DAVID MENZIES ｜ Comedian's Free Speech Victory, Trudeau in Scotland
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The Supreme Court of Canada recently ruled that there is no such thing as a right not to be offended . by Mike Ward. What does this have to do with climate change and climate change alarmism? And who's flying all over Europe, telling others to reduce their carbon footprints while ramping up their own emissions? Yes, that would be none other than Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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in which we look back at the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite rebels.
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The Supreme Court of Canada recently released a decision in favour of comedian Mike Ward,
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deciding that there is no such human right as the right not to be offended.
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The decision was a judicial photo finish, with the court deciding 5-4 that no crime had occurred,
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meaning that the Supreme Court was just one vote away from setting a disturbing new precedent
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Rebel News Commander Ezra Levent will weigh in with his take.
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Well, another climate catastrophe conference recently wrapped up in Glasgow.
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And Hutman, check out who's flying all over Europe,
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telling others to reduce their carbon footprints while he ramps up his own emissions.
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Yes, that would be none other than Justin Trudeau, just like the rest of the world leaders.
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Our man in the UK, Lewis Brackpool, was there to cover all the egregious virtue signalling
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And unlike President Biden, Lewis managed to stay awake.
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And you had plenty to say regarding my interview with veteran radio broadcaster Peter Sherman,
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Well, he offered up safety advice that somehow offended a social justice snowflake.
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And one of the things he joked about was this guy, Jeremy Gabriel,
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he has a rare disability called Treacher-Collins Syndrome.
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Imagine how tough it is to be him, to be his family.
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And he was a kid at the time, and Mike Ward made fun of him.
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I think it's very important to note that Jeremy Gabriel was not a private person, though.
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He was a celebrity, like a child actor, like Greta Thunberg was,
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until, like so many child actors, she aged out and became just an actor,
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Jeremy Gabriel was a celebrity because he was born deaf.
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But when he turned six, he got a special hearing aid that allowed him to hear.
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because he was a child with such a punishing disease,
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and yet he still had dreams, and he tried to reach them.
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I think we can all agree that mocking little Jeremy is punching down.
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In fact, he did a lot with what little God had given him.
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He was a celebrity, and Mike Ward took a run at him.
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So the kid's parents took my ward to the Quebec Human Rights Commission.
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In 2006, I published the Danish cartoons of Mohammed as part of a news story about them being banned
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And I was taking one of those kangaroo courts myself.
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The claim in that case was that I was mocking Mohammed,
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was a very important journalistic act, if I may say so myself.
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Not because the cartoons were inherently interesting.
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I would never have published them or even known about them
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the banning of them, the riots that killed more than 200 about them,
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and later the terrorist attacks against other cartoonists.
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I believe what I did was journalistically and legally and morally important, very valuable.
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And the human rights complaint against me was odious for those reasons,
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but also because even if my publication of those cartoons was not important,
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it's still my right, because we're a free country.
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I'm not here to tell you that Mike Ward's jokes about a disabled boy
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were journalistically and morally important or valuable,
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but I'm here to tell you that despite that, or maybe even because of that,
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Because you have to fight for free speech, even for people you don't agree with.
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You don't have to think jokes are funny to approve of them legally.
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Here's what he told the Human Rights Commission.
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He said, I was 12 or 13 when I saw those videos.
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I didn't have maturity to be strong in the face of this.
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It made me think my life is worth less than another's because I'm handicapped.
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I accept those comments as true, but what is the rule for jokes?
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What if they're a child celebrity promoted by their parents, as in this case?
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Again, I'm not saying I like picking on the kid.
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Oh, and by the way, can a disabled person tell jokes about disabled people?
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Well, predictably, the Quebec Human Rights Commission convicted Mike Ward,
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claiming he had indeed discriminated against young Jeremy.
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And then the Court of Appeal upheld that conviction.
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Well, thankfully, this case went all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada,
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The good news, the Supremes ruled in favour of Mike Ward
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that there is no such human right as the right not to be offended.
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The bad news, this decision was a judicial photo finish
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with the court deciding 5-4 that no crime had occurred,
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meaning that the Supreme Court was just one vote away
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from setting a disturbing new precedent when it comes to free speech.
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And joining me now is a man who knows all about fighting for freedom of speech,
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freedom of expression, and freedom of the press.
