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APPLE HELPING CHINA silence their citizens by shutting down the Air Drop feature! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: So we're learning more now why China may be doing
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Speaker 1: what they're doing to their own people, and also why
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Speaker 1: they're so involved with Russia right now, specifically with petroleum,
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Speaker 1: oil and gas, and also looking the other way in
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Speaker 1: many ways. We're now being told even helping Russia when
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Speaker 1: it comes to Ukraine. Apparently it has all come out
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Speaker 1: in a new report, a new report to the White
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Speaker 1: House is not happy about. And it makes sense because
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Speaker 1: all these other nations seem to be acting out because
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Speaker 1: of their lack of leadership. Scott Kirby at the White
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Speaker 1: House was actually asked about this, and it all goes
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Speaker 1: back to Afghanistan. Take a listen. Let's talk about the
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Speaker 1: Defense Department's annual report, because it is saying that Biden's
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Speaker 1: fumbled withdrawal from Afghanistan was a propaganda gift to China.
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Speaker 1: Do you agree with that? I love this. By the way,
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Speaker 1: this is the Defense Department putting out their annual report,
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Speaker 1: and their annual report says that the bungled and that's
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Speaker 1: a nice way of putting it, withdrawal from Afghanistan was
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Speaker 1: a propaganda gift for China in any other country in
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Speaker 1: the world that wanted to act out also remember Taiwan.
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Speaker 1: Right now, it's paying very close attention to what's happening
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Speaker 1: in the US and listening to the White House response saying, oh, no,
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Speaker 1: that's not true at all, and then they say something
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Speaker 1: even more shocking. No, I do not, and I don't
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Speaker 1: know that that's the Pentagon's assessment that it was a
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Speaker 1: propaganda gift to China. If anything, nations like China and
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Speaker 1: Russia took a look at what we did in Afghanistan,
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Speaker 1: and we've talked about this many many times over the
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Speaker 1: last year, and had to marvel at the speed, the
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Speaker 1: efficiency of the effectiveness that a very small number, a
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Speaker 1: very small number of troops, Brian, you listen to me, now,
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Speaker 1: hear me out small number of troops were able to
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Speaker 1: move that many Afghans safely out of that country. No
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Speaker 1: other nation in the world can do that. Marveled at it, folks,
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Speaker 1: marveled at it. You can hear Brian killed me there saying, oh, please,
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Speaker 1: marveled at it, right, I mean, these are the words
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Speaker 1: of the White House. We've talked about this many, many,
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Speaker 1: many times over the last year quote, and had to
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Speaker 1: marvel at the speed, the efficiency and effectiveness the US
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Speaker 1: government getting out of Afghanistan, which is totally absurd, So
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Speaker 1: of course Fox had to you know, okay, fine, we'll
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Speaker 1: go there. You brought it up. Listen, the way you
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Speaker 1: withdrew is the issue, Admiral. The way we are military
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Speaker 1: moved in and out is a separate issue. Your defense
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Speaker 1: departments claimed as part of its annual report to Congress
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Speaker 1: on National Security developments, they suggest that China capitalizes on
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Speaker 1: the withdrawal to convince world leaders the US is not
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Speaker 1: a reliable ally, so Brian Kilme talking, it's your defense department.
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Speaker 1: The PRC employed multiple diplomatic tools an attempt to erode
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Speaker 1: US and partner influence, and it highlights the US withdrawal
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Speaker 1: from Afghanistan, the death of thirteen and they'll how many
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Speaker 1: people we got out, that's one issue. But the way
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Speaker 1: we did it, the way we promise that government would
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Speaker 1: stand up, the way we're going to leave in and
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Speaker 1: have a transition. The disaster that took place is one
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Speaker 1: of the many problems, along with the soldiers that are
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Speaker 1: suffering now by the way you ended that twenty year war.
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Speaker 1: Not you, but the administration is that China is using it.
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Speaker 1: And you could argue that Russia invaded Ukraine because of it.
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Speaker 1: White House, of course doesn't like this type of pushback
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Speaker 1: from Fox, but don't worry, that's the only place where
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Speaker 1: there was pushback. They want you to actually believe, and
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Speaker 1: they think you're dumb enough to believe that this is
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Speaker 1: all happening right now. Just because China decided to randomly
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Speaker 1: do something against its own people has nothing to do
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Speaker 1: with them realizing America won't stop them. And now you
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Speaker 1: have the Defense Department putting it in writing that China
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Speaker 1: capitalized on the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and it was
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Speaker 1: perfect propaganda. It wasn't just for them, it was for
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Speaker 1: everyone else involved, which brings me to another issue in
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Speaker 1: this country. Back in two thousand and seventeen, Tim Cook,
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Speaker 1: the CEO of Apple, say that China has done an
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Speaker 1: unbelievable job of lifting people out of poverty. This is
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Speaker 1: how much of a scumbag Apple is, as we now
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Speaker 1: know that Apple is actually helping the Chinese communist government
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Speaker 1: silence their own people and make sure they cannot communicate
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Speaker 1: with one another, even within their own apartment buildings, as
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Speaker 1: they are in lockdown, and if you do come out
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Speaker 1: of your apartment, they will arrest you, and you will
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Speaker 1: become one of the disappeared ones. Listen carefully. China has
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Speaker 1: done an unbelievable job of lifting people out of poverty.
