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Crushing speech from political opponents has 'never been the American way': Ben Domenech

2021-01-18 | 🔗
A former Facebook insider argues conservative content should be deplatformed because it is 'extremely radical'; The Federalist publisher Ben Domenech reacts.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Steve welcome back its about eight Steve. Welcome back its about eight 30 in the east. The social media giant platforms are accused of censoring conservatives, but thats, not stopping the former Facebook insider now pushing to take it one step further and start pulling some plugs. We have to turn down the capability of these conservative influencers to reach these huge audiences. They are extremely radical and pushing extremely radical views, and so its up to the facebooks and youtubes in particular to think about whether or not they want to be effectively cable networks of disinformation, Steve here with reaction, the Federalist publisher, Ben Domenech, Ben George, to you good to be with you Steve, you are a conservative influencer. You need to have your plug pulled laughter. Well, look. I think that its interesting that theyre kind of saying the soft part loud now about things that theyve been keeping opinions theyve been keeping to themselves for a while and as a tryout for Aocs Ministry of truth. I think that that was a pretty good
performance, but in this instance I think that we have to see here, whats really going on, which is that big tech wants to broaden this crackdown in a lot of different ways and bring a lot of different corporations along with them. They are going to collude together, going forward to crush conservative speech and everywhere that it rises up, and they are going to use arguments for that that sound along the lines of arguments you might have heard in the past about shutting down ISIS and the like, which is a comparison that this same guest made. Those are the kinds of radical comments that are the opposite of any kind of unity message any kind of coming together, instead of just seeks to crush the speech of people that you disagree with, which has never been the American way Steve. You mentioned Corporation S, you know we have heard over the last week. There are a number of fortune, five hundred corporations that want to stop donating money to members of Congress who, on January, six, did not vote to certify the election and now were
hearing that. Apparently there is some Democrat members of Congress who say those one hundred and thirty or one hundred and forty members of Congress, all Republicans who would not do that need to be punished because they ultimately are responsible for what happens on that day in part. Well, obviously, that wasnt their attitude when you had Democrats on the other side of this voting against certification in two thousand and one and two thousand and five and after the election in two thousand and sixteen of course, and but this is also a situation. I think where this is all a part of their agenda to play at the republican parties being too radical to even do business with. Frankly, from my perspective, im glad to see some of that corporate money go away because its going to be replaced by small dollar online donations. The kind of support that we saw, the president garnered during his entire career and thats, something that I actually think is good for the GOP. They should be listening more to their voters and less toward the various corporations that frankly, hate those same voters.
They want to be able to sell their products to them, but also look down on them and, as I said, to crush their conservative speech whenever it rises up and becomes something that they view as problematic for their bottom line. Steve sure, of course, on Wednesday, at noon, Joe Biden becomes the President of the United States, our 46th and a brand new poll finds that fifty nine percent of Republicans a majority want Republicans to stand up to Joe Biden when it comes to his legislation in the House and the Senate. Does that sound about right to you? I think that number is probably going to move even higher, as we actually see what the Biden agenda looks like so much of this pandemic conversation pushed to the sides, all the different areas of policy that wed like to know about a candidate, and I think that, frankly, people are going to be surprised by how much of Joe Biden they see right now in twenty twenty one that they saw back in, say two thousand and nine that, as the Democratic Party has moved left so has Joe
Biden, and I think the Biden Harris Administration is going to push a lot of radical things that frankly, are going to serve to reunify any kind of republican in fighting or serve ill war over the various things that have happened as weve seen in the past couple weeks. When you see that agenda, I think youll see. That number only continue to grow Steve Exit question, because its fifty slash fifty o in the Senate. Now with Republicans and Democrats and people who caucus with the Democrats as well, how much of Joe Bidens agenda does he actually get passed? Ultimately, you need sixty for the filibuster thing that crazy rule theyve got there. So will it be a slam dunk all of his stuff, or will the Republicans be able to somehow moderate what hes able to get done? The answer is anything that involves spending money is going to be a slam. Dunk Washington loves to spend money and youll be able to find the votes time and again to do that, its going to be more, I think, on the cultural side of things that youre going to see the Biden Administration
have to do things through their administrative processes, bureaucracy and the like, because there is going to be a number of members who come from more red, more purple states who arent necessarily going to go along with those aspects of the August that touch on those cultural war issues, and I think, particularly on energy issues and the like Steve stay tuned. It all starts at noon on Wednesday Ben. Thank you very much for.
Transcript generated on 2021-01-20.