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And that would be Rebel News Commander Ezra Levent.
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So, Ezra, like I said, the Supremes did get it right.
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But the fact that it was only 5-4, that was gut-wrenching for me.
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And I think 10 years ago, that would have been 6-3 or 7-2.
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I think the Supreme Court is heading the way culture at large is heading,
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which is towards a cancel culture, a censorship culture, a woke culture.
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I don't think the Supreme Court so much shapes the world as it does reflect it.
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I mean, it does a bit of both, let's be honest.
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if this same case were to be heard or a similar case,
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that they would inevitably rule against free speech in the comedian.
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I should note that of the judges who were for censorship,
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But I'm pretty sure that there was a Harper appointee there, too.
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It's sort of a laugh when you think that the arbiters of comedy,
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But the edgy stuff, it's typically something that young people are in.
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You can be 60 and like pop music, but it's more likely if you're 20.
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So the idea that some very rarefied judges in their 60s and 70s are going to look at a joke
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and look at it word for word and decide if that joke is legal or not, that's bizarre.
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And let's acknowledge that these jokes were not gentle and were not nice.
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Even if he wasn't disabled, mocking a young boy is not a particularly good sport.
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And mocking his disability, let's be honest, it was mean.
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Now, you can be funny and mean or unfunny and mean, but it's still mean.
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So you don't have to love the joke to say, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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The Canadian government is prosecuting a guy for years, or the Quebec government.
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And they finally, after ringing him out, I don't know how many years he's been through the courts, many years.
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How many hundreds of thousands of dollars he spent on legals.
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And, woo, a victory, five to four for free speech.
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It's also, in a way, a sign of impotence by the courts.
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So let's say that they actually did condemn this comedian.
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Do you think that's going to stamp out his jokes from the Internet everywhere?
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On YouTube, on Twitter, on Telegram, and Signal, and WhatsApp, and other private ways of sharing?
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I mean, even if you got every big social media company, like, wouldn't, like, do these judges really think that, like, King Canute, they can order the tide to stop?
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And, of course, King Canute, he knew that he couldn't order.
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And he proved, he was proving to them that he wasn't divine by ordering the waves to stop, and they wouldn't.
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This court, or at least four of them, actually think that they can order people not to laugh at bad jokes.
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But, no, and this is exactly what I want to get at, Ezra, is that these dissenting justices think this through to the nth degree.
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And by that, and you alluded to it in your monologue, what would be the new rule book, if you will, when it comes to jokes and stand-up comedy and humorous observations,
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if it was five to four the other way, that, in this instance, making fun of a child with a disability is offside?
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You know, there are some very disabled comedians out there who actually turn their disability into a joke.
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And they've decided to run with it and make fun of it and make jokes about it.
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And I don't know if that's their sense of humor, if that's a kind of psychological therapy, or if that's just a way to earn a living.
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But there are some very disabled comedians out there, and their jokes are about their disability.
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And you think, should I be laughing about this?
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And when you think of the comedians who make jokes with Jews as the butt of the jokes, they're invariably Jewish comedians.
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When you think about Asian or Muslim comedians or black comedians, those are the people.
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Like, who uses the N-word in comedy more than black comedians?
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What if 99% of the people making that music are black themselves?
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And I apply the racism to the disability joke here.
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This joke about this young boy, Jeremy, I don't know if it was funny.
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I haven't actually seen the original format in which the joke was made.
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These judges in the Supreme Court, they print out the, in their ruling, they have the joke word for word.
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It's like the old saying, you know, don't dissect a joke.
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The idea that you've got these joke tester generals, you know, these, these, welcome to the court of humor.
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We will decide if this is funny or not or rude or not.
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And by the way, what if being rude is the point?
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That would be a terrible world if people tried to outdo each other with rudeness.
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But actually, occasionally, there is a point of rudeness.
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Someone went into a courtroom with a shirt that said, F-U-C-K, the draft.
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Or I do wish to lodge my protest against the draft.
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Like, it wasn't a polite, it was F-U-C-K, the draft.
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And they got thrown out, and I think they got fined.
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And this went all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States.
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And the Supreme Court ruled that not only was that protected by the First Amendment,
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was absolutely necessary to convey this man's feelings.
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The sharpness of his feelings, the severity of his feelings,
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the roughness of his feelings, his extreme opposition to the draft.