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Speaker 1: They've done an incredible job, I mean, far beyond what
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Speaker 1: any country has done. We were talking about to lie
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Speaker 1: by the way, China has not lifted a bunch of
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Speaker 1: people out of poverty. They have more than a million
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Speaker 1: people that are literally in an slavement camps right now.
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Speaker 1: That's not lifting people out of poverty. When you have
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Speaker 1: more than a million literal slaves. I'm talking about the
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Speaker 1: same type of slaves that we had in the United
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Speaker 1: States of America back when we had slavery before the
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Speaker 1: Civil War. And you have Tim Cook, who has made
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Speaker 1: billions upon billions of dollars off of the slave labor
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Speaker 1: in China. He knows that there are massive human rights abuses,
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Speaker 1: and he knows that they have not lifted people out
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Speaker 1: of poverty. But he sits there on a stage back
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Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen and not only does he say this,
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Speaker 1: but he says we should actually applaud China for what
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Speaker 1: they've done to lift people out of poverty. And he
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Speaker 1: also says they've done something else which is amazing. Listen
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Speaker 1: nineteen mid nineties to today. The biggest change is the
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Speaker 1: number of people that have been pulled out of poverty
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Speaker 1: by far, and we should all applaud that. So there
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Speaker 1: you go. There's your American CEO Apple, the same American
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Speaker 1: CEO Apple that is now trying to figure out if
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Speaker 1: they can d platform. Okay, that's what they want to
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Speaker 1: do Twitter for freedom of speech because they're actually now
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Speaker 1: advocating for freedom of speech and they want to shut
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Speaker 1: it down since Elon Must bought it, because now it's
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Speaker 1: a threat to them, and it's a threat to the
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Speaker 1: Democrats all over the country. So this is where we
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Speaker 1: are in America. We have companies now Apple CEO that
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Speaker 1: is actively helping the Chinese communists shut down in silence
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Speaker 1: the people that they're brutalizing right now. And you have
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Speaker 1: a CEO that at the same time as like we're
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Speaker 1: gonna check on Twitter, we might shut down freedom of
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Speaker 1: speech in America. They're used to this, They're actively shutting
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Speaker 1: down freedom of speech in China. Why wouldn't they want
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Speaker 1: to shut it down America? Because they're all about the
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Speaker 1: money and ninety seven or ninety eight percent of all
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Speaker 1: donations from Apple went to the Democratic Party in the
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Speaker 1: last election. Cool, that makes sense. You are nothing, You're
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Speaker 1: you're no less, You're no different than the communist regime
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Speaker 1: in China. And Tim Cook he knows that Chinese people
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Speaker 1: are listening to him, and that's why he went on
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Speaker 1: to say this and again, this is back in twenty seventeen,
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Speaker 1: and you should all feel good about it. And so
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Speaker 1: there are in the environmental leadership today is very clear
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Speaker 1: and it aligns completely with Apple's values. The Chinese that's
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Speaker 1: a lie. By the way, China is not saving the environment.
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Speaker 1: China is the biggest polluter in the world, more than India.
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Speaker 1: China is the biggest polluter in the world. We all
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Speaker 1: know this, Okay. This is not something that's controversial. This
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Speaker 1: isn't something that's crazy. This is the reality of the situation.
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Speaker 1: And China understands this right like China knows that they pollute.
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Speaker 1: They don't care the smog over their cities, the masks
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Speaker 1: that people were wearing pre COVID just because the air
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Speaker 1: wasn't clean to breathe. They don't protect their workers either,
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Speaker 1: So you understand they don't protect their workers at all. Okay,
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Speaker 1: understand that they have massive human rights violations. They have
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Speaker 1: people that are destroying families, taking away fathers and mothers
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Speaker 1: and children from their parents. They have robots that are
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Speaker 1: flying around, artificial intelligence that are actually putting out messages
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Speaker 1: in the streets that if you come outside, you will disappear.
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Speaker 1: We will come and get you. You are being monitored.
