Apple CEO hates “hate,” so he's banning “divisive” ideas from his company
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Apple's CEO Tim Cook says he's banning controversial ideas from his company, and I think this is the time to sell your Apple stock. Today's guest is Ezra Levenkamp, host of the show The LeVant Show.
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Tonight, Apple's CEO says he's going to ban controversial ideas from his company.
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I think this is the time to sell your Apple stock.
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It's December 4th and you're watching The Ezra LeVant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.
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You come here once a year with a sign and you feel morally superior.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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He was one of the founders of Apple, a genius, of course, in computing, in business, but also in aesthetics.
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IBM's motto was think, which is a pretty good motto for a computer company.
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So along comes this hippie, Steve Jobs, drug user, spiritual quester, outsider, dissident.
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Here's a one minute ad narrated by the actor Richard Dreyfuss that summed up the style,
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They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo.
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You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
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But the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
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And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
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Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
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Would you agree with me that the entire message there, the entire feeling, was that being controversial was okay?
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But Steve Jobs is gone, and in his place is someone who is as bland, as vanilla, and as establishment and compliant as possible.
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He's the opposite of Steve Jobs in so many ways.
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I mean, he dresses more informally than IBM, like Steve Jobs.
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Tell me a breakthrough innovation that has happened with Apple under Tim Cook.
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You just can't will yourself into becoming a creative, transformative, disruptive, one-in-a-billion genius like Steve Jobs.
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Apple's ads these days are a little bit different.
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It was the first one I came across when I just searched the Apple commercial page on YouTube.
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so that's an ad for the apple watch that's a new product rolled out by apple three years ago
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it was the first real new product line introduced under tim cook and to be honest it hasn't exactly
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set the world on fire it's health oriented which is great maybe i should get one after all but it's
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not really about thinking differently anymore is it in fact it's it's a bit more about being
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conformist and being optimized are you optimized it's an ibm thing not an apple thing did you see
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that moment when it told him to stand up that's probably good advice get off the couch get some
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exercise and look what it turned into a you know triathlon there um that was the focus here get
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off your couch get some exercise of course we should all do that and the ai the artificial intelligence
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in the watch phone knows when you really should get some exercise and so that guy became better and
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became better and became better that's the name of the ad better you the ad copy accompanying the video
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on youtube says introducing apple watch series 4 fundamentally redesigned and re-engineered to help
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you stay more active healthy and connected it's all new for a better you that part fundamentally
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redesigned and re-engineered sounds like ibm doesn't it but really it's to make you better you're being
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fundamentally redesigned now i do need to be better and maybe having something nag me
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especially an inanimate object like a watch not a person that i would quarrel with back maybe it's a
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good thing but there's another word for what that watch and that whole way of thinking is it's called
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scolding see it's not just redesigning and re-engineering the watch it's redesigning and re-engineering
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how you think now maybe we all need that maybe i need that maybe i will take the watch's advice
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and i guess you could always shut off your phone or your watch i think you know the new apple apps
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and other phones too i'm sure they track your health they track your heart rate they track how
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much exercise you get how many steps you take and of course that's on top of your gps location
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when you turn off your phone or your watch does it really turn it off and who gets access to your
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health data your your doctor that could be a good thing your insurance company i'm not sure if that's
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a good thing the government pretty sure that's not a good thing a better you that's what they were
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selling there can i can i show you the apple ad from oh it's more than 30 years ago now that really
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shook up the world of computing and really fired the starter pistol for the whole think different
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idea this one is from back in 1984 i remember watching this ad as a child and truly being inspired by it take a look
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today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the information purification
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the victims we have created for the first time in all history a garden of pure ideology where each worker may
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bloom secure from the pests obeying contradictory force
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our civilization of force is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth we are one people
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with one whim one resolve one cause our enemies shall toll themselves to death and we bury them with their own
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we shall prevail on january 24th apple computer will introduce macintosh and you'll see why 1984 won't be
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like 1984. so the apple watch feels a bit different to that anti-1984 ad doesn't it
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but who cares i guess i mean if you don't like the scolding watch the nagging apps the scolding apps the
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better you apps just turn them off if you can there's just one more orwell reference if you remember in
