the artist formerly known as kanye west, who today announced he is going to purchase parlor. do you know what por lor is? the word might invoke the image of a fancy room or cute little lady sit and sip their tea from good china. but parlor is decidedly not that. parlor is a far right fringe social media platform. and you first might have heard of it around the time of the capitol insurrection, january 6, 2021, because many of the violent rioters organized on parlor. podcast host kara swisher that very day asked one of the founders of parlor if he felt any responsibility for death and destruction to which he said this. i don t feel responsible for any of this, and neither should the platform, considering we re a neutral town square that just add head heres to the law. so, if people are organizing something, that s more of a problem of people are upset. they feel disenfranchised. yes, people were upset and they felt disenfranchised. not long after that interview, apple and
the most recent of whom is he a, the artist formerly known as kanye west, who today announced he was going to purchase parlor. do you know what parlor is the word might invoked the image of a fancy room or a cute little lady sitting in sitting there too from china. but parler is decidedly not that. parler it s a far right fringe, social media platform. and you first might have heard of it around the time of the capital insurrection, january 6th, 2021, because many of the violent rioters, organized on parlor. the podcaster, swisher, that very day ask one of the founders of parler if he felt any responsibility for the death and destruction to which he said this i don t feel responsible for any of this, and neither should the platform considering we are a neutral town square. and it just adheres to the laws. so, if people are organizing something, that s more of a problem of people are upset. they feel disenfranchised. yes, people were upset, and they felt disenfranchised.
still. and that will allow putin to prey on europe leader who is just want to turn the page now anyway so that what he cannot win on the battlefield, he may win by breaking europe s political resolve. how about the iranians? according to allies, they re the ones providing drones, which would be in violation of the united nations resolution, which would bar iran from buying or selling weapons. what can the u.n. do about it? heavens, can you imagine iran violating u.n. resolution. unimaginable. like the nuclear agreement the biden administration is still trying to pursue. this iranian regime is busy oppressing its own people, selling drones to russia. i think this is an indication on what the new on tant between russia and china is going to look like. i think it s one more reason to support the opposition in iran,
that for bad speech, for lies and evil, quote, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence. it s a proposition with which i generally agree, bad speech should be met with better speech, not with censorship. in the aftermath of the synagogue attack, executives at gab said something similar. quote, the answer to bad speech will always be more speech, unquote. but the more speech i saw on gab this afternoon was more speech extolling nazis and more speech engaging in holocaust denial and more speech sharing more hideously racist posts than i ve ever seen in one place in my life. i saw less of it, but still too much of it on parlor today. it s high time we recognize that the hate on many of these far right sites is not just an unfortunate result of belief in free speech. the hate is the whole point. so, is this where the first
ohio is one of the states hit hardest by the opioid epidemic in america. and tonight, the crisis was a key point of discussion during the final debate between the tim ryan, the democrat, and j.d. vance, the republican. ryan using the opportunity to criticize vance for pulling out of a fund-raiser over the weekend after it was reported that one of the hosts had been cited in a lawsuit against perdue pharma, a company accused of worsening the crisis, as well as other companies. take a listen. as recently as saturday, j.d. was doing a fund-raiser with a guy who was raising money, one of the top ten pill pushers, doctors, in the entire country. and he just cancelled it. you know why? because the press broke the story and he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. joining us now to discuss is patrick keith, author of empire