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Speaker 1: We have people that have died in apartment complexes because
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Speaker 1: the fires were not able to put out because they
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Speaker 1: had the doors nailed shut. We have seen the videos
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Speaker 1: that have come out in China them welding shut doors
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Speaker 1: to apartment complexes. People begging for food but can't leave
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Speaker 1: their buildings. They're in prison because of a zero COVID policy. Also,
9:10
Speaker 1: remember this, China's COVID vaccine is not a good one.
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Speaker 1: It's basically not working and doesn't work well at all.
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Speaker 1: They refuse to allow other vaccines into their country. You
9:24
Speaker 1: have to ask yourself a question, why why is it
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Speaker 1: that they will allow other vaccines in or excuse me,
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Speaker 1: will not allow them in because they want to save face.
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Speaker 1: They have to tell their people that their vaccine is
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Speaker 1: the best and the other vaccines are failures. They have
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Speaker 1: to say that their country is the best in figuring
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Speaker 1: everything out with vaccines and medical They will not allow
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Speaker 1: the other parts of the world to come in. That's
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Speaker 1: how evil they are. And they will shut you down
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Speaker 1: and silence you and put you in your own prison,
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Speaker 1: doing all these great things with human you know, with
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Speaker 1: human rights, and they're getting people out of poverty, and
11:47
Speaker 1: they're protecting their environment, and their values are exactly what
11:52
Speaker 1: our values are as a company with the environment. And
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Speaker 1: this is what they that interjecting environmental government. I mean,
12:03
Speaker 1: they're they're very fixated on doing the right things to
12:08
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12:12
Speaker 1: lot to us as well. And so what we always
12:16
Speaker 1: try to do is find the areas where you can
12:20
Speaker 1: work together, find the areas of commonality, and then the
12:24
Speaker 1: things that you disagree with, take time to understand how
12:29
Speaker 1: somebody sees it. Oh, take time to understand how the
12:34
Speaker 1: Chinese see it. So find areas that you can work together.
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Speaker 1: Let's just go back to that from Tim Cook for
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Speaker 1: just a moment, right, You got to find areas where
12:43
Speaker 1: you can work together with the Chinese communist government. That's
12:47
Speaker 1: what you have to do. You got to work with them.
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Speaker 1: Understand how somebody sees it, and you got to see
12:52
Speaker 1: how they see it, right, all right, So let's put
12:55
Speaker 1: that into practice. We now know that Apple is clearly
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Speaker 1: now working hand in hand with a Chinese communist government
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Speaker 1: to silence their citizens from talking and dialogue with one
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Speaker 1: another through Apple's air drop feature, which has been disabled
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Speaker 1: in all of China. Listen to this from Tuger Carlson.
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Speaker 1: Unless you read The Daily Mail, which is an English
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Speaker 1: paper published online, you probably didn't know that Chinese president
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Speaker 1: Jesi and Ping sent tanks into a major city last
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Speaker 1: night in order to put down protests against his rule.
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Speaker 1: Virtually no American media outlets even acknowledge that that happened.
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Speaker 1: And that's pretty weird if you think about it. Imagine,
13:40
Speaker 1: for example, that Hungarian leader Victor Orbon put tanks into
13:44
Speaker 1: Budapest to crush his political opponents. What our media notice,
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Speaker 1: Oh oh yeah, they would. It'll be on the front
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Speaker 1: page of the New York Times Morning. Joe would lead
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Speaker 1: with it. And keep in mind that Hungary is a
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Speaker 1: very small country. It's got a GDP smaller than South Dakota's. China,
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Speaker 1: by profound contrast, has the biggest economy in the world.
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Speaker 1: China's our main global rival. It's a highly significant place.
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Speaker 1: And yet somehow no one in any newsroom in American
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Speaker 1: noticed when Jiji and Ping decided to replay Tenement Square.
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Speaker 1: This didn't see it, even though the pictures are on
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Speaker 1: the Internet. How's that possible? Could it be that the
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Speaker 1: American news media is covering for the government of China.
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Speaker 1: You can't say, well, let you make the call on that.
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Speaker 1: We can say we know for a fact that Apple
14:29
Speaker 1: is covering for the government of China. Apple is the
14:32
Speaker 1: most valuable company in the world. It's got a current
14:34
Speaker 1: market cap of trillions of dollars. Financial listings describe Apple
14:37
Speaker 1: as an American company. You can see why they do.
14:40
Speaker 1: Apple is headquartered in the United States. It was founded
14:42
Speaker 1: by Americans. To this day it's run by an American citizen.
