Twitter Takeover
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Premiere Networks
4.6 • 43.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Free speech is in the air as Yale’s very own Peter Parker accuses our Verdict hosts of "chipping away at democracy.” However will the podcasting pair be able to show their faces at Yale now?!? Plus, as Elon Musk buys more stock in Twitter than Jack Dorsey owns, Threat To Democracy Cruz joins Threat To Democracy Knowles to consider a future where Twitter is once again a free and fair public square for ideas. All this while Ron Klain, the same upstanding man who co-led the smear campaign against Clarence Thomas alongside Joseph R. Biden, feigns moral outrage at the Senator for daring to question Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s record.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's be clear. Ted Cruz and Michael Knowles are guilty of chipping away at democracy. |
| 0:07.6 | Holding fast to democracy starts at the local level by refusing Cruz and Knowles and audience. |
| 0:13.6 | You have a method of intervention by tickets, but don't attend. Refuse to legitimize the event. |
| 0:20.6 | You signal to other Yale students and to the organization that invited them, |
| 0:24.7 | the democracy is non-negotiable and that you refuse to normalize the abnormal. This is what good |
| 0:30.7 | civic action looks like. There are many ways to do this and I'm only suggesting one. |
| 0:35.4 | Yale is an influential cultural, political, and economic institution. Yale students flush with |
| 0:42.1 | that great power, hold the great responsibility to fight for a more just society and a healthy democracy. |
| 0:50.0 | Democracy is non-negotiable. On April 11, Ted Cruz and Michael Knowles are coming to speak at Yale. |
| 0:55.3 | A fair number of students are considering attending. I think this is an error. So says the Yale Daily News. |
| 1:03.1 | This is verdict with Ted Cruz. |
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