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the book 1984 everyone had a telescreen in their house it pumped in propaganda full-time but it was
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also a surveillance device it spied on you reread the book and tell me the difference between those
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telescreens orwell prophesied and the functions on your own phone like siri or other voice detection
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systems or amazon echo or google home that sit in your house and listen to you all the time waiting
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for you to tell it to do something like play a song but it's listening to you all the time sorry friends
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that is a telescreen but let me show you and this is all by way of a preamble to a speech
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given yesterday by tim cook it was at an anti-hate rally in new york city an anti-hate rally that sounds
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like the kind of thing they did in orwell's book 1984 in fact they did remember that book the the the
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whole um dictatorship had something called two minutes hate remember the book where the government
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ordered everyone to express their hatred for the enemies of the day for exactly two minutes can i
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read a passage from the book here it is the horrible thing of the two minutes hate was not that one was
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obliged to act apart but that it was impossible to avoid joining in within 30 seconds any pretense was
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always unnecessary a hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness a desire to kill to torture to smash
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faces in with a sledgehammer seem to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current
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turning one even against one's will into a grimacing screaming lunatic and yet the rage that one felt
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was an abstract undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame
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of a blow lamp talk about a prophecy of online mobs hey twitter mobs hate someone really hard for two
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minutes just long enough to destroy them in this modern era get them fired black in their name forever
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and then move on and join in with the mob and feel so so committed to it just for two minutes though
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but really that's the thing because the anti-hate meeting that tim cook spoke at yesterday
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well they hate people themselves too don't they i mean they they hate haters they're intolerant of
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intolerance and i'm not playing word games i mean the right wing hates the left wing and the left wing
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hates the right wing and democrats democrats hate republicans and republicans hate democrats and the
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edmonton oilers fans hate the calgary flames and vice versa as in don't pretend that only the other side
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has the feeling the emotion of hatred in them we rename our own hate in positive words passion oh i don't
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hate you i'm just passionate oh no no i'm not full of fury that's righteous indignation it's the other
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side who's hateful i'm passionate is this guy hateful we will hunt monsters and when we are at a loss
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amidst the hypocrisy and the casual violence of certain individuals and institutions we will
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as per chief jim hopper punch some people in the face when they seek to destroy the meat and the
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disenfranchised and the marginalized there's some hollywood actor at some awards ceremony he said he
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was against the haters he was so against the haters so much he wanted to punch the haters in the face
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yeah so let me show you the two minutes of hate from tim cook yesterday at the anti-hate rally now
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he's so calm and bland this tim cook he really is an ibm man at heart but listen to this and and then
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i'll so i'm going to play it through for two minutes of hate and then i'll give you my thoughts
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afterward take a look perhaps most importantly it drives us not to be bystanders bystanders as hate
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tries to make its headquarters in the digital world at apple we believe that technology needs to have a
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clear point of view on this challenge there is no time to get tied up in knots that's why we only have
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one message for those who seek to push hate division and violence
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you have no home here from the earliest days of itunes to apple music today we have always prohibited
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why because it's the right thing to do and as we showed this year we won't give a platform to violent
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why because it's the right thing to do my friends if we can't be clear on moral questions like these
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then we've got big problems at apple we are not afraid to say that our values drive our curation decisions
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and why should we be doing what's right creating experiences free from violence and hate experiences
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that empower creativity and new ideas is what our customers want us to do i believe the most sacred
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the good thing that the good thing that each of us is given is our judgment our morality
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our own innate desire to separate right from wrong choosing to set that responsibility aside
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he's slick that gm man sorry i called him a gm man ibm man same thing
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uh so let's uh look through it again uh look at this first little bit just for a second perhaps
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most importantly it drives us not to be bystanders bystanders as hate tries to make its headquarters in the digital world
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at apple we believe that technology needs to have a clear point of view on this challenge
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yeah no uh you make phones they're phones they're not our bosses you don't have a clear
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point of view on on anything just like a car maker doesn't tell us where to drive or a food manufacturer
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doesn't tell us how to eat it you can't tell us what we can or can't say on the phone imagine the
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arrogance that your telephone can object to what you say on it here's some more take a look there is no
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time to get tied up in knots that's why we only have one message for those who seek to push hate
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division and violence you have no place on our platforms
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okay hate division and violence but those are three very very different things of course we don't
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support violence or hang on sure we do actually apple is one of the world's biggest vendors of movies