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Speaker 1: But those facts don't tell the story. In fact that
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Speaker 1: this point, Apple is in no sense American. Apple's loyalty
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Speaker 1: is to the government of China. And if you think
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Speaker 1: that's an overstatement, consider this. Earlier this month, Apple did
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Speaker 1: the bidding of the Chinese government to crush domestic protests
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Speaker 1: against the Communist Party there. Listen very carefully to what
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Speaker 1: Tucker is about to say from this article. Apple did
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Speaker 1: this by disabling its permanent air drop feature in China,
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Speaker 1: and so far only in China. It's the only country
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Speaker 1: in which it's disabled. So why did Apple disable that
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Speaker 1: feature in China. Well, because that feature, permanent air drop,
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Speaker 1: allows iPhone users to communicate directly with one another without
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Speaker 1: using the Internet or cellular networks, both of which in
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Speaker 1: a totalitarian state like China, are controlled by the government.
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Speaker 1: And that means that without permanent air drop, it's effectively
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Speaker 1: impossible for freedom minded citizens to organize with one another.
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Speaker 1: They're powerless. Apple of course knows this, and that's why
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Speaker 1: when iPhone users in China began using permanent air drop
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Speaker 1: to complain about the Communist Party, Apple just shut it down.
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Speaker 1: In other words, and again this is not an overstatement.
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Speaker 1: Apple is now an active collaborator with China's murderous police ting.
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Speaker 1: When tanks roll into a Chinese city, Apple is rooting
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Speaker 1: for the tanks. Is Tugger wrong to say what he
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Speaker 1: just said. No, because you listen to Tim Cook, and
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Speaker 1: you go back to Tim Cook twenty seventeen. We work
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Speaker 1: together with the Chinese. What we always try to do
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Speaker 1: is find the areas where you can work together, find
16:28
Speaker 1: the areas of commonality, and then the things that you
16:31
Speaker 1: disagree with, take time to understand how somebody sees it.
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Speaker 1: So when you see the tanks rolling through the streets
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Speaker 1: in China, you need to take time to understand and
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Speaker 1: see it from their perspective. That's what you need to do.
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Speaker 1: We work together with the Chinese because that's what you do.
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Speaker 1: You got to understand that China is different than America,
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Speaker 1: So you need to realize that China is a place.
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Speaker 1: It just has a different set of rules, folks. It's
17:06
Speaker 1: just a little different. It's something that's just not the
17:09
Speaker 1: same as what we are. So therefore, just relax, chill out,
17:17
Speaker 1: and understand that it's just always going to be a
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Speaker 1: little bit different. Scott gonna be the same thing, right,
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Speaker 1: That's just it's just change, folks. That's all there is
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Speaker 1: to it. There's a little bit of change here, Okay.
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Speaker 1: So now you have it. Apple, the company that's in America,
17:39
Speaker 1: is going to do everything they can to help the
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Speaker 1: Chinese communists keep power, destroy human beings, silence their own citizens.
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Speaker 1: Apple is now an active collaborator with China's murderous regime.
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Speaker 1: As Tucker Carlson said, when tanks roll into a Chinese city,
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Speaker 1: Apple is rooting for the tanks. He's not wrong. We
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Speaker 1: know this because that's what their actual policy is. We're
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Speaker 1: not sure there's anything that the Chinese government has asked
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Speaker 1: Apple to do that they've actually said no too, because
18:15
Speaker 1: why would you when you're making all of this money. Well,
18:21
Speaker 1: for a company based outside San Jose, this seems like
18:23
Speaker 1: a big step becoming a partner with a Chinese police state. Yes,
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Speaker 1: and yet once again this fact received virtually no coverage
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Speaker 1: in the United States. Apple's decision to side with the
18:35
Speaker 1: oppressors over the oppressed, Apple's decision to actively help America's
18:39
Speaker 1: enemies to hurt ordinary people seeking freedom just wasn't news,
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Speaker 1: in the view of the New York Times. Not that
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Speaker 1: you should be surprised by it. Apple has been sucking
18:49
Speaker 1: up to the Communist Party of China for many years.
18:51
Speaker 1: Watch this clip from twenty seventeen of the company's CEO
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Speaker 1: Tim Cook. China has done an unbelievable job of lifting
18:59
Speaker 1: people out of poverty. They've done an incredible job. I mean,
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Speaker 1: far beyond what any country has done. We were talking
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Speaker 1: about nineteen mid nineties to today. The biggest change is
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Speaker 1: the number of people that have been pulled out of poverty.
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Speaker 1: It's just a lie. Tucker said exactly what I said here.
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Speaker 1: It's a lie. Right, all of this in China, everything's
19:22
Speaker 1: better because we say it's better, even though it's not better.
