Welcome to the three martini lunch.

Grab a stool next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

Three martini's coming up.

Hey, very glad you're with us for the Thursday edition of the Three Martini Lunch and Jim, the cultural decline of Europe in so many different ways has been a headline of

ours a few different times. I actually made England or the UK, the institution fading into

oblivion in our year-end awards. We've talked about the inconsistent enforcement of speech laws

in England. There should be free speech, but if you criticize immigrants or you

criticize trans policy, they're all over you. If you just post online, you're getting arrested.

Now, if you're an immigrant raping teenage girls, well, then then we're going to look the other way

for the most part. But we've talked about the free speech erosion in England, and now we're

potentially seeing it in France as well.

Emmanuel Macron, the leader of France, was in India yesterday, and he believes that free speech is, and I'm paraphrasing this now, BS, and he says we just need more transparency on where people's speech is coming from.

Because I mean free speech is a pure bull-hs if nobody knows how you are guided through this so-called free speech,

especially when it's to be guided from one hated speech or another way to speech.

I just want to have a transparent road through these different speeches, and I want, by the way, to have a sort of public order. I want to avoid racist speech, hate speech and so on. This is my... And the third one...

Yeah, no, it's just going to be very transparent. You know, it sounds like maybe a disinformation governance board or something, Jim,

where he conveniently decides what's hate speech and what's disinformation or misinformation.

This is kind of the left's way of chipping away at everything.

Greg, we have always been a family-friendly podcast,

but I'm glad to know that based on this precedent, then I can talk about the thing that

you put on a bed, sheet. You put the sheet, then you put the blanket, then you put the pillow

on the bed. So I understand that France does not have a First Amendment and does not have

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