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including r-rated movies just dripping with violence and murder they they push violent every every day
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every second for profit is that what they mean because apple is all about sex and drugs and violence
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for a profit or maybe tip tim cook means committing violence in real life if so tim we've already got a
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police force thank you very little i'm i'm sure they'll be able to take care of any real violence
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uh it's against the law always has been um so you don't need to get involved or maybe that's not what
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he means well what exactly does tim cook mean i mean there is no apple police to arrest someone i suppose
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they they could bring violence to the attention of the authorities but but we already have independent
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police and courts and the accused have the right to a fair trial and the right to be presumed innocent
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etc is is tim cook proposing to replace our public police and court system with some opaque private
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algorithm that he cooks up what does he mean by violence how can you even be violent in cyberspace
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if he means promoting violence like calling for violence inciting violence well that's a crime
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too it might even be a civil lawsuit fine give it to the courts sorry i don't trust apple to run private
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corporate courts and what about hatred well hatred is a natural human emotion like love i suppose if you
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never feel it if you never feel hatred in your life you do not have a normal personality the key is what
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we do with our hate can we transform our hatred into some positive things some positive actions or
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or at least can we burn it off let up some steam harmlessly by the way free speech is the best way
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to do that let people get a grievance off their chest shutting someone up rarely changes their mind in fact
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it often adds to their sense of grievance and persecution and it proves to them at least that they
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they were right if they have to be shut up and and that other point he mentioned division he said violence
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hatred and division what on earth does he mean by that division is is simply that we are not all
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unified of course we're not unified by by definition we have controversies in life
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that divide us in fact in many parliaments in in congresses in legislatures another way of saying
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let's have a vote is to say let's call for a division in its old-fashioned meaning it actually meant
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legislators would stand up and physically divide themselves according to their views on an issue we
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we are divided as a community whether it's on boring things like what the tax rate should be or
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frustrating things like whether we should build pipelines or you know believe in the theory of
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global warming or or personal things like abortion of course we're divided in canada we have
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institutionalized that division we have something called the leader of the opposition and he's paid
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to divide and oppose and frankly to cause trouble for the establishment a criminal trial is so divided
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we hire people to be adversarial quarrelers even to challenge each other's credibility a good
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prosecutor or a good defense lawyer often calls people liars sometimes a life depends on the fact
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that they do so what does he mean by no division well it means that tim cook has decided that he's going
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to disagree with you but you're the disagreeable one he hates you because you're hateful and he's going to
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throw in in the word violence just because no one can say they're in favor of that so he has to throw in the
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word violence to remove any objection to his censorship plan here's some more you have no home here
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from the earliest days of itunes to apple music today we have always prohibited music with a message
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why because it's the right thing to do i'm against racism i'm against white supremacy i'm against a lot
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of things as a matter of taste not necessarily as a matter of law why didn't he also say for example
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black supremacy i know that sounds odd but it is a thing the black panthers lewis farrakhan of the
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nation of islam why didn't tim cook say he's against anti-semitism and if we're against racism are we okay with
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the n word i never say it but you can't listen to rap music without hearing that word a thousand times
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and women's being called women being called bitches and hoes is is that okay if the right
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people say that but not okay if the wrong people say it and is your i don't know music stereo really
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entitled to a point of view isn't a stereo or an iphone or an ipod isn't it just an inanimate object
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is isn't that what we're buying we're just buying a tool i can use a hammer to hammer in a nail or god
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forbid i can use a hammer to hit someone it's just a hammer the hammer has no opinions the hammer is
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no morality but now tim cook is saying that his tool his phone his music app it will have opinions
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it will have a moral code and maybe maybe i'll agree with some of tim cook's opinions i don't like
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white supremacy and maybe i'll agree with some of tim cook's opinions on on this or that subject but
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but maybe even if i agree with him i want to learn what the other side of the story is anyways
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just for an example as a jew i might want to read mein kampf hitler's book to better understand
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anti-semitism i don't agree with the book i would agree that it's distasteful but maybe i want to read
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it anyways maybe i want to make my own decisions and not have some anonymous algorithm tell me or or or
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not tell me just block me are they also going to block my emails are they also going to cut off my
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phone calls when i say a key word they don't like i know that sounds absurd but really how is it
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qualitatively different than what else he says he's going to ban in the name of curation and his
