting to ask questions,

21:58

it just

21:58

seems so suspicious

21:59

to me. You know?

22:00

And and the fact that they would, you know, that they

22:03

would get this this poor woman who's

22:05

doing good journalistic work.

22:07

She's doing the job that the journalist should be

22:09

doing, you know, that they would they would

22:11

they this on kind of a process crime. It that's

22:14

scary in and of itself, but it's also a reminder

22:16

that, like, the feds like, if they wanna get

22:18

you, they can get you. doesn't

22:20

matter how you're barbiting. You think, oh, yeah.

22:22

They can

22:23

get you and and that's

22:25

that's kind of a scary thought. I don't

22:27

know. No. I mean, it's it's this idea that,

22:29

you know and by the way, you know, look,

22:31

I'd, you know, I'd go to jail to protect the

22:33

source too. I'd I'd go behind bars. I'd do whatever

22:35

they have to do because otherwise, no

22:37

one's ever be a for me again or for human events. And when

22:40

when you look at this, it

22:42

look and and by

22:45

the way, Go watch two thousand mules. Go go for

22:47

everybody out there in the audience. Go check it

22:49

out. Go see what they have to say. And if

22:51

you disagree, that's fine too. Go make your

22:53

own response to it. how the

22:55

system is supposed to work. It's this thing called

22:57

freedom of speech. And yet, we have this group

22:59

of people out there who tells us, we have to

23:01

protect democracy, we have to defend

23:03

democracy, or we're gonna lock people that are

23:05

trying to secure voting rights

23:07

here in America. But the Bible and

23:09

Vigel, you guys have a whole

23:11

book out that's explaining how

23:13

democracy is supposed to work to us. Tell us about the

23:15

new book. Yeah.

23:16

Well, it was kind of inspired by

23:18

kind of that that refrain that you hear from

23:20

the left all the time, you know, that we must, you

23:22

know, defend. We must protect our holy

23:25

democracy, you know. And and anything that

23:27

is in opposition to them or anyone that disagrees

23:29

with them is is a threat to democracy. And so

23:31

that kinda is is where this book came from.

23:33

But it's it's a it's a really fun book.

23:35

It's it's kind of a bit of a civics

23:37

lesson combined with a lot of satire and

23:39

a lot of really funny pictures. In

23:41

it, we talk about, you know, the the

23:43

the branches of government, how government's supposed

23:45

to work, how it actually works, We talk

23:47

about lobbyists. We talk about -- Oh, that's great. You know, how how

23:50

politicians are purchased and how they

23:52

go for sale. We talk about the fourth

23:54

branch of government, which is the

23:56

corporate branch, And so it's Washington's

23:58

such a mess

23:59

the

23:59

that that it almost is funny. I mean,

24:02

corruption it it while corruption is disturbing

24:04

and damaging it. There is something that's very funny about

24:06

it when you watch all these people who kind of think so

24:08

highly of themselves. You

24:09

know, under some old principles.

24:12

There's an old meme that, you know, I certainly didn't come

24:14

up with this, but it's this idea that all the politicians

24:16

should have to blare uniforms like

24:18

in NASCAR that they put all their answers

24:21

on their suits. I'm sure you're ready for it. But, you

24:23

know, I I still I love that one. I think we if

24:25

we make that a law or if, you know, if I ever get

24:27

appointed in charge of the entire government, I'm just gonna make

24:29

that you know, that in shrine. So that or even when, you

24:31

know, maybe you could get a filter for this that when you see

24:33

them on TV, it would just pop up, you know, this

24:36

person is funded by Rathione,

24:39

Boeing, all the way down. That'd be

24:41

wonderful. Let let's do it for journalists too, for

24:43

goodness sakes. Exactly. You know, this this

24:45

person works for Jeff This person works in

24:47

organization funded by Goog. There actually is on

24:49

Twitter, I think there's a Chrome extension

24:51

you can get for

24:53

for, like, the NGO people like Think

24:55

Tankers. if someone works for a

24:57

Google funded thing tank, you can get it applied

24:59

to their name on Twitter, but only in

25:01

your Chrome extension. So it'll say this person works

25:03

for a Google funded, you know, or is it it's

25:05

it's perfect. Because

25:08

then you get to know which again,

25:10

by the way, it's one of those, like,

25:13

you know, put on Twitter, they'll put, you know,

25:15

this is a a Chinese organization. This

25:17

is a Russian organization, but they won't do it for,

25:19

like, BBC or VoA or one

25:21

of these things. It's like, we're Who's

25:23

drawing the line here? Well, no, that's

25:25

totally different. Why? I mean, state

25:27

fund NPR? Why does NPR say

25:29

this is a US government funded

25:31

organization? Because it is, like,

25:33

literally.

25:33

Yeah. They they don't they don't

25:35

want you to you parse the truth

25:37

out for yourself and and and judge

25:40

things based off of the merit of of what is that actually

25:42

being said. They want you to, you

25:44

know, trust things coming from certain

25:46

authorities, their approved authorities, you

25:48

know, so that that way they can label

25:51

things that that they don't want you to

25:53

believe and don't want you to hear. And so No. That's

25:55

exactly right. And that's why But

25:57

only The

25:57

only news source that I recommend in the entire world other

25:59

than human events is the Babylon Bee,

26:02

the most truthy website on

26:04

the entire Internet. work

26:06

thank you so much for joining us today. Where can people go to get your

26:08

coordinates? Find out more about the b. And then

26:10

hopefully, you know, if Elon lets you guys

26:12

out there, we'll get that news as well.

26:14

Yeah.

26:15

Yeah. So you can you can find us at babble on b dot com.

26:17

You can also purchase our book there as

26:19

well. You can follow me at joel

26:22

w berry.

26:22

And hopefully, when the Babylon v is back

26:25

on Twitter, you can find us at at the

26:27

babylon v dot com. So At the

26:29

Babylon v. Fantastic. Joel, thank

26:31

you so much for joining us today. Remember folks

26:33

as always, I promise our oath are solemn

26:35

vow to you be good, be brief be gone.

26:37

Your homework for us to have this out with just one

26:39

of your normally friends, then leave us your five star review

26:41

Apple Spotify wherever you

26:43

get your fine podcasts.

26:45

Folks, And we're seeing what's going on today. We are

26:48

locked in this battle.

26:51

Liberty versus totalitarianism. Which

26:54

idea do you want to be on? You can see the

26:57

forces. They are out there on

26:59

television every morning. You turn on MSNBC. You

27:01

turn on CNN. They are seething

27:03

right now. Why are they seething?

27:05

Because they know they're losing

27:07

their power. They know they're becoming

27:09

impotent. They're being forced to have their

27:11

wings clipped and walk around on

27:13

two legs just like any other human being because

27:15

they know they can't censor

27:17

Elon Musk. They can't get his tweets

27:19

taken down. and that means he's

27:21

gonna stop them from shutting down you,

27:23

from shutting down your family, and from shutting

27:25

down this movement of liberty. Ladies

27:27

and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to

27:29

lay short.