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to communicate what was on his mind and his heart.
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And the First Amendment in the United States, God bless it, upheld that.
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And that's another way of saying the court said being rude is actually a human right.
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Kind of the opposite of what they were trying to get here.
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You know, people say, oh, there's a, you're not allowed to say something,
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you're not allowed to be, say, do something offensive.
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Being offended, the right to be offended, think of it for a second.
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I'm appalled by the draft or I'm appalled by Mike Ward.
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I'm appalled by something and I'm going to express it, how appalled I am.
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Your reaction to the world, you're allowed to be offended.
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In most countries, not most, in many countries, you're not allowed to be offended.
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Well, we all get to decide what we're offended by.
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I'm going on too much length, but my point, David,
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is who the hell are these nine judges to tell us what we can or can't think is funny?
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When people say you're not allowed to criticize Islam and that's Islamophobic.
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Well, is he not allowed to criticize the faith he grew up in?
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So I think we have to push back, but it's in the culture.
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And you know, what you just said about the number of disabled comedians that are out there,
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A couple of times I saw, I can't remember his name, unfortunately.
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And the way he began his set at each time is he comes onto the stage.
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He's helped onto the stage with his back to the audience.
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And then it dawns on him after a couple of jokes that he's not facing the audience.
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And it's funny, you laugh, but at the same time you have empathy because he's a blind man.
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And what if he did something that was actually anti-blind?
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How about we all get to make our own decisions?
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And if Mike Ward did something defamatory about this boy that would deeply harm his,
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you know, oh, this boy is a thief or something.
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This particular comedy tour was the Sacred Cows tour kind of thing.
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So you know what you're, it's not like Jerry Seinfeld who's super clean.
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And isn't it that the parents of Jeremy bringing that child to this concert,
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do you think, Ezra, it's kind of like somebody going into a strip club and going,
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Yeah, I mean, again, I'm not comparing this boy to, you know, there's some pageant parents
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who take their very young girls and make them into these, you know, pageant,
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And really, it's the parents living out their own dream through their own kid.
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I can think of a lot worse ways to, you know, spend time with your kid.
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And they turned this kid into a mini celebrity.
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He, like, they turned him into this celebrity singer.
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If you're doing something for the public's delight, the public can express their view.
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And they can't, they don't just have to applaud and say, what a good boy.
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If I, you know, if I, if I had been around and at the time and had, I mean, this is all
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in French, in Quebec, you know, you see some young kid who has a grave disability trying
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But you can't ban people from having the opposite response.
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You told people to watch and to react through applause.
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You cannot punish someone who reacted in a different way, even if it was rude.
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But for God's sakes, imagine living in the country where the government can tell you what
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I'm far more afraid of a government telling me what I can laugh at or not than some comedian
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And, you know, I can't help but think, Ezra, it was ever thus that dictators always frowned
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I mean, after you laugh at the joke, you start to analyze, why am I laughing at this joke?
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And that is beyond, you know, the dictator's control that might breed, you know, revolutionary
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It was a great quote from our friend Mark Stein, who knows a little about fighting for free
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From 2014, I call him in the National Post, when it was far less woke than it is today.
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And he said, a culture that values safe spaces where ideas cannot be debated is a culture
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And just to get back to what you said about powerful people not liking comedy, I think it
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was Solzhenitsyn who was sent to the gulag for a joke about Stalin's mustache.
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The Ayatollah said there's no jokes in Islam because...
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And it was an Orwell who said every joke is a little revolution.
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And you're right, because if people laugh at the state, they're no longer afraid of the
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state, or at least in that moment, they feel liberated from the state.
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And I read very carefully the four dissenting judges here, and they basically said, you
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And isn't it a surprise that the government's favorite people are the marginalized ones, and
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the government's unfavorite people, have as many laughs at them as you want.
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I mean, all this anti-bullying, what we've learned in the last year that it was BS.
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I've seen more bullying from Justin Trudeau and the premiers about people who are not vaccinated
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I've seen more mockery and marginalization and denormalization of people in the last two
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years than I ever have in my life, and it is so subjective, and when you make jokes
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illegal, you're basically letting the powerful people use that as a weapon to kill everything.
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And I think we dodged a bullet by one centimeter in this ruling, but the next shot will hit
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And, you know, the Supremes, you got it right, albeit five to four.
