Back to episode — Episode 2569 CWSA 08/17/24
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Monstrously difficult. And if you looked at any of the individual things they were asking for, they were all defensible individually. Everything they asked for was defensible. It's just that collectively it made it almost impossible. I was thinking the other day about, you know, every now and then I think about starting a business. Usually I'm just playing around in my head. But I think, what if…
← Previous segment →nd when she hits that high note you'll be like, ah yeah. That's her. Her eyes look drunk and her demeanor looks drunk. But when she hits the high note you're going to say to yourself, yeah, you don't talk like that unless you're drinking.
Meanwhile, Brazil as you know is trying to censor the X platform. They came at him again. And Musk has stated that the Brazilian attempt to censor free speech in this country on X, which would also be in their country because X is there, violates Brazil and US laws. Now I hope that's true. I hope it's true that it violates Brazil and US law because otherwise what the hell is X going to do? They can't just stop. So what's going to happen?
Let's talk about the rest of the world. Germany said it's going to cut any new military aid for Ukraine, meaning that I guess they got some money that's already committed that they'll continue to give but they're not going to approve any new money for Ukraine. Brazil, do you think it has anything to do with the report that Ukraine blew up their pipeline? Well it probably didn't help. Probably didn't help at all. But if Germany's not going to pay for Ukraine and we are, is that because Germany has no money left or they don't think it's important? If Germany doesn't think it's important, why do we? So it certainly raises a question.
Meanwhile, you know that the EU commissioner Thierry Breton, he keeps warning X that if they violate the European Union standards for speech, which would be anything hateful or I guess disinformation too in their view, that they would ban X from operating in Europe. Now if you're tempted to say so what, we don't care about Europe, Europe collectively is bigger than the United States. So there's no multinational company that can really survive losing Europe. Europe it's just too big of a market. Now survival is probably too much of a statement, but it would be tough for somebody who's some huge part of their business is Europe to just lose it suddenly. So the stakes are really high.
But interestingly the US House Judiciary Committee is going to back X and Musk. And they went after the EU. And basically the US House Judiciary Committee — and this is Comer, might be Comer — they basically wrote a stern letter to the EU and said get the out of here. They used bigger words, more official sounding, but basically the US just told them to leave us alone. You know, in very stern words. Now do I like that? Yeah. Yep. Thank you United States. There is my government, or at least you know hopefully at least the Republicans, my government defending me against what I would call an attack by Europe. To me it's an attack if you come after our free speech. What do you call that? If you try to block free speech in America, that's an attack. I'm not going to call it not an attack.
Oh Jenny, we got a drunk in the comments. Jenny's pretty drunk. Jenny, I'm hoping you can sleep it off. See this is where the all caps really helps because Jenny's been drinking and all cap
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yelling at me. And even if I say you're drunk and using all caps it won't make any difference. Her next message will be an entire paragraph in all caps. I'm not going to read it Jenny. I'm just going to see your all caps and say never mind. But you just keep drinking and commenting because something good will come of it if you just keep it up. Just keep it up. Anyway, my view on the EU is if they…
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