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moral code okay just a bit more and as we showed this year we won't give a platform to violent
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conspiracy theorists on the app store okay i think he meant alex jones of infowars.com right
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is alex jones a conspiracy theorist i'm sure he is on some issues a conspiracy theory is a speculation
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usually about some hidden collusion often about big government or big business i put it to you
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that the entire mainstream media is deep into a conspiracy theory about russia and donald trump
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in the 2016 election it's been two years not a shred of evidence to support it but the conspiracy
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theory is widespread and we can choose to believe the theory or not i i don't believe it but why does
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tim cook get to decide which conspiracy theories are good and which are bad why are official conspiracy
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theories like i don't know like the theory that your suv is making the globe heat up and causing
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hurricanes why are those conspiracy theories cool but alex jones's aren't can't we each decide for
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ourselves by the way some of alex jones's conspiracy theories have been proven to be uh conspiracy facts
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i don't know if you saw this major story in the miami herald just the other day showing how this
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billionaire named jeffrey epstein had a private island with young teenage girls that he systematically
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raped for years and that he would fly in political honchos on his private jet to that island with him
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including bill clinton who went to that island 26 times i know that sounds insane that sounds crazy
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sounds like an alex jones conspiracy theory yeah but the miami herald just proved it was accurate
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in some outstanding reporting i bet they'll get a pulitzer so so i guess now it's a conspiracy fact
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you'll notice that tim cook called alex jones a violent conspiracy theorist i've never heard of alex
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jones being violent at all ever but again that's a deliberate orwellian name-calling by tim cook isn't
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it i mean civil liberties types could defend a conspiracy theorist as harmless they could even defend a
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hate her because that's just an emotion but no one can defend violence okay what violence listen to
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this why because it's the right thing to do my friends if we can't be clear on moral questions like
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these then we've got big problems listen apple can have whatever moral values they want for themselves
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just like ford or gm can but i don't have to drive my car in a manner that gm prescribes
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uh san francisco is an overwhelmingly left-wing anti-christian city hedonistic shallow even a
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bit pagan that's the vibe in all these tech companies that's fine but since when do they
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impose their moral values on the rest of us and really if they can ban alex jones why can't they
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ban a church they don't like here's some more at apple we are not afraid to say that our values drive
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our curation decisions and why should we be doing what's right creating experiences free from violence
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and hate experiences that empower creativity and new ideas it's what our customers want us to do
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again he's conflating violence which is a criminal action with hate which is a human emotion inside your
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mind what a trickster but but look at the other trick he he says apple customers want him to censor
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people well that can't be true alex jones had millions of followers on social media youtube apple
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facebook twitter obviously they didn't want alex jones to be banned or they simply wouldn't have
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followed alex jones in the first place they they didn't think he was hateful or maybe a few of them
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did but they just wanted to know what the hater had to say why should tim cook big brother as orwell
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would call him why should tim cook decide for all of us since when did the phone company curate who you
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should talk with or not don't you have a right to hear someone that you want to hear as much as you
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have a right to speak if you want to give a speech tim cook believes in neither the right to hear or the
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the right to speak if it disagrees with his own authoritarian viewpoint i believe the most sacred
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thing that each of us is given is our judgment our morality our own innate desire to separate right from
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wrong choosing to set that responsibility aside at a moment of trial is a sin look at the weak
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thinking here he just said there's a difference between right and wrong of course there is but
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isn't that division he just divided the world he divided everyone into two parts what he likes and
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what he um hates he's doing it right there and he's invoking the language of moral belief and religion
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really he says it's a sin not to follow morality and divide the world into right and wrong but of course
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he means only his own private brand of morality that you must follow how is what he's saying
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any different from i don't know what alex jones himself says other than alex jones usually growls
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a lot he's not an ibm man tim cook has made it official he is a censor it would be a sin for him
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not to beat people he will apply his own brand of morality to the world and to you but here's the thing
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back in 1996 when the internet was just getting going full tilt to the public congress passed the
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communications decency act section 230 you can see here it was designed to help handle old questions
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in the new media including legal liability would google let's say be responsible for everything that
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turned up when you search for something was your phone company on the line legally well here's the key
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line from this statute no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as
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the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider
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interactive computer service was just a fancy word of what they called the internet back then