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Here's the punchline to this black piece of humor.
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What were you thinking as far as you dissenting justices?
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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This is Lewis Brackpool reporting for Rebel News, and as you can see, I'm here in sunny Glasgow,
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where behind me is COP26, the United Nations climate conference, where world leaders gather
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together and show off their private planes and land rovers.
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So Rebel News does not have anything in common with these elites.
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They came here on private jets, and we came here, well, on EasyJet.
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And there aren't going to be many organizations that are going to come here and expose the
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And if you'd like to help fund the truth, please head on over to Rebel UN and follow my work.
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Now, as you probably already know, I'm not an eco-maniac.
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I don't believe in alarmism, and I don't believe that the world is going to end in 10 to 20 years'
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I also don't think that Greta Thunberg is a trustworthy source of information.
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Now, Rebel News was supposed to be inside the conference today.
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Unfortunately, due to our recent history with the United Nations, they've actually banned
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Rebel News from even attending the conference due to asking tricky questions such as, who funds
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Well, we know the answer to that, and that's the taxpayer, which is yourself.
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First bit of hypocrisy is the fact that Chinese state media are allowed to attend this conference,
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But the United Nations' excuse for when we applied to attend this conference was that they have
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no previous record of Rebel News even being at any of the previous conferences, which, as
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you can see by the screenshots, is a load of bull.
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It's quite easy to work out why Rebel News is not allowed to attend this conference.
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We are the organization that asks the difficult questions and points out the hypocrisies of
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But regardless of me not being allowed to attend, I'm going to still point out these hypocrisies,
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even if it means standing just outside the venue.
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Well, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow is now mercifully over all the virtue-signaling
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fearless leaders, you know, those elitists who admonish the great unwashed masses of planet
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Well, they've now returned to their home countries, most of them getting there via carbon-spewing
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But then again, what do you expect these elites to do?
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Well, in the words of one unhinged Swede, who is increasingly resembling Gollum from The
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And joining me now is our UK correspondent, Lewis Brackpool, who was able to take in this
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Hey, Lewis, welcome to Rebel Roundup for the first time.
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You know, Lewis, not only are these UN types hypocrites, they are also filthy liars.
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As you pointed out in your video, they stated that the reason Rebel News was denied access
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to the conference was due to the fact that there were no previous records of Rebel News
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I think these lying gatekeepers did you a big favor.
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Keeping you out of that snore fest was a godsend, given that you could expose the
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For example, that image of an overflowing garbage can.
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These elitists want us to shiver in the dark so that we can reduce our carbon footprint.
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Yet, they can't even be bothered to take care of their own litter.
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I mean, it's been a bit of a staunchy week for them.
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I think the Glasgow bin handlers were on strike as well on the same week.
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Yeah, at the point now, the hypocrisy was a lot of fun.
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I'm sure you saw the petrol-generated powered sign that said,
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let's do net zero, being projected onto a bridge.
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What was funny about that as well, people were stopping in their cars to film the actual sign,
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So it's quite funny to see people's reactions to different things.
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Yeah, and I wonder if there's awareness of the hypocrisy by the general public,
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because we know, Lewis, the mainstream media will not report this.
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And I mean, I even heard it come up in a talk radio station in Toronto,
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Oh, yeah, we understand hypocrisy, yada, yada, yada.
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But, you know, it's for the greater good for the years and decades ahead to clean up the planet.
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Because I subscribe to the proviso of lead by example.
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And speaking to climate protesters throughout the few days that I was there,
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And I asked the question, when did this happen in the course of history,
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where earth-loving history started siding with the enemy, essentially,
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the establishment that doesn't seem to care about you and only is there for profit?
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I'm sure you'll be seeing a clip of me soon going head-to-head with a climate activist,
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where I do say, well, surely if the elites practiced what they preached,
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surely they would set the example for the people and the people would follow.
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But they seem to be following anyway, which is completely nuts.
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You know, and Lewis, were these the protesters that were all dressed in red?
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Maybe I'm a bear of little brain like Winnie the Pooh, but what were they trying to convey?
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Do you know what, I'm trying to work that out, even after the trip, if I'm totally honest.
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I think their message, from what one of the stewards pointed out,
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was that it's the blood on the UK's hands, almost.
