Political Organizers Screen who is allowed to ask a question
They call it "Free Speech" but it's Controlled and Curated
At many political events, the people putting on the event screen the questions, either by selecting which written questions they prefer, or by asking the questioner about the content of their question and promoting the approved questioners to the front of the line. Sometimes they even ask to see the question on the questioner’s phone screen.
Note: This video features swearing.
TRANSCRIPT:
20:58 a lot of times the questioners are pre-selected in advance. And when they’re not pre-selecting the questioners, sometimes they will
21:05 pre-select the question. So that kid who asked him that question made a video and spilled the tea about how he was
21:14 able to in pretty unlikely fashion get to ask that question in the first place.
21:20 It’s only because JD Vance the putts didn’t know to keep his mouth shut that this kid was even able to ask that question. They weren’t going to get to
21:28 him because they were screening the questions in advance. So let’s take a look. I’m the UG student that asked this question to JD Vance at the Turning Point event on Tuesday.
21:38 If there are compromised government officials in those files, how can the public trust that this administration
21:46 will hold anyone accountable when its own justice department is actively blocking the investigation?
21:53 I sat at the front of the event and was prepared to ask a question on whether there should be a formal investigation.
21:59 When I saw they opened it up for Q&A, I immediately tried to get to the mic. When the spotlight came on for the Q&A,
22:04 five people were already standing there wearing suits and dresses with TPUSA lanyards already positioned there.
22:11 This guy kind of sounds like I poned you. Is this I poned you? I pawned you.
22:14 Hides behind that cartoon avatar. Are you the guy who snuck into the Q&A? I pawned you.
22:18 I still got up and got in line and I think I was the first one there that was not a part of TPUSA. So, I just sat in line and got ready to ask my question.
22:27 When we were waiting in line, this lady in a blue top was going around asking people, especially not in TPUSA, what
22:34 topic we are going to ask about. When I was waiting in line and the lady came up to me, I could tell from her tone that they were probably screening the questions.
22:41 Okay. So, if you were part of the organization, I guess you got to go in the front of the line. If you were a civilian and you weren’t part of the organization, you had to wait and they
22:50 asked you, okay, what are you here to to say by topic? So, I just said that I was going to ask on foreign policy. After a
22:58 few more times of people coming up to me and asking what my topic was, this finally happened. Thank you so much.
23:06 This will be the last question. Okay. Oh,
23:09 can we take two more? Cuz I I I like I like answering questions. We’ll take idiot. See, that’s the thing, man. That that it’s very unprofessional of of JD
23:17 Vans to like be like, “Hey, can we take two more?” Like there’s the saying in uh Glengarry Glenn Ross when the the guy
23:25 blows the sail for his colleague and then the other colleague says you you never open your mouth unless you know what the shot is. Meaning you don’t just
23:33 talk unless you know what’s going on in one of these controlled environments. So JD Vance the putts doesn’t
23:41 never quite occurs to him that this could be like contrived and that the reason they’re stopping the line at this person is because this is the last uh
23:49 you know TPUSA stoogge that they have you know asking a pre-approved question or if it’s not a TPUSA person this is
23:57 the last person whose question they think is kosher to to ask. He doesn’t realize that. So he’s like you know what let’s take two. So if you see this is
24:04 the girl who asked about the home buying and the economic questions that we covered with kit and then right behind her is the guy who asks the Epstein question.
24:14 A couple more. This was the last person in front of me.
24:16 And when JD Vance said that they were going to have a few more questions, this lady immediately went back and started asking what my topic was.
24:23 So now she really wants to know what you ask about. Looking at my phone and saying, “Can you please read your question to me?”
24:29 I was astonished how they were talking to us. So, I went off to the side to talk.
24:32 You should have been like, I want to ask him about Milo Yiannopoulos’s claims that Benny Johnson is uh into gay orgies. That’s what I I’m going to ask
24:40 him that question. I I really want his his comment to somebody sitting down and I look back and immediately someone had cut me in line. The lady in blue put this girl
24:48 right in front of me because her topic was better than mine. And here can you can see me uh fighting back on that a little bit. So, she lets the girl in front of him.
24:57 So, even after JD Vance says, “All right, we’re going to take two more.”
25:01 She’s like, “All right, well, now I have to really get to the bottom of who asks who asks what.” Then she puts the other girl in front of him to try and stop him from asking this. This is the
25:10 transparency of free speech. DP USA asked for one more question. He asked for it. He does it again. And finally, let me ask a question.
25:17 He [ __ ] it up again. He’s like, “Yes, take one, boys. Just keep going.” Like, clearly they’re trying to stop this.
25:23 Clearly, they’re trying to like, “All right, that’s enough. Let’s Let’s get out of here and call it a night before things get worse than they are because don’t forget we covered this with kid.
