Eric Swalwell vs. Ben Shapiro | Real-Life Twitter Battle

as a human I try to avoid Washington DC as frequently as possible there are nice buildings there the problem is it's filled with government and it turns out that government is filled with idiots and so yesterday we did a congressional hearing the hearing was in the house Judiciary Committee and it was about issues surrounding a collusive quasi conspiratorial group called G the Global Alliance for responsible media that group is essentially a Consortium of 90% of the advertising Market they sign up with garm garm sets a pseudo OB standard for what can be advertised on and what cannot be advertised on that pseudo objective standard of course Cuts universally against conservatives so what they do is they label unsafe sites like the daily wire or shows like mine or shows like Joe Rogan or places like X this is one of their goals they tried to cudle all of these social media sites or shows or conservative Outlets into compliance with their idea of things that ought to be said so I was on the hill testifying about all of that here is some of my opening statement we're in the midst of a trust crisis in the world of media which is because so many in the Legacy Media have lied in order to preserved left-leaning narratives to take just the most recent example we were told by the Legacy Media that President Biden was just fine for years anyone who questioned his health and mental Fitness was trafficking in cheap fakes and then President Biden went out and engaged in a full-scale mental collapse on stage in front of hundreds of millions of people so we can see why Americans at least Americans who are not Democrats do not trust the media the question isn't really why the Legacy Media have lost Americans trust we know that answer answer the question is why despite that loss of trust the Legacy Media continue to gain share in the advertising market and the answer is simple there is in fact an informal pressure system created by Democratic legislators this White House Legacy Media advertisers and pseudo objective brand safety organizations that system guarantees that advertising dollars flow only to leftwing Media Brands and so the hearing was fairly long it started about 10: a.m. it ended about 2:30 p.m. somewhere in that neighborhood it was a spicy there were some Democrats who decided that they were not going to talk about the issue at hand namely the collusive attempt by advertising agencies social media Bros and government right because again Democrats have been pushing for intervention in these markets for years and so what happens that advertisers and social media Bros in an attempt to avoid the scrutiny of people like Diane Feinstein who has been consistently threatening until her death obviously she was consistently threatening social media for years with regulation if they would not quote unquote regulate themselves she's not the only one that are members of the committee before whom I was speaking people like ranking member Jerry Nadler people like head of the Congressional Progressive caucus premila jaipal who have openly called for regulation of social media if social media allows messages they don't like they call it misinformation or hate speech but it really is just messages they don't like so instead of talking about all that some of the Congress people decided that it would be fun to talk about other things one of the things they kept saying over and over and over was Project 2025 you might think you're getting getting everything your body needs from that green juice you've been drinking every morning you're not most people still fall short of the essential nutrients their bodies need to function at their very best my good friend and colleague Christine who's a triathlete she also happens to be a mom to a toddler she's been taking momentous creatine omega-3 and protein daily to cover all her bases she is thrilled with the results these three supplements support nearly every aspect of foundational Health from aiding 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naturally a lot of people then did Google project 2025 so yesterday at the hearing I'd say half the Democrats in the house Judiciary Committee decided to rail about project 2025 which has literally nothing to do with the subject of this particular Committee hearing one of the people who was doing that was representative Eric swell who I think just kind of wanted to have a Twitter battle but in real life so we had a bit of a colorful exchange the representative and I here is what that sounded like Mr Shapiro thank you for joining us today I think it is important that you're here um as one of the leading conservative voices in the country and and the country has in the last couple weeks talked a lot about and Googled uh pro project 2025 it's one of the most Googled uh Search terms right now and uh you're not going to get any censorship for me so uh I just wanted to know from your perspective I think it would help us understand on just like a scale of 0o to 100% how much do you support project 2025 I think like President Trump I haven't looked all that deeply at project 2025 but it seems that Democrats on this committee sort of like Peter Pan and Tinkerbell uh if they say project 2025 enough their presidential C it becomes alive again so obviously everybody in the room knew what I was saying was true including swalwell who to his credit laughs because the reality of course is that he had representative Hank Johnson he came and he just said project 2025 over and over and over and over he had other members of Congress you had Mary Mary gay scanland from state of Pennsylvania she also was just referencing project 2025 over and over and over so they they all know that what I'm saying is true that this is an attempt to breathe life back into a failing candidacy and you know know even swell had to laugh at it cuz again true but then swell decided that he was just going to make his entire five minute questioning time about project 2025 which I'll be honest with you I haven't read and the reason I haven't read it is because it's 922 pages I promise you Eric swell has also not read project 2025 probably no one who's criticizing project 2025 has read project 2025 certainly president Trump has not read project 2025 so yeah the swell is questioning me about this and what he's really questioning me about I assume is just being a conservative and the idea is that being a conservative is just evil that's that that's the I I don't think it went particularly well for representative swell here you probably want less bureaucracy right I do I want less bureaucracy you want more efficiency I do I want less effic more efficiency you want taxpayer money spent wisely I do congrats on becoming a republican yeah