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the company so so companies people who use the internet were exempt from prosecution
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for things like defamation if they they were just acting like a payphone company anyone can make a call
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on them you can't sue the payphone company they didn't create the words they didn't speak it or write
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it they just were a neutral platform for it so that's what the communications act decency act said in 1996
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but what would happen if the payphone company that instead of just taking your coin to take a call what
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would happen if they now got involved in curating the calls that got involved in approving or disapproving
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everything said on that phone that's what tim cook just announced he's going to do
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it really is the end of steve jobs's think different approach isn't it it really is big brother telling you to be
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a better you or else and it should be the end of the era of government non-interference with big tech
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if tim cook of apple and mark zuckerberg of facebook and jack dorsey of twitter and all the rest of them
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want to turn every single cell phone call every website every email into a personal project for
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moral improvement to make you better in their definition then they're not neutral anymore
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then they're political activists to be regulated they're defamers to be prosecuted they're liable for
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every word said on their systems they're not like a payphone anymore i wonder if donald trump has the
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courage to take them on the same way teddy roosevelt took on standard oil here's a political cartoon
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of the day more than 100 years ago uh the title you can't really see it's called the infant hercules
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and the standard oil serpents i think one of those is meant to be john d rockefeller
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he busted standard oil into a bunch of parts well tim cook isn't as rich as rockefeller
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but he is more powerful i wonder if donald trump has enough roosevelt inside of him
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That is the scene, or was the scene this weekend.
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That's probably the second most identifiable edifice in that city,
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That's the Arc de Triomphe, a massive structure commemorating
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It's a huge traffic circle around the Arc de Triomphe,
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but obviously shut down there with protests that verged occasionally on riots.
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and it's based on a reaction to a bizarre new requirement in France
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that you must have a yellow vest in your dash compartment,
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in case you have to pull over to the side of the road,
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although it is very nanny state and quarrelsome,
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but rather the carbon taxes that are being implemented alongside them.
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Well, tens of thousands of Frenchmen protested,
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In fact, it was they who filmed those shots we just showed you,
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and joining me now safely back in the United Kingdom is Jack Buckby.
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and we didn't know if there was going to be protests.
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You were there for really the worst of it, weren't you?
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Yeah, honestly, I was concerned about going and not getting any footage,
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We turned up on the morning of Saturday to the Arc de Triomphe,
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and our plan was just to film some nice, peaceful stuff in the morning
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before it all kicked off at the end of the day.
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But as we arrived, the minute we got there, people just appeared,
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and you could feel this sort of stinging on your eyes,
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and it never occurred to me that I should take some goggles,
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and I certainly needed it by the end of the day
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because as the crowds grew, the police came in around that circle
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and they just kept throwing these gas canisters.
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The French people there told me that it wasn't a tactic.
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They had nothing to achieve by throwing these canisters
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because it was just pushing people from one side to the other.
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Now, I've been observing these protests for a few weeks now.
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I think this was the third or fourth weekend where they were really going.
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What's interesting to me and what is so obviously deliberately buried in mainstream media coverage
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but the seed crystal, if you will, is the carbon tax, the fuel tax, energy poverty,
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done in the name of elitist global warming moral panic.
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Like, oh my God, we've got to have you change your lifestyle.
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You've got to, we're doing this for the good of the planet.
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I mean, remember the big global warming conference was in Paris two or three years ago.
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So you have all the fancy people, Emmanuel Macron,
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jacking up taxes on severely normal working people
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Yeah, the vibe I got, and in fact, what people told me was that it was the straw that broke the camel's back.
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They were out protesting the carbon tax, but there's way more to it.
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And Macron is just using it as an excuse to inflict more taxes on the people.
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They're looking at proposing taxes for deliveries from online supermarkets and shopping websites,
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taxes on mobile phone subscriptions, on internet subscriptions.
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But people told me that there are many places in France where they can't go anywhere.
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And people have been buying diesel cars because the French government kept telling them,
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And now they're taxing the diesel, making it even more expensive.
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And they're going to be even putting diesel cars out of production in 2040.
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So they're just making it extremely difficult for people to get by.
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They're not earning much in the way of salaries anyway.