25:30 He was getting protested and heckled the whole time. Yeah. So, I finally got to get off my chest. Thank you.
25:37 We’ll do one more. Sorry, real quick. I love this, but I got to go. I got to go. Thank you so much, Mr. Vice President,
25:45 and uh coming to UG and allowing us to express our freedom of speech. So, thank you so much. This is my first time at a
25:53 TPSA event and a political event, but I just wanted to show that this was my experience and they might preach for freedom of speech and non-censorship,
26:02 but this was just my experience and how they managed the event. Thank you.
26:08 Yep. Nothing is as it seems. Nothing is as it seems. That’s been my take about this TPUSA thing from Jump. You know,
26:15 people are talking about, you know, how Erica Kirk’s behaviors seem strange. I’m like, “Yeah, they’re all strange because nothing none of this is as it seems.
26:22 It’s all it’s all a show. It’s all show biz at the end of the day. They’re not a free speech organization. Everything is pro wrestling. What looks like a
26:30 spontaneous Q&A is anything but.” It was only because the doofus didn’t know to take the hint and stop the event that he even got to ask that in the first place.
26:39 Go ahead.
26:40 Yeah. Um, no. The reason why I said uh it was a great segue into the TPUSA situation is because I’m reminded of how
26:47 you know Donna Brazil and whoever had orchestrated the questions in the debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, right?
26:54 And you know like all the Bernie Bros were like this is unfair. Like this is clearly like an orchestrated event where you are meant to come away with one
27:03 opinion. And I think the Trump administration is highly characterized this way is these people are so
27:11 narcissistic that they really they really [ __ ] believe like JD Vance is sitting here. He’s getting these like questions pre-screened and he’s like,
27:19 “Oh man, I’m knocking this out of the park. Bring me another one.”
27:22 It’s the hubris and the overconfidence of this administration that leads them to making mistakes like this where they’re just not understanding like,
27:30 “Hey, this is an orchestrated event.”
27:33 like don’t break. It’s just like the Door Dash grandma. Like Trump walks in there and he goes, “Yeah, what do you think about the trans?” It’s like you
27:40 realize [laughter] this lady was told like tax on tips. So she gets up there and she’s he asked her about that and she’s like, “Well, I don’t have any
27:48 opinion about that. She’s got to worry about all these other interests going and do it.”
27:51 You know, because it’s an orchestrated event. It’s just a scop. It’s meant there for there to be narrative control and for people to come away with one
27:58 impression from the event or the uh whatever it is his speeches or anything like that. It’s just meant to be narrative controlled.
28:07 Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. And it’s not it’s not ju it’s not unique to TPUSA. So many of these events are like this. When I covered the Dean Phillips event and I
28:15 got thrown out because I started screaming at him,
28:18 you know, I wasn’t planning on screaming at him. I was planning on asking a question about Gaza, but what happened
28:25 was a guy in front of me, it wasn’t in front of me, they were they had this guy going around like with a with a with
28:34 another microphone uh or no, when when somebody would ask a question and Dean Phillips, the candidate, would would answer, they
28:42 would take the microphone and they would automatically like find the next person.
28:45 So, it wasn’t like this spontaneous thing where like you raise your hand and they find you like they would give it to the next person. And uh so I thought that was
28:52 kind of strange. But then when Dean Phillips said something that I found kind of objectionable, I just kind of blurted out my my objection to it. I
29:00 forget exactly what it was. Oh, he was talking about the October 7th like videotape of all of the, you know,
29:05 horrible things that happened on October 7th. And I buted in I said that’s never been released to the public. It’s never been released to the public for vetting.
29:12 Right. Exactly. And so I said, “We’ve all seen countless videotapes of the horrors committed by the IDF.” Something like that. I just blurted it out ill advisedly.
29:22 But then when I saw how the event was going, how they were kind of like pre-seelecting the next questioner, I’m
29:29 like, “Ah [ __ ] I kind of blew it.” Like they’re never going to call on me now because now [laughter]
29:35 a red flag about myself. Like now they’re going to think I’m a problem. So at that point, I just kind of yelled. Um but uh yeah, so it’s not unique to TPUSA
29:44 that they do it this way. A lot of organizations do it this way, but it just goes to show the artifice of things that can seem very real and and organic.
29:53 So even even an organization that brands itself so like free speech. No, I mean so much of this so much of this is curated for Yeah.
30:02 your consumption. Yeah.
ELSEWHERE:
CNN cuts off the interview after the interviewee says “the wrong thing” under the pretext of an transmission “issue”.
QUESTIONS:
Have you observed “rigged” feedback in quasi-democratic question and answer times?
Are you conscious that events are curating feedback when they ask people to write down or record questions for the event to choose from?
Do you think that speakers and audience are aware when feedback is being curated?
Was JD Vance’s enthusiasm for more questions a result of TP-USA staff giving him softball questions earlier?