19:27
Speaker 1: Tim Cook can look at you and say there's no
19:29
Speaker 1: human rights abuses in China. That doesn't mean that there's
19:32
Speaker 1: not any human rights abuses in China. Tim Cook can
19:35
Speaker 1: look at you. The Apple CEO and tell you instantly, Hey,
19:38
Speaker 1: you need to know that they are amazing, they're doing
19:43
Speaker 1: so much to help people. Doesn't mean that it's actually true,
19:48
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that it's real, folks, doesn't mean that this
19:51
Speaker 1: is something that actually is anything close to what's actually
19:58
Speaker 1: happening ground. But it doesn't matter because we're selling you
20:00
Speaker 1: a bill of goods. We're selling you something. We just
20:04
Speaker 1: want you to believe. We're selling you something that we
20:07
Speaker 1: think you are wanting to hear, because hey, it's China.
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Speaker 1: Look the other way. You don't stand up for people
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Speaker 1: in China. Come on, it's China. They're a different group
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Speaker 1: of people. They're a different group of people that you
20:22
Speaker 1: should understand. They're a different group of people that run
20:27
Speaker 1: their lives differently than we do in America, and you
20:29
Speaker 1: should respect that. Obviously. I'm quoting Tim Cook, the Apple CEO.
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Speaker 1: So now, where do you go with this? In China
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Speaker 1: and what's happening take a listen. Oh, in the first category,
20:41
Speaker 1: it is true that China is far richer than it
20:44
Speaker 1: was thirty years ago. That's indisputable. But what Tim Cook
20:47
Speaker 1: doesn't mention is that much of the money and virtually
20:50
Speaker 1: all of the technology a large proportion of which was
20:53
Speaker 1: stolen came from the United States. So that's it debatable
20:58
Speaker 1: claim at best. But environmental leadership from China, that is
21:02
Speaker 1: not a debatable claim. Tim Cook is telling us in
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Speaker 1: that clip with a straight face, that the Chinese government
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Speaker 1: is a model for environmental stewardship, and that is completely ludicrous.
21:14
Speaker 1: China is the opposite of that. It's the greatest offender
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Speaker 1: against the environment. China is the biggest polluter in the
21:20
Speaker 1: world by far. No country comes close, not just in
21:24
Speaker 1: carbon emissions. They're building new coal plants, but in plastics
21:28
Speaker 1: in the ocean, in heavy metals in the ground, polluting
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Speaker 1: the land and the water. China leads the pack. No
21:35
Speaker 1: one's close. But the question is why is he lying?
21:39
Speaker 1: Why does Apple, as a company and it's CEO in
21:41
Speaker 1: that clip in many others feel the need to cover
21:43
Speaker 1: for the Chinese Communist Party. Why does it feel the
21:46
Speaker 1: need to help the Chinese Communist Party oppress its own citizens.
21:49
Speaker 1: Those are good questions we shout today to Apple. We
21:52
Speaker 1: wanted to hear their side of the story. We did
21:54
Speaker 1: not hear back. So instead we will bring you Tim
21:56
Speaker 1: Cook's most recent explanation. This is from last year. It
22:00
Speaker 1: is you have been criticized for not speaking out on
22:03
Speaker 1: human rights issues, for example in China and other companies
22:06
Speaker 1: in other countries as well. This is something I think
22:09
Speaker 1: a lot of companies that have been doing business in
22:12
Speaker 1: China struggle with a number of companies, as you know,
22:14
Speaker 1: have abandoned China. How do you think about that. I
22:18
Speaker 1: think that we have a responsibility as a business to
22:22
Speaker 1: do business in as many places as we can, because
22:26
Speaker 1: I think business is this huge catalyst. I believe in
22:30
Speaker 1: what Tom Watson said is world piece through world trade.
22:34
Speaker 1: You have to get your head around when you're operating
22:37
Speaker 1: outside the US in any country in the world that
22:40
Speaker 1: there are different laws and so that's that's part of
22:45
Speaker 1: both the complexity and part of the beauty of the
22:47
Speaker 1: world as everybody has their their own laws and customs
22:52
Speaker 1: there it is they've got their own laws and customs,
22:55
Speaker 1: and we just want to make money, and we're going
22:57
Speaker 1: to figure out a way to make money no matter what.
23:00
Speaker 1: That's apple so is the tanks roll down the streets.
23:03
Speaker 1: Just no apples on your side, communists, that is not
23:07
Speaker 1: the people. We will limit air drop feature only in China.