yeah my parents would be proud um Mass deportations it calls for that do you support that part I support the deportation of any illegal IM who's in the United States who is not of benefit to the generalized American public so if they're uh picking agriculture that puts food on the tables of everyday Americans they've never committed a crime inside the United States they didn't come across with documents should they be deported if they have not paid taxes and if their draw on the taxpayer benefits are larger than the contribution they are making to the economy or if they're involved in criminal activity they should be deported how do we measure that the same way that the IRS measures my income every year it seems like if the IRS can track down every aspect of every receipt that I've ever submitted and they hundreds of millions of other Americans they can do that for illegal immigrants as well except for the fact that no one knows how many are in the country thanks to this Administration so you would be cool with creating a system where they could pay those taxes if they wanted to and then stay and work and put food on our table uh it depends on how long it would take for them to pay the taxes and they would also have to go presumably to the back of the line although I'm not sure why I'm testifying about immigration policy at this point how about banning the abortion pill that's part of project 2025 do support that part I think that that's a state byst state issue on a personal level uh you know I'm sure I'm I'm I'm I'm a fully pro-life person which means that I'm not in favor of the distribution of the abortion pill Banning samesex marriage what about that part I am in favor of traditional marriage between a man and a woman and I am perfectly fine with anyone having any sort of voluntary sexual Arrangement they seek that's a different thing from whether the government should attach benefits to that personal relationship but you think it's a sin to have same-sex marriage I mean I'm I'm confused are you asking me as a religious Jew what I think about biblically I'm just asking is it a sin to be gay is it a sin to be gay I mean how long do we have here two minutes I mean if the if the basic idea is that sexual orientation is up for government regulation I'm not in favor of the government regulating the private consenting sexual activity of adults that is a different thing once again from whether the government ought to engage in actual benefits for particular sexual Arrangements that adults make but again just you you to me is it a sin or not from a religious Jewish perspective orientation is not a sin but activity is that's also the same perspective of most major religions so far as I'm aware okay and and how about cutting Social Security do you support that part of 2025 I'm not sure what project 25 202's position on Social Security is I'm I'm in favor of the restructuring of Social Security along the lines of privatization and lowering and and increasing the retirement age because you as well as every other Congress person knows Social Security is going to go bankrupt and everyone seems to have an interest in lying about it for the next decade and a half until we have to take austerity measures or radically increase inflation or taxes and and bans against uh books about slavery do you support that part about why would I possibly be in favor of banss about books about slavery that that would be absolutely ridiculous what I am in favor of is the idea that school libraries should be able to make decisions along the lines of what exactly is appropriate for say a seventh grader and whether they ought to be treated to cartoons in gender queer that's not quite the same thing and and just because we found some receipts you did say I think homosexual activity is a sin yes I'm a religious sure there's a genetic component found orientation but the view of all religious people I know has always been that sexual behavior is something that is up to you and you said I may have a desire to sleep with many women but I uh do not I agree with me yes that's true um congratulations on your yeah uh I'm sure it's very hard to restrain um yourself Mr chairman I just want to uh shift to um Alvin Bragg uh he was supposed to be here uh this week and then he starts randomly talking about Alvin Bragg and and the hearings I would have jumped in at this point and said that Eric swow is probably the last person in America who should talk about the difficulty of struggling with for example men as a genetic matter wanting to sleep with many women Eric sw's personal history is quite checkered I decided not to bring that up in the Congressional hearing but again it just shows you what Democrats are trying to do do they actually want to talk about the issues that are on the table of course not what they actually want to do is misdirect to bunch of issues they don't fully understand and how many questions can you be asked by a congress person where the premise is just completely wrong so didn't go amazing for representative swell and um we hope he gets well soon in any case back to the topic of the actual hearing one of the things that became clear from the house Judiciary Committee report is that the Global Alliance on responsible media didn't just Target the daily wire which they suggested was well out of bounds for advertisers or Joe Rogan they also targeted Twitter SLX the report said that garm tried to direct all of its members corporate Giants who together account for 90% of global advertising dollars to quote stop all paid advertisement on the platform after Elon Musk purchased it and we have the emails Rober aitz who is the head of garm he was emailed by one of the advertisers or one of the advertising agencies says says hi Rob I'm reaching out to ask you if it's possible to arrange a meeting and hear more about your perspectives about the Twitter situation and a possible boycott from many companies and rakowitz then then responded quote hi both this is good I did some tweaking on the edges to help contextualize who we are and what we are doing I'd like to point out that nowhere in this email is the you may recognize my name from being the idiot who challenged musk on brand safety issues since then they are 80% below Revenue forecasts happy face emoji this prompted Elon Musk to announce today that X has no choice but to file suit against the perpetrators and collaborators in the advertising boycott racket hopefully some states will consider criminal prosecution so some actual positive effects from a congressional hearing other than some viral moments are you tired of the lies and the twist of the mainstream media talking points yeah me too join me in my newest series fact where I dismantle and bring truth to this tiring mainstream agenda