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They're the photo or a drawing of the United Kingdom,
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so all of the countries, just in red, and it's sort of like a heart and veins and things like that.
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I think it was like the blood on the UK's hands,
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when we're only 1.1% of the total world's emissions,
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I mean, we have a carbon emission output of, I think, less than 2% of the global toll.
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I think it's 1.8%, and yet countries like China, India, they get a free pass for some reason.
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And, you know, another baffling thing, I'm going to throw to it now, Lewis,
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it was that advertisement of a raptor addressing the UN Assembly.
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Here, folks, just check it out in case you missed it.
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And let me tell you, and you'd kind of think this would be obvious,
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So, I mean, it is, like I said, Lewis, baffling.
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You have a dinosaur, and, of course, we know the dinosaurs were wiped out
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In other words, a meteor or an asteroid crashed into the planet.
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So, he's kind of making, in a sense, the case for those who are climate change skeptics,
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i.e. that maybe this is not man-made climate change.
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But the other thing, Lewis, it dawned on me after viewing that ad much later.
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Why would they do this silly dinosaur thing like they plucked it from Jurassic Park?
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And I think the reason, Lewis, is indoctrination.
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The demographic that adores dinosaurs is children.
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And as the Marxists like to say, my friend, get them young, get them forever.
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I've been seeing a lot of the propaganda over the coming days.
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In fact, telling you a story, I was actually waiting for the flight home,
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Quite funny, there were a few people with the UN climate change masks on,
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which did make me laugh because they were waiting forward for their flights.
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And the TV was on, and they were playing some sort of drama series,
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And you could see it was, I'm going to use the term,
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And she sat there to lecture her own mother on how we should be doing it for the climate.
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And each individual person makes a greater difference.
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And this was all just being pumped out to everyone in the airport.
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So I think we're seeing a lot of this on our own soap operas.
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And I don't know who's buying that, and I don't know who's falling for it either.
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And, you know, this whole idea that we, the great unwashed masses,
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I understand, Lewis, in the UK, isn't gasoline and home heating fuel,
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aren't those prices going through the roof right now?
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We had recently a fuel crisis where I believe some,
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I think it was a particular, I think it was Sky News maybe,
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ran a stall and it panicked a lot of the public,
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which ended up buying a lot of fuel and ended up hoarding.
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A bit like the bullet paper scenario with COVID,
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And now what we're seeing is a hike of energy prices,
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Boris Johnson has a plan to ban diesel and petrol in the UK by 2030.
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So we're seeing these radical changes happen in real time.
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How does Boris expect Brits to get around and to keep their houses warm by using
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Yeah, I wish that we're all in the set of a Star Trek,
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I don't know how we're supposed to transfer to electric.
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I think what we're seeing is another form of a class system or an elite system
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where it's only the plebs cannot afford to go electric here by 2030 or after 2030.
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And only the people who have invested in climate change
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And I mean, you know, it just seems so shameful to me, Lewis,
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that the average Brit, the average citizen in the West,
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you're being hit with more carbon taxes, more carbon levies,
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when prices are already going through the roof,
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It has caused the world economy trillions of dollars in damage.
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You know, last month we had Glenn Beck speak at one of our rebel events.
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And he was of the opinion, I'm paraphrasing right now,
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but, you know, the climate change hysteria has been going on for well over a decade.
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And we really didn't change our behavior that much.
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that those who espouse the whole build back better,
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you know, the new world order, however you want to call it,
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in terms of changing our behavior, making things different?
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Do you think that could be the unspoken story here about all these,
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and as it pertains to this climate change hysteria as well?
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What does better mean when you say build back better?
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And of course, I'm not surprised if we're going to see
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Klaus Schwab start making more and more strange policies,
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under the guise of once COVID and now climate change?
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And that's what we're going to slowly start seeing.
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that are going to trickle over from what they've done with COVID.
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But now the narrative is changing towards climate change.
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And they've already started pumping it out on the TVs
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And it's going to really transform the conversation.
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So, yeah, I keep your eyes peeled for that, maybe.
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I mean, I'm not pretending I have all the answers,
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I think there is some kind of nefarious strategy
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but I'm not buying what we're getting on face value.
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And I really mean that, that those UN gatekeepers
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That's the first thing I've actually agreed with Joe Biden.
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