23:11
Speaker 1: We will do everything we can to actively support China's
23:14
Speaker 1: murders police state, and then we'll look at you in
23:16
Speaker 1: the face and tell you they have no human rights
23:18
Speaker 1: abuses and they have great things they're doing for their people,
23:21
Speaker 1: and you should be happy because it's all being done
23:24
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23:27
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24:49
Speaker 1: Take a listen to John Pierre right, she's the White
24:53
Speaker 1: House Press Secretary really standing up for the innocent people
24:57
Speaker 1: in China who are being brutalized by the game. What
25:01
Speaker 1: does she had to say about America setting up for
25:03
Speaker 1: freedom of speech and basic human rights? This is the
25:07
Speaker 1: efficient response from the White House on China. Has the
25:10
Speaker 1: White House communicated to Beijing any possible consequences of its
25:14
Speaker 1: crackdown on protesters? And also is the White House considering
25:17
Speaker 1: saying something or using existing US government tools to help
25:22
Speaker 1: Chinese citizens get around Internet blocks? So I don't have
25:25
Speaker 1: anything to preview for you at this time on you know,
25:30
Speaker 1: anything connected to the social media? Your first your second question,
25:35
Speaker 1: I don't have any calls to preview to you for
25:37
Speaker 1: you at this time. Look, we've been very clear that
25:40
Speaker 1: people have a right to peacefully protest without fear, and
25:45
Speaker 1: we don't think that that right should be hindered or
25:48
Speaker 1: interfered with. Nothing has changed about the President's firm belief
25:52
Speaker 1: in the universal universality of human rights and power of democracy,
25:58
Speaker 1: and so we will continue to express our support for
26:00
Speaker 1: the fundamental freedom. The United States will also continue to
26:04
Speaker 1: stand for respect for freedom of the press and freedom
26:08
Speaker 1: of expression. No journalists should be arrested or beaten or
26:12
Speaker 1: harassed for simply doing their job as it comes to
26:14
Speaker 1: some of the reports that we've been hearing on the ground,
26:17
Speaker 1: and we're watching this closely as you as you might
26:21
Speaker 1: expect that we would, and we believe that you know,
26:25
Speaker 1: you know that people should have the right again to
26:28
Speaker 1: peacefully protest. You're gonna call him out for them not
26:32
Speaker 1: allowing people to peacefully protest. No, we're just gonna give
26:35
Speaker 1: you a basic answer, not even coming from the President
26:39
Speaker 1: of the United States of America denouncing what they're doing
26:43
Speaker 1: to the people there. Hell, even Trudeau, Okay, And this
26:49
Speaker 1: is a guy who threatened and locked up truck drivers
26:52
Speaker 1: that were protesting in his own country over COVID nineteen
26:56
Speaker 1: vaccine mandates. He even said everyone in China should be
27:01
Speaker 1: allowed to protest because he understood this is a moment
27:04
Speaker 1: when you stand up for human rights, even if you're
27:06
Speaker 1: the scumbag that silenced your own protesters in China just
27:09
Speaker 1: six months ago. Canadians are watching very closely. Obviously, everyone
27:16
Speaker 1: in China should be allowed to express themselves, should be
27:19
Speaker 1: allowed to share their perspectives and indeed protests. We're going
27:25
Speaker 1: to continue to ensure that China knows will stand up
27:28
Speaker 1: for human rights, will stand with people who are expressing themselves.
27:32
Speaker 1: We also need to make sure that China and places
27:34
Speaker 1: around the world are respecting journalists and their ability to
27:37
Speaker 1: do their job. Will continue to make that very clear.
27:40
Speaker 1: I do love that that's the same guy that actually
27:44
Speaker 1: referred to truck drivers as domestic terrace in his own country.
27:48
Speaker 1: Where's the president still silent? British Prime Minister? He actually
27:54
Speaker 1: came out, was even more forceful than anybody so far.
27:57
Speaker 1: This is what the president should have done, and he
27:59
Speaker 1: finally said this. Actually, let me rephrase that. He didn't
28:02
Speaker 1: just finally say it, he actually said it. And it's
28:05
Speaker 1: sad because the UK again is leading more than America. Now,
28:09
Speaker 1: let's be clear, the so called Golden era is over,
28:13
Speaker 1: along with a naive idea that trade would automatically lead
28:17
Speaker 1: to social and political reform. That, nor should we rely
28:22
Speaker 1: on simplistic Cold war rhetoric. We recognize China poses a
28:28
Speaker 1: systemic challenge to our values and interests, a challenge that
28:33
Speaker 1: grows more acute as it moves towards even greater authoritarianism.
28:40
Speaker 1: Instead of listening to their people's protests, the Chinese government
28:45
Speaker 1: has chosen to crack down further, including by assaulting a
28:50
Speaker 1: BBC journalist. I mean, where's our country nowhere to be found?
28:54
Speaker 1: Where's our leader nowhere to be found? Senator Ted Cruz
28:58
Speaker 1: said this on Hannity last about all of it. It
29:01
Speaker 1: is amazing how for two years we've seen Joe Biden
29:03
Speaker 1: and the Democrats showing weakness and appeasement to every enemy
29:07
Speaker 1: of America, whether it is China, whether it is Iran,
29:10
Speaker 1: whether it is Venezuela, whether it is Russia. This is
29:13
Speaker 1: an administration that can't stand up to our enemies. This
29:16
Speaker 1: is an administration that's surrendered to the Taliban in Afghanistan
29:19
Speaker 1: and showed weakness to the entire world. Right now in China.