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And that's why when you look at these protests, you see that it's just there's no political
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You know, a few weeks ago, we interviewed the author of a book called The Republican Workers
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And I just that name, I kept turning it over in my mind because I thought Republican Workers
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But no, I mean, if you look at Trumpism, it's you got a blue collar billionaire who's standing
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I watched all of your reports and I know you've got more videos to come.
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You interviewed one fella who said he's a nationalist, which and he was concerned about open borders
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He's complaining about spending on migrants instead of spending on French.
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And then there's other people who are non-ideological.
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But I think I detect that some opportunistic leftists like Antifa and migrant groups are sort
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of saying, oh, if it's a madhouse, if it's a free for all, let's go out and smash a few
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So is it accurate to draw a distinction between these gilets jaunes protesters and Antifa and
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Within the gilets jaunes, you do have Antifa and you do have anarchists.
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Within gilets jaunes, you also have a majority, I would say, or at least 50 percent of these
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people are just decent, normal people protesting the taxes.
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Then you've got a portion of them who are really angry about the taxes and they're going
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And then the others are the opportunistic ones.
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And you'll see in my footage of my report, which I believe is going out tonight, this
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report shows that every building that was torched and looted was tagged with an A for anarchist.
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Yellow is the new black block, black block being Antifa, of course.
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So it's quite clear who was doing the rioting and the smashing up here.
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I'm not saying all everyone was innocent, but it seems like a large proportion of it was
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But local people also told me what they believe happened is Antifa and the anarchists went
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But the looting was done not again, not all, but by a lot, the migrant population, because
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they they have these things called thief markets in Paris where they sell stolen goods.
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And you can bet that the things stolen and looted that night are ending up on the thief
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I mean, of course, Paris is one of the most beautiful cities.
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The Eiffel Tower, the most photographed image in the world, actually.
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But that fairy tale image of Paris is certainly being undone by the violence.
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Now, I see in the news today that Emmanuel Macron is sort of blinking.
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He suggested he might defer the imposition of the new round of taxes by, what, three or
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I mean, if someone's willing to to to protest or even riot, I think just saying, OK, OK,
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we'll delay implementation of this thing you hate so much by three or six months.
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That just doesn't sound like it's going to float with people who have taken tear gas
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I asked every person I spoke to everyone who spoke English.
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And they reply, no, we won't end this anytime soon.
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So, I mean, not only does he have to stop the taxes, he's got to go as well before these
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Marine Le Pen, the presidential candidate for the Front National or the National Rally now,
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she tweeted earlier, she says, isn't it funny that he's delaying it just past the May
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Well, I see a new survey out that shows that 76% of Frenchmen disapprove of Emmanuel Macron.
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I don't think I've ever heard an approval rating that low.
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I mean, Donald Trump is a very controversial president and things are usually 50-50 for him.
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To have 76% of your countrymen say you've got to go, it's quite incredible.
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He always seemed to me to be a bit of an artificial candidate.
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He's so obviously focus grouped and stage managed.
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He seems a little bit like Mark Zuckerberg in terms of his lack of empathy and emotions.
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I think personally, it's quite possible that he's replaced, you know, cut off like a gangrenous
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limb and some equally anonymous anodyne Eurocratus put in in his place.
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But let me ask you, you mentioned Marine Le Pen of the Rally Nationale or the successor party
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I wouldn't hedge bets on her doing incredibly well and, you know, just beating everyone else.
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She's already polling better than Macron for the European elections.
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As of last week, I think she was on 20% to Macron's 19%.
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Yeah, Marine Le Pen will benefit from this, but so will the far left.
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And also, apparently, there might be some new parties coming along that could sweep up some
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So the elections in May will definitely be interesting.
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I predict that just as he was created in a lab and appeared out of nowhere, really, I mean,
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he was just created a year before the election.
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I mean, I note, for example, that Facebook deleted 30,000 or 40,000 pages of Marine Le Pen
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I mean, the whole thing was such a, it was so antiseptic.
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I predict that he will be replaced because he's so toxic.
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Well, Jack, thanks to you and to Martina for going there.
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I just want to tell our viewers that for all of your reports, and we probably have three
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or four more videos to come, they're at rebelfrance.com, rebelfrance.com.
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And if folks want to chip in to help cover your travel and accommodation there, I'd be grateful.
