Hello and welcome. I was on a drive the other day with my husband. We were having one of our philosophical discussions and he said something that I thought was so true.

He said the government always needs an existential crisis to push radical reform. So so true and that really has been the story in the United States. And you can think of any example. For example, income tax.

We started during the Civil War and it was because there was an emergency. So the idea was it's for your safety. We need to take money from you and we need to make sure that we do this thing that the average person would say, hey, that doesn't seem really fair, but in a crisis everything becomes acceptable.

Of course, then after the Civil War ended, they said this is not really constitutional. She know what they did. They just made it constitutional. The 16th amendment was ratified in 1913, which permanently legalized income tax.

And I guess more modern take on that is of course the Patriot Act. You guys remember that after 9-11, just 45 days after 9-11, they passed the Patriot Act and they said it's an emergency. The government needs to help. Don't pay attention. We have to do this to deter and punish terrorist acts.

We need to do all of these things. We need to now be able to read your emails to expand government authority to monitor your phones and email communications and it is for your safety. Don't mind us. And I think especially in these last couple of years, we have seen more radical reform from our government than ever before and not just from our government, but particularly from big tech.

Wow, you can't just say things on the internet anymore because for your safety, they need to make sure that they know what you're reading on the internet.

You especially saw this with the COVID-19 censorship. Now you see all these things, false information, missing context. Now blurring images on the internet because you at home are not smart enough to discern between fact and fiction anymore.

You need us, big tech. You need us to tell you what's true and what's not true. So I'm going to remove this post for your safety. That's what they're telling us.

In fact, one of the biggest stories ever, obviously, I think we'll look back on it and it will be the shot heard around the world.

When they censored a sitting president, President Donald J. Trump got censored from the internet completely. Facebook even Spotify, I don't know, is he making music? He's not long gone out to even have an account on Spotify. It's for your safety.

You cannot hear from your president. The person you elected, the person that you elected to protect you and to tell you the truth got censored from the internet for your safety.

And that I really made sense when they did it by the way I have, I want to read to you what his final tweet was. That was so dangerous that they needed to remove him from the internet for your safety.

He wrote,

The 75 million great American Patriots who voted for me, America first, and make America great again will have a giant voice long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form, exclamation point, exclamation point,

apparently three exclamation points is dangerous, so they said goodbye. They got rid of him. That should terrify every single person in the world if a sitting United States president is being censored.

What's going to happen to us? How are we safe if he's not safe? Right now they're trying to tell us that they need to think for us that what they're doing at all times of a day is that they're just fighting,

misinformation. They're going to tell you what to think. They're going to tell you how to think and you're not allowed to ask any questions or as you're going to risk being censored by yourself. You yourself will get censored.

It's a crazy time in this country. I'm going to say something and I say this and I mean this. I don't feel today that America is a free country.

I'm going to ask that question later in the show to President Trump. I'm going to ask him whether or not he believes that America is still a free country. I don't even know who the government is anymore.

I don't know if big tech is the government. I don't know if Apple is the government. I don't understand how we have gotten into this predicament in this country. I don't know what it's going to take to change things.

Because once we allow the government or any system to trample over our civil liberties, we rarely, if ever, get those civil liberties back.

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