29:23
Speaker 1: You look at what's happening, it's extraordinary. You're seeing millions
29:26
Speaker 1: of people risking their lives taking to the street, look
29:30
Speaker 1: to go protests. It's one thing to protest in America,
29:32
Speaker 1: where the downside is negligible. There those people are literally
29:37
Speaker 1: risking being thrown in prison, being tortured, being murdered. But
29:40
Speaker 1: they're standing up for freedom. And this is a potential
29:43
Speaker 1: inflection point. And Joe Biden ought to stand up and
29:46
Speaker 1: unequivocally stand with the people of China and say they
29:50
Speaker 1: deserve to be free, but this White House won't do that.
29:53
Speaker 1: We're seeing in Iran again people heroically protesting in the street,
29:57
Speaker 1: protesting the repressive, eat Sola, who again tortures and murders
30:02
Speaker 1: his own people, and again Joe Biden and the Democrats
30:05
Speaker 1: are terrified to speak out. Now, let me be clear, Sean,
30:08
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that we should go to war with Iran.
30:10
Speaker 1: I'm not saying we should go to war with China.
30:13
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to see a shooting war between China and
30:17
Speaker 1: the United States. But the biggest bully pulpit in the
30:20
Speaker 1: world is the presidency. And Ronald Reagan showed us that
30:23
Speaker 1: when you stand in front of the Brandenburg Gate and
30:26
Speaker 1: you say, mister Gorbachev, tear down this wall. When you
30:29
Speaker 1: speak out for freedom, it terrifies the communist dictators, It
30:34
Speaker 1: terrifies the tyrants in China, in Russia, in Iran and Venezuela.
30:39
Speaker 1: And instead, what does Biden do. He appeases and shows
30:42
Speaker 1: weakness to all of them. I still go back to
30:45
Speaker 1: my theory on this, and I believe one of the
30:48
Speaker 1: reasons why the president is just being so weak is
30:52
Speaker 1: because he is compromised because the deals that he has
30:56
Speaker 1: done in China, and he knows that he can't really
30:58
Speaker 1: stand up and he can't really say much because if
31:01
Speaker 1: he actually does, they will bury him, his son, his brother,
31:05
Speaker 1: and the Biden crime family. Look at the amount of cash, okay,
31:09
Speaker 1: look at all of the dollars that have come in
31:13
Speaker 1: to Joe Biden. Look at all of the cash that
31:16
Speaker 1: has come into Joe Biden's family from China. Look at
31:20
Speaker 1: the financial deals, the millions of dollars that have come
31:24
Speaker 1: into Joe Biden. When you look at all of this money,
31:27
Speaker 1: you have to sit back and say to yourself, Wow,
31:32
Speaker 1: maybe they are just totally compromised to the point where
31:34
Speaker 1: he can't even stand up to the Chinese Communist government
31:38
Speaker 1: when they when they are attacking their own people and
31:40
Speaker 1: making people disappear. Now there's one other thing too that
31:46
Speaker 1: I want to make sure I get too real quick
31:47
Speaker 1: before I run out of time, and that deals with Disney,
31:50
Speaker 1: and it goes to the same thing about speaking out
31:52
Speaker 1: or being silent. Disney decided to get involved in politics.
31:56
Speaker 1: Many of you note they want to indoctrinate your kids.
31:59
Speaker 1: They want to LGBTQI everything. They want to make sure
32:03
Speaker 1: that there's a quota on how many gay or lesbian
32:05
Speaker 1: or transgender bisexual lead roles there are. They just put
32:09
Speaker 1: out another big movie that was a flop over the
32:11
Speaker 1: weekend that was filled with woke propaganda lgbt QIA plus
32:17
Speaker 1: plus plus everything. There were a lot of conservatives who
32:20
Speaker 1: decided to stop giving Disney money, stop going to Disney,
32:25
Speaker 1: stop buying Disney. Plus. It's worked to the point now
32:30
Speaker 1: where they fired their last CEO, hired back the CEO
32:33
Speaker 1: they have before that, who, by the way, is also woke,
32:36
Speaker 1: And now the new old CEO, Bob Eager, is contradicting
32:40
Speaker 1: himself over Disney's fight, specifically with Florida. He's now saying
32:47
Speaker 1: he expresses regret after earlier denouncing the anti grooming law
32:53
Speaker 1: in Florida. Disney's returning CEO had this comey kumbayah a
33:01
Speaker 1: moment this week where he's on stage being interviewed. He
33:05
Speaker 1: expressed regret that the company got into a fight with Florida,
33:08
Speaker 1: not regret of what they said, just regret that it
33:10
Speaker 1: hurt the company over the state's anti grimming law. Telling
33:14
Speaker 1: Disney's recent employee town hall meeting, he was sorry to
33:17
Speaker 1: see us get dragged into it. He also want to
33:19
Speaker 1: make clear I wasn't there when that happened. I wasn't there.