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Jack Buckby, who, along with Martina Marcotta, went to France for two days.
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And I think their footage was actually the most interesting and the most on the scene
00:44:04.400
Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about Rachel Notley nationalizing the oil
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Peter writes, Notley will not get back into office again forever, so she is going to do
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This is rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
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She also was talking about buying 100,000 barrels a day worth of rail cars.
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Well, you can't just go to, you know, officedepot.com and order up some rail cars.
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And again, the problem with the oil patch being demarketed is not a lack of cash.
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The world's energy industry has trillions of dollars in it.
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But record production, record investment, I've never heard an oil company or a pipeline
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company say, can I have some cash to put together an oil deal?
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Not because those companies lacked cash, but because there was no political will.
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We don't need Rachel Notley to command and control who can produce what.
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The problem is that governments, courts, and activists have blocked the actual entrepreneurs
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We don't need some Soviet-style command economy.
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But there are some things that you do them once, and they send a shock to the system because
00:46:04.220
So let's say in six months, this command and control, supply management, ordering oil companies
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But we've sent the message that in Alberta, oil companies should be aware that they might
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get a knock on the door one day, and it'll be some government process server saying, hey
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guys, I know you had big plans to produce 100,000 barrels of oil today, but lucky you, you're
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only going to produce 80,000 barrels of oil, and so good luck.
00:46:34.320
Well, and the problem is, if Jason Kenney accepts this, that lingering risk continues
00:46:41.240
I tell you, with Donald Trump being not just pro-oil rhetorically, but getting production
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up, making it legal to drill in the Alaska Arctic Wildlife Natural Refuge, getting the Dakota
00:46:58.020
access pipeline built in a matter of months, would you really, if you had a billion dollars
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to invest in oil and gas, would you really put it in Canada, or would you put it in North
00:47:16.780
On Trudeau giving away $50 million to impress Trevor Noah, Stephen writes, Trudeau can easily
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find $50 million to give to a virtue signaler in kind, but can't find any funds for our veterans
00:47:33.440
He said, they're asking for more than we can give.
00:47:37.480
No, no, I think the accurate, they're asking for more than we want to give, because of course
00:47:43.300
Trudeau has shown that there is no limit on his spending, whether it's something positively
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Something whimsical, like giving $50 million to a B-list celebrity in Hollywood, or just
00:47:59.640
general waste and corruption, like his regular budgets.
00:48:03.660
On my interview with Alessandra Bocchi, Lee writes,
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As a day one subscriber, I must say that I appreciate the contributions that Alessandra Bocchi has
00:48:22.660
But I tell you, any young gal who actually works in North Africa, documenting the migration
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with her own eyes, that's someone I trust more than even an old hand who just writes
00:48:44.660
And as you, I think, I can't remember if this was a private conversation I had with her after,
00:48:50.840
She's just finishing up her student exams or journalistic exams or something.
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But once that's done, I hope that she'll do on-the-spot video for us around Europe.
00:49:00.820
Now, I know some people say, as you guys do too much foreign affairs, we've got problems
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here in Canada, we've got to deal with things in Canada.
00:49:11.660
That was a very interesting foreign affairs story.
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There was a bit of a lesson there about globalism, immigration, and most importantly, carbon tax
00:49:18.720
And look, I bet you watch foreign news about Donald Trump, I'm sure you do, and about
00:49:25.340
And if you're going to get it through the CBC or CTV and Global, which aren't much better,
00:49:32.880
It's so easy for us to have foreign content in the age of Skype.
00:49:38.680
Now, occasionally we do send people places on an airplane, but it's not devastatingly
00:49:43.260
We sent David Menzies down to cover the migrant caravan for a few days.
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And we certainly, we were being subjected to a lot of it on the CBC.
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So that's a long way of saying, I'm glad you like Alessandra Bocchi.
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I was pronouncing it wrong the first two times I had her on the show.
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And frankly, we still need to hire one more person in Ontario because there's so much going
00:50:15.980
Anyways, that's a bit of a ramble, but I'm glad you like Alessandra Bocchi.
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All right, folks, that's the end of the show for today.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at our world headquarters and our Milan office,
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I just want to say Alessandra Bocchi one more time.
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Good night and keep fighting for the rest of our world confidence.