33:24
Speaker 1: At this town hall on Monday, Eager was asked about
33:26
Speaker 1: the business impact of Disney's fight with Florida. I want
33:29
Speaker 1: you to hear what he said to say, there's a
33:32
Speaker 1: virtual question. Many cast members had wished that Disney stayed
33:36
Speaker 1: out of politics. Will Disney stay out of making political statements?
33:43
Speaker 1: You know? I think there's a misperception here about what
33:47
Speaker 1: politics is. And I think that some of the subjects
33:52
Speaker 1: that have proven to be controversial as it relates to
33:56
Speaker 1: Disney have been branded political. And I don't necessarily believe
33:59
Speaker 1: they are are. I don't think when you were telling
34:02
Speaker 1: stories and attempting to be a good citizen of the
34:05
Speaker 1: world that that's political. Just not how I view it.
34:09
Speaker 1: Do I like the company being embroiled in controversy, of
34:12
Speaker 1: course not. It can be distracting and it can have
34:14
Speaker 1: a negative impact on the company, and to the extent
34:17
Speaker 1: that I can work to kind of quiet things down,
34:20
Speaker 1: I'm going to do that. But I think it's it's
34:22
Speaker 1: important to put in perspective what some of these subjects
34:25
Speaker 1: are and not just simply brand them political. Yeah, I
34:31
Speaker 1: just don't brand them as being political. All right, So
34:34
Speaker 1: let's go back to when you were political and you
34:37
Speaker 1: attacked Florida. Right, let's go back to that question. Let's
34:42
Speaker 1: talk about what you did to your company now. Of course,
34:44
Speaker 1: he wants you to believe he wasn't there at the
34:46
Speaker 1: time when they were attacking Florida, even though he was
34:49
Speaker 1: on TV attacking Florida. But he wants to say, oh,
34:52
Speaker 1: I'm different than that. Oh, Bob, have you give any
34:55
Speaker 1: thoughts on how to tackle the Ready Creek situation in Florida? No,
35:01
Speaker 1: I have to get up to speed on that completely. Obviously,
35:06
Speaker 1: I followed the news that development occurred after I left
35:09
Speaker 1: the company. I was sorry to see us I dragged
35:15
Speaker 1: into that battle, and I have no idea exactly what
35:20
Speaker 1: its ramifications are in terms of the business itself. What
35:25
Speaker 1: I can say is the state of Florida has been
35:28
Speaker 1: important to us for a long time, and we have
35:30
Speaker 1: been very important to the State of Florida. That is
35:33
Speaker 1: something I'm extremely mindful of and will articulate if I
35:36
Speaker 1: get the chance. But I don't have the details at
35:39
Speaker 1: all yet about what the ramifications are of the decision
35:43
Speaker 1: that was made by the State of Florida and whether
35:46
Speaker 1: we intend to do anything about it. I want to
35:48
Speaker 1: be very clear, do not take this bait or believe
35:51
Speaker 1: that Disney has changed in any way in any capacity,
35:55
Speaker 1: because they have not. This the same guy that went
35:58
Speaker 1: on TV during that time and chastise Florida and said
36:03
Speaker 1: he was proud of Disney and what Disney was doing
36:06
Speaker 1: in Florida. Yeah, they're trying to put lipstick on a pig.
36:10
Speaker 1: They're trying to get the genie, as I would describe it,
36:12
Speaker 1: back in the box. They're trying to do everything that
36:15
Speaker 1: they can to try to get you to believe that
36:17
Speaker 1: somehow they've learned what they're doing, and they've learned from
36:21
Speaker 1: their mistakes, and now they're going to come back better
36:24
Speaker 1: than ever, just to be a company that is going
36:27
Speaker 1: to help you with their kids. They're not denouncing anything
36:30
Speaker 1: that they've said. Okay, they're not denouncing anything that they did.
36:36
Speaker 1: They are not denouncing anything that they have that they
36:41
Speaker 1: are applying. They're not saying they're going to change direction.
36:44
Speaker 1: So when you see all of these headlines, oh, Disney's
36:48
Speaker 1: losing money and Disney fired their old CEO, don't just say, Okay,
36:52
Speaker 1: now I can go back to Disney with my kids.
36:54
Speaker 1: You're still giving the same scumbags your money. You are,
36:57
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